Институт за азијске студије

Instructions for authors

In Asia Notebooks, we accept texts prepared in the following way:​

Papers are written in English.

We only accept works in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) format, sent to our e-mail address office@ias.rs 

With the manuscript, the authors are obliged to submit a completed and signed Statement of Authorship in pdf format, which can be downloaded here.

1. Text formatting:

     – Times New Roman font, body text size 12; subtitles are in bold, the second level of subtitles is in italics

     –  Title page containing the title of the text, author’s name, author’s title, contact information;

     –  On the first page of the text:

               * author name, author title (in footnote)

               * title text (font size 14)

               * abstract and keywords

     –  Single space throughout the document

     –  Double space (instead of line indent) to indicate a new paragraph or paragraph

     –  Page number centered at the bottom of each page

     – Top, bottom and side margins not less than 2.2 cm

     – Manuscript can contain no more than 6000 words (excluding tables, graphs and sources)

      – give a list of references at the end of the paper

       * the list of references is sorted by the English alphabet by the last name of the author

      * references should not be numbered

      * only references mentioned in the text are cited

      – after the list of references, the name and surname of the author, title of the work, abstract and keywords in Serbian are given< /p>

2. Citation and list of references

The Asia Notebooks use the Oxford Citation Style – citing sources using footnotes.

​​      * to cite sources in the text (in a footnote), use the following general rules:

​​     > for listing monographs:

D. Mitrovic, From Socialist Modernization to Chinese Dream, Institute for Asian Studies, Belgrade, 2019, p. 171.

    > to cite a journal article:

D. Mitrovic, “USA President Trump’s First Asian Tour – From ‘America First’ to Indo Pacific”, Asian Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017, p. 15.

> to indicate the chapter in the book/collection of works:

D. Mitrovic, “China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting and Transforming Initiative”, in Yu Cheng et al. (eds.), The Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Arena: Chinese and European Perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, Singapore, 2018.