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AMERICAN SUBMARINER MAGAZINE

ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Article Publication Guidelines.

 

The American Submariner is published quarterly. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis, but submissions for consideration in specific issues must be received on or before these deadlines:

            Spring 1st Quarter Issue: December 1
            Summer 2nd Quarter Issue: March 1
            Autumn 3rd Quarter Issue: June 1
            Winter 4th Quarter Issue: September 1

Submission does not guarantee publication. All submissions should include the author’s name, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page.

Document Format

Articles are accepted in the following formats: .doc, .docx .odt, rtf, or .txt.

Style

The American Submariner does not require many specifics, but we do strive for correctness and consistency.

Please observe the following when typing your document:

• Use only one space following periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, question marks, and quotation marks. Use no spaces on either side of a hyphen.

• Use the final comma in a series of three or more elements: (i.e., cat, dog, and mouse).

• Spell out numbers below 100 (i.e., five, eight, thirty-two, seventy-five, etc.)

• Format dates as October 5, 2021 rather than 1 October 2021.

• The period and comma always go within the quotation marks. The dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation points go within the quotation marks when they apply to the quoted matter only. They go outside when they apply to the whole sentence.

• Ship names should not be in all caps. USS Virginia, not USS VIRGINIA.

• Hull numbers should be placed in parentheses and be hyphenated. USS Texas (SSN-775).

• Subvets should be one word, all lowercase except when starting a sentence.

Photos

Images should be supplied digitally and in high-resolution, preferably the original unedited image from the camera.

Send images as separate attachments—do not include them within the body of the article. Both color and black and white are acceptable. Please include a brief description identifying who and what is depicted.

Editing

The American Submariner reserves the right to edit submissions for publication due to space constraints, grammatical correctness, writing quality, clarity, etc.

Submitting your Article

Contributions should be emailed to editor@americansubmariner.org. Files and images too large to email can be sent via sendthisfile.com. Hard copy submissions are discouraged.

By submitting material for publication, the writer agrees to hold American Submariner harmless and assumes full responsibility for permission to publish all content, including photos and graphics. Be aware that much of the content found on the internet (written material, photos, graphics, etc.) is subject to copyright protection and should not be used unless determined to be in the public domain, or permission to use is granted to the American Submariner in writing by the copyright holder.

 

Fraternally,

Charles (Chuck) Senior

Editor

American Submariner