Submission Guideline

Form & Discipline:
The manuscript can be an original research paper (independent or course-related) or a critical review. Currently we accept submissions of research papers and critical reviews from the disciplines of General Linguistics, Philosophy, Art History, Comparative Literature, History, English Linguistics, English Literature, European Studies, American Studies, China Studies, Hong Kong Studies, Translation Studies, Legal Studies, and Education.

Word Limits:
Research paper: 2,000 – 10,000 words
Critical review: no more than 2500 words

Ground Rules & Policies:
By submitting your manuscript to Mercury, you agree that your submission is not under consideration, in part or in whole, by any other publication. In addition, the manuscript should not have already been published in any citable form. Authors are required to ensure that no submitted material infringes upon existing copyrights or the rights of a third party.

Submission of a manuscript to Mercury implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that any experimental research reported in the manuscript has been performed with at least a proper consent form with the approval of a supervisor. Manuscripts may be rejected if the editorial office considers that the research has not been carried out within an ethical framework, or if the manuscripts are found to be plagiarized. If a submission is perceived to contain potentially libelous content, the editors, with assistance from the faculty advisors, will work with authors to ensure an appropriate outcome is reached.

Language & Style:
Submissions must be written in English. When resources or examples from other languages need to appear, a three-line transcription (original language, with word-to-word translation AND free translation) must be provided in italics.
Authors may follow either American or British English spelling conventions, but must be consistent with their choice.
There is no strict limitation on the length of the manuscripts.

Citations and references should conform to any recognizable citing style that is conventional in your own discipline, e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago. The manuscripts should be formatted in 12pt Times New Roman font with all texts double-spaced. Footnotes should be removed and converted into endnotes, which should be numbered consecutively and grouped under the heading ‘Endnotes.’ Special characters should be expressed in Arial Unicode MS.

Please attach any figures or pictures as separate .jpg or .gif files and also include them in the manuscript, in the position you would like to see them appear. Your manuscript should be submitted in two formats, doc(x) and pdf.

If your paper is course-related, e.g. an assignment submitted to a professor to complete a certain course, you must also provide the course code, course name, and course supervisor along with your manuscript.

Submit your manuscripts to mercury.hku@gmail.com

Should you have any enquiries, please contact the Editor in Chief Sherry Chen.