The Global Spiral invites articles, essays, and book reviews that present innovative, transdisciplinary thought in a manner that is accessible to the general educated reader. Prospective authors should approach their pieces as though they are writing for scholars of diverse academic disciplines outside of their own, as well as other professionals and educated persons.

Articles and essays should be well-researched and go beyond the introductory, but one should bear in mind that the Global Spiral is a transdisciplinary magazine rather than an academic journal. Pieces weighed down by technical jargon and abstruse academic argument may be rejected, edited, or asked to be rewritten.  Please see our About page for a summary list of areas of possible exploration. 

All manuscripts submitted, or revised, for publication must be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. One copy should be submitted to the managing editor, Gregory Hansell <editor (at) metanexus.net> as an email attachment. Submissions placed in the body of email messages will be immediately discarded without review. No hard copies of manuscripts will be accepted.

• The suggested length of submissions is 2500-8000 words (~5-15 pages). However, we place no official limit on paper length.
• For notes and references, authors may choose to use either the author-date system (i.e. parenthetical referencing) or the documentary-note system. In the latter case, all notes should be endnotes. Authors should be consistent within the chosen system.
• All paragraphs must have a blank space between them and start flush left without indentation.
• Do not give acknowledgements in the body of the text. Do so in a note.
• Do not list previous publication information in the body of the text or in the notes. Place this in the body of the submission's email message, and it will be appended in a footer to your article by our editors.
• Author must also submit a brief biographical sketch, two or three sentences in length.