Contribution Guidelines
Deadlines
Contributions must be received by the first Friday of each month for publication the following month.
Editorial policy & guidelines
1. All contributions will be used in whole, in part or not at all at the discretion of the MindNet editor.
2. No payment will be made for publication of any contribution to MindNet.
3. We do not accept advertising.
4. Contributions must be relevant to mental health promotion in New Zealand.
5. The editor reserves the right to make small changes to copy to enhance readability, spelling, grammar and punctuation. Anything more than that, the editor will liaise with the contributing author.
Copy format
1. Please submit your contribution as a Microsoft Word document attachment via email with 'Contribution to MindNet' as the subject header. Please don't send your contribution in the body of an email, nor as a Notebook document or PDF.
2. Submissions can be 500 to 2000 words in length.
3. Please use Arial font, 11point font size.
4. Please include all references you cite in your contribution at the end of the document, clearly marked 'References'. Don't provide references as footnotes at the end of each page.
5. All authors must provide a brief personal biography of no more than 100 words to accompany the article. Please include the author's name, job title and employer or company name.
Photographs
All authors should submit a photo of themselves to go with their contribution. Please send a high-resolution photo, 300 DPI is best.
Legal requirements
It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the content of their proposed contribution does not violate any law, is not considered to be defamatory or libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.
MindNet DOES NOT accept responsibility or liability for the views of contributing authors. Contributions to the MindNet newsletter do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of MindNet (or the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand).
Information and links to other sources of information are current at the time each issue of MindNet is produced. MindNet accepts no responsibility for links that become out-of-date, move or cease to exist.
Enquiries
If you have any enquiries about contributing to MindNet please email mindnet "at" mentalhealth.org.nz
