Chiropractic Economics publishes a Web site, StudentDC.com, to help chiropractic students prepare for their career in chiropractic.

The mission of StudentDC.comis to provide chiropractic students with practical information for building and operating their practices. The Web site offers the most comprehensive, substantive, practical, step-by-step business-management and practice-building information available for chiropractic students.

We welcome editorial contributions from practitioners as well as professionals who have expertise in topic areas addressed on the Web site. If you would like to share your expertise with chiropractic students, please review our editorial guidelines:

• Story ideas and finished manuscripts. We consider article ideas as well as finished manuscripts. If your idea is accepted, our editors will work with you to develop and write the finished article.

If you choose to submit a completed manuscript, please note that submission does not guarantee publication nor does acceptance of a manuscript guarantee that it will be published in a specific issue of the magazine.

• Exclusive use of material. Articles submitted for review and publication may not be submitted to other publications during our review process. Authors agree not publish the same or substantially similar material with another magazine for three months (90 days) following publication in Chiropractic Economics or StudentDC.com.

• Topics. The aim of the Web site is to provide students with information they can use to prepare to run a chiropractic practice. Articles should address issues under the following general topics: Career Development, Financial Preparation, Job Search, and Practice Startup.

• Selection criteria. The editors use a number of criteria to select business-oriented manuscripts that ultimately are edited and published in the magazine. Ultimately, we look for articles that have a “take-away” value to the reader — something readers can implement to make their practices more successful.

Selection criteria include:

• How-to focus (a key consideration);
• Timeliness of information;
• Appropriateness;
• Accuracy;
• Originality;
• Quality of writing; and
• Value to the reader.

All manuscripts undergo a review process. They may also be reviewed by the publisher or others, such as an advisory panel/editorial board.

• Non-proprietary. Articles cannot mention nor promote specific products, services, or companies. All manuscripts must be unbiased and free from commercial or product-centered references.

• Links. Contributors may provide a link to their Web site in the end-of-article information. They may provide links to additional resources that may be helpful to students, provided these resources are free of cost to the reader. Inclusion of these resources is at the editor’s discretion.

• Length and style of articles. Articles should be between 500-800 words, including any sidebars or breakout boxes that help illustrate learning points. Manuscripts that exceed the targeted length may be edited to conform.

We encourage articles to incorporate bulleted learning points and sidebars that make information easily read and digested.

• Editing. All material submitted to StudentDC.com will be edited to conform to the Web site’s style and format.

• Contributor’s agreement. All writers must sign a contributor’s agreement (available on our Web site, www.ChiroEco.com) prior to the publication of any article. Among other things, the agreement gives Chiropractic Economics the right to edit, revise, augment, re-title, and adapt all articles as the publisher may deem appropriate.

It also gives us the right to check all articles for accuracy and originality. Under the agreement, we have the exclusive right and license under all copyrights throughout the world to first publish the articles and to republish and authorize the republication of articles, in whole or in part, in any and all media.

Please download a copy of the contributor’s agreement and fax a signed copy to 904-285-9944 when you submit your article.

• Method of submission. We prefer manuscripts to be e-mailed, but will accept them by postal mail on a CD-ROM or faxed to our attention.

E-mail Linda Segall, the editor of Chiropractic Economics, lsegall@chiroeco.com or Amy Mitchell, the online editor of studentDC.com, amitchell@chiroeco.com Submit the article as a Microsoft Word attachment.

Our postal address is: Editor, Chiropractic Economics, 5150 Palm Valley Road, Suite 103, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-4630.

Our fax is 904-285-9944.

• Photograph. Please submit a head-and-shoulders photograph of yourself (color preferred). You may submit the photograph electronically in JPEG format.

• Editorial contacts. The editor-in-chief of Chiropractic Economics is Linda Segall. She can be contacted at 904-567-1537 or by e-mail at lsegall@chiroeco.com. The online editor for StudentDC.com is Amy Mitchell. She can be contacted at amitchell@chiroeco.com.

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