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Publishing Guidelines

These “Publishing Guidelines” should assist you in providing appropriate and acceptable content for the “Career Diagnostics” website. Please read before submitting an article for review.

Please Note : “Career Diagnostics” reserves the absolute right to make a determination in relation to whether a submission meets any or all of the following  guidelines.

Content Guidelines

Articles must:

• be broadly related to work, workplace or work/life balance issues
• be an original article written by you, or one to which you have sole legal rights.  Co-authors must be acknowledged in the article (preferably at he beginning or end of the main content).
• be informative and a genuine sharing of expertise/opinion/ideas.
• be written in English, use appropriate language, spelling, grammar and punctuation.  Proof-reading by authors is expected.

Articles must not:

• be advertising copy, a press release or excessively self-promoting.
• A maximum of 2 “self-serving URL’s is permitted in any 1 article.
• A link may not be repeated in the same article.
• “Broken” links will be removed.
• Your links may NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.
• include “affiliate links”.
• contain pornography or adult material, or material to incite hatred, racism, violence or advocate intolerance against any group of people.  Profanity, insults, obscenity, libel and defamation will not be accepted.
• provide information which may assist others in relation to hacking/cracking, making weapons, bombs or illegal substances.
• support, facilitate or advocate spamming, intellectual property infringements, “click-fraud” or other illegal/unethical activity.
• be a duplicate submission of, or substantially similar to articles previously submitted
• include email addresses or solicit direct contact with the author.
• be “keyword stuffed”.  Keywords must be used in context and appropriate to the purpose of the article.

Format Guidelines

• Titles must be in “Title Case” (i.e. the first letter of each major word capitalised.  It is acceptable to capitalise the first letter of common words such as “to”, “and”, “is” and “for” etc)
• Titles should not contain excessive punctuation, such as repeated “!” or “?” symbols.
• Not contain “HTML” tags
• Language used in titles should be “natural” and not “keyword-stuffed”.
• Using a keyword early in the title will assist with search engine optimisation.
• Recommended article length is between 500 – 800 words.  The minimum is 200 words and maximum of 4000.
• Article text must not be separated by excessive “hard return” breaks.  No more than 3 consecutive breaks are permitted
• “Broken” links, or where identified, URL’s that are banned by any search engine will not be accepted.
• In the section where authors are asked to identify keywords or phrases, a comma should separate each one, with NO space before the next keyword or phrase.

Sanctions

"Career Diagnostics" will generally assist with minor editing.  However, significant deviance from the spirit of these guidelines will ensure the banning of the author, and deletion of all author contributions.