Studies in the History of Natural Science (SHNS) is the sole national journal in the People's Republic of China devoted to interdisciplinary and comprehensive studies in the history of science, technology and medicine. The journal, which appears in January, April, July and October, publishes scholarly articles and reviews of books either in English or Chinese on all aspects of the history of science, technology and medicine. The journal is an open forum, and contributions from all parts of the world are welcome.
Manuscripts (original plus two copies) and books for review should be sent to the Editorial Committee of SHNS, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.137 Chaonei Street, Beijing 100010, China. Submissions may also be sent using E-mail address: studyhns@263.net, in which case a printed copy should be forwarded to the Editorial Committee. Manuscript ,which should included an abstract of approximately 150 words and 2～6 keywords should not exceed 10,000 words. If accepted, the author will receive 30 copies offprint, as well as a copy of the journal. The authors are responsible for securing for any necessary permission for publication. For detailed, please refer to Notes for Contributors in Volume 18, No.3, 1999.
Notes for Contributors
1. Manuscripts (original plus two copies), along with a floppy-disk version using either Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, if possible, should be submitted to the Editorial Office of Studies in the History of Natural Sciences (SHNS), 137 Chaonei Street, Beijing 100010, CHINA. Submissions may also be sent using E-mail: studyhns@263.net, in which case a printed copy should be forwarded to the editorial office by ordinary air mail. Please give the author's full name, institution, detailed address and E-mail address, and include 2~6 Keywords and an abstract of approximately 150 words. Another summary in greater detail than the former would also be welcome. Summaries, preferably, should be in Chinese for articles submitted in English (or in English for articles written in Chinese); summaries submitted in English will be translated by SHNS. Contributors are advised to retain a copy of their contribution for future reference.
2. Manuscripts should be submitted to SHNS with the understanding that upon publication copyright will be transferred to the Editorial Committee of SHNS. This precludes SHNS from considering material that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to publish material appearing in the journal in other media, including CD-ROM versions, and other forms of electronic publication.
3. Manuscripts should be typewritten or word-processed using a letter-quality or laser printer, and should be double-spaced throughout, including quotations, notes and references. Margins should be wider than usual to allow space for instructions to the typesetter.
4. All Chinese characters should also be given with their pinyin equivalents the first time they appear in the text or in footnotes. Please use the Chinese phonetic alphabet giving the full Chinese name, book title, place name, or Chinese technical term. Japanese and Korean words should also be transliterated in a similar way. For example: Qian Baocong 钱宝琮; Sima Qian 司马迁; Yangcheng 阳城; Shiji 史记 (Historical Records); wuxing 五行; qiemai 切脉; Seki Kawa 关孝和; Yi dynasty 李朝.
5. Explanatory material not suitable in the body of the manuscript should be given in footnotes, placed at the bottom of the page separately from the main body of the text, double-spaced, numbered independently on each page, and keyed to consecutive numbers (1, 2, …… ). In the text, footnote numbers should be inserted where appropriate above the line.
6. Complete bibliographic information should be given in a separate section for References (not in the footnotes), put together after the text, numbered consecutively following the order in which citations appear in the article. Footnotes should then refer to items by their number in the section for References ( [1], [2], …… ). When the bibliography is in Chinese, the Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling should give pinyin equivalents for all names and titles as explained above in paragraph 4. Japanese and Korean citations should be dealt with in a similar manner.
6.1 References to books should include the author's full name; complete title of the book, underlined (or italicized); (edition, if not the first edition); the place of publication and publisher's name for books published after 1900; date of publication, including the original date when a reprint is being cited. Examples: 1 Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. II: History of Scientific Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959; repr. 1980. 2 Zhu Qianzhi 朱谦之. Zhongguo Sixiang duiyu Ouzhou Wenhua zhi Yingxiang 中国思想对于欧洲文化之影响 (The Influence of Chinese Thought on Western Civilisation). Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1940.
6.2 References to articles in periodicals should include the author's name; title of the article; name of the periodical, underlined or Italicized; the volume number, using a boldfaced Arabic numeral; the number of the issue in parentheses if pagination requires it; the year in parentheses; and finally, the page numbers of the entire article. Examples: 3 M. Loewe. Spices and Silk: Aspects of World Trade in the First Seven Centuries of the Christian Era. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,1971, 2 : 166～179. 4 Mei Rongzhao 梅荣照. Jia Xian de Zengcheng Kaifang Fa 贾宪的增乘开方法 (Jia Xian's Zeng-Cheng Method for the Extraction of Roots). Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 1989,8(1): 1～8.
6.3 Subsequent citations should use an abbreviated form in the text , referring by number to the item in the list of references and using one of the following formats, such as: ……（[1]，p.473）,……([3],pp.65～67).
7. Please mark clearly for the typesetter all unusual alphabets, special characters, mathematical expressions, chemical formulae, etc., and include all diacritical marks.
8. A small number of figures may be used to illustrate an article. All line drawings should be directly reproducible. |
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