Contribute: Share Your Perspective. We appreciate your interest in our publication.

If you have a topic and would like to share it with the rest of the industry, then please accept our invitation to have your article published in our magazine. This is an open call for articles in food technology magazines, and Processed Food Industry welcomes your unique insights, case studies, and experiences.

You may send your article in MS Word format to our editorial department at editorial (at) pfionline.com. However, please make sure your work matches our food processing article submission guidelines, as outlined below. We will try to get back to you within 7 working days of hearing from you. For time-sensitive articles, please mention “urgent” in the subject line.

We peer-review all submitted content to ensure it is contextual and conforms to the scope of our magazine. For that purpose, your content may go through the following stages before getting published:
• Review of content
• Review of language
• Final review by the Editorial Board

General Guidelines for Articles

If you’re wondering how to write for a food industry trade magazine, here’s what we’re looking for:

• Please keep in mind that you are writing for a trade magazine. Most of our readers are involved in the industry and want to learn the important practical aspects of a given topic without going through too much background information.
• The article should offer clear perspectives and new insights.
• It is important to develop arguments and adduce evidence. Mere iteration of facts or bald assertions will not suffice.
• It should be written on issues, events, and trends of industrial/trade significance.
• Personal opinion is welcome, but it should not overwhelm the presentation of the context and the facts of the issue.
• Be thrifty, make every word count and remember, less is more. Highly technical pieces are not required, what we need are helpful, practical features of approximately 3000 words
• Be clear. Watch out for long sentences. They are a sure way to lose readers. If a sentence is more than two lines long, restructure it. If you cannot shorten your sentences, your argument is probably not tight enough.
• Avoid cliches. Metaphors lose their impact if they are too familiar. Be inventive.
• Please remember that the content is read by an international audience.

Title and Article Summary

• Your title should be 10 words or fewer and clearly reflect the core issue, topic, or region.
• Avoid vague phrases. Instead, summarize the key takeaway in an active, engaging sentence.
• Begin your article with a one-sentence summary that captures the core argument—like a headline trailer.

Examples of Good Titles:

• Mobile Technology: Shaping the Food Industry
• Small Cities, Big Opportunity: Food-retail Boon in Rural India
• Innovative Warehousing: Reducing Post-Harvest Losses

Grammar and Punctuation

• While a few well-known abbreviations are acceptable, please try to avoid them
• The tables and figures should be cited by number.
• References should be numbered consecutively by their order of appearance in the text. Example: Rajat K Baiysa (2010). “Changing face of Indian Food Industry: An overview”. Processed Food Industry. 14 (1) 12-15

Guidelines for Photo Features

• Use a catchy title and tell a compelling story.
• Ideally, use 10-15 photos to tell your point. This is the optimal length for the internet
• Draft a one or two-line description to place each photo in context.
• Click here to send us photos via email or upload them to Dropbox and share the link with us by clicking here.
• If you do not use Dropbox but would like to, then contact us to receive instructions on how to do so.
• Photos should be over 938(w) x 450(h) and under 2mb in size. The file type for contact should be jpg or png.

Guidelines for Videos

• Make sure the sound is good so that you can be heard.
• Decent lighting is desirable so that people can see you.
• Describe topic – tell people what you will be talking about.
• Explain why your topic is important
• Express your perspective – be succinct, lucid, and logical.
• Summarise your perspective in a paragraph.
• Do all of this in a minute if you can and, in any case, do not exceed three minutes.
• Upload your video here, where you will find further instructions.

Guidelines for Audio

• Make sure the sound is good so that you can be heard.
• Describe topic – tell people what you will be talking about.
• Explain why your topic is important.
• Express your perspective – be succinct, lucid, and logical
• Summarise your audio discussion in a paragraph.
• Send us your audio file by clicking here.

Contributor Agreement and Rights

By contributing an article, you agree to be responsive to editorial requests and accept edits for style and clarity. While your content remains your intellectual property, you grant us permission to reproduce, adapt, and distribute it across our platforms.

If you’re concerned about privacy, we offer anonymous or pseudonymous publication options on request.