Editorial Standards
Youth Sentinel publishes evidence-based work on medicine, public health, ethics, and research with a commitment to seriousness, clarity, and editorial discipline.
Core principles
- Evidence-first writing
- No medical advice
- Clear distinction between reporting, essays, and commentary
- Claims must be sourced
- Medical topics require extra care
- Editors may request revisions for tone, accuracy, and nuance
How we work
Writers are expected to verify claims, represent sources fairly, and avoid overstating certainty. For medical and public-health topics especially, caution matters as much as style.
Editors may ask for additional sourcing, sharper attribution, clearer genre framing, or revisions that improve accuracy and nuance before publication.