GUIDELINES FOR GAPs BLOG POST ENTRIES

Topics and thematic focus

  • Focus on returns (EU’s governance of returns, return policies, international cooperation, recent related political developments in specific countries, migrant experiences, stories, and aspirations, etc.)

  • Presentations of team members and the work of young scholars at each partner's institution

  • Country profiles explaining the situation of return migration in each country

  • Events and activities related to the work of GAPs (impact activities, workshops, SEP panels, etc.)

  • Initial fieldwork reflections

How to submit your blog posts?

  • All submissions to the Blog should be made electronically, e-mailed as an attachment to gaps.return.migration@gmail.com. Please write in the ‘subject’ of your e-mail ‘GAPs Blog Entry’.

  • Please send us images as separate attachments, and do not insert them into the text. If the image is from the Internet, please also send a link. Please read the Images section below for important copyright information. 

  • Writing a blog is not the same as writing an academic essay. Above all, the writing should be clear, concise, compelling, direct, and accessible to a broad group of readers. The use of short sentences is encouraged above the use of longer ones. 

  • If you would like to discuss the topic you would like to write about, you can forward your questions or suggestions to gaps.return.migration@gmail.com.

Conventions

  • Size: Blog posts should be a maximum of 1000 words in length. In some circumstances, larger pieces of up to 1500 words might be considered.

  • Information to be submitted with your text

    • Title of the paper, set in bold. Catchy titles are great, but make sure they indicate what the post is about. Try to keep post titles short.

    • Your name is directly below the title.

    • A caption for your image.

    • The source of your image (or video) and copyright information are in brackets.

  • Images

    • Contributors are strongly encouraged to provide an image with their text. This may be a photograph, a graphic, or a cartoon. Images can be in gif, png, jpg, or jpeg format.

    • Please note that it is essential that we have permission to publish the image, either through a Creative Commons license or through explicit written permission from the copyright owner. Please provide a link to the source of the image if the image is from the Internet.

    • There is a folder entitled “Creating an Image Bank” on MS Teams – WP10-Impact channel. All team members upload images that are copyright free. Please also add a short line about the image (ownership, place, etc.) 

References

There are two ways of making references in a blog post; through links and endnotes.

  • Links: In general, if you are referencing from something which exists online, it is preferable to use in-text links. Links should be descriptive. Contributors should double-check the relevance and validity of links before submission.

  • Endnotes: Please use numbers (not Roman numerals) in superscript placed at the end of a sentence, behind all punctuation marks. This will happen automatically if you use the ‘Insert/Footnote’ function in Word. Please remember to then select ‘Endnote’ and to change the number format (in Options) from Roman numerals – i, ii, iii – to ordinary numbers – 1, 2, 3.