Submission Guidelines

Posted By Team Folks Health On Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 With 0 Comments

FolksHealth invites submissions from all over the world on all topics related to healthcare and life sciences. By contributing your thoughts and writing- pieces to FolksHealth, you could play a significant role in promoting public health awareness- achieving which is one of our fundamental goals here. Be it articles of healthcare essentials, fitness mantras, soul connecting thoughts, therapeutic strategies, emotional health perspectives, rational mind development, bio-ethics, bio-philosophy, pet-care tips, grandmother’s remedies, healthy food recipes, medical research breakthroughs, healthcare industry insights or any other interesting theme you can think of; please feel free to pen it down and send it across to us.

Besides articles, we also welcome reviews on books, research articles, treatment methodologies and advancement in medical or research fields. Furthermore, assorted information as briefings -on healthcare products and services available in the market, are also solicited.

We also, have an exclusive section for Blogs; you may contribute your noble thoughts, share your experiences and express any genuine public health concerns here. Submissions of other kinds relevant to the healthcare or life sciences domain like essays, posters and short stories will be well received, too. Additionally, comments and discussions on any healthcare topics published, which are in the right spirit, will be entertained.

FolksHealth is propelled by its founder’s vision of promoting “Healthy living body, mind and soul” amongst the public. Please do contribute in whatsoever little or big way you can to help us achieve the same.

Submission guidelines are provided below. Please do read them carefully before posting your submissions to our Magazine. We will be pleased to publish your genuine ideas and thoughts at the earliest, given they meet our guidelines in the following:

General submission guidelines:

All submissions other than the poster are required to have-

  1. Text in “Times New Roman” font, sized 12.
  2. Documents sent should be Microsoft Word Files.
  3. Authors must include their brief profiles including names, designation, work address, education and contact.
  4. Photos or images to be included should be less than or equal to 600 KB in size.
  5. Text should not include any verbal abuse, vulgarity or indecency.
  6. It should be preferably be apolitical, discussing issues of healthcare and life sciences only.
  7. Authors should adhere to the specific guidelines for articles, reviews, short stories, essays and the commentary section; especially the word limits.
  8. Discussions and commentary should be not targeted at accusing any person, public slandering or denigrating any one’s efforts. It should be healthy, aimed at improving the magazine’s efforts in spreading healthcare and life sciences related knowledge worldwide and most preferably, in the interest of getting right facts for public reading.
Specific submission guidelines:
Research Article- Any research related article that you may want to submit for public reading must have been already published in any of the peer reviewed journals. The work done should be clearly explained in simple words; the intent and research conclusion should be addressed as well similarly. Facts should be indicated in comprehensible manner and the overall text should not be more than 1,000 words. Person writing should have completely understood the research or done it him/her self and also, be able to address the discussions/commentaries arising there upon, appropriately.
Review Article- Any review submission of books/products/research articles/treatment methodologies/advancement in medical or research field must be original. The author should have read the material thoroughly and he/she must include all the references used to support his/ her review. Statistics should be elaborated in simple terms. A clear scanned picture of the book/article/product/methodology; the title in full, the price, number of pages in case of books and articles, ISBN and other standard listing details should be included. The review text should not exceed 1,000 words.

Briefings on healthcare product or services- Any briefings on healthcare product or services that you manufacture or render should not be targeted at demeaning your peers. It should include all important details and a scanned image of the product – if any. The author must provide a valid contact for public to reach out in case interested. The briefings should be within 500 words.

Essays, Short stories and Blogs- Themes for essays and short stories will be indicated every month by the FolksHealth team. Interested contributors may take a note of the same and post in their writing pieces (relevant to the theme) within ten days time (from the date of theme notification). Essays and short stories should be within 1,000 words. Blogs should portray your genuine thoughts, ideas and experiences. They should also not exceed 1,000 words in length as well.
Posters- A well constructed poster with an underlined meaning relevant to the monthly theme indicated by the FolksHealth team has to be in the standard, clearly visible size. The text included should not exceed 20 words. Images or text should not include anything vulgar, verbally abusive or its like.
For any other specific clarifications please contact the Submissions help desk at:
submissions@folkshealth.com

 

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