Write for Science of Minds

How to submit your story to Science of Minds

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We are actively looking for authors who want to submit their stories to Science of Minds. If you want to write for Science of Minds, you can find more information and step-by-step instructions here.

We publish non-fiction stories or articles that lie at the interface between brain research, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines.

We aim to publish stories that convey the latest scientific knowledge and are written clearly and understandably for the general public. We look for stories that have been written for the reader, give insights or meaningful advice, are informative, interesting and sometimes inspiring.

We usually publish in the Medium Partner Program so that our authors can be curated and can earn money with Medium. As a writer for Science of Minds, you can keep all of the earnings from your story.

Guidelines

• Only original and previously unpublished drafts can be accepted.
• The ideal length for stories on Medium is 4 to 7 minutes of reading time. While you can submit longer works, please do not submit pieces with less than 4 minutes of reading time.
• Cite your sources. If you refer to others’ work (books, videos, graphics, audio, scientific articles …), please include a proper citation (for example, in APA format) and link to the original source.
• If you use multimedia (like stock images), please credit the author of the work, providing a link and preferably also the copyright details as explained here.
• Please refrain from inserting ads or spam into your story and make sure to follow the Medium content guidelines for publishing, the Medium curation guidelines and Medium best practices.

Step 1. Apply on Smedian with your final draft

Please sign up on “Smedian” and click the green button request to contribute to Science of Minds. You will need a link to your (unpublished) final draft on Medium for this process (you can generate a link to your draft by clicking the 3 dots next to your avatar).

Request to contribute to Science of Minds on Smedian. Here is the link.

If your draft suits the scope, readership and quality of Science of Minds, you will be added as a writer to the Science of Minds publication on Medium. Please give this a few days.

Writers can submit their final drafts to Science of Minds on Medium

Once you are added as a writer to Science of Minds on Medium, you can submit the draft of your story to the publication.

Step 2. Add your draft to Science of Minds

You can add your draft to Science of Minds by clicking the “…” 3 dots next to your avatar in the upper right corner and choosing “Submit story to publication”.

Click add to publication and choose Science of Minds from the dropdown list

We’ll usually do a single round of editing, before we publish your story (just to make sure that there aren’t any obvious typos, difficult sentences or grammar mistakes).

We will also check the layout and add a main image, in case you haven’t done so. If any questions arise during this process, we will write you in the Smedian chat, so please make sure to check it.

We might also ask you if we (or you) can create an audio version of your story, which can be added to your story for reading impaired audiences and also published (with a reference to you) on our Science of Minds podcast. It appears on a range of podcasting platforms:

Science of Minds Podcast on different platforms

We look forward to read and publish your stories. If you have any questions, please send us an email.