American Journal of Chinese Studies

Style Sheet

The preferred style of the journal is to place citations in footnotes, with a full citation with first entry and abbreviations for subsequent entries. No separate Works Cited or Bibliography section is included. Footnotes should be indented.

However, in-text notes may be used if this is the main standard for the discipline for the article submitted. In that case a complete "References" section must be included at the end of the article.

In both cases, the Journal follows the standards set for citations in The Chicago Manual of Style.

Note that all Chinese publications should cite the original Chinese book, article, journal title in Romanized Chinese (pinyin; or in Wade-Giles for works published in Taiwan if this is preferred by the author), followed by an English translation in brackets. (This is true for all foreign language citations: the primary citation is in the foreign language, or a Romanized version, with an English translation following). Translations of titles in brackets are not capitalized.

Submitted manuscripts should be double-spaced with indented paragraphing (with no extra spacing between paragraphs), with a serif font (Times New Roman, Bookman, etc.).

Footnote Format

First Citations:

Books:

Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao (1951; New York: Harper and Row, 1967), 73-75.

Hao Bingrang, Fengxi junshi [The military affairs of the Fengtian clique] (Shenyang: Liaohai chubanshe, 2002), 75.

Chapters in books:

Zhiwei Xiao, “Constructing a National Culture: Film Censorship and the Issues of Cantonese Dialect, Superstition and Sex in the Nanjing Decade,” in Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-43, ed. Yingjing Zhang (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 183.

Second chapter in previously cited book:

Andrew Field, “Selling Souls in Sin City: Shanghai Singing and Dancing Hostesses in Print, Film, and Politics, 1920-1949,” in Yingjing Zhang, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 99.

Journal Articles:

Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow, “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31, no. 2 (Spring 2017), 211.

Li Chuanxi, “Dongbei jiangwutang” [The Northeast military academy], Liaoning wenshi ziliao [Liaoning historical materials] 6 (1981), 73.

(NOTE: Wenshi ziliao publications are treated as journals not as edited books)

Online materials:

“Is China Challenging the United States for Global Leadership?” The Economist, April 1, 2017, https://www.economist.com/china/2017/04/01/is-china-challenging-the-united-states-for-global-leadership (accessed May 16, 2020).

Second Citations:

General rule:  For Western authors use only surname, use entire name for Chinese authors.

Schwartz, Chinese Communism, 85.

Zhiwei Xiao, “Constructing a National Culture,” 99.

Li Chuanxi, “Dongbei jiangwutang,” 74.

Allcott and Gentzkow, “Social Media,” 215.

In-text Citation Format
(Reference Citation; In-text Citation)

Books:

McCormack, Gavan. 1977. Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China, 1911-1928. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

(McCormack 1977, 53)

Hao Bingrang. 2002. Fengxi junshi [The military affairs of the Fengtian clique]. Shenyang: Liaohai chubanshe.

(Hao 2002, 45)

Chapters in books:

Xiao, Zhiwei. 1999. “Constructing a National Culture: Film Censorship and the Issues of Cantonese Dialect, Superstition and Sex in the Nanjing Decade.” In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-43, edited by Yingjing Zhang, pp-pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

(Xiao 1999, 183-99)

Second chapter in previously cited book:

Field, Andrew. “Selling Souls in Sin City: Shanghai Singing and Dancing Hostesses in Print, Film, and Politics, 1920-1949.” In Yingjing Zhang, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai.

(Field 1999, 99)

Journal Articles

Allcott, Hunt and Matthew Gentzkow. 2017. “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31 (2): 211–36.

(Alcott and Gentzkow 2017, 211)

Li Chuanxi. 1981. “Dongbei jiangwutang” [The Northeast military academy], Liaoning wenshi ziliao [Liaoning historical materials] 6: 73-75.

(Li 1981, 73)