5) Writing Fresh Content For 7 Cups: Guidelines
Through this discussion, we will discuss the basic guidelines for writing fresh content articles for 7 Cups.
The following are some general guidelines to keep in mind:
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Include an Article Sub-headline/header: one sentence, no punctuation at the end, this subheader goes under the title that encapsulates the piece -- (We will discuss this soon)
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Article Length: 1000-2000 words.
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Break up the article using Subheadings.
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The article should not be previously published.
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Include at least one non-copyrighted photo, at least 1200 pixels x 630 pixels in size (from Unsplash, etc). If one is not provided, it will be sourced for you!
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For any facts or studies quoted, please provide sources as footnotes/listed at the end of your article.
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For quotes from other professionals, consider back-linking to their professional websites, research-work links, etc. All articles will go through an editing process for optimization after submission as well!
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Submit your Article as a Google Doc link to ayesha@7cups.com / Link it to the dashboard with editing access if provided a dashboard/ OR use the required form for submission as per what you have been guided on protocol.
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You will be informed once your article has been published so that you can share and promote it as well! We will also share it on 7 Cups social media accounts.
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When provided, please ensure that you include as many keywords, these keyword insights can also be used to guide the outline of your article.
Please feel free to share any questions about these guidelines by replying to this thread.
@SoulfullyAButterfly Great guidelines, will keep this saved to my forum threads!
Sounds like fun to me
@SoulfullyAButterfly Thank you for this information
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Thanks for the refresher! Will be useful for content volunteering :)
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Thank you so much for this. The guidelines were clear and make sense. The only curiosity that I had was the reason for not adding punctuation at the end of the subheading.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Hi there, understood all the points, just had the following two questions:
A) About including image(s) in the article, could we use a site called Pexels? I used it while writing articles during one of my internships...
B) While listing the sources at the end of the article, is there a particular citation style (MLA, APA, etc.) we have to follow? I know these styles are used mainly while writing academic articles, but I was wondering if we need to use the APA format for listing the sources, since the article would be related to Psychology, or do we just have to list down the links?
Thank you!
@unassumingFarm3602 Thank you for your questions! Pexels is a website that provides free pictures for commercial use, so yes, it is ok to use it!
As for references, you can note that many of our articles have listed basic links and some might use APA too - we do not require in-text citations as a mandatory requirement, but at the end of the day, it is up to you on how you present the reference list - which we try to keep from 3-5 links that are not back-linked (hyperlinked) within the article itself.
@SoulfullyAButterfly Please can someone explain what APA is?
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Thanks for this information I will keep it in mind while doing it later ❤
