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Copyrights Policy

Authors retain the copyrights of published manuscripts and will grant Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies a license to publish the articles and identify the journal as the original publisher, and any third party the right to use, copy, edit, adapt, reproduce, sell and/or distribute reproductions of, display, publicly perform, make available, communicate and distribute Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed capable of sub-license to other entities. This will ensure ease of dissemination of information. Authors who do not wish to grant this license should indicate so when submitting their manuscripts.

Rights for Authors and Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies

In consideration of the publication of the article, the authors assign to Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies all copyright in the article, subject to the broad personal-use exceptions described below.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, requires credit to the journal as copyright holder (e.g., Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies © 2024).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author’s computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author’s personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author’s place of employment; and
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

Open Access Policy

New Era University College publishes fully open access journals licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles are freely available for anyone to copy, share, and adapt provided the original work and source is properly cited in accordance with publication ethics and best practices of scholarly publishing. 

Please refer to Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license, <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/>, at Creative Commons website <http://creativecommons.org/licenses>.) 

Submission Guidelines

The Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies welcomes the submission of manuscripts on topics within the aims and scope of the journal and based on original research.

  1. The author(s) should own the copyright to the work being submitted and that it has not been published or being considered for publication elsewhere in printed or electronic form.
  2. The manuscript should be submitted via https://mjcs.newera.edu.my in Microsoft Word files in Times New Roman font size 12 for the text and prepared in British English. It should contain a concise title, an abstract of 100 to 250 words, and a list of up to five keywords. It should not exceed 10,000 words, inclusive of tables, charts and diagrams, notes, list of references, and appendices.
  3. Book reviews should not exceed 2,000 words and should include a short title on the subject matter, the name of the author, book title, city/publisher, year of publication, total number of pages, and ISBN.
  4. The submitted manuscript should include a note on the author indicating the full name, highest qualification, position, affiliation, and email address. Where there are multiple authors, the corresponding author should be identified.
  5. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted materials such as diagrams, charts, maps, and tables.
  6. The manuscript should adhere to the APA Style.

For further formatting and referencing aid, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, 2020. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines)

Stylesheet

The journal format is primarily based on the APA Style. Authors should adhere to this style as closely as possible.

  1. Title page

Title of paper, author’s name in the order of last/family name, first name, middle name/initial(s). Identify the first author with an* and the second with two**, etc. and their affiliations (position, department, university). Chinese authors should also state their names in the Chinese characters.

  1. Abstract

The abstract should be between 100 and 250 words to state the purpose, method, results and conclusion of the article in a concise and informative manner. 

  1. Keywords

Placed below the Abstract and labelled

       Keywords: (indented and in italics) with three to five keywords in lowercase

  1. Headings

All headings should be clear and concise and follow a logical sequence. Avoid having more than four levels of headings.

      First-level heading: centred, bold, and initial capital letter for important words

      Second-level heading: flush left, bold, initial capital letter for important words

      Third-level heading: flush left, bold italic, initial capital letter for important words

      Fourth-level heading: indented, bold, initial capital letter for important, and period. 

  1. Illustrations

Original illustrations such as maps, graphs and other diagrams should be numbered consecutively as figures and black and white photographs as plates. All illustrations should be accompanied by brief captions and, wherever appropriate, acknowledgements of sources or copyright, and placed below the figure or plate. All illustrations should be reproducible to conform to a page size of 180 cm x 240 cm.  

  1. Statistical Tables

Tables are numbered consecutively and complete with captions. Source references, if any, must be stated. Measurements and statistics should be given in metric units. 

All illustrations/figures/tables must be separated from the text. Indicate clearly in the typescript where each illustration/figure/table will appear. 

  1. In-text Citations

Use the Author-date citation system for each work used in the text, tables, figures, notes, or appendices. Examples:

      (a) Parenthetical citation: (Author, year)

  • Single author: (Palanca, 2018)
  • Two authors: (Lee & Jackson, 2019)
  • Three or more authors: (Lee et at., 2017)
  • Group author: (Department of Statistics Malaysia [DSM], 2010). Subsequent citations: (DSM, 2010)

     (b) Narrative citation: Enclose the year in parenthesis: Palanca (2018)

     (c) To cite two works by the same author(s) in the same year, add “a” and “b” to the year, e.g. (Wong, 2019a), (Wong, 2019b), or (Carstens & Zhang, 2015a, 2015b).  

     (d) To cite authors with the same surname, state the initials: (M. Freedman, 2018); (A. L. Freedman & Jackson, 2018) 

  1. Footnotes

Footnotes are shown as “Notes” and placed before the list of References. Notes identified in the text with superscript Arabic numerals arranged consecutively in the order of the callout number. Footnotes are used only for explanatory purposes and should be precise and concise. To refer to a source in an earlier Note x, state (see Note x).

Notes may be used to provide information on selected Chinese names or phrases that appear in Pinyin in the text. Identify with a footnote transcript for the first appearance of such names or phrases, e.g. junzi. In the note, the term is shown in Chinese characters (君子). This is to overcome possible confusions arising from alternative interpretations of the term in the Pinyin version. 

  1. References

Arrange the list of works alphabetically by author and placed under “References” according to the format below:

      9.1 Names of Authors and Date of Publication    

     (a) Author(s): State the author’s last or family name, followed by the initials, e.g. Palanca, Ellen (2018).

    • Chinese names, state the surname, followed by the initials of the two- or three-character personal name, e.g. Zhang, J.; Xu, L.-P.
    • Indian and Malay names, depending on personal preferences, personal name is followed by the father’s name or vice versa.
    • For two or more authors, separate the last name by an ampersand (&): Lee, B.-H. & Jackson, Donald (2019).
    • For three or more authors: (Lee et at., 2017)

        (b) Date of publication:

    • year only
    • year, month
    • year, month and day
    • No date: (Author, n.d.)

        (c) Date of publication in a Webpage on a website with an individual author:

    • Author (year, month and day)
    • Retrieved dates: (month day, year) Retrieved October 1, 2020, from https://xxxx 

     9.2 Books, Periodicals and Online Sources

       (a) Books

    • Song, Ong Siang (1967). One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore. University of Malaya Press. (First published in 1923).
    • Edited books

                     …In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

                     …In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. xx–xx).

                     …In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book: Vol 1. Volume title (2nd ed., pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

                     Wang, G.-W. (1990). Merchants without empire: The Hokkien sojourning communities. 

                In James D. Tracy (Ed.), The rise of merchant empires: Long-distance trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750, (pp. 400–421). Cambridge University Press.               

       (b) Periodicals  

Provide the periodical title, volume number, issue number, and page range or article number. Capitalise and italicise the title of periodical using title case, followed by a comma (not italicized), and the volume number in italics.

The issue number (if any) is enclosed in parentheses but not italicized, followed by a comma and page range. The page range consists of en dash “–” and not a hyphen, followed by a period, e.g. Author, A. A. & Author, B.B. (year). Title of article, Title of Journal, 10(2), 1–11.     

  1. Other Bibliographic Details

On the use of italics, numerals, ordinal numbers, punctuation marks, percentage symbol and currency, etc., please consult the Seventh Edition of the APA Publication Manual (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines).