Author Agreement Terms for Submission
By submitting the manuscript, authors certify and warrant that:
The submitted manuscript is their original work, and they hold full authority to grant the rights outlined in this agreement; The work does not infringe upon any third party’s intellectual property rights.
Upon signing this agreement: Copyright to the submitted work remains with the author(s);
The author(s) grants the journal the right to publish and distribute the aforementioned work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Notes For Contributors
The Journal of Research for Christianity in China (Semi-Annual, ISSN: 2325-9914) is jointly edited and published by the Center for Christianity and China, Los Angeles, USA, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Shanghai University, China, founded in 2013. The journal has three sections: Special Articles, Articles, Book Reviews and Academic News.
Special Articles: Lecture notes or articles by invited scholars on special topics.
Articles: original academic papers related to Chinese Christian Studies.
Book reviews: reviews for newly published works on Chinese Christianity in Chinese and foreign languages.
Academic News: reports on conferences, workshops, lectures, etc.
All academic papers related to the contents of the Journal are welcome, provided that the content is original and published for the first time.
Both English and Chinese manuscripts will be accepted. Research papers submitted in Chinese should be accompanied by an abstract and keywords in English; manuscripts submitted in English should be accompanied by an abstract and keywords in Chinese. In principle, papers with annotations should be 10,000 to 30,000 words in Chinese and up to 12,000 words in English, while book reviews and conference reports should be limited to 5,000 words each.
The format and order of writing a research paper is as follows :
Home page: title in English and Chinese, author's contact information (name, title and title in English and Chinese, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.).
English and Chinese abstracts (200-700 words each) and keywords (limited to 5 words).
The main text contains footnotes (please follow the format of the Journal's "Formats").
References are listed at the end of the text, in alphabetical order in foreign languages and in hanyu pinyin order in Chinese. The refereces in Chinese should be translated to English.
After receiving the manuscript, the editorial board of the Journal will first conduct an anonymous preliminary review, and then invite two scholars in the same field to review the manuscript after the preliminary review, and will invite a third scholar to review the manuscript if the reviewer's opinion is different. If you do not receive notification after the deadline, you may dispose of the manuscript by yourself. The Journal does not return manuscripts, so authors should keep their own copies. Manuscripts will be reviewed as they are received, and a letter of approval for publication will be sent to the authors once the manuscript is approved. The editorial board has the right to delete the manuscript at its discretion (please specify when submitting the manuscript if you do not wish to do so), and the author will be required to proofread the final manuscript.
By submitting a manuscript to the Journal, the author, upon inclusion and publication, agrees to authorize the Journal to then authorize other repositories accepted by the Journal for reproduction, to provide services through the Internet, to authorize users to download, print, and other actions, and to modify the format as appropriate.
All articles published in this journal are under the authors' own responsibility, and all arguments do not represent the views of the Journal, while the copyright belongs to the journal.
The Journal currently adopts the internationally accepted form of online publication, and all papers are open and free to download for online users. The Journal does not provide sample issues, authors can download and print them by themselves.
The Journal currently accepts submissions by e-mail only. Please check the format of your paper for compliance with the journal's formats and requirements before submission. Submission email: ChristianStudies@163.com. For more, ChineseCS.cn.
Plagiarism Policy:
This journal conducts regular random duplication checks on published articles to identify potential plagiarism. Prior to publication, authors are required to submit a similarity report (e.g., Turnitin or iThenticate).
If an article is confirmed to contain plagiarism:
The published work will be immediately retracted;
The author(s) will be prohibited from submitting to this journal for five years;
The author(s) will be required to return any honorarium received.