Your contributions to our Journal  China heute – Information on Religion and Christianity in the World of China are very welcome.

Please let us know in advance on which theme you would like to publish an article.

We cannot take any responsibility for manuscripts which are sent to us unsolicited. The editors retain the right to shorten articles as well as to make orthographic and stylistic corrections to any text submitted. 

We use the new German orthography rules (Version of Aug. 1, 2006).

Publication rights
The Author relinquishes to the China-Zentrum e.V the right to the first publication of his or her contribution in the journal China heute. Thereafter, the printing of the article by China heute is free, if not stated otherwise. Please state the reference and send a sample copy. 

From now on, individual contributions to China heute will also be published online on the website of the China-Zentrum e.V.

Complimentary offprints
Each Author will receive two complimentary offprints of his/her article.  

Contributions under the heading ‘Information’	½ - 2 pages (or by prior agreement)
Contributions under the heading ‘Topics’	3 - 10 pages
Contributions under the heading ‘Historical Notes’	3 - 5 pages

Note: Please do not format Tables, Illustrations or Graphics into the text. Instead, please send them in a separate file.

In order to enable the Editors to work with your text more easily, we would ask that you kindly adhere to the following formatting indications.

File format	Text	Microsoft Word (*.doc)
	Photo / Graphics	*.tif, *.jgp
	Tables	*.xls
Paper format	DIN A 4	Portrait format (21 cm width x 29,7 cm hight)
	Margins	top 2,5 cm; bottom 2 cm; right and left 1,9 cm
	Font	Times New Roman
	Font size	10 pt
	Spacing	1.0
	Hyphenation	no hyphenation
	Titles	centered
	Paragraphes	no indentation, no following blank line, no automatic paragraph arrangement,
	Quotations	Quotations within the text are to be set off by standard quotation marks;
	Footnotes	at page end, continuous automatic numbering with Arabic numerals; please indicate footnotes after the word concerned, or when necessary at the end of the sentence.

At the first appearance of a title in your text, please give the complete information as shown in the following examples. At the second and following mention, it is sufficient to give the Author’s name, together with the year and page number:

Example
cf. Schüller – Asche (2007), p. 69; and Wenzel-Teuber (2007), p. 26f.

Example of an article
- With Volume Number:
Hildegard Maria Hau, “Dedication of the Freinademetz Center in Rome”, in: Verbum SVD 48 (2007) 1, pp. 101-103.

- Without Volume Number:
Margot Schüller – Helmut Asche (2007), “China as the new colonial power in Africa? Controversial strategies for safeguarding resources”, in: China aktuell 2007, No. 2, pp. 67-78.

Example of a monograph article
Katharina Wenzel-Teuber (2007), “On the situation of the Catholic Church in China”, in: Evangelical Mission Work in Germany – China InfoStelle (editor), “Faster, higher, stronger”, China and the 2008 Olympics, Blaue Reihe No. 13, Hamburg 2007, pp. 23-30.

Example of a book
Roman Malek (Ed.) (2007), The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ, Monumenta Serica Monograph Series Vol. L/3b, Sankt Augustin – Nettetal 2007.

Display / formatting
No underlining.  Book and periodical titles as well as foreign language expressions should be typed in italics, newspaper articles and dissertation titles are to be placed in quotation marks.

If you have any further questions, kindly contact the editors via E-Mail.

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