Contribute

Add to the archive.

Visual Methods grows through its community. There are three ways to contribute, depending on what you have. Pick the one that fits, then fill in the form below.

You do not have to be the inventor of a method. If you have seen a visual method used somewhere and think it belongs in the archive, you can introduce it to us just the same. Whoever brings a method or a variation in is credited in the editor list on that method's page.

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Submit a new method

A method the archive does not cover yet

Use this when you have a visual method that is not already in the archive, ideally one grounded in published research. We review the submission, and once it is accepted, the method is written up as its own entry. You are credited as a contributor on the About page, and your name is added to the editor list on the method's own page.

How it works: fill out the short form below with the basics and any images. If we agree it is genuinely new, we follow up so you can describe the steps in detail and finalize the write-up.

  • The method: a working name and a short description of what it does and the steps involved.
  • The source: the published paper, report, or poster the method comes from, if there is one.
  • Visual material: any figures, photographs, or diagrams you can share, with their attribution.
  • You: your name and affiliation, as you would like them credited.
02

Submit a variation

A new use of a method already in the archive

Use this when a method similar to yours is already cataloged, but you have used it in a different way: a new setting, a new material, a new adaptation. We add your variation to the existing method's page so readers can see how it has been reused. Your name is added to that method's editor list.

How it works: fill out the form below with the basics and any images. If we agree it is genuinely a new variation, we follow up to finalize the write-up.

  • The method: which cataloged method your variation builds on.
  • What changes: how your version differs, and what prompted the adaptation.
  • Context: where and how you used it, and a paper or write-up if one exists.
  • You: your name and affiliation, as you would like them credited.
03

Submit a reference

A published study that used a method already here

Use this when a peer-reviewed paper has used one of the methods in the archive. Send us the reference and we add it to that method's page, so each method gathers a living list of the published work that has put it into practice.

  • The method: which cataloged method the paper used.
  • The citation: authors, title, venue, and year of the published, peer-reviewed paper.
  • A link: a DOI or stable URL to the paper.
The form

Send us your submission.

Everything is reviewed before it joins the archive. We store only what you enter here and use it to consider and credit your contribution.

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    You keep the copyright in what you submit. By submitting, you grant The Visual Methods a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable license to reproduce, display, translate, and adapt the submitted text and images on the website and in future Visual Methods publications, with attribution to you. Submit only material you own or are permitted to share (figures from a published paper may be owned by the publisher, for example ACM or IEEE).

    Questions, or not sure which fits? Email the editors. Every submission is reviewed before it joins the archive.

    Thank you, we've got it.

    Your submission has reached the editors. We review everything before it joins the archive and will email you at the address you gave. If it is accepted, we will follow up about the write-up.