Aims and Scope

The Journal of East Asian Studies is devoted to publishing cutting edge social science on East and Southeast Asia. The journal is interested in work that combines theory, novel empirical contributions, and substantive engagement with the major issues facing the region. The JEAS publishes primarily in the fields of comparative politics and international relations, encompassing as well the fields of political economy and security studies. We also welcome interdisciplinary work and contributions from sociology, applied economics, business studies, and area studies as well. The journal is also open to roundtables on important new books on the region, review essays and shorter research notes. SSCI indexed, the journal prides itself on a strong peer-review process.

Types of Article

The journal accepts the following types of article:

• Research Article*
• Review Essay*
• Research Note*
• Book Review**

* All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver. 

** No APCs are required for these article types.

Articles and Review Essays: approximately 10,000 words.

Shorter Research Notes: under 5,000 words.

Book Reviews: 1,000 words. Correspondence concerning book reviews should be sent to Dimitar Gueorguiev, Journal of East Asian Studies Book Review Editor, 332 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1020 United States. Email: [email protected]

Preparing your article for submission

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure that you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will not be reviewed.

Papers submitted for publication must be written in English and should be as concise as possible. Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and any reviewers. Cambridge offers a service which is described below.

Title page: The title page must include:

• The title of the article, which should be concise but informative
• Full name as to be printed in article
• Name of department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed. Please ensure that you include the country of the institution as well as the name.
• Name, mailing address and email address of author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript
• A shortened version of the title consisting of no less than 45 characters (including spaces)
• Sources of support e.g. in the form of grants
• A Competing Interests declaration (see below for guidance on what this should look like)

Cover letter: Papers should be accompanied by a cover letter including a brief summary of the work and a short explanation of how it advances the field.

Subheadings: Subheadings should be organized clearly according to their level.

Acknowledgements: Authors can use this section to acknowledge and thank colleagues, institutions, workshop organizers, family members, etc that have helped with the research and/or writing process. It is important that that any type of funding information or financial support listed under ‘Financial Support’ rather than Acknowledgements so that it can easily be tagged and captured separately.

References and notes: The Journal of East Asian Studies uses the Chicago Manual of Style author-date system. All sources are cited in the text in parentheses by author’s last name and date of publication, with page numbers as appropriate (Kim 2007, 65).

The short citations are amplified in a list of references where full bibliographic information is provided. Endnotes should not be used only to cite references and should be kept to a minimum. Acknowledgments should appear before the notes.

Books and monographs: Kim, Marie Seong-Hak. 2014. Law and Custom in Korea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Articles in journals. Wong, Joseph. 2004. “The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia.” Journal of East Asian Studies 4 (3): 345-362.

Chapters in books: Tarling, Nicholas, ed. 1999. “The Early Kingdoms.” In The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 1, Part 1, 137-182. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Online sources. Please include the URL and access date.

For further information on references, please consult the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, chapters 14 and 15.

These should be amalgamated and listed alphabetically. References should give full biographical details, including place of publication and publisher, at first mention. Thereafter the author’s surname and a short title should be used (not op. cit.). A cross-reference to the original citation, e.g. ‘(see n.4 above)’ may also appear in single inverted commas; the title of a book or journal should be underlined. Main words should be capitalized in article and book titles.

Abstract and Keywords Preparation

Each paper must contain an abstract of no more than 150 words. A list of up to ten keywords, expressing the precise content of the manuscript, should appear directly below the abstract. For further guidance on how to prepare your Abstracts and Keywords, please refer to these guidelines.

How to prepare your materials for anonymous peer review

To ensure a fair and anonymous peer review process, authors should not allude to themselves as the authors of their article in any part of the text. This includes citing their own previous work in the references section in such a way that identifies them as the authors of the current work.

Please refer to our general guidelines on how to anonymise your manuscript prior to submission.

Tables and Artwork

Please refer to the following guidance about preparing artwork and graphics for submission.

Seeking permissions for copyrighted material

If your article contains any material in which you do not own copyright, including figures, charts, tables, photographs or excerpts of text, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder to reuse that material. Guidance on how to do that can be found here.

Ethics and Transparency Policy Requirements

Please ensure that you have reviewed the journal’s Publishing ethics policies while preparing your materials. 

Please also ensure that you have read the journal’s Research transparency policy prior to submission. We encourage the use of a Data Availability Statement at the end of your article before the reference list. Guidance on how to write a Data Availability Statement can be found here. Please try to provide clear information on where the data associated with you research can be found and avoid statements such as “Data available on request”.

A list of suggested data repositories can be found here.

Funding statement

A declaration of sources of funding must be provided if appropriate. Within this section please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers, for example: “This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (grant number XXXXXXX)”.

Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma and space, and where research was funded by more than one agency the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with “and” before the final funder. Grants held by different authors should be identified as belonging to individual authors by the authors’ initials, for example: “This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (AB, grant numbers XXXX, YYYY), (CD, grant number ZZZZ); the Natural Environment Research Council (EF, grant number FFFF); and the National Institutes of Health (AB, grant number GGGG), (EF, grant number HHHH).”

Where no specific funding has been provided for research, please provide the following statement: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.”

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools

We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.

In particular, any use of an AI tool:

• to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s).
• to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
• to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript.
• must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission.

Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.

Acknowledgements

Authors can use this section to acknowledge and thank colleagues, institutions, workshop organisers, family members, etc. that have helped with the research and/or writing process. It is important that that any type of funding information or financial support is listed under ‘Financial Support’ rather than Acknowledgements so that it can be recorded separately (see Funding statement above).

We are aware that authors sometimes receive assistance from technical writers, language editors, artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and/or writing agencies in drafting manuscripts for publication. Such assistance must be noted in the cover letter and in the Acknowledgements section, along with a declaration that the author(s) are entirely responsible for the scientific content of the paper and that the paper adheres to the journal’s authorship policy. Failure to acknowledge assistance from technical writers, language editors, AI tools and/or writing agencies in drafting manuscripts for publication in the cover letter and in the Acknowledgements section may lead to disqualification of the paper. Examples of how to acknowledge assistance in drafting manuscripts:

• “The author(s) thank [name and qualifications] of [company, city, country] for providing [medical/technical/language] writing support/editorial support [specify and/or expand as appropriate], which was funded by [sponsor, city, country]."
• “The author(s) made use of [AI system/tool] to assist with the drafting of this article. [AI version details] was accessed/obtained from [source details] and used with/without modification [specify and/or expand as appropriate] on [date(s)].