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Author Guidelines

Korea Policy accepts submissions from subject matter experts and practitioners in Korean affairs covering original and previously unpublished research that advances the understanding of issues within the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

Submission requests must be made to the managing editor, Ellen Kim, at ek@keia.org.

Instructions for Authors

Manuscript

Manuscripts should be single-spaced throughout and single-sided, with a space between paragraphs. Text should be justified, with 1-inch margins on all sides. On the first page of the manuscript, place on separate lines the title of the paper and the full name(s) of the author(s). All pages should be numbered consecutively. Korea Policy will only accept manuscripts within a word count range of 4,500-6,000 words (excluding endnotes).

The manuscript must consist of a title, abstract, main text of paper including endnotes, and an appendix (if applicable), in that order.

We encourage the use of subheadings to emphasize and highlight your organization of material. Subheadings should be bold and flushed left.

This publication will use the date format of month-day-year (e.g., December 15, 2001). Please use this format for dates in your manuscript to minimize unnecessary editorial work.

Authors should submit the final version of the text file electronically in Microsoft Word to the managing editor, Ellen Kim, at ek@keia.org. Graphs, line drawings, and diagrams should be included within the final text file. All articles submitted for publication must represent original work not previously published and should not be under current review by another publisher. Please include a one or two sentence bio, including your title and affiliation.

Text style

Use 12-pt Aptos font throughout the main text (10-pt is acceptable for figures and tables). Main headings should be in boldface, set over to the left margin (flush left). The text should follow the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., and conform to usage in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed. Write out “percent” (one word) in the text. Acronyms should be spelled out the first time they are used in the text. For more information regarding specific spellings and stylistic guidelines, please consult the KEI Style Guide.

Endnotes

The endnote reference marks in the text should be superscripts. Endnotes should be numbered on the line. Use 10-pt Aptos font for endnotes.

Citations and references

No bibliography or reference list is needed. Any additional information on a topic that is not included in the main text should be included in endnotes (though these types of endnotes should be kept to a minimum).

For titles of articles, books, and theses, use the “up” style of capitalization. Do not use quotation marks for book titles. Journal articles must include the volume, issue number (or month), and page numbers. Endnote citations should conform to the following examples:

  • Book: Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (New York: Viking Press, 1958), 128.
  • Journal article: Susan Peck MacDonald, “The Erasure of Language,” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 619.
  • Paper presented at a meeting: Paul Hanstedt, “This is Your Brain on Writing: The Implications of James Zull’s The Art of Changing the Brain for the Writing Classroom” (presentation, Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 12, 2009).
  • Paper in multiauthor collection: Muriel Harris, “Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers,” in A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One, ed. Ben Rafoth (New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2000), 24-34.
  • Magazine, newspaper, or newsletter article: Emily Macel, “Beijing’s Modern Movement,” Dance Magazine, February 2009, 35.

Abstract and Policy Brief

Authors should include an abstract of no more than 400 words, and a policy brief of no more than 1-2 pages. Policy briefs should summarize the core argument of the manuscript and provide succinct policy recommendations based on the manuscript’s findings, preferably in bullet-point list form. The policy brief must follow the same manuscript and text style guidelines as the manuscript, and must include an executive summary and background, policy recommendations, and conclusion sections.

Peer Review and Editorial Timeline

After initial submission, Korea Policy articles will be sent to the editorial team for copy editing and to a subject matter expert for a double-blind peer review. Authors will receive their edited manuscript and peer review feedback notes together within 2-3 weeks. Authors will resubmit their revised manuscripts, taking into consideration peer review feedback and suggested edits within 2-3 weeks. After resubmitting, the editorial team will review the revised manuscript for final edits and share the finalized manuscript with the author to approve or reject all final edits.

Copyright and Licensing

Korea Policy articles will be made Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original article is properly cited. The Korea Economic Institute of America will have non-exclusive rights to the article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The author(s) retains all proprietary rights, such as copyright (subject to the above-stated Creative Commons license).

More information on the rights granted under this license are available from the Creative Commons website.