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How to Submit to The Lancet Student

BLOGS

• Short, more opinion based
• More than 250 words, but not too long
• Types of blogs
  • News
    • Try to give at least 2 sources
    • Well balanced
    • Send it to student@lancet.com marked NEWS by midday (GMT) on Friday, and if it’s very time-sensitive mark it URGENT
    • You can reserve a story, but only do this if you’re sure you can have it written by the following Friday
  • Events
    • If you want to submit a blog to us about a conference or an event you’re planning to attend, please contact us 2 weeks in advance. Also, complete the blog and send it into us within five days of the event’s conclusion so we can have it published within a week.
    • What did you learn?
    • Why was the event important?
    • Possible criticism of what worked/didn’t
    • Don’t include everything that happened, remember the word limit
    • What would you want students who weren’t there to know?
  • Book Reviews
    • At the top, the book’s TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER and YEAR.
    • What you liked (or didn’t like) the book, what you learned from it and why you think someone else should (or shouldn’t) read it.
    • Can you compare it to any other books you’ve read on the same subject or by the same author?
    • Any special reasons you picked this book in particular.

ARTICLES

• Submit all ideas for articles to student@lancet.com BEFORE you write them
• Formatting
  • Articles must be a maximum of 1,500 words.
  • Please make all submissions in standard .doc format
  • DO NOT imbed images in the text. Please send them as separate attachments. If possible, include where in the article you’d like the image to be put and a caption to go with it.
  • Please send all figures, tables etc as separate .gif attachments
• Types
  • Editorials
    • A response to something else. This can be an argument or a criticism based on a global health report or initiative. They are written in the first person and only represent the opinions of the author.
  • Features
    • More general. Report on a topic in depth and emphasis is on the content, which should be obtained from a max of 10 sources
  • Perspectives
    • More personal opinion on the topic. Approximately half of the article should introduce the topic, the other half should be your own thoughts and ideas or how the topic has affected your views on global health.
  • Profiles
    • Typed-up interviews with people involved with global health
    • Contact Student Lancet first, and include a short biography of your subject and a brief explanation of why you think this person would make a good subject for a profile

 

ELECTIVE REPORTS

• write an honest, personal, and informative account of your elective and what you learned during the experience
• Try to make around one third of your report about the purpose of the elective and any background information, and approximately 10% practical advice for anyone wishing to do a similar elective. The rest of the report should deal with your personal experience, your thoughts and impressions, assessment and analysis of how well you think the elective went and what you learned and, most importantly, the impact the experience had on you.

 

How to submit?

• Email student@lancet.com with your ideas and briefs BEFORE you start writing so that we can give you some hints and pointers about the topic, and style of writing, you have chosen to help improve your work and increase your chances of being published on TheLancetStudent.com.

 

• Submit at student@lancet.com

 

Our Review Process

• Student reviewers (except for Profiles)
• Sent back with edits

 

General Writing Tips

Here are our top writing tips which you may find useful

1.      Write in the first person and in the active tense, for example, NOT “it is recommended that…” but rather, “I recommend…”, or “WHO recommends …”

2.      Don’t overcomplicate your writing – keep it simple, and short! Don’t use three words where one will do and remember that not all our readers speak English as a first language.

3.      If using other sources, ALWAYS reference them (Vancouver style please) and NEVER pass off as your own work. You don’t want to be accused of plagiarising other people’s work which is a major offence (and one which TheLancetStudent.com takes very seriously), and could wreck your career. Definitely NOT worth it! Blogs do not have to be referenced but of course give the source of any quotations used in the body text.

Benefits

• If you write an article, you get a free subscription to theLancet.com
• You get feedback on writing about global health issues
• You get your name out there!