Taiwan Journal of Anthropology

　

Submission Guidelines

Rev. 6/2004

 

The Taiwan Journal of Anthropology (TJA) is an international academic journal devoted primarily to sociocultural anthropology, although we welcome submissions devoted to sociocultural issues from any discipline. The goal of TJA is to provide a professional forum integrating anthropology in the Chinese-speaking world with anthropological communities elsewhere. The guidelines below are for authors of English manuscripts. For information about manuscripts written in Chinese, see the TJA Style Guide  [撰稿體例]. TJA is published twice yearly (June and December), but essays can be submitted at any time. The following categories of submissions are welcomed:

 

1. Research Articles: Original and previously unpublished results of new research; the main text should not exceed 12,000 words.

2. Research Notes: Examinations/analyses of new data or discussions of conceptual and methodological issues; the main text should not exceed 6,000 words.

3. Review Articles: Critical discussions of scholarship on specific topics; the main text should not exceed 6,000 words.

4. Book Reviews: Introductions to and critiques of recently published books; the main text should not exceed 1,500 words.

5. Comments and Responses: Discussions of work previously published in TJA, as well as authors’ responses. The main text should not exceed 1,500 words. (* This category has not opened yet

 

Submission Procedures

• All submissions must be original works of scholarship. The author has sole responsibility for obtaining permission from publishers to use copyrighted materials, including figures, photographs, illustrations, charts, or lengthy quotations.

• Since submissions are subject to a process of double-blind peer review, authors should avoid disclosing their identities in their manuscript. Instead, attach a cover page with author’s name, professional affiliation, positions, postal and e-mail addresses, type of essay being submitted, and any acknowledgements.

• Submit one electronic file (either as a text file [*.txt] or Microsoft Word 6.0 or later version; e-mail attachments are preferable) to TJA, including an abstract of no more than 200 words and five keywords. Double space the entire manuscript with minimum one-inch margins all around. Do not justify right-hand margins or break words at the end of lines.

• Submissions must be typed, including all references cited, notes, quotations, and headings.

• Times New Roman is the working font for journal articles. 12-point font is preferred for all materials; reserve italics for special marking. Keep special formatting to a minimum.

• TJA will not consider papers that have already been published in whole or substantial part or are under consideration elsewhere.

• Rejected manuscripts will not be returned to the authors.

 

Submissions will first be screened by the Editorial Board. Manuscripts passing this initial review will be sent out for anonymous review. The Editorial Board is solely responsible for the final selection of manuscripts and reserves the right to reject any submission. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author(s) of manuscripts written in English will be asked to provide a summary of no more than 1200 words in Chinese. Those authors unable to prepare a Chinese summary may instead provide an English summary of no more than 600 words to the Editorial Board, which will assume responsibility for translating it into Chinese. The author(s) of manuscripts written in Chinese will be asked to provide a summary of no more than 600 words in English.

 

TJA requests that all authors observe the style sheet of the journal American Anthropologist (published by the American Anthropological Association), with the following modifications. TJA cannot accept manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines.

 

1.     Final drafts must be submitted both in hard copy and as an electronic file. Hard copy and electronic versions must be identical. Neither will be returned to authors.

2.     We prefer that Chinese characters (traditional, full form only) and Japanese Kanji be typed into the electronic version of the paper; if this is not feasible, they must be legibly handwritten, so they are easy to key in.

3.     For accepted papers, an asterisk (*) will be inserted at the end of the article title, referring to a footnote for acknowledgements, credits or grant numbers. All footnotes (not endnotes) should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, beginning with “1”.

4.    Generally, TJA does not use section numbers when a brief heading or subheading is given to each major section of the article. If section levels are necessary, please observe the following order:

I.      A.     1.     a.

5.    Citations in the text give the author’s surname and year of publication. Include page numbers if necessary. Avoid using titles in citations. Please see the following examples:

In running text:

Hoskins (1999: Chapter 3), Schneider (1988a, 1988b, 1989)

As a parenthetic note:

(Geertz 1986; Sahlins 1984:21–4), (Leach and Goody 1980:299)

 

6.     Figures, tables, photographs, or illustrations should be numbered consecutively, and include a title or caption. Except where graphics are submitted as files on diskette, please prepare a separate high quality b/w or color print (gloss finish) in camera-ready form for photographs and illustrations, or a clean copy in a finished form for figures and tables. Please contact TJA to discuss preferred file formats.

