Chinese as a Second Language Research

Submission

Following the passing of Professor István Kecskés, please send all inquiries and submissions to Chinese as a Second Language Research to Prof. Dr. Lizhen Peng at plizhen@zju.edu.cn.

Your benefits of publishing with us

• Short turnaround times
• High quality blind peer-review
• Optional open access publication
• Every article easily discoverable because of SEO and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
• Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico

Submission process

• Check that your topic fits the scope of the journal.
• Check that your manuscript conforms to our De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet.
• Please submit your article in English to: icup@albany.edu or your article in Chinese to: plizhen@zju.edu.cn
• The editorial office will perform a blind peer-review. The reviewing process takes on average 2-3 months. Submissions are sent to 2–3 reviewers.
• You will be informed by e-mail if your manuscript has been accepted or rejected or if it requires further attention. Reviewers’ comments will be available to the authors. Every effort is made to respond to the authors in a timely manner.
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access.

Please note

• Before submitting your article please have a look at our Publication Ethics Statement and our copyright agreement
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access.
• Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
• If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for journal authors

Additional information for manuscript formatting

• Personal data with the title, name, affiliation, email and postal address, and a short bio (50-70 words) should be submitted with the paper in a separate file.
• Abstract must be no more than one page summarizing the main points.
• Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced on one side of A4 or 8.5-inch paper with margins of at least 2.5 cm (or 1 inch) all round. The paper can be max. 9,500 words + references + appendix.
• For bi- and multilingual examples, use italics for one language, CAPITALS and underlining for the others (in that order).

Hybrid Open Access

Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

Editor-in-Chief:
Istvan Kecskes † (State University of New York at Albany, USA), E-mail: icup@albany.edu

Co-Editor:
Lizhen Peng (Zhejiang University, China), E-mail: plizhen@zju.edu.cn

Assistant Editor:
Caitríona Osborn, University College Dublin, Ireland

Editorial Board:
Jenn-Yeu Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Anqi Ding (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)
Michael Haugh (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Shih-Chang Hsin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Cheng Le (Zhejiang University, China)
Ziyu Lin (Macao Politechnic Institute, Macao, China)
Elizabeth Loh, (University of Hong Kong, China)
Jane Orton (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Zengan Peng (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Alain Peyraube (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], France)
Yongping Ran (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)
Helen Shen (University of Iowa, USA)
Carlotta Sparvoli (University College, Cork, Ireland)
Chaofen Sun (Stanford University, USA)
Hana Triskova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, Prague)
Hang Zhang (George Washington University, USA)
Xiaolu Wang (Zhejiang University, China)
Xiaohong Wen (University of Houston, USA)

Chinese as a Second Language Research is covered by the following services:

• Baidu Scholar
• CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
• CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
• Dimensions
• EBSCO (relevant databases)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• Genamics JournalSeek
• Google Scholar
• IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Ingenta Connect
• J-Gate
• Linguistics Abstracts Online
• MLA International Bibliography
• Naver Academic
• Naviga (Softweco)
• Primo Central (ExLibris)
• ProQuest (relevant databases)
• Publons
• QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
• ReadCube
• ScienceON (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
• Scilit
• SCImago (SJR)
• SCOPUS
• Semantic Scholar
• Sherpa/RoMEO
• Summon (ProQuest)
• TDNet
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
• WanFang Data
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• X-MOL
• Yewno Discover