Chinese 670 Research in Chinese Studies
More help
- Google TranslateYou can get some help with pinyin romanization if you pop your citation into Google Translate and then combine your results into proper citation format. You need to check the results, but it can save you a lot of time.
- A Student's Guide to Writing in East Asian Studies (Harvard)aimed at undergrads writing their senior thesis, this is nonetheless really useful information.
- Style Guide for Essays in Chinese Studiesmuch shorter than the Harvard version and super useful.
Chicago Manual of Style
- Chicago Manual of Style This link opens in a new window
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The widely-used citation and style guide for scholarly writing.
note: Many authors and publishers now expect to see the author date form of in-text citations instead of footnotes or endnotes.
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesSee the submission information page for HJAS guidelines on how to write about China in English.
Citation Management Software
Citation management software can do odd things to Asian language citations formatted for a North American audience, but they can also be hugely helpful in keeping track of materials that you have read and cited in your research.
The Library's subscription to Refworks is going away, so I don't recommend using it if you are just getting started. There is a freely available add-on/web-based software called Zotero that is very popular and it is able to handle unicode so it may work for your purposes.
- ZoteroFree software that will let you collect and format citations.
