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The World Today - Guidelines for Contributors

If you are interested in writing for The World Today, please read the following notes before submitting proposals.

For more than sixty years The World Today has carried stimulating argument from policy-makers, journalists and academics. Your work will be read in more than eighty countries and can be consulted in hundreds of libraries. The challenge is to make ideas attractive to a broad range of readers - from schools and businesses through the diplomatic and political worlds to academia.

Articles should present the brightest analysis in a lively, engaging and accessible style. Long, convoluted sentences and dense argument are best avoided. The magazine does not use footnotes. Please look at recent issues of The World Today, to see which topics have been covered, and to get a feel for the style the magazine prefers.

Articles range from 700 words to a maximum of 2,300. All are illustrated with photographs, maps or diagrams. Please let us know if you are able to help with these, especially if you hold the copyright. Book reviews are around 700 words and use the cover for illustration. Whenever possible writers should email their work or send proposals or submissions to wt@chathamhouse.org.uk.

The magazine normally expects contributors to cede copyright of their contributions. In these circumstances we allow re-publication without prior authorisation, provided that publication in The World Today is acknowledged and our website address included. Should you wish to retain copyright please let us know at the time of submission.