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Submission Guidelines

Foreign Policy Journal welcomes article submissions. If you have an article you think would be well suited for publication at FPJ, please send it in an e-mail with the subject heading “Submission” to:

Jeremy R. Hammond
editor [at] foreignpolicyjournal.com

The submission guidelines are just that — guidelines. Submissions that adhere to the guidelines, however, will likely be given more consideration and have a greater chance of getting published.

Content

FPJ seeks news and fact-based analysis and opinion outside of the confines of partisan politics. A good rant is okay once in a while, and may be considered, but fully fleshed out views or arguments that are well supported will have a much better chance of being featured. If you source information used in your article, you may use embedded links like this or footnotes; either is fine (links are recommended for news and opinion pieces, but footnotes for more  analytic and scholarly pieces. Use square brackets “[1]“. If you’re using Word, don’t worry about it – if you use footnotes or endnotes, it’s automatically transformed to brackets when pasting to HTML).

Please fact check your work. Particularly if your article is about something controversial, it’s best to provide sources to support your assertions. FPJ’s editorial policy can be summed up as: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.

By all means, please include images with your work. Just be sure, if you do, that either you are the copyright owner, you have permission from the copyright owner, or the image is in the public domain. Please include photo credit information and send image files as separate attachments in your email.

Articles inciting violence, encouraging or defending violations of international law, etc. will be rejected. FPJ is unashamedly pro-peace, pro-respect for international law, and anti-establishment propaganda. So if you’ve written an article, for example, about how the U.S. or Israel should bomb Iran, don’t bother submitting it to FPJ.

Format

Please attach articles as a Word document. Single-space and do not indent. Do not manually create an empty line between paragraphs (rather than hitting “Enter” twice to create a space between paragraphs,  just adjust the spacing in the paragraph options or use the “add space after paragraph” feature). Turn off the “smart quotes” feature (use straight quotation marks).

Submitted articles should be in final draft form. Please take care to proofread your own work before submitting it (or have someone proofread it for you).

If the editor decides your article requires any kind of significant revision before publication, you will be notified and given the opportunity to revise your draft and/or approve of any proposed changes. Such revisions may include  corrections of factual statements, revisions for grammar and readability, and changing the title to something likelier to draw more readers’ attention or improve search engine optimization. Any proposed revisions are intended only to improve the quality of each article.

Minor editorial revisions may be made without notification. This may include corrections of grammar or format. Titles may also be revised. If you don’t want your title to be revised, please include a title that identifies the topic for readers scanning headlines.

Please also see copyright information below for further information.

Bio and Description

Please include a short bio with your submission to let readers know a little bit about you; just something brief to let people know who you are. Regular contributors may be featured on the Writers page, in which case your photograph may also appear alongside your bio. If you contribute regularly and would like to be included, don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to the editor with the request. The more the merrier.

Also please include a brief article description. Sometimes, a subtitle will suffice as the description. Other times, a sentence or two or a paragraph from the text itself serves as a useful description. If not, please just write a sentence or two explaining briefly what the article is about.

Copyright

FPJ is not currently able to offer compensation for submissions and authors thus retain full copyright ownership of their work (see exceptions below). The act of submitting an article constitutes the express permission for FPJ to publish that work. Please notify the editor if your work has been published previously and, if so, whether you would require or desire attribution to the original publication. If you are submitting an exclusive to FPJ, please be sure to mention that this is the case so that can be taken into consideration by the editor. If you are submitting a piece as an FPJ exclusive, or if the finally published article is a work resulting from significant collaboration with the editor, you still retain copyright, but it is expected as a professional courtesy that if you submit that final work for republication elsewhere, it will include attribution to FPJ and/or a link to the original at FPJ.

Benefits

FPJ is not presently able to offer compensation for published work. However, there are a number of benefits of publishing with FPJ:

  • FPJ is an official Google News website. Getting published at FPJ means your article will be indexed by Google and included in News search results.
  • FPJ offers you the opportunity to advertise yourself. Your bio will be included with each article. You may include a link to your website and your email along with your bio.
  • Frequent contributors will have the opportunity to be included on the “Writers” page. In addition, regular contributors may have their own category and individual RSS feed so readers can easily and conveniently follow their work.
  • If you are a regular contributor and have a book you’d like to advertise on FPJ, let the editor know and he’ll be happy to do so.

Thank you for considering Foreign Policy Journal as an outlet for your writing!

Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed in articles published at FPJ are the respective author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of FPJ, which seeks to publish a diverse range of perspectives on any given issue. Authors and copyright owners are fully responsible for and legally liable for their own work.  While FPJ makes a good faith effort to ensure the accuracy of published articles, it assumes no responsibility or legal liability, express or implied, for the content of any work of the author and/or copyright owner.