S/N Korean Humanities

Submission and Style Guidelines

S/N Korean Humanities is a peer-reviewed Korean Studies academic journal published biannually in March and September by the Institute of Humanities for Unification (IHU) at Konkuk University in Seoul. Established in 2009, the IHU has pioneered the unique framework of analyzing unification as a process of communication, healing, and integration of all Koreans in South Korea, North Korea, and diasporic communities. Launched in March 2015, S/N Korean Humanities is the first to provide an innovative forum of debate for “Integrated Korean Studies” by bridging the worlds of han’gukhak and chosŏnhak. S/N Korean Humanities has published special theme articles associated with both han’gukhak and chosŏnhak, in addition to other research articles of relevance to our mission and research objectives. Our humanities-based approach to unification and Korean studies capture the commonalities and differences in the Korean peoples’ attitudes, emotions, values, and identities rather than the security, military, political dimensions of the Korean conflict emphasized in the previous scholarship.

Themes Covered in S/N Korean Humanities Include:

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Submissions of manuscripts are accepted for peer review throughout the year and must comply with the following guidelines to be considered for publication. Submission to S/N Korean Humanities implies that the work has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication is approved by all authors involved. Manuscripts should be sent to the journal’s e-submission system at https://www.snkh.org/. Alternatively, contributors can send their manuscript to the following email address: snkoreanhumanities@gmail.com.

EDITORIAL REVIEW

Papers submitted to the S/N Korean Humanities will be subject to a double-blind peer review to be conducted by two referees. Referees are asked to pay attention to the originality of the paper, the skill with which the author(s) present and analyze their evidence, and the importance of their research to wider theoretical debate. The research paper must make an original and significant contribution to the general field of the “humanities for unification” and Korean studies and be properly grounded in the relevant literature.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Submission Format. Essays should be written in fluent English and not require further corrections. Manuscripts must be double spaced throughout. Original articles should not exceed 8,000 words or their equivalent (including footnotes, references, citations, tables, maps, diagrams and photographs). Book reviews should not exceed 2,000 words. All pages of the article must be properly numbered.

Abstract. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words and must be accompanied by 5–6 keywords.

Style Guidelines. The style of the text, citations, footnotes, and references should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Author-date referencing style
1) The preferred style of source citation is author-date style, in which an in-text citation consists of the author’s name, the publication year, and (if relevant) a page number. Each citation must correspond to an entry in the reference list at the end of your article.
   • (Cumings 2004, 84)
   • (Kim 2000, 82)

2) When two or more authors have the same surname, their initials should be placed before their surname even if the year of publication differs. In case of multiple authors with the same initial and surname, their full names should be provided.
   • (H. Kim 2004; M. Kim 2001)
   • (Xiao Su 1996; Xin Su 1984; Xingguang Su 2012)

3) If there are two authors, the surnames connected by “and.” If there are more than two authors, the first author’s surname is followed by “et al.” Note “et al.” is not italicized.
   • (Bell and Rose 2017, 35–39)
   • (Marquis et al. 2010, 118)

4) If the name of the author is mentioned in the main text, it may be omitted in the parentheses.
   • according to Louise Watt (1972, 112)

5) If more than one work by the same author are cited, the name need not be repeated.
   • (Lipovetsky 1983, 1987a, 1987b, 1991; Yi 1995)

6) Multiple publications of a single author in the same parentheses are separated by intervening commas. When commas are required to separate page numbers from the author name and publication year, semicolons are used instead of commas to differentiate between multiple publications.
   • (Harvey 1998a, 1998b, 2015)
   • (Lefler 2007, 212–232; 2010, 565–666)

7) When works by different authors are listed in the same parentheses, they should be separated by semicolons and be listed in alphabetical order by the author's surname—in the case of same surnames, in alphabetical order by the author's first initial.
   • (Barfield 1989; Fletcher 1968, 210; J. Lee 2018; S. Lee 2019)

8) When a citation is taken from a secondary source, “as cited in” is added before the author name and the publication year of the original source.
   • (Bradley 1972, as cited in Robinson 2000)

9) Newspaper articles are cited in the text as follows.
   • (New York Times, October 13, 2007)

Quotations/Block Quotes. Use double quotation marks for all quotations in the running text. Use single quotation marks only to indicate quotations within quotations. Every quotation must be accompanied by a citation with a page number (if available). Only quotations of over seventy-five words should be set apart as block quotes. The source of a block quotation is given in parentheses at the end of the quotation. The opening parentheses appears after the final punctuation mark of the quoted material. No period follows the closing parenthesis.

ROMANIZATION

Submissions must follow the McCune-Reischauer system for Korean, Hepburn for Japanese, and Pinyin for Chinese.

COPYRIGHT

Authors publishing in S/N Korean Humanities will be asked to sign a Copyright Form. Signing the form indicates that the authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add acknowledgments in the Acknowledgments section at the end of the text. Credit sources of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.

REFERENCE LIST

Manuscripts must have a list of references at the end of the text. The preferred style is as follows, sorted in alphabetical order by last name and in the case of multiple works by the same author ascending by year of publication. If an author has publications dated the same year, they should be listed alphabetically by title and distinguished by a, b, c, and so forth, in both citations and references (e.g., Pollen 2006a, 2006b). For further information, consult the Chicago Manual of Style for the author-date references (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html).

[Last Updated on May 12, 2021]