{"id":56,"date":"2010-10-08T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2011-09-14T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:36:36","slug":"amerasia-book-review-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?page_id=56","title":{"rendered":"Amerasia Book Review Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Review Guidelines for <\/strong>Amerasia Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

1. The review should be 800 to 1000 words in length.\u00a0 Please include word count at the top of the first page.<\/p>\n

2. The review should be submitted in typewritten copy, double-spaced.\u00a0 You should submit your review via email attachment, in Microsoft Word .doc format.\u00a0 Please email Book Reviews Editor Arnold Pan at arnoldpan@ucla.edu.<\/p>\n

3. The heading for the review should follow the following format.\u00a0 Please note all the elements that are needed for publication:<\/p>\n

Title; Author\/s, editor\/s; City, State: Publisher\u2019s name, Date of publication; Number of pages (last printed number page); Hardcover or softcover and respective price.\u00a0 If you are working from a publisher\u2019s review copy, the publisher\u2019s letter usually contains all of this information if you cannot find it on the book.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n

Counterpoint:\u00a0 Perspectives on Asian America<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Emma Gee.\u00a0 (Los Angeles:\u00a0 UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976.\u00a0 595 pp.\u00a0 hardcover, $19.95; softcover, $10.95).<\/p>\n

4. Write your review with two goals in mind, namely to report basic information about the book and, more importantly, to evaluate the book.\u00a0 Do not abstract the book, but be sure to indicate the range and nature of its contents.\u00a0 The exact information will vary according to the kind of book, but in all cases it includes the book\u2019s purpose or main theme, and the way in which the author(s) seeks to achieve the purpose or develop the theme.\u00a0 Summarize the book\u2019s main conclusions but be brief.\u00a0 Place the book in the perspective of related literature by comparing it with other books on similar topics.<\/p>\n

5. Avoid quoting long passages from the book you are reviewing.\u00a0 Paraphrase when possible.\u00a0 Always give the page number of the quote in parenthesis.<\/p>\n

6. Because Amerasia Journal<\/em> is an interdisciplinary publication, please avoid overly technical language understandable to only a few specialists.<\/p>\n

7. Avoid using references and footnotes.\u00a0 If a quotation from another work is absolutely necessary, please incorporate the reference into the text.\u00a0 The form of the reference should be:<\/p>\n

(Charles Wollenberg, All Deliberate Speed: Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools<\/em>, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).<\/p>\n

8. We reserve the right to edit reviews for style, concision, and consistency.<\/p>\n

9. We will send you a copy of the issue of Amerasia<\/em> which contains your book review, along with three offprints.\u00a0 Two copies of your book review will be sent to the publishers of the book.\u00a0 You are entitled to keep the book which you review.<\/p>\n

Please send your completed review by email to: arnoldpan@ucla.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Review Guidelines for Amerasia Journal 1. The review should be 800 to 1000 words in length.\u00a0 Please include word count at the top of the first page. 2. The review should be submitted in typewritten copy, double-spaced.\u00a0 You should … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P17drF-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}