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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.

Author Guidelines

Formatting and length
 Please send your article in a standard format that can be read by mainstream word
processing applications (.docx or .odt format).
● Please ensure that your article is between 6,000 and 7,000 words, including the
bibliography. Please do not exceed the 7,000-word limit.
● Please make sure your article is preceded by an abstract of between 200 and 250
words and a list of 4/5 keywords.
● Please write using a readable font, size 12, double-spaced, with justified margins.
● Please limit the use of tables and graphs. If you are using tables, please make sure
that they are in a format that can be edited and adapted for publication. If you use
graphs, please make sure that they have a high resolution (300 dpi).
Citation and referencing
 Please use in-text name-date citations, for example (Moisé and Sorbello 2022), with
a page number included where necessary according to standard academic
conventions, for example (Moisé and Sorbello 2022, 16). Please note that there is no
comma between the name of the author and the year of publication.
● When quoting another work or person, please use double quotations “ ”. When
quoting a quote inside of another quote, please use single quotations ‘ ’ for the internal
quote.
● If you would like to provide extra information that is not in the main body of the text,
please use numbered footnotes. Please use 1, 2, 3 instead of roman numerals or any
other type. Please use footnotes sparingly.
● Please provide an alphabetised bibliography at the end of your article (details below).
Please take special note of the position of commas and full-stops (as they are inside
the quotation marks for edited chapters and journal articles).

Spelling and writing style
 Please ensure that your article has an introduction and a conclusion.
● Please use headings and subheadings throughout the article. Headings and
subheadings should follow standard capitalisation formats (only first word and proper
nouns etc capitalised).
● Please follow British spelling conventions (such as -ise endings) and consult
Cambridge Pronouncing Dictionary, when unsure.
● Our journal follows standard publishing practice of lowercasing titles and general
references to organisations. For example, “the Eighth Army”, but “the army”;
“President Trump”, but “the president”.
● Please ensure that punctuation is left outside of quotations except for when they are
part of the quotation. For example: Secretary General Xi Jinping said that Kazakhstan
would be a “comprehensive strategic partner”. The bibliography does not follow this
style, though (see above section).
● For dates, please follow this example: 12 March 1994.
● Please use Oxford commas (a comma before the final item in a list – usually before
“and”). For example: China has developed strong relations with Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
● Please spell numbers one to ninety-nine in full, but you can use numerals (for example,
103) for larger numbers. One exception to this is before units of measurement (for
example, 5 km). Please spell percent as it is spelt in this sentence.
● When listing things, please use the following example as a guide.
EXAMPLE: With the Belt and Road initiative, China has developed educational
collaborations with Central Asian countries, including: (1) financing mobility grants for
Central Asian students to study in China; (2) establishing Confucius Institutes and
affiliate centres; and (3) offering training programmes in China to Central Asian
educators.

Bibliography template
Book: Ferrari, Aldo. 2022. Storia della Crimea: Dall’Antichità a Oggi. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Edited book: Berkofsky, Axel and Giulia Sciorati, eds. 2022. China’s Foreign Policies
Today. Who Is in Charge of What. Milan: Ledizioni.
Edited chapter: Artoni, Daniele. 2019. “Alone in the Steppes: Carla Serena in the
Peripheries of the Russian Empire.” In Róisín Healy (editor) Mobility in the Russian,
Central and East European Past, 46-56. London: Routledge.
Journal article: Comai, Giorgio. 2018. “Conceptualising Post-Soviet De Facto States as
Small Dependent Jurisdictions.” Ethnopolitics 17, no. 2: 181-200.
Online source: Maracchione, Frank. 2023. “Licorice and Leather: Spotting Chinese Soft
Power in Rural Uzbekistan.” Eurasianet, March 22, 2023. https://eurasianet.org/
perspectives-licorice-and-leather-spotting-chinese-soft-power-in-rural-uzbekistan.
Accessed on May 11, 2023.
● Please note that you do not need to use an access date for online sources if the page
is not updated.
● In the case of two or more works by the same author, list them in order of publication
date, beginning with the earliest publication; if two or more works by the same author
have the same publication date, distinguish them by adding a, b, c, etc., after the
date.
● Please do not divide the bibliography according to type of source.

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