OWL - Blog Submission Guidelines

This website provides a forum for the discussion of gender related issues at work. Oxford Women in Law – Wellness has an open call for submissions related but not limited to the following:

Themed posts: On professional issues related to gender and wellbeing

Articles or news items: Brief summaries of achievements or news that may have wide appeal.  

Opinion pieces: Express your views on recent developments or media coverage of Women in Law, or related subjects.

Interested? Send a draft title and short summary of what you want to write, and a short author biography (50 words max), to alumni@law.ox.ac.uk

We will then contact you and discuss further steps and timeframe. Please keep in mind the below guidelines.

Basic requirements

• In the latest Word document or Pages format.
• Themed posts and opinion pieces should be 750-1,500 words in length, articles or news items should be from 500 words.
• Already proofread.
• Cross-posting or publication on other platforms is permissible only with the permission of the Editors of the blog and with a link back to the original article.

Stylistic requirements

• Please don't use footnotes (instead, just use links).
• Posts should be written in a clear and concise manner, avoiding jargon and wordiness.

Images

Contributors are strongly recommended to supply the blog with an image to use for the post listing and/or within the post itself. Images must be either the author's own, or obtained from Creative Commons licenced sources.

The easiest way to find such images is by using Google, making sure to restrict the search criteria to a 'free use' option. (Here is Google's own guide.) Other options include Flickr (with a search query restricted to Creative Commons photos) and Pixabay (whose images are all Creative Commons CC0 licensed).

Please supply all attribution details (i.e., author's own, or which kind of CC licence) to the editor along with submission of your document.