Cura Terra maintains both an active blog that is updated periodically and an academic journal which will be published once per semester in the Fall and Spring. The academic journal is more formal in nature, and consists of longer research-based papers that utilize scholarly sources. The blog is more informal in nature, and publishes brief articles about current events and issues. If you have any questions on whether your paper would be most suitable for the blog or the academic journal, please reach out to curaterra@georgetown.edu.

Cura Terra encourages students to submit articles, research papers, blogs, and essays related to the field of environmental studies. Students in any program of study should feel welcome to send us their work as long as it relates to environmental issues.

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Note: External submissions are accepted for our Academic Journal. Publication in our blog is limited to Georgetown Students.

Submission Guidelines

Applicants may submit multiple works for consideration.

If you have also submitted your piece to another publication, please inform us if you have been selected for publication by them because we do not republish articles. 

Submissions should be double-spaced in Microsoft Word format, follow the APA citation style, and include footnotes as well as a Works Cited section, however, we will consider papers with other citation styles. We will consider submissions of any length. We will consider papers with endnotes or parenthetical citations, but we prefer footnotes.

If submitting for either the blog or academic journal, please include the following information:

• Your name

• Current email address and phone number

• College/university and year of graduation

• Title

• Short explanation of when and why paper was initially written

If submitting for the Academic Journal, please also include the following:

Short explanation of when and why paper was initially written

An Abstract no longer than 250 words

All applicants will be notified regarding the status of their submission on a rolling basis.