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.