General Guidelines
- All content must be original works.
- All articles must be submitted using our content submission form found here.
- All submissions are to editing for accuracy, clarity, quality, and length.
- You may include any royalty-free, self-created charts, graphs, and images with your submission. Any image that SportEngine cannot verify rights for will be removed.
- If detailed attributions (references) are necessary, please incorporate them into the text.
- Editorial decisions to publish or not to publish content are made at the discretion of the SportsEngine Inc. Community Editor and are based on factors including but not limited to: relevance to the industry, interest to readers, timeliness and caliber of content.
- Internal article links will be audited for quality and will be removed if deemed spam.
Copyright
- By submitting content, you are indicating that you are the sole creator of the content and/or have the authority with the right to edit, retitle, reprint and repurpose the content.
- You or the owner of the content still own the copyright to the content sent in, but by submitting content to SportsEngine Inc, you are granting us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide license to use, publish or transmit on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented.
- You warrant that the content you submit is not obscene, threatening, harassing, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.
- You warrant that the content you submit does not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary or privacy rights of any party or individual.
Censorship
- As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, to censor is “to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.” SportsEngine Inc. neither condones censorship, nor knowingly engages in it. SportsEngine Inc. reserves the right to exercise its editorial judgment. Editorial decisions to publish or not to publish submitted content are made at the discretion of the SportsEngine Inc. Editor and are based on factors including but not limited to: relevance to the industry, interest to readers, timeliness, and caliber of writing.
Plagiarism
- As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, to plagiarize is “to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one’s own,” “use another’s production without crediting the source,” or “present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.” SportsEngine Inc. considers other forms of plagiarism to include “self-plagiarism”: instances in which an author borrows from his or her own previously published work without the proper citation within the newly submitted article. Plagiarism of content will result in the author being banned from guest posting in the future and having all past posts removed.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
- Conflicts of interest may arise in a variety of situations (e.g., stakeholder relationships, consulting relationships, employment history, etc.), and, therefore, the author is required to be 100% transparent and include these relationships with each published piece.