Submission guidelines

1. 1. The editors of Acta Koreana invite submission of manuscripts pertinent to the goals of the journal and Academia Korean. These goals include promoting diverse interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to Korean Studies, as well as significantly increasing the availability to the international community of scholarly articles, translations, and reviews in this expanding field.
   2. Manuscripts should be written in English; both British and American English are acceptable.
   3. Manuscript should be submitted as an electronic vile in Microsoft Word format. Submission as an e-mail attachment is preferred; contributors wishing to submit a hard copy should send two copies together with a diskette formatted for Microsoft Word.
   4. Article manuscripts should not exceed forty pages in length, and be double-spaced throughout, including footnotes, indented quotations, and references. The font should be Times New Roman, 10 point. Book review should be maximum sit pages. Please contact the editors before submitting articles or reviews that exceed these limits.
   5. Manuscripts should use footnotes rather than endnotes
   6. Keep formatting to a strict minimum: the document should us A4 pagination, and titles and subtitles should be the same size and font as running text.
   7. Authors are encouraged to submit tables, figures, maps, and other illustrations along with their manuscripts; these should, however, be sent as separate files; pleas do not include them in the article
   8. The manuscript should have a separate title page with the title of the article, the author's name, affiliation, status and full contact details (e-mail, address, telephone). As the author's affiliation, status and e-mail will be included in the article, authors should notify the editors as soon as possible. If any of these change. The first page of the manuscript proper should carry the title, but not the author's name, followed by a brief abstract (not more than 200 words) and five key words.
   9. Besides articles and reviews, we also welcome review articles, interviews and translations. Please consult with editors before submitting any material other than articles or review.
   10. For Romanization of words from East Asian languages, authors should use McCune-Reischauer for Korean (Yale in case of articles on linguistics), Hepburn for Japanese and Pinyin for Chinese.
   11. If authors wish to include characters, these should be presented in a separate glossary; characters may be inserted in the text only if they are essential in properly understanding the argumentation, e.g. when the use of homophonous Chinese characters may lead to confusion.
   12. Use of special characters should be kept to a strict minimum; eg. for citing Korean works, it is not necessary to us han'gul; however, if characters facilitate the retrieval or verification of sources, they may be included in the references or glossary. (but not in the main text or footnotes)
   13. Authors can either use the social science system of citation (author-date in the text, with a separate table of references at the back) or the humanities system (full reference at first citation, abbreviated after that.
   Acceptable examples are:
   - For the former:
   In text: (Lee 2005: 101) or Lee(2005: 101)
   In reference: Lee. Ki-Baik. 2005. A New History of Korea. Cambridge, Mas: Harvard Univ. Pres.
   - For the latter:
   In footnotes: Martina Deuchler, The confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), p. 101. (at first mention; after that: Deuchler, The Confucian Transformation, pp. 101-103)
   14. Please refer to the Chicago Mannual of Style (Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003), for more detailed guidelines on citation rules and style preferences.
   15. All manuscripts submitted to Acta Koreana should neither have been published already nor be under review for publication elsewhere. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by return postage.