Thank you for your interest in INDUSTRIAL PREVENTION & RESPONSE. The magazine is published by TradeFair Group Publications, a division of Access Intelligence, to serve the needs of readers in industry who are involved in fire prevention, protection, and suppression; safety; and security.

If you are interested in contributing content to the magazine, please follow these guidelines. (Note that all submissions are subject to approval by the editorial staff and, in some cases, the editorial advisory board.)

Topics

The topics we’re interested in are those that our readers are interested in, including:

• The prevention of, or response to, fire, chemical, or other hazardous incidents.
• General industrial preparedness, safety, and security issues.
• Government regulatory news and analysis.
• Instructive profiles of professional organizations serving the industrial fire, security, and safety industry.
• Details of new programs and success stories from university and college programs in industrial fire, security, and safety.

Articles submitted for consideration should include:

• Background and description of the problem or incident.
• Details of how the problem or incident affected (or could have affected) the company or industry.
• Steps taken to solve the problem or prevent future occurrences.
• Benefits to the company and/or industry.
• What others can learn from the situation.
• Photographs, graphs, tables, and drawings, wherever these graphics will help the reader understand the story. (Note that such graphics greatly increase the value of a story.)

Vendors

IPR will not accept product marketing material as editorial content. Any queries or completed stories submitted by vendors must adhere to the guidelines described above and be substantially focused on the details of a real-world application of the product or service. Articles co-authored by an end user are preferred.

If you are submitting information to be considered for inclusion in our New Products department, send an e-mail to editor@iprmag.com that includes: no more than three paragraphs about the product, a highres product image (jpg) in a separate file, and contact information for any follow-up.

The subject line should read: Your Company Name for IPR New Products.

Please note that, due to the level of our staffing and the volume of mail we receive, we cannot respond to all vendor submissions or to broadcast press releases. If your company’s product is selected for inclusion in an issue of IPR, we will let you know. All submissions are subject to the magazine’s standard copyediting guidelines.

Article submission and publication process

It’s best to start by sending a brief but clear proposal ( query) to editor@iprmag.com in which you outline the story you propose to send. Tell us who you are, what your qualifications are for writing the story, what the story will be about, what readers will gain by reading it, and what makes your coverage of the topic timely, new, or unique. It should go without saying that all submissions are your own, original ideas and not material published elsewhere or culled from another source.

If your idea is accepted, you may be asked to adjust the story’s focus or depth of coverage to meet editorial goals. You’ll also be given a deadline for submitting the completed story; late articles are subject to cancellation. Note that editorial plans sometimes change at the last minute for a variety of reasons, which means that we cannot guarantee that your story will run in a particular issue.

When you submit a story, be sure that it includes all the elements listed in the next section. Until we have all parts of a story, we will not begin editing and production work on it. Although an IPR editor will edit the story to conform to the magazine’s requirements, contributors are responsible for the factual accuracy of the content they provide, so carefully check all data, spellings, and facts before submitting your completed article.

All submissions are subject to editing to conform with IPR’s style, focus, and length. After a story is edited, and before it is laid out, the file will be sent back to the contributor for final fact-checking, answers to the editor’s questions, and proofing. You may have only a couple of days to return the story to the editor, so be sure to provide up-to-date contact information.

File submission requirements

• Text—in a Word document that includes:
• Parenthetical callouts to indicate placement of art.
• Captions and source information for each piece of art, placed at the end of the story.
• Author’s name and affiliation at the top of the story plus a one-sentence author bio at the end.
  
• Art—provided digitally (EPS, JPG, or TIF):
• Each piece of art (photo, chart, graph, table, or diagram) in a separate file. (Tables must be in Excel or Word; charts and graphs, including data worksheets, are preferred in Excel whenever possible.)
• High-resolution photos.
• For each piece of art, e-mail written evidence that permission has been granted by the copyright holder to reproduce the art in all formats of the magazine and in any media or ancillary uses controlled by the publisher.

To submit a proposal or a completed story

Submit all queries and final articles to: editor@iprmag.com. Include complete contact information, including: name, title, company, address, phone numbers, and e-mail address.