Submission and Style Guide for Mongolian Studies: The Journal of the Mongolia Society

Submission Information

All submission should be sent to monsocjournal@gmail.com

The email should include the following information

  • The title of the submission

  • An abstract

  • Name and affiliation of author(s)

  • Submission is original.

  • Confirm that the submission has not been published elsewhere in another language.

  • All authors have agreed to the submission.

  • Submission should be submitted as a MS word file (.docx, .doc, .rtf, or open office document.  PDFS will not be accepted. 

  • Affirm that contribution adheres to the style guide.  Note:  submissions may be desk rejected if they do not.  

STYLE GUIDE

  • Format: Contributions should be written with MS Word (.DOC OR .DOCX). Pdfs and other formats are liable to be rejected without consideration. 

    • For the main text please use Times New Roman 12 points, for notes and bibliography 10 points.

    • Use endnotes, not footnotes.

    • No empty line between paragraphs or sections.

    • Subheadings are to be in bold and preceded by a blank line. 

    • Initial paragraphs are not indented (including those immediately following a subheading).  All subsequent paragraphs are indented.   

    • If your paragraph has a , please insert an empty line before the headline.

    • Use single inverted commas for ‘scare quotes’ but double inverted commas for citing speech, text or titles of articles in the body of your contribution.  For example: the ‘young’ Tibetologist Austine Waddell characterises Tibetan mysticism as “a silly mummery of unmeaning jargon and ‘magic circles’”.

    • Do NOT use page numbers or headers/footers.

  • Font: Please use Times New Roman.

  • Spelling: The author may use either English or American spelling preferences, provided only one style is used throughout the manuscript (exclusive of bibliography). 

  • Capitalization: Authors should be consistent in their use of capitalization. Overcapitalization should be avoided. The abbreviations ‘vol.,’ ‘no.,’ and ‘pt.’ are not normally capitalized. 

  • Italics: The titles of works and periodicals should normally be italicized. Foreign words should only be italicized if there is risk of confusion with an identically spelled English word; if the word is being cited by the author; or if the word is likely to be unfamiliar to readers (in this last case, only the first appearance of the word in the text should be italicized). Foreign words employed by the author instead of translations, and familiar words and phrases in a foreign language should be set in Roman type. Latin scholarly terms and abbreviations (with the exception of sic) are not italicized.

  • Double initials (e.g. V.S. Taskin) should NOT have a space between them. Thus, V. S. is wrong, V.S. is correct.

Transcription: To maintain consistency, the journal has made decisions for particular spellings for various proper nouns common in Mongolian Studies that have common variants. 

Bibliographical References and Footnotes:

  1. All citations will be endnotes, using Chicago Style citations. 

  2. A reference list with bibliographic information shall follow the endnotes adhering to the Chicago style.  See  

  3. For guidance see:  https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

Illustrations: 

  • Diagrams, charts, maps, plans, and other line drawings must be submitted as high resolution with a minimum of 600dpi. Image location should be marked in the document (Image 1).

  • A list of captions labeled Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. must be supplied separately.  

  • Please do not embed images in the document.  This will be completed at publication. 

Blind Review

  • Please ensure that your name or any reference to the author(s) is only on the cover sheet.

  • Blind peer review takes time as the reviewers must make time amidst other obligations to review your manuscript.  While we strive for a quick turnaround, it is not always possible.  Please allow 90 days (3 months) before inquiring.  

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are asked to contact the editor at monsocjournal@gmail.com before submitting manuscripts for current submissions guidelines. The electronic copy is preferred in Microsoft Word. Articles translated from a foreign language should be accompanied by a copy in the original language. For style, please see a recent issue of Mongolian Studies: The Journal of the Mongolia Society. Citations of Russian or other non-Latin script language works should be in the original scripts or according to the International or ALA systems of romanization. Citations of Chinese-language works may be in traditional or simplified characters or according to the Pinyin system. Bibliographic citations of Mongolian-script works should be according to the appendix to Antoine Mostaert, Dictionnaire Ordos and Cyrillic according to Alan J. K. Sanders‘ Historical Dictionary of Mongolia (4th edition preferred) or Charles Bawden’s Mongolian-English Dictionary.