Blog Submission Guidelines

The goal of In-Mind’s online blog is to communicate psychological research in a way that is scientifically accurate, accessible, and engaging for a broad readership. Articles span a broad spectrum of topics, with particular emphasis on current social, political, and scientific issues. Blog posts undergo a light peer-review process, which typically includes feedback from our editorial team and one external reviewer. 

Structure of a blog post 

• A typical blog post is 300-600 words long and usually references 1–5 scientific sources.
• The text is based on the publication standards of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition, yet references should follow IEEE guidelines. 
• A post is divided into a title, teaser, main text, and sources. Blog post titles should be both concise and descriptive, accurately conveying the content of the article. The teaser (max. 50 words) provides a brief overview of the text and is intended to arouse curiosity about the topic. The main text conveys a topic (i.e., not a simple list of facts or definitions). It is advisable to illustrate the chosen topic with a concrete example and to offer a summary or conclusion for the reader at the end. 
• When submitting a blog post, you must also submit at least one relevant photo. Please ensure you have permission to use the photo and mention where the photo was retrieved from. 
• Add 3–5 keywords along with your submission. 
• Each post is assigned to one of the following blog categories, with new categories being created continuously: Work & Organizational Psychology, Decision Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Consumer Psychology, Human-Machine Interaction, Educational and Developmental Psychology, Political Psychology, Psychology-Science-Society, Legal Psychology, Social Psychology, Sports Psychology, Environmental Psychology 

Types of blog posts 

Blog posts typically follow one of the following formats, but you can also suggest a new format: 

• Description and discussion of new studies: These posts summarize current scientific articles. These can be papers by other researchers or articles written by the blog-post authors.
• Description and discussion of classical psychological phenomena: These posts cover phenomena, experiments, and results that are groundbreaking for psychology (e.g., the endowed progress effect, the influence of social norms on decision-making, or object permanence in childhood).
• Contribution to current topics and events: These posts provide a psychological perspective on current topics from society, psychology, or politics (e.g., changes in the sense of justice in football stadiums, the psychology of gift-giving at Christmas time, developments in psychology as a science). Please ensure that posts in this category are not too specific to one country or region, as the readership of the English edition of In-Mind spans the entire globe. 
• Article for children and young people: Here you can choose between articles for children under or over 10 years of age (please specify in the template). Articles must be written in simple language appropriate for the age group and, even more so than articles for adults, focus on a narrowly defined scientific result or concept.
• Reviews of popular-science media: These posts review current popular-science media content related to psychology. We particularly welcome reviews of books, films, podcasts, and other media published by psychological researchers or to which psychological researchers have contributed significantly. If you want to discuss your review post idea before submitting, you can contact us via contact@in-mind.org.
• Translations: Blog post translations from other versions of In-Mind Magazine. If your blog post has been published in a different version of In-Mind, we invite you to submit an English version. Since it has already been reviewed by a different version of In-Mind, we will only edit it for the clarity of the translation. 

Copyright and License: Authors grant In-Mind Magazine the unrestricted and exclusive right to use their accepted contributions; they expressly agree to their contributions being republished under a free license. All text contributions on the In-Mind Magazine website are subject to the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This means that the contributions may be freely adapted, copied, and republished as long as a link to the original publication is included and the content is published under the same license. Commercial providers are welcome to submit requests to the editors if they wish to deviate from these conditions. 

Submission guidelines

(1) Carefully read the information on this page before preparing your blog post.
(2) Use this template document when writing your article.
(3) Submit your article via this form.

If you have any questions about a possible contribution, you can contact our editorial team via contact@in-mind.org.

We look forward to your contribution!