Authors Guidelines

We encourage all members / users to offer original, quality well referenced articles, or informed comments (plus legitimate short extracts) on other media articles. Please offer these as appropriate.  Since the site gets 240,00 unique visits per month, your work will have high visibility to other specialists.

Articles – these appear on the front page(s) of the site, and must be original, ie not published on the web elsewhere and your own work or with permission.

News Briefs – can include extracts from published work / stuff in newspapers and some original comment or analysis – these will be short – just click the newsbrief category in WordPress.

Finding Articles and New briefs – use either the key word search box, the Tag Cloud, or the Category Search – these will not bring up articles from the library

Files – these are in the Library / Downloading Files section and are currently not searchable in the search box.  You can find this by clicking on the aforementioned tab.

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Using WordPress

This is somewhat similar to using a word processor like MS Word. The text Editor options are at the top, allowing you to format text in a very similar way… using bold, italics, headings, bulleted lists etc.

NB: To keep all the site content in a similar and consistent  format, we prefer you to use the default typface (font) and to not alter font colours unless its to emphasize or illustrate a point. Before posting any content, please proof-read it for typo’s, grammar, punctuation…

Articles could be;

• serious research papers, as per those written for a conference / meeting / thesis etc
• thought-provoking analysis of current issues
• challenges to existing policies
• proposing new / better policies
• humourous anecdotes related to energy / climate / transportation
• new technologies explained
• old technologies and their current relevance / non-relevance
• debunking myths
• etc

• we will double-check / proof-read
• we will determine the correct Category
• we will check / add Tags and search engine optimisation elements
• we reserve the right to determine when the article is published e.g. if multiple articles are submited, we may choose to spread publication of them over  several days.

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