Pacific Focus

Published on behalf of the Center for International Studies, Inha University

Edited by:
Euikon Kim

Print ISSN: 1225-4657
Online ISSN: 1976-5118
Frequency: Three times a year
Current Volume: 25 / 2010
Impact Factor: 0.125

TopAuthor Guidelines

AIMS AND SCOPE
Pacific Focus is the official journal of the Center for International Studies, Inha University, Korea, and publishes original papers covering security, political economy, regionalism, environment, migration, civil society, and multi-culturalism in the Asia-Pacific region.

EDITORIAL REVIEW AND ACCEPTANCE
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board, who reserves the right to refuse any material for publication. Submitted manuscripts should be original pieces of work that have not been published in other places or not currently on offer to another publisher.
Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. They should be written in a clear, concise, direct style. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of content, the Editor and the Publisher reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Submissions may be made either via e-mail to intstudy@inha.ac.kr or by mailing a total of three hard copies of a manuscript along with a disk to the Editor- in-Chief:

Professor Euikon Kim, Editor-in-Chief,
Pacific Focus, Center for International Studies,
Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong,
Nam-ku, Incheon 402-751, Korea
E-mail: intstudy@inha.ac.kr; tel: +82-32-860-8265; fax: +82-32-868-1163.

E-mail submission is encouraged. In hard copy submission, all self-references should be removed from two of the three submitted copies.

Author material archive policy
Authors who require the return of any submitted material that is accepted for publication should inform the Editorial Office after acceptance. If no indication is given that author material should be returned, Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all electronic material two months after publication.

COPYRIGHT
Authors publishing in the Journal will be asked to sign a Copyright Assignment Form. In signing the form it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the form, and must sign the form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed form has been received. Authors can download the form from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/pafo_caf.pdf.

STYLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Spelling. The Journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Abbreviations. In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.
Figures. The Journal does not accept color figures. Figures should be submitted in black and white only.

PARTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages (or approximately 8,500 words) including footnotes. They must be typewritten, double-spaced, with 11 point font and in a Microsoft Word file. Footnotes should be placed together at the end of the manuscript. The style of the text and footnotes must conform to The Chicago Manual of Style (see below). Also include in your submission an author's bio-data (less than 100 words), an abstract (150-250 words), keywords, and references (less than 2 pages).

References
Submissions should be prepared to adhere to the following reference format conventions:

Books
Kenneth Boulding, Conflict and Defense (New York: Harper, 1962), pp. 11-25.

Journal Articles
James A. Caporaso, "Industrialization in the Periphery: The Evolving Global Division of Labor," International Studies Quarterly, 25 (September 1981), pp. 347-384.

Chapter in a Book
Jong H. Yoo, "Economic Growth and National Security: Koreas Experience and Prospects," in Richard F. Kosobud, ed., Northeast Asia and the United States: Defense Partnerships and Trade Rivalries (Chicago: Council on Foreign Relations, 1983), pp. 120-147.

Internet source citation
Japan Defense Agency, "Completion of the Review of the Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation"(1997) at <<a href='http://www.jda.go.jp/policy/f_work/sisin4.htm'>http://www.jda.go.jp/policy/f_work/sisin4.htm> (searched date: 23 September 1999).

Second mention where notes are consecutive
Ibid., pp. 25-38.

Second mention where notes are not consecutive
James A. Caporaso, op. cit., pp. 130-135.

Table or figure
The source should be cited. Citation style is the same as the footnote style. Each table or figure should have individual numbering.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Survey of Current Business, 61 (August 1981), p. 47.

PROOFS
It is essential that corresponding authors supply an email address to which correspondence can be emailed while their article is in production.
Notification of the URL from where to download a Portable Document Format (PDF) typeset page proof, associated forms and further instructions will be sent by email to the corresponding author. The purpose of the PDF proof is a final check of the layout, and of tables and figures. Alterations other than the essential correction of errors are unacceptable at PDF proof stage. The proof should be checked, and approval to publish the article should be emailed to the Publisher by the date indicated, otherwise, it may be approved unilaterally by the Editor or held over to the next issue.

EARLY VIEW
Pacific Focus is covered by Wiley-Blackwell's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

OFFPRINTS
A free PDF offprint will be supplied to the corresponding author after the issue has been published. A minimum of 50 offprints will be provided upon request, at the author's expense. These paper offprints may be ordered online. Please visit http://offprint.cosprinters.com/, fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields.
If you have queries about offprints please email offprint@cosprinters.com

WILEY-BLACKWELL JOURNALS ONLINE
Visit the Pacific Focus home page at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pacificfocus for more information, and Wiley-Blackwell's web pages for submission guidelines at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/journal.asp. Pacific Focus is also available online at http://www.interscience.wiley.com