(Revised in January 2025)
1. The Journal of Macau University of Science and Technology (Humanities and Social Sciences), hereinafter referred to as the MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.), is a professional academic publication published by Macau University of Science and Technology. It covers various fields of humanities and social sciences, including humanities, arts, history, social sciences, business, economics, management science, linguistics, and international Chinese education research. The MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) welcomes manuscript submissions from experts and scholars both domestically and internationally, particularly those that demonstrate awareness of issues, have rich data, solid arguments, refined writing, and original contributions, in order to promote professional knowledge exchange.
2. Make sure submit final version of manuscript. Once your manuscript is accepted for publication and received at the Journal of Macau University of Science and Technology no further changes can be made.
3. Do not submit papers to MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) if they have been published somewhere else, or are being considered for publication elsewhere.
4. Submit your paper only as a Word file. The article must use Traditional Chinese and English and cannot be over 30,000 words (except for the special article). MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) is a Quarterly one published in March, June, September and December.
5. The article must provide no more than 500 words of Chinese and English abstract and five keywords. Define all non-standard abbreviations when they first appear. Remember to include a title, all author names and affiliations, and the corresponding author’s email address.
6. If your paper uses figures, tables, or parts of text that have been published elsewhere, you need permission from the copyright holder. Number tables and figures, ensure they all have a legend. Define the meaning of any bold or italic formatting in your tables. Figures should be high-resolution and in a common image format. (e.g. .eps or .tif)
7. All references should be readable and accurate. The article must need to follow the format references to the MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) style when you first submit your paper.
8. Include acknowledgements, conflict-of-interest declarations and details of funding sources and grant numbers at the end of your paper. Include the full funder name. Use author initials to indicate which authors received grants.
9. Include all supplementary data files, which is the application from, with your submission. Use Word’s ‘Insert equation’ and ‘Insert symbol’ functions to insert symbols or special characters. Do not use images. Times New Roman and Arial Unicode MS typically provide the widest range of symbols and special characters.
10. After we have reviewed your manuscript, we may ask for editable files, higher resolution figures, or edited files to fit journal style.
11. The article must follow the “Committee on Publication Ethics Rules”. If we have clear evidence that findings are plagiarism, unreliable, a result of major error, fabrication, falsification, or published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification of article, the MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) will retract the further article.
12. The MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) has now fully adopted an online submission system. Please register for the author system on our journal’s website to submit your manuscript. Please note that we no longer accept submissions via email or in hard copy format.
13. MUST Journal (Hum. & Soc. Sci.) has the final decision of publication, editorship and right of interpret for each article.
