Call for Submissions to the CSA Journal, Vol. 5, 2009

Dear CSA members, colleagues and friends,

You are cordially invited to submit a manuscript for the forthcoming 2009 edition (Volume 5) of Academic Perspective 学术展望杂志 (ISSN 1936-1246), an annual e-journal published by the Chinese Scholars Association of Southern California (CSASC). Some volumes may also be in print.

Authors are encouraged to submit original works (including preliminary research), book reviews, and commentaries on their own work or their colleagues’ work, or on current and future developments in their fields. Your manuscript can be in either Chinese or English, with a maximum length of 15 single-spaced pages. The submission deadline is August 31, 2009.

Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the CSA Editorial Board and/or other invited peers. All of the journal articles are freely available to the public online. Authors retain copyrights to their individual articles, hold sole responsibility for their writing, and are welcome to re-use it as they deem appropriate.

Your manuscript must be a Word document, single spaced, with a one-column layout, one-inch margins, Times New Roman font size 12, first-level headings in all capital letters, and second-level headings’ word initials in capital letters. References must be in alphabetical order and be placed at the end of the manuscript. Citations in the text must refer to authors by last name. Please avoid using footnotes.

To access previous volumes of the Academic Perspective, please visit the CSA website at http://csasc.org/pages/journal.php.

Please email your manuscript to the following Editors-in-Chief by August 31, 2009:

Dr. Chongwu Zhou, Editor-in-Chief for Natural Sciences & Engineering, chongwuz@usc.edu
Dr. Sheng-He Huang, Editor-in-Chief for Health Sciences & Medicine, shhuang@usc.edu
Dr. Kylie Hsu, Editor-in-Chief for Social Sciences & Humanities, prof.kyliehsu@gmail.com

Editorial Board Members:

Dr. Yong-Gang Li, USC, ygli@usc.edu
Dr. Lianlian Lin, Cal Poly Pomona, LindaLLin2@gmail.com
Dr. Kylie Hsu, Cal State LA, prof.kyliehsu@gmail.com
Dr. Bing Huang, UCI, bhuang6560@gmail.com
Dr. Chongwu Zhou, USC, chongwuz@usc.edu
Dr. Sheng-He Huang, USC, shhuang@usc.edu