When preparing your manuscript for submission, consider how reviewers will read it. Avoid self-reference to keep the review blind. Put footnotes at the bottom of the page and insert illustrations and tables approximately where they would appear in the published article so that the reviewer sees them as a reader would. Insert Chinese characters as needed. Authors are encouraged to follow the Journal style for spelling, punctuation, number, and so on (under Preparing Your Manuscript), but that is not necessary at the submission stage.

Manuscripts must be submitted as electronic files (as DOC or RTF files). Include an abstract of no more than 150 words and three to five keywords. Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal's submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jchist. The cover letter should give full contact details for the corresponding author. Full author names and academic affiliations, including country, are required for all co-authors. These details should not be in the text of the manuscript to facilitate anonymous peer review.

Contributions written in English are welcomed from all countries. 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 authors can learn about here. Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge published journal.

Queries may be submitted to the journal editorial office, 

JCHEditorialOffice@cambridge.org.

Authorship: Authorship should be assumed only by those who have contributed materially to the work and its report, and who accept the responsibility for the accuracy of the concepts expressed. Colleagues who have otherwise assisted or collaborated should be recognised in the section for Acknowledgements.

References and notes: All sources must be fully referenced. To prepare the footnotes to match the Journal style, see Preparing Accepted Manuscripts for Copyediting and Publication below. Alternative systems may be used at the submission stage.

Preparing Accepted Manuscripts for Copyediting and Publication

Style: Use American spelling (color, program) and punctuation (double quotation marks, period before quotation marks). Spell out the numbers one through one hundred, and all round numbers, except when combined with "percent" or when numbers appear frequently within a paragraph. Thus: "twentieth century" and "thirty-nine steps." Provide dates, when known, for individuals following their first appearance.

For subheadings, center the top level subheading and put it in bold. If you need a second level, place it flush left and in italics.

Title: The title of the article should be concise, informative, and accurate. You may wish to include relevant keywords in your title to help guide readers who may be using search engines to find your paper. Try to avoid abbreviations and acronyms.

Chinese: Use pinyin Romanization. Put characters after the first reference to a person’s name or a book title, elsewhere only if needed (in other words, not for names of dynasties, jinshi, reign periods, modern provinces, major cities, and other commonly understood terms). In footnotes, give characters for the author and article title, but it is not necessary to give it for the journal title. When necessary, you may give the full Chinese text (punctuated) for indented quotations.

Acknowledgements: Any acknowledgements should appear as the first (unnumbered) footnote.

Footnotes: The first footnote should give full biographical details, including place of publication and publisher. To the extent possible please provide original date of publication as well as reprint information. Supply both Romanization and characters for works in Chinese and Japanese for the first reference, Romanization alone for subsequent references. In subsequent footnotes, use the author’s surname and a short title (not ibid. or op. cit.). The title of a book or journal should be italicized. Do not use p. or pp. before page numbers.

When formulating footnote references to Chinese sources, indicate original juan numbers, even if the work is a modern reprint: thus, Wu Zeng, Nenggai zhai manlu 12.368. If the work is a photographic reprint of a traditional folio edition, always cite to the original folio: thus, Songhui yao, “Chongru” 6.11a-12a.

Examples:

Rong Geng 容庚, Shang Zhou yiqi tongkao 商周彝器通考 (Taibei: Datong, 1973), 82-97.

Subsequent reference: Rong, Shang Zhou yiqi tongkao, 105.

Igor de Rachewiltz, “The Hsi-Yu Lu by Yeh-Lü Chʻu-Tsʻai,” Monumenta Serica 21 (1962), 1-128.

Jeffrey Christopher Moser, “Recasting Antiquity: Ancient Bronzes and Ritual Hermeneutics in the Song Dynasty” (PhD diss. Harvard University, 2010).

Nakajima Satoshi 中嶋敏, Tōyō shigaku ronshū -- Sōdaishi kenkyū to sono shūhen 東洋史學論集 -- 宋代史研究とその周邊 (Tokyo: Kyūko Shūen, 1988), 171.

Naomi Standen, “What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947,” in Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World, edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 129-74.

In the case of Chinese journals which use the year as the volume number, add the issue number to alert the reader:

Chen, Huiling 陳慧玲, “Lun Songdai jinshixue zhi fada jiqi jiazhi" 論宋代金石學之發達及其價值, Guoli bianyiguan guankan 1988.12, 245-58.

Artwork, figures and other graphics: All figures and tables should be supplied in separate files. Resolution: halftone images must be saved at 300 dpi at approximately the final size. Line drawings should be saved at 1000 dpi, or 1200 dpi if very fine line weights have been used. Combination figures must be saved at a minimum of 600 dpi. Cambridge Journals recommends that only TIFF, EPS or PDF formats are used for electronic artwork. For more detailed guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format please see the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide.

Permissions: Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. A copy of the paperwork granting permission should be provided to the Cambridge production editor. You may be asked to pay a permissions fee by the copyright holder; any permissions fees must be paid for by the author. For an example of a permissions request form please see the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide.

Competing interests and contributions of funding organisations: All authors must include a competing interests declaration in the Title Page document they submit alongside their manuscript. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.

Supplementary Online Material: If the author has material that may be useful to the reader, but not essential to understanding the article, this can be supplied as supplementary material. Supplementary materials are peer reviewed but they will not be copyedited or typeset, so they should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. The supplementary material should be supplied as a separate file, and should be referenced in the article.

Types of supplementary material include, but are not limited to, images, videos, podcasts and slideshows.

A statement should be added after the Conflicts of Interest statement to read:

“Supplementary Material

For supplementary material accompanying this paper, visit www.cambridge.org/[Journal]”.

The link will be replaced by your article’s DOI during the production process.