Submission of Contributions

The Journal welcomes submission of manuscripts in German or English that are within the thematic scope of the Journal and that heed the guidelines presented below. Submissions are subjected to a peer review process and, in the event of their acceptance, are carefully edited by the Journal’s editing team.

Declaration and verification of a submission’s originality

When submitting a manuscript, please provide a declaration stating:

• whether the submitted manuscript has already been published elsewhere in an identical or revised version or has been accepted elsewhere for publication (this also applies to manuscript versions in other languages);
• that you, as the author, have written the manuscript yourself, that quotations are indicated as such, and that all sources used are listed;
• that you consent to the editorial team potentially conducting an originality check (including the use of plagiarism detection software);
• the extent to which you have used AI-based technology to create the article.

Guidelines for Authors

• Submission: Contributions should always be submitted in electronic form as Word documents and sent to zchinr@dcjv.org.
• Please follow the Citation Guidelines and do not use any automated formatting mechanisms in the main text or footnotes (as regards headings, numeration, hyphenation, etc.).
• Length of submission: In terms of the length of a submission, authors should orient themselves on the articles, notes, book reviews and conference reports published in earlier issues of ZChinR/GJCL. As a rule of thumb, notes may contain up to approximately 20,000 characters and articles up to approx. 150.000 characters (in each case inclusive of footnotes and blank spaces).
• Editing: The editors of ZChinR/GJCL reserve the right to adapt the citation format and revise portions of the text where necessary.
• As a rule, the Journal publishes only original contributions, but it may publish some reprinted or adapted publications on an individual basis. For such texts, the author shall provide any necessary releases of copyright.

Creator Rights and Publisher Rights

The Journal and all individual articles and images contained therein are protected by copyright. Any use not expressly permitted by copyright law (or the corresponding Creative Commons licenses) requires the prior consent of the Journal or, in the case of open access contributions, the authors.

Creative Commons licenses are based on standard license agreements (offered by the non-profit organization Creative Commons) that seek to provide clear guidelines on the reusability of copyrighted content and promote the distribution of creative content in a legally compliant manner consistent with the principle of open access.

Granting of Rights and Publication Agreements

Upon acceptance for publication, the authors transfer to the Journal the simple and spatially and temporally unrestricted right to reproduce and distribute the text in physical form; the right to publicly reproduce the text and make it available; the right to include the text in databases; the right to store the text on electronic data carriers and the right to distribute and reproduce these carriers; and the right to other types of exploitation in electronic form. This also includes forms of use that are not yet known.

At the request of the managing editor, authors shall conclude a publication agreement specifying further details with the publisher. A template of the publication agreement can be downloaded here for information purposes.