Guidelines for ACCESS authors 1. ACCESS publishes condensed, readable versions of academic articles that have already been published in a peer-reviewed journal. ACCESS can stress readability because the academic journals have already stressed rigor. 2. Limit your manuscript to no more than 2,500 words. 3. Write for lay readers rather than for your professional peers. Do not underestimate the intelligence of your audience or overestimate their familiarity with your subject. 4. Do not present your statistical methodology, except for the minimum necessary to make your argument. ACCESS emphasizes findings rather than methods. Our readers are more interested in what you have learned rather than in how you learned it. 5. Include simple tables, graphs, or photographs that illustrate your points. They should be understandable to readers without statistical or mathematical training. 6. Please also send the original files in advance for the tables, graphs, and photographs.  We need to make sure we can work with these files before we begin […]