Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
Style Sheet
The Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature (KJCLL) represents the
English-language issue of the journal published by the Korea Society of Chinese Language
and Literature. This annual special issue aims to publish articles in English by leading Korean
scholars in the fields of Chinese linguistics, language pedagogy and literature. By presenting
these articles in English, Korean academic research will reach a wider international scholarly
audience. At the same time, this journal also accepts articles written by scholars from outside
the Korean peninsula, in the hope of enhancing academic collaboration and understanding.
Format:
 Set the margins of your manuscript to one inch on all sides. Pages should be standard
A4 size. For both text and notes, use font size 12. The preferred font is Times New
Roman. Do not justify the right margin.
 Indent the first paragraphs of your manuscript one half inch from the left margin.
Please use the Tab key rather than the space bar.
 Do not use automatic hyphenation.
 Create a header that numbers all pages consecutively at the top right-hand corner.
 All notes should be given as footnotes.
 Manuscripts should be submitted as MS Word documents. If your manuscript
contains IPA, tables, and/or special characters, a PDF file is also required.
 At the time of submission, please include a 100 word abstract of your article, and
four or five keywords. You should also list your name, professional affiliation, and
give full contact details.
General Style:
 In matters of style, KJCLL follows the rules set out in Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA style
manual and guide to scholarly publishing. New York: Modern Language Association
of America, 2008.
Romanization of Asian Languages:
 Chinese words should be Romanized using the pinyin system. For pre-modern
material, or where the subject concerns the language and literature of Hong Kong,
Taiwan etc. please give the characters as fantizi after the pinyin Romanization. For
modern Chinese subjects, please use jiantizi.
 For Korean material, McCune-Reischauer is the preferred Romanization system. The
Yale system is only acceptable for papers in linguistics. Hangul should be added after
Romanized Korean words.
Submissions:
 All manuscripts should be sent in the first instance to the Associate Editor of the
KJCLL; Professor Olivia Milburn of Seoul National University at milburn@snu.ac.kr.
 The deadline to submit a manuscript is the end of February each year.
 In order to speed up the review process, each contributor should select a couple of
sub-fields that best describe the contents of the article submitted. For linguistics and
language pedagogy papers, please select at least two categories from the following
list:
1. Modern Mandarin; 2. Old Mandarin; 3. Middle Chinese; 4. Old Chinese; 5. Other.
a. Phonetics; b. phonology; c. morphology; d. semantics; e. syntax; f. discourse
analysis;
g. pragmatics; h. morpho-phonemics; i. psycholinguistics; j. dialectology; k. other
sociolinguistics; l. neurolinguistics; m. computational linguistics; n. language acquisition;
o. pedagogy; p. textbooks; q. other applied linguistics; r. language policies; s. contrastive
linguistics; t. comparative historical linguistics; u. language contact; v. theoretical issues;
w. other.
For example a paper on Old Mandarin dialectal phonology should be categorized as 2bj.
For literature papers, please select at least two categories from the following list:
1. Pre-Qin; 2. Qin and Han; 3. Age of Disunion, Sui, Tang, Song; 4. Yuan, Ming, Qing;
5. Modern.
a. novels; b. short stories; c. essays; d. prose literature; e. popular literature; f.
journalism; g. reportage; h. poetry; i. theatre; j. performance literature; k. internet
literature; l. other.
For example an article about Ming dynasty poetry would be categorized as 4h.