Author Guidelines

Education About Asia (EAA) welcomes submission of manuscripts and reviews for publication on a rolling basis.

Published since 1996 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), EAA is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of AAS. We publish two online issues annually. Over the past year, the online archives of over 2,000 articles have received close to 900,000 pageviews, representing close to sixty percent of all traffic to the AAS website. Our readership primarily consists of undergraduate instructors who have an interest in teaching introductory survey courses and secondary school teachers with an interest in Asia. Our mission is to assist professors and teachers to integrate the study of Asia into their courses. Increasingly, instructors at both levels assign journal articles as student readings.

Authors who publish in EAA are scholars with a deep expertise in Asian Studies. Since many of our readers are non-specialists, most of our articles are introductory overviews, and we encourage contributors to write as they might for periodicals such as The Atlantic, The Economist, or The Wall Street Journal, rather than for a typical scholarly journal. It is important to keep in mind that EAA manuscripts need not include “cutting edge scholarship” but should be generally accurate introductions to important topics or events for targeted courses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and professional fields, e.g., education, business, and journalism.

Each issue of EAA contains a Features and a Resources section.

  • The FEATURES section includes longer articles (3,000 to 4,000 words) on a variety of Asia-related topics crafted for EAA’s target audiences: instructors and students in middle school, high school, and undergraduate introductory-level survey courses.
  • The RESOURCES section includes shorter articles for EAA‘s target audiences including teaching resources essays (2,000 to 3,000 words) as well as reviews of print, digital, and other media appropriate for middle, high school, and college classrooms (1,000 to 2,000 words).
  • Feature articles and teaching resource essays go through an initial editorial review and if manuscripts are determined to have potential pedagogical applications, a blind peer review process is then utilized. Two referees assess feature manuscripts and one referee assesses teaching resource essays.

Manuscript Length: Although the editor may consider longer manuscripts, in general, Feature Article manuscripts are typically 3,000 and 4,000 words (12–16 double-spaced manuscript pages). Teaching Resources essays are usually between 2,000 and 3,000 words (8–12 double-spaced manuscript pages). Shorter reviews are approximately 1,000 to 2,000 words (4–8 double-spaced manuscript pages).

Style: Please follow EAA style and manuscript requirements closely when preparing manuscripts. In general, EAA follows The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. If you have further questions about style, please contact the editor. EAA reserves the right to edit manuscripts stylistically (grammar, punctuation, syntax). Changes in content occur only with the consent of the authors.

Manuscript Preparation: 

  • Authors should submit a copy of their manuscript by email as a Microsoft Word attachment to EAA Editor, Elise Huerta, at EAAeditor@asianstudies.org.
  • Please include a signed publication agreement with your submission (open the PDF, type your name and add the date, and save it to your computer to email).
  • Manuscripts should be double-spaced.
  • Please submit a 75-100 word bio of yourself with your submission which will be placed at the end of your article should it be accepted for publication.
  • Please also include a statement in your email that your submission has not been submitted, is not under consideration, and has not been published elsewhere or has been substantially modified for publication in EAA if this is the case.

Please follow these general style guidelines

  • Use Endnotes: References cited in the narrative are superscripted with numbers. The bibliographic reference, with corresponding number is placed at the end of the manuscript. Please refer to the Chicago Manual for the proper construction of endnotes and use a minimal amount in your manuscript.
  • Preserve author anonymity: Use a title page that can easily be removed for blind peer review, and do not use your name anywhere but on the title page. The title page must include the paper’s (short) title, the name(s) of the author(s), title, professional affiliation, complete mailing address, email address, telephone and fax number(s).
  • Illustrations, Table, and Figures: EAA encourages authors to submit photos, maps, relevant tables, and other graphics with their manuscript. Number visual references sequentially and provide captions for illustrations and figures. If a photo or artwork is not your own, please furnish proof of permission to use the work. EAA does not pay to obtain copyrighted illustrations or photos. Authors are encouraged to use original or royalty-free materials such as those found in the public domain; for example, on Wikimedia Commons and Unsplash. Please refer to the illustrations, tables, and figures in the text, but captions should enable them to stand alone. For tables, use a concise title and column headings. Insert tables in the text near the corresponding narrative.
  • Quotations: Quotations that are three lines or more in length should be indented five spaces from both margins.
  • Book and Film Reviews: For books, please include the author, publisher, publisher city, date of publication, number of pages, and the ISBN number (usually begins with 978). For film reviews, please include run time, date, color or black and white, distributor, and distributor contact information. If the film contains subtitles, please note. Please include a paragraph regarding the material’s applicability to the classroom. EAA does not accept reviews of materials that are difficult to obtain or are no longer in distribution. Please check with EAA before sending unsolicited reviews to determine whether we have commissioned, or have already published, a review.
  • Proofreading: Authors are responsible for spell-checking and proofreading their manuscripts before submission. Non-native English speakers are encouraged to commission professional copyediting services before submitting manuscripts. EAA provides limited copyediting services.
  • Transliteration: Non-English words that appear in any of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries are acceptable in most contexts. In most other cases, however, please use diacritics. Consult instructions for diacritic use in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. Italicize all non-English words the first time they appear in the manuscript. Thereafter, italics are not necessary.

Acknowledgement of Receipt and Acceptance: EAA promptly acknowledges receipt of submissions. Although feature manuscripts and resources essays are peer reviewed by qualified referees, the editor makes the final decision with regard to accepting manuscripts for publication.