Share your news and get published by The CMA

Would you like to submit an article for publication in The CMA’s NEW weekly e-Newsletter and The CMA’s website?

If you’ve always wanted to share your news, views, case studies, and more with your professional colleagues, journalists, and the general public – we have a fantastic opportunity for you – as our weekly e-Newsletter goes out to:

45,000 + Readers – as follows:

• 20,500 Practitioners – and through them to their clients
• 360 training Schools – and all their Students
• 300+ Health Writers and Journalists
• Clinics, Spas and Retreats – and to their Guests
• Other Complementary Medical and Holistic Therapy Associations

All our readers are committed complementary medicine, integrative health and holistic therapy fans. They are practitioners, colleges, journalists, students, spa owners, natural healthcare business owners, members of the public, and doctors / medical staff who are really open to learning about the latest news and research in this fascinating field.

Very important

We ONLY accept articles that are genuine news articles – we do not accept ‘advertorial’ pieces – so please don’t submit these as ‘articles’ as they will be rejected. Our readers and site visitors want to learn from your article and they are hungry for ground-breaking information. This is an incredible opportunity to spread the news about your work and your developments and to tell the world about what you are doing – and how you are helping people.  

Please take advantage of this amazing opportunity

We do not charge to publish your articles – unlike many other platforms – as we believe that well balanced, reliable information should be freely available – especially if it helps people make informed decisions about their healthcare. This no-charge-to-publish policy sits well within The CMA’s remit – that of being a non-profit organisation – run by complementary medical and natural healthcare experts – who believe that the healthcare options offered by our Members support the greater good!

Note on advertising we DO accept

To support the outstanding work we do, we accept  a small number of carefully chosen adverts and advertorials (which are clearly marked as such) that can run in The CMA’s weekly e-Newsletter – with a link either to your site or to an article on The CMA site – whichever works best for your campaign. If you would like to find out how you could get involved with this initiative and get massive, perfectly targeted exposure to your ideal audience – and support the work of The CMA please contact us.

Please carefully read the guidelines below and if you have any questions please feel free to email us.

The CMA has two forms of publishing: our weekly e-Newsletter and this website. Publishing guidelines are similar for both.

Please assist us

Due to the amount of time that it takes us to unformat, spell-check, and generally re-edit articles that have been submitted in the past, we have had to establish the following guidelines. We regret that if these guidelines are not adhered to then it is unlikely that we will be able to publish your article as we have a vast number of articles submitted to us for consideration.

Use the following as a checklist before you send your article off to us 

Your article must be EDUCATIONAL in nature – and not advertising or advertorial in nature. Thus, articles must be factual, referenced and not simply promoting a product or service.

For The CMA website

The article length must be no more than 700 words, plus references/further reading. This has been demonstrated to be the optimum length for internet articles. Your article can be linked to another article – e.g., on your own website if you have more to say.

For The CMA’s weekly e-Newsletter

The CMA’s weekly e-Newsletter exists to inform our readers about the most recent an up-to-date news that is directly relevant to the complementary medical and natural health environments. The structure of the e-Newsletter is such that we have snippets of articles on the newsletter that then link elsewhere. Your article can be linked to another article – e.g., on The CMA site or your own website if you have more to say. We call the initial text that alerts the reader to the longer news item, “Teaser Text”.  We put this Teaser Text into the e-Newsletter and then give the reader a link to click on a ‘Read More” button to get to the rest of your copy.  

If you are submitting an article for inclusion in The CMA e-Newsletter, the structure of the Article should look like this:

• Teaser Text 50 words – make them exciting and interesting enough for the reader to want to click through to the full article.
• Your full article length must be circa 700 words. (Unless by prior arrangement in special circumstances.) It is fine to use the initial copy you sent for the Teaser Text as part of the longer article.  

Please submit your article in the following format

• Format must be Microsoft Word 
• Font must be Arial 
• Font Size must be 11
• Headings must be font size 14 – we will reset your headings for you on publication 
• Do not use italics except when quoting someone else. If so, use quotation marks
• No underlining
• Line spacing must be single
• Line spacing before and after paragraphs must be single
• No indentation
• Spell-check your article – you’d be surprised at the number of articles we receive which have not been properly checked for spelling and grammar.  We do not have time here to proof your articles and those which do not meet our standards will be returned once with a request that you have your article properly proofed.  We will not accept an article which is submitted a second time if it still contains errors.
• Your contact details and credentials

Link

You must provide the correct URL to us if you wish readers to clic through to your site or another source.

Graphics

By submitting any graphics to us you confirm that you are the copyright holder of said graphics and you indemnify The CMA against any action brought about as a result of possible copyright infringement. 

NOTE: It is not possible for us to lift a picture out of a Word doc at sufficient resolution. Pictures and photos must be submitted as separate files and must be high resolution .jpg or .png files minimum 300dpi. You must clearly explain where the graphic is to sit within your article – we cannot guarantee that we will be able to precisely replicate your layout – but we will of course do our best to do so. 

Referencing

Please always include references and bibliography wherever possible and appropriate. Please use the APA 7th edition style. This link takes you to a free APA reference style generator.

Copyright

Copyright belongs to The CMA, unless by prior agreement.

If you are using someone else’s work or are quoting another person, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have full written permission to do so and that you are not infringing their copyright – besides, it is a professional courtesy and simple good manners to ensure that you properly credit anyone that you quote. 

Many thanks!

Many thanks for your help with all of this. It will really help us save a lot of wasted time enabling us to get on with the exciting business of publicising your valued work and ideas!

Click here to submit your article – we really look forward to receiving it!