Ming Qing Studies Editorial Norms

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EDITORIAL NORMS


Page

- Page size: 17 x 24 cm

- Margins: symmetrical (interior and up: 3 cm; exterior and down: 2 cm)

 

Text

- Font size: 10,5 pt, justified.

- All paragraphs (except the first one) are indented 0,5 cm on the left. No indentation is required after a picture or table.

- Font types: always use Times New Roman, and SimSun or NSimSun (for excerpts and portions of text in Chinese and Japanese). Provide the font of other non-Latin alphabets in a separate file.

- Line spacing: single-spaced everywhere (including in the titles).

- No underlined, and bold only for the paper title and level-1 section titles. Italics are used only for foreign words, book titles and journal names.

- Quotation marks: please use “a quote” and ‘a word’, where applicable.

 

Section titles

- Two blank lines above and one blank line below.

- Level 1 titles: 13 pt, italics, bold.

- Level 2 titles: 12pt, italics, regular.

 

Large quotations

- Font size: 9,5 pt, without inverted commas, all indented 0,5 cm on the left.

- One blank line above and one blank line below.

 

Captions

- Font size: 9,5 pt, centered.

- Denomination: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.

 

Footnotes

- Font size: 9 pt.

- Footnote numbers are placed after punctuation marks in the body of the text.

- Source citations in the footnotes contain the author’s surname, year of publication and number of the page(s) being referred to, i.e., Goodrich and Fang 1976, pp. 1577-1578. For Chinese, Japanese and Korean authors the full name is required, i.e., Ma Xiaohe 2017, p. 481. For primary sources in Western languages use only the cited title and page number(s), i.e., Russko-kitaiskie otnosheniia v 17 veke, pp. 42-43. For Chinese references the juan number has to be followed by a colon and page number(s), i.e., Mingshi, 69: 1680. Lengthy titles may be abbreviated with the initial of each syllable capitalized, i.e., MXDX, 562-563.

 

Bibliography

- Provide a list of all the cited works at the end of the paper (examples are given below).

- Always distinguish between primary and secondary sources, and group them in two separate lists. Do not include sources that have not been cited in the paper.

- Font size: 9,5 pt.

 

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- Always use Unicode standard fonts for Chinese characters, katakana, hiragana or any other non-Latin alphabet. Chinese words are Romanized in Pinyin and can be either in jiantizi (simplified) or fangtizi (traditional) characters. Use jiantizi for Chinese sources published after 1949 and fangtizi for those compiled before that date, either in the dynastic or Republican period. The only accepted system of Romanization for Japanese and Korean is respectively the Hepburn and McCune-Reischauer. Romanized words are always written in Italics.

- Titles like Emperor, Governor-General or names of institutions, bureaus, provinces and the like must all be capitalized, i.e., Yongzheng Emperor. The same applies to historical periods, i.e., Yuan Dynasty, Qing Empire. But when these are used generically, lower-case letters are required, i.e., Manchu emperors, Chinese dynasties, north-east provinces.

- Titles of Chinese sources appearing in the body of the text or in the bibliography have to be accompanied by the Pinyin and translated into English with the translation given in brackets, i.e., Xin Tangshu 新唐書 (New History of the Tang).

- Non-English words and expressions, like Latin legal terms de facto, literatus and the like must be Italicized.

- Citations and quotations from Chinese and other non-Western languages always need to be translated into English. The Pinyin is not mandatory but recommended for single words or locutions.

 

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Sample Bibliography

- Font size 9,5 pt, justified. Lines after the first are indented (0,5 cm).

 

Primary Sources

 

Tianxia Junguo Libingshu 天下郡國利病書 (On the Benefits and Faults of the Empire’s Local Administration) [1662], by Gu Yanwu 顧炎武, repr. Kyōto: Chūbun shuppansha, 1973.

Liaozhai Zhiyi 聊齊誌異 (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) [1679], by Pu Songling 蒲松齡 [repr. commented and annotated ed. by Zhang Youhe 張友鶴輯校, Liaozhai Zhiyi Huijiao Huizhu Huiping Ben 聊齋誌異會校會注會評本], Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1978.

 

Secondary Sources

 

Book

Gernet, Jacques (2005) La Raison des Choses: Essai sur la Philosophie de Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Paris: Gallimard.

Nakanishi, Tatsuya 中西竜也 (2013) Chūka to Taiwa Suru Isurāmu: Jūnana-jūkyū Seiki Chūgoku Musurimu no Shisōteki eii 中華と対話するイスラーム：17–19世紀中国ムスリムの思想的営為 (Islam in Dialogue with Chinese Civilization: Intellectual Activities of Chinese Muslims from the 17th to the 19th Centuries), Kyōto: Kyōto daigaku gakujutsu shuppankai.

 

Book in a multi-volume set collection

Ge, Zhaoguang 葛兆光 (2000) Qi Shiji zhi Shijiu Shiji Zhongguo de Zhishi, Sixiang yu Xinyang 七世纪至十九世纪中国的知识、思想与信仰 (Knowledge, Thought and Beliefs in China from the 7th to the 19th Centuries), Vol. 2 in Idem., ed., Zhongguo Sixiangshi 中国思想史 (Intellectual History of China), Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe.

Métailié, Georges (2015) Biology and Biological Technology - Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach, Vol. 6, Part. 4, in Joseph Needham, ed., Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Book chapter

Elman, Benjamin A. (2007) “Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century”, in Lary Diana, ed., Chinese State at the Borders, Vancouver: University British Columbia Press.

 

Journal article

Carlitz, Katherine (1997) “Shrines, Governing-Class Identity, and the Cult of Widow Fidelity in Mid-Ming Jiangnan,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 612-640.

Hua, Li 华立 (1993) “Shiba Shiji Zhongguo de Renkou Liudong yu Bianjiang Kaifa” 十八世纪中国人口的流动与边疆开发 (Population Flows and Borderland Development in 18th Century China), Qingshi Yanjiu 清史研究 (Studies in Qing History), Vol. 1, pp. 23-25.

 

Works by the same author

Elvin, Mark (1972) “The High-Level Equilibrium Trap: The Causes of the Decline of Invention in the Traditional Chinese Textiles Industries”, in William E. Willmott, ed., Economic Organization in Chinese Society, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Elvin, Mark (1984) “Female Virtue and the State in China”, Past and Present, Vol. 104, No. 1, pp. 111-152. 


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