Submission Guidelines

VisitOracle.com welcomes unsolicited article submissions. If you have an article you think would be well suited for publication at VisitOracle.com, please use the form below to submit your proposal to the editor. If you would like to send an article, please attach as a plain textfile file and send it to: submission@VisitOracle.com
The submission guidelines are just that — guidelines. Submissions that adhere to the guidelines, however, will likely be given more consideration and have a greater chance of getting published. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may not be considered.

Content

VisitOracle.com seeks news and fact-based analysis and opinion outside the confines of partisan politics and the framework offered by the mainstream media. A good rant is okay once in a while, and may be considered, but fully fleshed out views or arguments that are well supported will have a much better chance of being featured.

Please fact check your work carefully. Particularly if your article is about something controversial, it’s best to provide sources to support your assertions. VisitOracle’s editorial policy can be summed up as follows: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

By all means, please include images with your work. Just be sure that either you are the copyright owner, you have permission from the copyright owner (click here to learn about Creative Commons licenses), or the image is in the public domain. Please include any necessary attribution (photo credit) and description (caption) and send image files as separate attachments in your email (don’t embed them in your article in Word; if you want them placed in a specific spot, just indicate where like this: [Image 1]).

Please notify the editor if your work has been published previously and, if so, whether you would require attribution to the original publication.

Articles inciting violence, encouraging or defending violations of international law, which are prejudicial towards individuals’ rights, etc., will be rejected. So if you’ve written an article, for example, about how the U.S. or Israel should bomb Iran, while the New York Times or Washington Post might be happy to consider it, please don’t bother submitting it to VisitOracle.com

VisitOracle.com does publish articles by anonymous or pseudonymous writers.

VisitOracle.com does not publish press releases or similar commercial content.

Also please include a brief article description. By “brief”, think along the lines of something you might post to Twitter (156 character limit). Describe what the article is about in just a sentence or two (at the most).

Privacy

VisitOracle.com cares greatly of our authors privacy, and respects their need for anonymity.
As such we do not require that you are known to us. If you want to be completely anonymous, simply follow the submitting guidelines precisley and you will be as anonymous as you can be.

Be aware that we will turn over any information that the police and other authorities request as long as they do it the legal way. So the less info we have of your identity and your research (other than what is published), the better.

Format

Please submit your article attached to your email in plain text format.

If you provide sources for information in your article (which is highly encouraged), you may use embedded links (like this) Embedded links are recommended for news and opinion pieces.
When hyperlinking text, please set the default “Target frame” to “New window” (so when readers click the link, it will open in a new tab or window and not take them away from the article).

Single-space and do not indent. Use “Enter” twice to create space between paragraphs

Use American English spellings (as opposed to British English; e.g, use “neighbor” not “neighbour”).

Submitted articles should be in final form. Please take care to proofread your own work before submitting it. Articles are carefully reviewed before publication, but submissions that at a glance would clearly require extensive proofing and revision will be rejected. If English is not your first language, you may wish to have someone proofread and edit your work before submitting it.

VisitOracle.com will copy and paste the submitted for publication, typos and all, if we accept it for publication.

Please make sure that any reader scanning the headline will know what your article is about.

Copyright

Authors generally retain copyright ownership of their work. The act of submitting an article constitutes the granting of permission for VisitOracle.com to publish that work.

Articles published at VisitOrcle.com may not be republished without express permission from VisitOracle.com and/or the copyright owner.