Author Guidelines
Articles must not be concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere and are normally 7,500-10,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and bibliography. Any submission more than 10,000 words in length will not be considered except with prior permission from the editors.
Articles must be formatted in footnotes-and-bibliography style in accordance with the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide is available for standard documention examples.
All text (including transliteration) should be in Gentium Plus true type font. Pali and Sanskrit text should be in Nirmala UI, Chinese characters in PMingLiU, and Tibetan text in Microsoft Himalaya.
A 100-word abstract must be included on the opening page immediately below the title.
Contributors are welcome to contact the editors beforehand to discuss proposals or for guidance regarding topics which are suitable for publication in CJBS. Research articles will be subject to double-blind peer review by appropriate members of the Editorial Board or external evaluators selected at the editor’s discretion. As such, please ensure that your manuscripts are fully anonymized, with any identifying material omitted in the body of the manuscript and in the file metadata.
Please contact the Journal and CJBS News Blog Manager at contact@thecjbs.org for an article template before submitting the paper.
Copyright Notice
While authors of accepted manuscripts retain copyright they also agree assign to the Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies the right to publish the text both electronically and in any other format and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive.
Privacy Statement
Your names and email addresses will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Submission
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript that meets the criteria above, please send the manuscript in .docx form to contact@thecjbs.org. Our editor will follow up in a separate email to inform you whether we will send your manuscript out for review. Thank you for considering the Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies as a forum for your work