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Line-spacing for email submissions?
I'm sure someone here will know the answer to this.
When sending an article by email attachment to a newspaper or magazine, do you still double-space the document? If they're going to read it on the screen, then I would have thought single spacing would make the task easier. Or do they still print them out? Don't suggest I ask for guidelines btw - Ireland doesn't really do them. I'm not trying to impress them as they've already agreed to the article, but I'd like to look as though I knew what I was doing!
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I don't know about non-fiction, but I would go for double as I would expect them to print it out.
If they didn't say, and they've already agreed to it, I wouldn't worry that much - it's an easy thing to change on screen if they have a preference.
But Dorothy disagrees with me on this one.
Febes, glad to hear they've brought the Module work books up to date since I began the course. Mine hardly mention email.
Just to reinforce a caution about submission content directly in an e-mail.
[quote=febes]If it is in the main body of the e-mail, then the spacing doesn't matter.
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[quote=Carol]if in the body of an e-mail single[/quote]
As Liz advises:
[quote=Liz!]The trouble is if you send stuff in the body of the mail it depends on how the person you are sending it to has their mail account set up, how it appears to them. [/quote]
Even "ordinary" typing will often arrive in a different format to that which You thought it had been composed. I learnt to my cost, years ago, that between pasting samples of a formatted story; electronic shuffling through wires of communication; the end result may lose some or all of the intended paragraph and spacing format.
Always safest to send anything which requires specific format by attachment.
As for articles in general - it really does depend on what the editor wants. I've have some ask for single spacing, no paragraph indents to others that want double spacing with paragraph indents.
Since you're already in contact with your editor (who has already agreed to your article), Mct1 why can't you ask how he/she wants it formatted?
If any health professionals here are interested in the research evidence for acupuncture in migraine or chronic headache, I can post you a web link.
could you post the link please, mct1? I'd be interested to read it both from a professional perspective and as someone who has had acupuncture for migraine.
Congratulations on publication! :)