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We warmly welcome submissions to IPM Monthly from scholars at all career stages. IPM Monthly aims to foster accessible, engaging, and intellectually rigorous discussion on topics in philosophy and the history of ideas, with particular attention to global perspectives and premodern thought. Contributions should be written with a general readership in mind and focus on the public communication and popularisation of philosophy and the history of ideas, rather than specialised academic debate.

While English is the primary language of publication, we also accept submissions written in the principal languages of the European Union (including but not limited to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) as well as Chinese. Contributions should be sent by email to news.ipmmonthly@gmail.com, in Word format and prepared in accordance with the stylesheet provided below. All submissions will undergo internal peer review by members of the editorial team and/or external peer review, depending on the kind of submission and its language.

Editorial Stylesheet

This stylesheet applies to all submissions to IPM Monthly, including essays, articles, opinion pieces, and reviews.

1. Language and Spelling

  • Submissions may be written in English, Chinese, or in one of the main languages of the European Union.
  • British English spelling and punctuation should be used where applicable (e.g., organisation, analyse, honour).
  • No Oxford comma unless necessary for clarity.

2. Word Count

  • Submissions must be between 1,000 and 7,000 words, including references but excluding abstract and author bio.

3. Referencing and Citations

  • Use the Author–Date referencing system (Harvard style).
  1. In-text examples: (Smith 2022); (Jones and Patel 2019: 145)
  • Reference list: Include at the end, alphabetised by surname. Examples:
  1. Book: Smith, John. 2022. The Ethics of Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. Journal article: Patel, Mira and Zhang, Lei. 2020. “Medieval Optics and its Reception”. Journal of Premodern Studies 15/3: 221–238.
  3. Edited volume chapter: Brown, Alice. 2018. “Natural Philosophy in the 12th Century”. In The Medieval Cosmos, edited by G. Hughes, 101–120. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4. Formatting and Structure

  • Submit as a Word document (.doc or .docx).
  • Use clear section headings; no numbering unless essential.
  • No footnotes or endnotes: incorporate material into the body text or use short parenthetical remarks.

5. Style and Presentation

  • Italicise book titles, journal names, and foreign words not assimilated into English.
  • Use en dashes (–) for ranges (e.g. 100–200) and parentheticals, and hyphens (-) for compounds and prefixes. Do not use em dashes (—).

6. Quotations

  • Use double quotation marks for quotations, with single quotation marks inside if needed.
  • Quotations longer than 40 words should be formatted as indented block quotes, without quotation marks.
  • All quotations must be cited, including page numbers.

7. Abstract and Author Information

  • Include a one-paragraph abstract (maximum 150 words) at the beginning.
  • Include a brief author bio (maximum 50 words) at the end.

8. Permissions and Originality

  • Submissions must be original and adhere to the principles of the IPM Monthly Editorial Charter.
  • Authors are responsible for securing permissions for any third-party material.