Pippa-Stef wrote:On average how long to articles need to be? I mean is there an "anything up to..." word limit?
That would be useful information to have.
There is a newspaper here in Melbourne that features obituaries of notable people regularly, and apparently accepts suitable ones from members of the public. But it's not simply a matter of no more than x words - it is rather more specific, and submitted obituaries must be one of two specific sizes - I don't know, 800 words or 1,400 words or something (I just made up those figures as examples, and don't remember the real figures - and I'm guessing there's some latitude on either side of the figures, but approximately that many words).
I suppose this is all to do with what fits best into column inches or something. If there is anything like that with the Journal - some specific wordages that fit best into the page format - that would be useful information to have.
Does the E.B.S. site have a page advising on guidelines for submitting material?
Pippa-Stef wrote:MJE, why not copy and paste the article, in format to Tony? Isn't the point meant to be as long as he gets it...
Well, I was just asking for general reference, since the topic had been brought up anyway - I don't have anything ready now, and nothing in the offing, at least short-term.
But copying and pasting is not itself a format, and the format still has to be decided. Normally copying and pasting would be in plain-text (but it's not the format itself, but just an operation for transferring text) - but I understand you can also paste into Word - but I have no idea what it does with the formatting after that - puts it into its proprietary format, I assume.
Regards, Michael.