ZS-JOTS

Journal of Old Turkic Studies

The most important pages in the authors’ area

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

Title translation, abstract and keywords

In addition to the original title, provide an english translation of the main title in bold and in a new line (unless they are already in English). If there is a subtitle, it is also translated into English.
Contributions in the Journal of Old Turkic Studies have an abstract and keywords in English. There are no abstracts or keywords in the original language.

Abbreviated references

In the text body, abbreviated references are used according to the ‘author-year’ scheme.
The reference should be given in round brackets, stating the surname, year of publication and page number(s). Please give the specific page numbers and avoid using ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ to indicate pages.
Simple reference: (Surname Year: Page)

Hamilton 1971: 99.

Integrated into the sentence:

As Hamilton (1971: 99) has shown, …

According to Hamilton (1971: 99–100), it can be concluded that …

Two authors:

(Hamilton und Niu 1998: 129)

More than two authors:

(Hartmann et al. 2024: 345)

Several references within one bracket:

(Hamilton 1971: 99; Hamilton 1972: 156; Hamilton 1996: 136)

Detailed references

The bibliography should only include works cited in the text and should be arranged alphabetically by author's surname. All information must be complete and formatted consistently.
If several works by the same author are published in the same year, they are distinguished by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.). This designation must be used consistently in both the bibliography and the abbreviated references in the text body.

Monographies

Surname, first name. Year. Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Hamilton, James Russell. 1971. Manuscrits ouïgours de Touen-houang. Le Conte bouddhique du bon et du mauvais prince en version ouïgoure. Paris: Klincksieck.

Journal contribution

Surname, first name. Year. Title. Journal title, volume, issue, page number.

Hamilton, James Russell. 1972. Le Texte turc en caractères syriaques du grand sceau cruciforme de Mar Yahballaha III. Journal asiatique, 260, 155–170 + 4 pl.

Contribution in an edited volume

Surname, first name. Year. Title. In Name, A. (ed.), Title of the volume (page number). Place: Publisher.

Hamilton, James Russell. 1996. On the dating of the Old Turkish manuscripts from Tunhuang. In Emmerick, R. E. et al. (Hgg.), Turfan, Khotan und Dunhuang. Vorträge der Tagung „Annemarie v. Gabain und die Turfanforschung“, veranstaltet von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin (9.–12.12.1994) (pp. 135–145). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Chinese and Japanese sources

Titles of works in Chinese or Japanese are given in their original characters.
The English translation of the title follows immediately after the original title in square brackets. A transcription (e.g. Pinyin or Hepburn) is not required. All other bibliographic information (journal title, volume, year, page numbers, etc.) follows the journal's general citation scheme.

Kämbiri, Dolkun et al. 1990: ウイグル文佛教尊像受領命令文書研究 [A Study on the Uyghur Order Document of Receiving Buddhist Portraits]. アジアアフリカ言語文化研究 [Journal of Asian and African Studies], 40, 13–34.

Doctoral thesis or master's thesis

Surname, first name. Year. Title. Subtitle. University. Place.

Toalster, John Peter Claver. 1977. Die uigurische Xuan-Zang-Biographie. 4. Kapitel mit Übersetzung und Kommentar. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Gießen. (Unpublished dissertation)

Review headers

Please provide the complete bibliographic details of the book reviewed:

Johan Elverskog: A History of Uyghur Buddhism. New York 2024. Columbia University Press, 296 p., ISBN 978-0-231-21524-4, EUR 117,00.