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• Be featured in our monthly Methods Minute Newsletter, reaching thousands of key contacts each month.

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Sage Research Methods Community regularly features content from guest contributors across private industry and academia and we always welcome new contributors. If you would like to publish a blog post on Sage Research Methods Community please get in touch with us via this contact form.

Citations

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We’re looking for pieces between 500 and 1,200 words long. If the piece is dramatically longer than 1,200 words, and cannot or should not be cut, consider breaking into two or more posts.

Style

In keeping with our conversational tone, we use APA Style. This means, among other things, we spell out numbers nine and below, do not capitalize professor in front of a name, do not capitalize disciplines, and try to avoid acronyms whenever possible.

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• Identify relevant keywords related to your content.

• Place your main keywords in the title, headings, and throughout the content naturally.

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