Chinese 670/691A Research in Chinese Studies
Writing Your Thesis
- Purdue Online Writing LabHow to write your thesis.
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.
- Citing Asian-Language Sources (UBC)This page offers MLA, APA, and Chicago style citation guidelines and presents specific citation requirements for Asian-language resources, including sources in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Punjabi. The purpose of these guides is to provide undergraduate and graduate students, who are conducting research using Asian-language resources, with clear instructions on how to cite and format Asian-language sources in both English and Asian-language research papers.
Chicago Manual of Style
- Chicago Manual of Style This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
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.
