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bought articles with reprint rights that have circulated throughout the web under
various authors. This would make the author-contributor appear as a fraud when he
or she submits an article from article packs that have non-exclusive licenses and
then putting his or her by-line as the “real” author. Please do not flood our directory
with the same article/article titles as we only receive and review one copy.
- Plagiarism, in any angle of writing, is a mortal sin. We do not accept plagiarism.
Any submitted article with issues on copyright infringement, plagiarism and others
shall be answered to by the author-contributor.
- Make sure that when a ghostwriter writes for you, you have a clear agreement granting
your exclusive rights to put your name in the by-line or the bio box at the end
of the article written for you.
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researches, tips and strategies, case studies, related news and features and other
themes and subjects related to business and management.
- Seeing your name and article on our website does not guarantee nor mean endorsements
from us. We waive any claim on the veracity and correctness of the content of the
article. We approve and accept articles according to the relevance of the topic
but such approval does not mean we agree or support the content of the same.
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- Articles with the sole purpose of deliberate advertising are not allowed. We reject
articles that contain obvious marketing and promotion content, announcement and
publicity. A little advertisement on yourself and your company, done in good taste,
is allowed in the resource box at the end of the article, subject to our final review.
- Before submitting your articles, please do a thorough editing and proofreading.
We do not offer editing and proofreading services. As much as possible, we would
like to deliver correct and complete articles in terms of grammar, punctuation,
spelling, and most especially sentence construction. The articles submitted must
be presented in comprehensive and proper use of the English language.
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is incorporating too many repetition of keywords in your article to the point of
sounding awkward. Articles should be written primarily for people to read and just
secondarily for search engine optimization.
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discrimination, profanity, obscenity, insults and other offensive substance.
- Bestmanagementarticles.com has the right to reject or disallow articles which it
feels do not adhere to the set rules and guidelines or are not relevant enough to
any of the categories. We only want to present quality and helpful articles and
we would not accept articles that do not meet our standards and expectations.
- Our standard length of an article is about 500 words minimum and no
more than 10,000 characters including the spaces (roughly 1,700 words).
Our ideal length of an article is about 600 to 1,000 words. If you have
a research/report/thesis/term paper exceeding our allowable length,
we suggest you write an executive summary of the same.
- Author-contributor grants the Bestmanagementarticles.com editorial staff the right
to make minor editing of the article to comply with the set guidelines for publication
before posting it online provided the essence of the article remains.
- Bestmanagementarticles.com reserves the right to ban or blacklist any author-contributor
whose articles have been recurrently rejected.
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as hacking, cracking important information, bomb-making, support for violence and
terror, campaign for radicalism, fanaticism, insinuating illegal drugs, alcohol,
ammunition and firearms usage, suggesting immorality, and other community and social
disturbances.
- Do not submit articles destructive on the legal rights of other people. Articles
that are libelous, defamatory and damaging to any personality will be rejected.
- We do not accept articles containing almost the same content as previously submitted
articles to us. Précis and paraphrasing of articles, especially those which are
already posted in our website will be rejected and will also entail the blacklisting
of the author-contributor from his membership.
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- Titles must be in toggle case. Meaning, the first letter of each major word in the
title should be capitalized. Titles submitted in all CAPS form will be converted
into toggle case.
- Common words such as prepositions and conjunctions (a, to, and,
for, the) need not be capitalized.
- Do not put open and close quotation marks (“,”)
on the title.
- There is no need to put a space (hitting the return key) before writing
the title.
- Do not put a period at the end of the title.
- Do not type repetitive punctuation
marks to stress emotion entailed in the title of the article. A single question
mark or exclamation point, if needed and justified, will do.
- No HTML tags are allowed.
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Do not include author-contributor’s name or any URL in the title field. Putting
a URL or company name in the article summary and body will be allowed only if absolutely
necessary to the content. Otherwise, if the same is obviously for advertisement
purposes, the article will be rejected.
- Type complete author-contributor’s name.
Initials are not allowed.
- Only doctorate-level professional titles (e.g., MD, Ph.
D, Dr.,Prof.) are allowed to be attached before or after the name of the author-contributor.
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There should only be one name to be placed in the “author” field. Should there be
more than one writer, the names of other authors must be placed in the bio-box/resource
box (“About-the author” field) at the bottom of the article.
- There should be no affiliate links in the article body.
- Do not repeat or include the title and author’s
name in the article body.
- Place your Copyrights and other reprint rights and preferences
at the bottom of your article.
- Contributor’s reprint rights must be in accordance
with our Terms of Service for Authors.
- The article body must have substantial content
and not merely an advertisement or promotion of sorts. Articles with contents indicating
advertising or publicity of any kind (direct or indirect) will be rejected. Your
resource box or by-line at the end of your articles will serve as your advertisement
area but it should be done in good taste.
- Remove any unnecessary spaces at the end
of the article body. These extra spaces could add up as extra characters and you
might exceed the limit.
- We only allow three active and self-serving URLs, links
in the resource box. A self-serving URL is a link to your own website, the one which
you manage, control or just a website you are particularly interested in. These
“self-serving” links are allowed only in your resource box.
- Be sure that the links
or the URL of the website you typed in your resource box work are active. Inactive
links in your resource box could cause rejection of your article...We do convert
or format invalid URLs in your resource box to become valid and active.
An invalid
URL looks like this:
Your-Company-Name.com
Yourcompanyname.com
www.yourcompanyname.com
On the other hand, a VALID URL looks like this:
http://your-company-name.com/
http://yourcompanyname.com
- There should be no downloadable file of any kind in your links.
- Active links appearing
more than once in the article are not allowed. In this case, the article is rejected
altogether.
- Articles which contain links that are banned from other websites especially
major search engines as Yahoo and Google will be rejected.
- Links written in the
article remain as they are. We do not auto-format them.
- As much as possible we do
not allow active links in the first sentence, first paragraph or even within the
article, especially if they only serve one purpose – to advertise. Please put all
your links in your resource box.
- Anchor texts hidden in special keywords (actively
hyperlinked) within the article are not allowed, especially if they do not contribute
substantial information to the article. However, if an anchored text serves the
purpose of adding information which could not be included in the article due to
the observance of the maximum word length, it may be favorably considered, subject
to our discretion.
- It would be more preferable to include the link to your website
rather than to put your e-mail address as this could encourage spammers to abuse
your e-mailbox. We suggest that you invite your readers and potential customers
directly to your website to check out more of what you can offer and let them find
your contact details in your website.
- To give the readers a glimpse of what they
can get from your article, we require a short summary. Sometimes, the first few
sentences of the article will suffice as a teaser. If the article has a very good
introduction, and if you, the author, are confident enough to cut the first few
sentences and leave the readers the hanging feeling of wanting to read more, then
good for you.
- Author’s name, e-mail addresses, URLs and other links are not allowed
in the summary field
- We encourage the author-contributor be specific in the field
or category of his or her article. There are categories provided for you and for
the readers for easier and more specifically organized topics. This way, researchers,
students and other potential clients can find the best article they need.
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