Some suggestions and guidelines for guest posts at NEQNET

Dear friend

First of all, let me thank you for kindly accepting my invitation to write a guest post at NEQNET.

To help you with your writing (as well as to help me with getting your post ready for publishing on NEQNET :-) ) I have put together some suggestions for you. Please do not consider them as a kind of hard rules.

Content and readability

Posts work best on NEQNET if they are relevant to the main topic - physics and mathematics, there is a lot of room to move here - QFT, string theory, chaos, condensed matter etc. etc. Readers of NEQNET will also be very happy to see how mathematical methods work in, say, finances or sociology, etc.

I do care about “technical” quality of the post - my readers are PhD students, postdocs, professors, educated people who understand well what they are talking about, so they will easily pick mistakes and misprints if you have them. On the other hand, you do want to teach them something, so even if your post contains a lot of technicalities, please, make it readable. It is always good to see the physical outcome of technicalities, what is the ultimate goal the machinery is developed for.

Voice and Style

I do not care much about voice or style for you to write in - both are entirely up to you.

TeX

This blog is smart enough to understand TeX (basically, any kind of TeX: LaTeX, AMSTeX etc. etc.); to write a formula please wrap it by the tags [ tex ] and [ /tex ] (don’t forget to remove spaces ;-) ).It basically works like this:

[ tex ]{cal L}=frac{1}{2}(partialphi)^2 [ /tex ]

produces

{\cal L}=\frac{1}{2}(\partial\phi)^2

etc. Please note that NEQNET does not understand labels and references.

If the formula is too long, you will see an error message - then, it is meaningful to split your formula into two.

Images

It is also nice to include images in posts on NEQNET. I have found that posts with at least one good image in it get more attention than others. A few suggestions for images:

  • the maximum width is about 500 pixels (the width of my content area)
  • please ensure that images are able to be used in terms of copyright

Images can be inserted by using the WP uploader or by pointing to a link on your server or Flickr.

Length

I do not care much about it - please, write as much as you need to deliver the message. Short posts are certainly also fine, but as I said, still, content is the king.

Editorial

I will most probably do the editorial work for your post to appear on NEQNET. Please, don’t take it personally - I’m just trying to make the content of this blog as good as possible. Also, if I want to change anything, I will most definitely consult you.

Originality of the content of your post

I assume that the post you are writing is exclusively for the use of NEQNET. My hope is that posts appearing on NEQNET do not appear in the same form elsewhere.

Byline

As the author of the post I want to highlight you, your blog or any product or service that you have to offer. This should largely be done in a byline.

Bylines are a sentence or two of who you are and what you do, I write them in the beginning of your post.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.

Happy writing at NEQNET!

Dmitry.