Guidelines for the Submission of Articles to Mediate.com

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by Managing Editor

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Mediate.com accepts high quality articles on mediation and dispute resolution. Our primary focus is to educate and encourage the public to use mediation. We also accept articles that serve as educational resources to ADR Practitioners. Articles of any length are accepted for review on an ongoing basis--but please note that longer articles must be broken into excerpts or a series with a link to the entire article. Published articles are typically about two or three pages.

If we select your article, we will include your bio and a link to your email and website at the bottom of the article. Please also attach a .jpg or .gif picture of yourself and, if accepted, we will post your picture with your article.

We reserve the right to format submissions and to edit for length, spelling, grammar, and readability.

Your submission acts as your agreement that your article may be electronically published by Mediate.com without limitation and copyrighted by Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc. (RIS), home of Mediate.com, for unlimited electronic publication purposes. Authors retain all rights to all hard copy publication and to personally utilize their articles. Once placed, it is understood that articles will remain at Mediate.com and are not subject to withdrawal by authors.

If your work has been previously posted or published, we are pleased to acknowledge and provide a link to the original publisher.

Your submission verifies that your work is original (not someone else's). In the event of a dispute regarding the originality of article content, see our policy.

How to Submit an Article:
Please email your article as an "attachment" to the Mediate.com Managing Editor at editor@mediate.com. Word file format (.doc) is preferred. Please use in-text citation instead of footnotes. Average article length is two pages. If your article is longer, we will work with you to publish it as a series or exerpt.

Please also attach a head shot photo that we can use with your article.

In the body of your email, please indicate:

1. Title
2. Abstract: a paragraph that summarizes your article
3. Biography: a paragraph that describes your background and expereince.
4. Email: indicate the email address you would like to use.
5. Web site: indicate the web site, if any, you would like us to link to.
6. Information about any other publication, permission and any desired acknowledgment and link.

All accepted articles are topically categorized and are searchable through our search tools as well as general Internet Search engines. In addition, articles may appear in one or more of our specialized sections and may be promoted through our email Mediate.com Weekly newsletter that is distributed to over 12,000 opt-in subscribers. In submitting an article for publication, you grant Mediate.com and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display your article in any media. We hope to provide the widest possible distribution of your writings.

Biography

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Clare Fowler is Managing Editor of Mediate.com.

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The views expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., Mediate.com or of reviewing editors.