Insight Article Guideline
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Insights articles aims to explain a scientific topic or concept in an engaging way such as using graphical abstracts or illustrations. Insight articles can discuss a recent trend or discoveries in science by pulling together multiple publications.

Who can write Insight articles?

• Current PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and scientists studying science. We refer to volunteer writers as ‘contributors.’
• The contributor must have prior knowledge and training in the field being discussed in the Insight article.
• If you are a science blogger, we would be more than happy to re­post your blog posts!

Insight article should:

• Not exceed 5 paragraphs
• Use either 1st or 3rd person narrative
• Focus on the facts presented in the primary research articles. However, since Insights pull together several publications, contributors may add their own interpretation of the findings, but we ask to keep it to a minimum.
• Aim for a college reading level. Word has the Flesch­Kincaid grade level readability test as an option during spelling and grammar check (need to enable it through the preferences menu). It combines number of letters per word and number of words per sentences to generate a grade­-level score.
• Avoid jargon (technical terms), particularly terms that may have different meanings in different fields. If a certain term is critical to the article, ensure that it is clearly defined.

After you submit your Insight article:

• Each Insight article is reviewed by one of our editors (visit our Leadership page to read bios of our editors).
• We do our best to assign Insight articles to editors who have expertise or prior knowledge in the relevant field. However, due to our limited resources, this is not always possible.