Submissions

Legal Rights and responsibilities of the contributors.
Editorial Process Submissions will be proofed, checked for veracity, and must be original work by the contributor.
Form of the Submission File type, size and style considerations.
Payments Who gets what from sales?
Submit an article.

Legal

• The contributors must have the right to submit their content.
• The contributors assign New Science Journalism the right to publish their work for sale.
• The contributors agree that works supplied to New Science Journalism will be exclusive to New Science Journalism for one year from date of publication unless otherwise agreed.
• No other transfer of rights is explicit or implied.

Editorial Process

When a submission is made the following editorial process is followed:

• The first thing checked is that the submitted work is credible science reporting and not spam.
• The submission will be given a first pass proof read and necessary changes referred back to the contributor for acceptance.
• Changes to style, and additions of extra information such as resource links, will be referred back to the contributor for amending and/or acceptance.
• The article will be placed as a pending post.
• A final proof read is undertaken.
• Article categories are chosen and Fraxion Payments lock and catalogue entry set up. If multiple contributors then royalty splits are agreed and entered.
• In conjunction with the senior editor the article is published.
• Comments are moderated

Form of the Submission

• Our preferred format is directly via the New Science Journalism website.
• We encourage submissions to include images or illustrations that have all copyright and caption details included.

Articles can have a collection of links to resources on the web that will help readers to acquire any basic knowledge required to properly understand the article. These are known as the Primer Links. The contributors may suggest a list of Primer Links. The editors will determine the final list of links to publish.

Articles can have a collection of Further Reading links. The contributors may suggest a list of Further Reading. The editors will determine the final list of links to publish. These links will appear in the locked section of the article.

Payments

At the end of each month Fraxion Payments calculates the total income for the web site and takes a margin. The Fraxion Payments margin is based on a sliding scale that decreases with sales total. The remaining income is divided proportionally amongst the articles based on sales for the month. The money is then divided amongst the following groups:

• Content Contributor(s), a single author or a group of authors and illustrators.
• Editor(s), a single editor or collaborative editors for proofing, comment moderating and so on.
• Magazine for web site, marketing costs, administrative staff, special projects and other purposes.

The actual split will be set for each article, with agreement of each contributor or editor, and will not be changed for that article unless the parties involved agree.

Currently the default split is as follows:

Submit An Article

Register at the New Science Journalism website and start writing. We will review your work and consider its quality and suitability for the website.