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How to contribute to the RDM toolkit website	contribute	how_to_contribute.html	false	Here you'll find an overview of the ways of contributing to this website. Depending on your chosen way, please follow the links on the left, where you'll find step-by-step instructions.

Ways of contributing

We accept contributions in two ways sketched below, through GitHub or through Google Docs.

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Github way: We use GitHub to develop the RDM toolkit website. GitHub allows us to accept and coordinate contributions under an open authoring and review process. Therefore, this is our preferred way of accepting contributions. To begin with, you'll need a personal GitHub account, which you can create here.
Google Doc way: Alternatively, we provide Google Doc templates. This approach requires e-mail communication with our editors, who will be responsible for transferring the content to our git repository on your behalf.

Contributor responsibilities

Regardless of your chosen way of contributing, when writing content for this website keep in mind the following:

For the sake of consistency please follow our style-guide when writing.
We give great importance to authorship credit. If others were involved in your contribution, by writing-up or by providing resources such as diagrams/links please make sure they are acknowledged in the authors section of your page.