Here, you will find all the information related to publication guides and procedures, including the style guide, the glossary, the visual style guide, specific guidance for analysis themes and series, and writing tips.
Covers both the process for publishing an analysis piece with ACLED, as well as the thinking behind such pieces.
Provides an overview of the process for developing regular analysis pieces, from their initial proposal and development to their review and finalization.
The External Affairs department's policy for issuing corrections on publications.
The author should use this template to develop outlines for regular analysis pieces.
The External Affairs department's guide for the curation of digital assets and caption writing.
This guide aims to clarify expectations between reviewers and authors. This etiquette can be applied universally, with the underlying principle that comments are actionable unless they specify otherwise.
This page aims to clarify the role of ACLED's editorial staff, who work in the Publications team of the External Affairs department and provides information on review process and editorial scope.
This guide outlines the expectations for ACLED's internal pool of translators. ACLED's translators are Researchers who have also been recruited to work on ACLED's translation needs for French, Latin American Spanish, and Modern Standard Arabic.
This guide outlines how to engage in scrollytelling projects and how to properly incorporate this format in analysis.
This guide aims to provide information on selecting and incorporating editorial photos into analysis pieces.
Provides guidance to ensure that all of ACLED’s public communications are written uniformly and to certain standards.
Provides guidelines for producing ACLED visualizations that are ready for publication.
Outlines the audience, objectives, and content to provide clear expectations during the drafting and review process of the ROs.
Provides guidelines on ACLED's end-of-year publication to provide clear expectations on the structure and content.
Lays out the expectations for Election Watch reports, including guidance on how to determine your scope, focus, and election angle.
These tips provide orientation on adhering to guidelines related to style and improving your ACLED analysis writing. Previous editions are available here.
Titles should answer a question posed by the piece and should leave the reader asking - how did they come to this conclusion?
When you're trying to write clearly and concisely in English without showing bias, active agency is usually the better choice.
To create a well-researched report, writers must appropriately combine ACLED trends and data points with external information.
