The Western Front Association

Contributed Articles

Submission guidelines

Articles, images etc. on any aspect of the Great War are welcome. To facilitate their presentation on the website, contributors are encouraged to conform to the points below.

Content

The Great War invites much controversy. Any argument put forward is understood to be that of the author and not to be the opinion of the Western Front Association.

The contributor must hold the Copyright of the material, have the Copyright holder's written permission for submission or be able to show that no Copyright exists for that material.

Physical presentation

Plain text is preferred without formatting. Fancy formatting such as that produced by word-processing software should be avoided, particularly multiple columns, images contained within the document (in-line images) and many-level indentation.

Text
Email text can be in-line or presented as an attachment. Regarding attachments or files on disc, in general, Text Files (.txt), or Rich Text Format (.rtf) are preferred but Microsoft Word files (.doc) can be accepted. They should be readable on a PC and free of viruses. File compression using .zip files is fine but any material presented in a compressed executable file (.exe) will not be used owing to the risk of virus infection. If you use Microsoft Word as a word-processor, you can save the file in .rtf format (use the "Save as Type" option in the save dialog box).

Please avoid non-standard formatting such as multiple use of the spacebar, indents created by the tab key etc. To be placed on the site these have to be removed to allow a consistent look and feel and this removal takes time. Table data often causes problems, in particular multiple use of the tab key to make items of varying size to line up. To present table data, please use just one tab key between columns even of this looks wrong; when converted to html, it will look correct. If required, tables can be presented in Word (.doc) files.

Images/maps etc.
Images can be of almost any PC readable format and should be as large as practicable. Large images can be reduced to fit, but small images cannot be enlarged without serious loss of quality. If possible, do not place images within Microsoft Word documents as the software is unable to maintain image quality. Images should be separate files.

The normal practice to show the placement of images within a document is to provide instructions to the typesetter in square brackets as the example here:-

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[place ypres1.jpg here]

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