Share Your Utility’s Story: T&D World Magazine Open to Utility-Led Features
T&D World, your source for critical information for utility professionals about electric power-delivery systems, is seeking bylined features from electric utilities.
For our editorial process, we require about a two-month lead time for features, meaning that a feature intended for our January issue would need to have all materials in to our editors by November 1, for example.
Materials in this case means:
- 6-10 original high resolution photos (1 MB or larger) with captions and credits
- Roughly 1500 word draft story with at least one writer from a utility (anyone with a utility or grid operator, any size, anywhere in the world)
- 2-3 sentences of bio information for each author in the byline
- Any graphics sent need to be native and editable, meaning sent to us in the same file formats in which they were created.
T&D World magazine covers the world of energy delivery, including power grid resiliency, electric utility operations, renewables, electrification, distributed energy, substations, wildfire mitigation, data analytics, mobile workforces and undergrounding.
Of particular interest are articles: (1) describing problems encountered and how they have been solved, (2) featuring an unusual installation or engineering application and (3) presenting labor-saving/cost-saving methods or designs. Stories will be edited for overtly commercial language to present a vendor-neutral perspective.
Photograph Guidelines
The jpeg file size for a single image should be at least 1000 kB. We prefer images at 2 MB or higher. Stock photos should be avoided due to licensing and copyright issues. When stock photos are sent, please identify the stock company used. Screen captures should be captured at full screen.
Avoid corporate names and logos and on products or backgrounds in photos. And, please avoid use date stamps in photo images.
Provide descriptive captions and credits for each photograph. If the people in the photo are identifiable, provide the name, title, and employer for each person. Avoid using the author(s) in photos if possible. GIF images are generally low resolution and can’t be converted for print.
For graphics, we prefer the digital or vector versions of graphs, charts and map etc. Keep the illustrations neat and clean without too much detail. Light-to-medium line weights work best. Please avoid hairlines and heavy lines. Please avoid converting graphs, charts and maps to a flat jpeg format.
Please provide the native file in its original format, so that they can be adapted to fit our editorial styles. We can accept many file formats including the following: vsd (Visio); dwg (Visio or CAD); svg (Visio or CAD); ai, wmf or eps (Illustrator); and Excel for graphs, charts and maps.
Do not embed illustrations or photographs in the manuscript document. Please provide images as separate files with a map of the image file names to figure captions.
For questions regarding articles please contact Jeff Postelwait, Senior Editor, at [email protected] or 541.844.9063
