NEWS SUBMISSION TIPS, GUIDELINES, AND FAQs
Thanks for your interest in Industrial Automation Monthly. Your editorial contributions will help to enrich our magazine content, educate our readers, diversify and amplify industry voices, and provide thought leadership in industrial automation, robotics, IIoT, and machine vision.
We’ve outlined some essential tips and guidelines below to assist our valued contributors in aligning their content development efforts with our publication standards.
Please note: Our guidelines are designed to assist you, not restrict your messaging. They are a tool to help you align your content with our publication standards, increasing the likelihood of successful publication. We encourage you to share your unique perspectives and ideas within these guidelines.
Before you submit your content, please familiarize yourself with our website terms and conditions, privacy policy, editorial submission tips and guidelines, and FAQs. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please get in touch with us.
HOW TO SUBMIT NEWS TO US:
We invite sponsored and unpaid content new submissions from across the industry on a rolling basis. Editorial can be submitted through our Submit News page or by emailing us at hello@industrialautomationmonthly.com.
Please include any available supporting images, product pages, and datasheet links with your submission. We also request a link to the contributing author’s LinkedIn profile page for biographical reference purposes. Our editorial team will respond within ten business days of your submission with any queries or requests for clarifications.
If the editors of Industrial Automation Monthly opt to select your content for inclusion as unpaid editorial content on our website, you will receive an email notification of successful publication when the content is shared across our social media channels.
If your company would like to guarantee the publication of your editorial content on Industrial Automation Monthly, as well as to be eligible for automatic priority consideration of your news content across our sister publication sites, consider one of our Sponsored News Packages. Click here to learn more about Sponsored News.
WHO CAN SUBMIT NEWS?
Industrial Automation Monthly invites manufacturers, service providers, systems integrators, distributors, economic development agencies, trade associations, exhibition organizers, small business advocacy organizations, colleges, and universities to submit content.
Accepted content will be published following a thorough internal review and editing process. Publication timing is dependent upon content alignment with our editorial calendar and available space.
To guarantee the publication of your submitted editorial content on an expedited basis, Industrial Automation Monthly offers several cost-effective sponsored news packages, which are valid for one (1) year from the date of purchase. When evaluating submitted editorial for publication, the team at Industrial Automation Monthly looks for content that:
- Promotes products, services, and technologies that are manufactured, promoted, and sold in strict accordance with the export control regulations of the United States and other applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
- Promotes new or recently improved products, services, and technologies that tangibly exist and can currently be built, shipped, and delivered to an end customer within an industry standard lead time.
- Is original, non-plagiarized, technically accurate, and grammatically correct, with preference for AP Style
- Conveys the key distinguishing features of the product, service, or technology in a clear, concise manner
- Explains how the product, service, or technology helps a prospective customer to solve an application or technical challenge
- Discusses critical applications that the product, service, or technology supports
- Maintains non-advertorial language unless part of a sponsored news submission.
- Refrains from the use of superlatives or subjective language
- Respects the intellectual property rights of others; properly cites any third-party content used
- Is free from any form of discrimination, bias, or offensive material.
- Includes images or graphics where appropriate to enhance the content
- Does not, from the perspective of our 25-year industry subject matter experts, show signs of having been written by ChatGPT or other AI writing tools.
HOW OFTEN CAN I SUBMIT? HOW OFTEN IS NEWS PUBLISHED?
News submissions to Industrial Automation Monthly that meet our editorial guidelines are always welcomed and accepted on a rolling basis. We are always on the lookout for original, high-quality, industry-relevant content that helps our readers solve technical challenges or is otherwise informative or educational. No limitations exist on the number of industry-relevant news contributions that any single contributor can make.
HOW CAN I EXPEDITE REVIEWS OF MY NEWS?
Industrial Automation Monthly welcomes content submissions, both sponsored (paid) and unpaid on an ongoing basis. To ensure the greatest likelihood of expedited publication, we suggest the submission of content that conforms to our editorial guidelines and aligns with the focus of our e-publication, namely industrial automation, robotics, IIoT, and machine vision. We further suggest:
- Consideration of Sponsored News for guaranteed inclusion, expedited reviews, multi-channel publication, lifetime promotional value, and the capability to receive ongoing click-thru reports and leads.
- Applying to Join our Editorial Board, where if selected, you will become one of our pre-vetted and approved editorial content contributors.
HOW LONG IS NEWS STORED ON YOUR WEBSITE?
All unpaid content on Industrial Automation Monthly will typically be stored for a minimum of one (1) year from its original publication date. Unless you, as the author, your employer, a court order, or a third-party author or regulatory body asks us to remove it, all sponsored news will remain on our site indefinitely.
CAN I GET A CLICK-THRU REPORT FOR MY NEWS?
Yes. All Sponsored News on Industrial Automation Monthly is automatically eligible to receive click-thru reports and metrics data upon request.
CAN MY ADVERTISING/PR AGENCY SUBMIT NEWS?
Of course! We appreciate the role of our agency colleagues as liaisons and advocates for our publication. All advertising and PR agencies are welcome to submit content on behalf of their industrial automation, robotics, IIoT, and machine vision industry clients. At the same time, and as Industrial Automation Monthly respects the author byline rights of its contributor, we request that agency representatives identify the actual technical content author of any submitted content. Rest assured, we will always provide full transparency regarding any communications we might require with your Client.
CAN INDUSTRY DISTRIBUTORS SUBMIT NEWS?
Yes. Global industry sales representatives and distributors are encouraged to submit news to Industrial Automation Monthly, provided that no content infringes upon the original authorship or other rights of any third parties.
HOW DO I BECOME AN APPROVED CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR?
Industrial Automation Monthly invites industry experts to consider applying to join our editorial board. If selected, you will be able to directly submit your content as an approved contributor. Ideal candidates have technical and industry subject matter backgrounds and prior successful publication experience.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR FEEDBACK?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime at hello@industrialautomationmonthly.com. We look forward to your invaluable contributions and appreciate your interest.