Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
The text is completely anonymous and the author's name is not present in the text nor the file name.

Author Guidelines

All published manuscripts must adhere precisely to the Asia in Focus Style Sheet. We highly recommend that you read through the style sheet and follow the rules from your first submission. Manuscripts that are accepted for publication will be returned to authors, if the style sheet has not been followed. Download the style sheet here .

Asia in Focus uses standard British English as exemplified in the Oxford English Dictionary (see https://www.oed.com/)
If you use quotations in other languages, English translations must be included.
Manuscript length: 3500 words (+/- 350 words), excluding abstract, photos, graphs and references.
Abstract lenght: 200 words
Include abstract at the top of the article. This only applies to articles, not book reviews.
Include information about yourself as an author (full name, degree/s, university affiliation) in your submission.
Copyright information must be provided for all images used in the manuscript.
The manuscript must be prepared in MS-Word compatible software.
Asia in Focus uses APA Style Citations & References
The manuscript must NOT contain any footnotes, endnotes or appendices.

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Sections

Articles (from issue 11)

As a multidisciplinary journal we welcome academic articles from different traditions and recognise that there is no 'one way' to do Asian Studies. Still, submissions should contain a thesis/research question, speak to existing literature, and detail a theoretical approach. The level of methodological detail (data collection, data analysis, etc..) required depends on the topic and disciplinary tradition. Please look to older issues of Asia in Focus for examples.

Book reviews

Reviews should contextualise books within a field, approach their overall argument analytically, and/or provide concise treatment of the book’s contribution to state-of-the-art literature. Reviews that simply summarise contents without critical, in-depth reflection and discussion will not be accepted.