1. Introduction

Epistémè is an official journal published by the Center for Applied Cultural Sciences (CACS) of Korea University. The journal is published two issues per year in full international languages including English and French. The mission of Epistémè is to bring together the latest theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences.

1.1 Submission
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by e-mail attachments to the editorial committee: master@epistemejournal.com. The attached files should be in MS Word or RTF format. PDFs are not acceptable. Authors are requested to submit the text, tables, and artwork in electronic form to this address. The Publisher and Editor regret that they are not able to consider submissions that do not follow these procedures. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail.

1.2 Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published seminar, lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

2. The presentation of manuscripts

2.1 Language
Please write your text in English, French or other languages that are discussed with the editorial committee in advance.

2.2 Word count
While no maximum length for manuscripts is prescribed, authors are encouraged to write concisely. As a guide, articles should be between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length.

2.3 Style of presentation
1) Use A4 sheet size.
2) Margins should be one inch (2.5cm) at the top, bottom, and sides of the page.
3) Font type should be 12-point Times Roman throughout the document.
4) Double-space all body text, including abstract, references, endnotes and appendices.
5) Number all pages in your manuscript, starting with the title page.
6) Alignment of the text body of the manuscript should be justified with first-line indentation.

2.4 References
APA (American Psychological Association) 6th – full name
Text: Citations in the text basically follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. Details concerning this referencing style can also be found at:
http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html.

List: references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

2.4.1 Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.

2.4.2 List of references
References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.

Reference to a book:
Greenberg, Paul (2001). CRM at the Speed of Light (5th ed.). Emeryville, CA: Lycos Press.
Williams, Raymond ([1961] 1992) The Long Revolution. London: Hogarth Press.
Bolter, Jay David, & Grusin, Richard (1999). Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Appadurai, Arjun (ed.) (1986). The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Augé, Marc (1999). An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Amy Jacobs, trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Kopytoff, Igor (1986). “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process”. In Arjun Appadurai, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (pp. 64-94). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reference to an article in journals:
Bruner, Jerome (1987). “Life as Narrative”. Social Research, 54(1), pp. 11-32.

For Magazine Article:
Youn, Myoung-Kil (2010, July). “Distribution Science in Medical Industry”. Medical Distribution Today, 39(4), pp. 86-93.

Reference to a Thesis for Doctorate (or Master's thesis):
Kim, Young-Min (2001). Study on Factors of Introduction of Supply Chain Management of Korean Companies. Seoul, Korea: Thesis for Doctorate in Jungang University.

For published conference proceedings:
Lee, Jung-Wan, & Kim, Young-Ei (2007). “Green Distribution and Its Economic Impact on the Distribution Industry”. In The Future of Green Economy. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of KODISA (pp. 12-32). Seoul, Korea: KODISA.
For Internet resources:
Kim, Dong-Ho, & Youn, Myoung-Kil (2012). Distribution Knowledge, Research, and Journal. Retrieved August 30, 2012, from http://kodisa.org/index.php? mid=Conferences&document_srl=8862
China National Petroleum Corporation (2009). 2009 Annual Reports. Beijing, China: China National Petroleum Corporation. Retrieved September 30, 2010, from http://www.cnpc.com.cn/resource/english/images1/2009.pdf

3. The information of title page

3.1 Title
Concise and informative in title case.

3.2 Author names and affiliations
Please provide full detail of authors including names, affiliations and e-mail addresses.

3.3 Abstract
Articles must include English abstracts. 150-200 words in total are recommended.

3.4 Keywords
Please provide a maximum of five English keywords. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.