About the Journal

Communication across Borders: Translation & Interpreting (CABTI) is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by JHK Press.  The journal invites contributions representing innovative and critical views principally on the theory, history and practice of translation studies in all aspects.


Language: English
ISSN (online) 2766-791X
ISSN (print): 2770-6354
Publisher: JHK Press
Publisher location: USA
Publication fee: Yes. $300
Availability: open access
Paper submission: jhkpress.com/
Email: cab@jhkpress.com

Aims and focus

CABTI publishes papers related to literature and translation, including:

  • Intercultural Communication
  • Cultural Studies
  • Film and TV Translation
  • Community Interpreting
  • Translation and Globalization
  • Literature Translation
  • Non-professional Translation
  • Interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies
  • Cognitive Translation Studies

CABTI uses double-blind review: the reviewers' identities remain anonymous to authors and vice versa. Manuscripts submitted to the journal first go through an initial screening by the editorial team. Those that clear the screening are then sent to at least two experts for peer review. Email address for submitting your manuscript: cab@jhkpress.com. Visit the editorial process page for more information.


The Journal is indexed by Google Scholar and OpenAIRE.
The editorial staff consists of translation studies scholars who received their PhDs from universities including Newcastle University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. They are passionate about developing the discipline of translation studies and assisting new scholars with their academic research.

Please use this template for your paper submission: CABTI Template

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, they should ensure that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

While submitting the manuscript to our Journal, the authors should be the copyright owner of the respective material and should not copy past anything from someone else’s work. The original work should be attributed in the form of citation. It is the responsibility of the authors to assure that they are not reporting fake or fraudulent results under their authorship. The Editor in Chief can send the paper to international agencies (for example, Turnitin, Plagiarism Checker X) for authentication of originality. For the plagiarized articles which might evade the peer-review process will be retracted temporarily from publication. The authors will be asked to explain their point of view. In case of unsatisfactory response, the article will be permanently retracted. The notice of such retraction will be published on line immediately and in the next issue of the Journal. 

We will pre-screen your paper with Grammarly and  Plagiarism Checker X at our expense. However, if the Grammarly similarity report result is higher than 5% or Plagiarism Checker X is higher than 10%, then the paper should be sent to Turnitin and the author is required to cover the Turnitin cost. The journal only accepts papers with a Turnitin similarity index less than 20% (with the reference list deleted or excluded for similarity check).

Publication fees and waivers

Yes, $300(USD) per article. For more informaiton, visit the payment page. $100(USD) if you submit your paper by October 18, 2022.  Free of charge if you are outside of China and submit your paper by January, 2023. 
 
We do not want economic hardship to prevent the publication of worthy work!  At CABTI, we understand that some authors, students or institutions may have limited funding for their research activities.  Hence, the journal provides a waiver to authors from the following low income countries: Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Somalia, Burundi, North Korea, Dem. People's Rep., South Sudan, Central African Republic, Liberia, Sudan, Chad, Madagascar, Syrian Arab Republic, Congo, Dem. Rep, Malawi, Tajikistan, Eritrea, Mali, Togo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, Gambia, Niger, Yemen, Guinea, Rwanda, Palestine, and Morocco.
 
 

Publication fees and waivers

Yes, $300(USD) per article starting from January 1, 2022. For more informaiton, visit the payment page.
 
We do not want economic hardship to prevent the publication of worthy work!  At CABTI, we understand that some authors, students or institutions may have limited funding for their research activities.  Hence, the journal provides a waiver to authors from the following low income countries: Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Somalia, Burundi, North Korea, Dem. People's Rep., South Sudan, Central African Republic, Liberia, Sudan, Chad, Madagascar, Syrian Arab Republic, Congo, Dem. Rep, Malawi, Tajikistan, Eritrea, Mali, Togo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, Gambia, Niger, Yemen, Guinea, Rwanda, Palestine, and Morocco.
 

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Archiving Policy

This journal utilizes PKP PN to digitally preserve the journal content.