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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. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may not be considered.

Content

FPJ seeks news and fact-based analysis and opinion outside the confines of partisan politics and the framework offered by the mainstream media. 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.

Please submit your article in Word format (.doc or .docx). If you source information used in your article, you may use embedded links like this or use the automatic footnotes/endnotes feature in Word (Please use Chicago-Style formatting for footnotes). Embedded links are recommended for news and opinion pieces and footnotes for more scholarly articles (such as those published under the “Special Reports” category). When hyperlinking text in Word, please set the “Target frame” to “New window” (so when readers click the link, it will open in a new tab or window and not take them away from the article).

Please fact check your work carefully. 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 follows: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

By all means, please include images with your work. Just be sure 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 (don’t embed them in Word).

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.

Articles inciting violence, encouraging or defending violations of international law, which are prejudicial towards individual rights, etc., will be rejected. So if you’ve written an article, for example, about how the U.S. or Israel should bomb Iran, please don’t bother submitting it to FPJ.

Format

Please attach articles as a Word document. Single-space and do not indent. Do not hit “Enter” twice to create space between paragraphs (use the paragraph spacing feature instead).

Submitted articles should be in final draft form. Please take care to proofread your own work before submitting it. Articles are carefully reviewed before publication, but submissions that would clearly require extensive proofing and revision are unlikely to be accepted. If English is not your first language, you may wish to have someone proofread and edit your work before submitting it.

Many (if not most) alternative news sites, if they accept your work, will copy and paste it for publication (oftentimes, typos and all). FPJ is different. Articles you read at FPJ have gone through an oftentimes extensive editorial review process. If you are not willing to work with an editor to address any concerns or willing to accept suggestions on how to revise and improve your article, do not submit to FPJ.

If the editor decides that 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. Any proposed revisions are intended only to improve the accuracy and quality of each article. Minor editorial revisions that don’t go to substance may be made without notification, and your title may also be revised (if you don’t want your title to be revised, please make sure that any reader scanning the headline will know what your article is about).

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. If you would like your website URL, Facebook address, or Twitter profile to be featured with your bio, send them along. If you want your profile picture to appear, you may get a universal avatar via Gravatar.com. Regular contributors may also be featured on the Contributing Writers page. If you contribute regularly and would like to be included, don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to the editor with the request. (Note: FPJ does not publish articles by anonymous or pseudonymous writers.)

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, such as the lede or conclusion, serves as a useful description. If not, please just write a sentence or two prefacing your article and explaining briefly what it is about.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright ownership of their work. The act of submitting an article constitutes the granting of permission for FPJ to publish that work. If either submitted as an exclusive or if the published version of an article is the product of significant collaboration with the editor, it is considered that you are granting to FPJ exclusive publishing rights.

Articles published at FPJ may not be republished without the express authorization of FPJ and/or the copyright owner. If you would like to republish an article from FPJ, please email your inquiry to: editor [at] foreignpolicyjournal.com.

Benefits of Publishing with FPJ

FPJ is not presently able to offer compensation for published work. However, FPJ can offer the following benefits if your work is accepted for publication:

  • Your work will be indexed by Google News.
  • You can market yourself. Your bio will be included with each article, which may include your social networking profiles (i.e., Facebook, Twitter) and a link to your blog/website.
  • Frequent contributors will have the opportunity to be included on the “Contributing Writers” page and have their own category accessible from the main navigation menu.
  • 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 information in 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.