7.    Appendices should be distinguished from numbered tables and figures in the text by lettering. A descriptive title should be included (e.g., “Appendix A. Facets of Chinese Face Concepts”).

8.     For romanization, use Hanyu Pinyin or Wade-Giles for Chinese; Hepburn for Japanese.

9.    For local language or dialect glosses please provided italicized romanization, and characters following the first usage of a term; for example: ritual master (fashi法師). When a language term is used throughout an article, it should appear in italics throughout, and its first appearance should be followed by an English gloss in parentheses; for example: tang-ki (spirit medium).

10.  Do not italicize proper names. Only foreign/local language terms (or dialect glosses)

are italicized.  

11.  For bibliographic entries of texts in Chinese or Japanese, please provide the romanization, characters, and English; for example:

 

Zhao Liru 趙莉如

1996           Xinlixue zai Zhongguo de fazhan ji qi xianzhuang, xia 心理學在中國的發

展及其現狀, 下 [The History and Current Development of Psychology in China, part 2]. Xinlixue dongtai 心理學動態 (Journal of Developments in Psychology) 4(4):1–6.

 

12   References are to be presented in a separate section headed “REFERENCES.” List all references cited in the text alphabetically by authors’ surnames. Publication information for each should be correct and complete. Following are example references:

 

       Bloch, Maurice

1993         Zafimaniry Birth and Kinship Theory. Social Anthropology 1(1B):119-132.

　

Broughton, Philip Delves

2001         Historian Who Lied Resigns: Said He Fought in Vietnam. National Post      

                (Canada), June 21: A2.

　

Campbell, Angus, Phillip E. Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald E. Stokes

1960         The American Voter. New York: Wiley.

　

        Chiang, Bien

1993         House and Social Hierarchy of Paiwan. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

　

Durkheim, Emile

1965 [1915]      The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. J. W. Swain, trans. New York: Free Press.

　

Errington, Shelly

1979         Some Comments on Style in the Meanings of the Past. In Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia. A. Reid and D. Karr, eds. Pp. 26-40. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books.

　

Harbison, Frederick, and Charles A. Myers, eds.

1964        Education, Manpower, and Economic Growth: Strategies of Human Resource Development. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Roy, Oliver

2001        Neo-Fundamentalism. Social Science Research: After September 11. Electronic

               document, http://www.ssr.org/roy.html. Accessed December 2.   

　

Shaver, Sheila

             1990          Gender, Social Policy Regimes and the Welfare State. Paper presented

                         at the American Sociological Association annual meetings, Washington, DC, 

                              August 15-17.

　

Shepherd, John R.

1979          Chineseness and the Politics of Cultural Prestige. Unpublished

            manuscript.

 

13.  Proofs will be sent to authors if there is sufficient time to do so. Authors are only allowed to correct typographical errors; copyediting and major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.

  

TJA does not provide royalties. Authors whose manuscripts are accepted will receive five copies of the journal volume in which their article appears, and thirty off-prints.

　

If any submission being accepted by TJA, the authors will agree to grant TJA to sublicense to the READncl-Remote Electronic Access/Delivery of the National Central Library (“READncl System”) or any other database provider to reproduce, transmit publicly by Internet, print and browse by authorized users, except any illustrations, diagrams or other material which is not originally created by the Author and is obtained permission from others. The submissions may be changed in order to meet the requirement of READncl System or other database.

All manuscript submissions and editorial correspondence should be addressed to:

The Editors

Taiwan Journal of Anthropology

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

Nankang, Taipei 11529, TAIWAN

E-mail: tja@gate.sinica.eud.tw