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Chinese Literature Today
Book Review Style Guide
•Inquiries. Please always contact Book Review Editor Alexa Huang ([email protected]) before writing a review. Include the author, title, publisher, pub date, and ISBN. This helps CLT avoid duplicate reviews, and most publishers prefer to receive requests for review copies of their books directly from another publisher. •Submitting. Email your review to Alexa Huang ([email protected]) as an MS Word file. •Length. The maximum length for reviews is 500 words. Not all reviews received can be published, and overlong reviews will be returned for revision or edited for space. •Review Text Format. Double-space the entire document. Due to length restrictions, reviews are typically all in English. This is a review, not an essay; therefore we allow only 3 short quotations from the book under review. If you must quote another source, work the citation into the flow of the text. We do not accept reviews containing notes and/or bibliographies. CLT follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, 2010 (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org), and the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (www.merriam-webster.com). •Heading Format. All heading information is essential. Indicate if the book is illustrated, and note the plate count by the page count. The page count can be omitted entirely for a series comprised of multiple volumes. Reviews can be rejected for incomplete headings. Author. Title. Editor / Translator / Compiler / Illustrator. Type (fiction or nonfiction). Place of publication (city and state if in the US, or city and country, as appropriate). Publisher (and distributor, as appropriate). Year. Number of pages. Price. ISBN (use a period after each item except the ISBN). For example: Yan Lianke. Elegy and Academe. Fiction. Nanjing. Jiangsu People's Press. 2008. ix + 330 pages. 29 RMB. ISBN 978721405569 Foreign Literature. Echoes of a Century: Series Three. 10 volumes. Li Ziyun, Zhao Changtian, and Chen Sihe, eds. Nonfiction. Nanchang. Jiangxi Academic Publishing House. 2009. 290 RMB. ISBN 978781132574 •Reviewer's name. Add at the end of the review along with university affiliation. •Translator's name. If the review itself was translated, add "Translated by" and list the name and university affiliation underneath the author's.
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