EASTS

Aims and Scopes

East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) is an interdisciplinary, quarterly journal based in Taiwan and co-edited by editorial boards in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the West. EASTS aims to promote both ‘Science, Technology and Society studies' (STS) as well as ‘Science and Technology studies' (S&TS) in the growing East Asia STS community. The journal contains research and commentary on how society and culture, and the dynamics of science, technology and medicine, are mutually shaped and co-produced. EASTS will offer fresh STS perspectives, not only because the East Asian STS community shares similar cultural and colonial history, similar geological and biological composition, but also because our similar socioeconomic and political positions are in contrast to the West.

EASTS wishes to promote STS studies not only in East Asia but also around the world. Although there are several well-established STS journals in the English-speaking world, most are published in North America and Europe and mainly aim at academic readers in western society. EASTS on the other hand, aspires to coordinate and facilitate networks form Northeast Asian STS communities, and to promote Southeast Asian STS and even expand Asian STS studies into an internationally open and inclusive STS community.

Information for Contributors

EASTS welcomes research articles, review articles, book reviews, critical notes, and other special articles for EASTS communities. Articles should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words in length, and longer articles may be considered for publication in two or more parts. Shorter contributions will be considered for the “Notes and Letters” section. All contributions should be typed and double-spaced on quarto or A4-size paper. Please send your manuscript for professional English editing before your submission.

Articles and Research Notes (including first drafts) should include an Abstract of approximately two-hundred words, and a list of key words. Final drafts should include an author's biography (approximately 50 words), plus complete contact information: institutional (or, if preferred, home) address, fax, e-mail.

Prospective authors could send their draft contributions electronically to the online submission and review system. If you have any problem on using the system, please do not hesitate to contact us.

To speed up the administrative process of publication your manuscript should include in the very first:
• An abstract of 150 words.
• Up to 5 keywords to facilitate electronic access to your article
• A biographical sketch of 40 or fewer words for every author.
• Please provide full contact information on the first page of the manuscript.

Please be aware that author names and adresses should only appear on a removable cover page to facilitate double-blind review.

In the article, please be sure that
• Acronyms, abbreviations, and jargon are defined, unless they are well-known (such as STS) or in the dictionary.
• Quotes of 10 or more words include page number(s) from the original source.
• Every citation has a reference, and every reference is cited.

Formatting guidelines:
*The following items are 1.5-lined: text, abstract, biographical paragraph, endnotes, author's note/acknowledgments, references, block quotations, appendixes, tables.
*All is left justified, with a ragged right-hand margin.
*All in-text citations are included in the reference list; all references have in-text citations.
*Please write in Chigago-Style Citation for Social Sciences (The author-date system)
*Manuscript Sample of EASTS journal, please see: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1323724862373g8g/fulltext.pdf

*Reference should be listed by author's last name

Journal article
Smith, J. R. 2001. Reference style guidelines. Journal of Guidelines 4 (2): 2-7 [or 4:2-7].
Book
Smith, J. R. 2001. Reference style guidelines. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Chapter in a book
Smith, J. R. 2001. Be sure your disk matches the hard copy. In Reference style guidelines , edited by R. Brown, 155-62. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Editor of a book
Smith, J. R., ed. 2001. Reference style guidelines . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dissertation (unpublished)
Smith, J. R. 2001. Reference style guidelines. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles.
Paper presented at a symposium or annual meeting
Smith, J. R. 2001. A citation for every reference, and a reference for every citation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Reference Guidelines Association, St. Louis, MO, January.
Online
Smith, J. R. 2001. Reference style guidelines. In MESH vocabulary file [database online]. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. [cited 3 October 2001]. Available from www.sagepub.com.
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