You must be currently enrolled as a graduate student at an APSIA member/affiliate school or have graduated from an APSIA member/affiliate school during the current calendar year. For example, if you graduated in 2024 you would be eligible to submit a piece for inclusion in the 2025 Journal. (Click here for the APSIA Member and Affiliate Directory)

Piece submissions for the 36th edition are now open and will close on January 19th, 2025.

We welcome contributions tackling policy issues spanning U.S. domestic policy, international relations, development studies, and economic policy. 

Submissions should take the form of a longer policy paper, usually around 6,000 words and written in an academic journal style. All submissions should use Chicago Manual of Style citations.

Contributions must be submitted by filling out this submissions form. Please follow these instructions when submitting:

• Submit your personal information through the form and upload your submission as a Word Doc. Please do not email your submission.
• Your file should be named as follows: LastName_FirstName_SchoolName
• No identifying information should be included within the paper. Neither your name, the name of any coauthors, or advisors, nor the name of your school, should appear anywhere in the document.

Contributions are adjudicated during Reading Weekend, held in early February each year. You can expect to hear from us by the end of February about the result of your submission.

Yes. Should you choose to accept your offer, you will be given the opportunity to work with an editorial team dedicated to helping revise and edit your article prior to publication. Offers of publication are conditional on revisions being made to reflect JPIA in-house style, as well as editor feedback. Revisions must be submitted in accordance with the timeline.

Yes! We recognize the time and energy you put into your submission. If you would like feedback from the review process, please let us know. We will do our best to return comments to you in a timely manner.

Please access previous editions of the Journal here. While the balance of subjects and content varies from year to year, we aim to publish articles of the very highest intellectual and stylistic caliber. Please see the question above, "What kind of submissions do you accept?" for more information.

Yes, but please keep in mind that short policy memos, reflection papers, and literature reviews are likely not a good fit for publication in JPIA.

If your article is chosen for admission to JPIA, we reserve the right to be the sole official platform for publication.