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Folkdancers' Own - Folk Dance New Zealand Newsletter

Kieron Horide-Hobley, Editor, tel. +64(4)972 4674, Email:

Editor's Requirements

Submissions may be:
hand-written - photo ready (for optical character recognition) - electronic media
Media: CD-ROM, DVD, 3½" IBM-format disk, e-mail

Text

If possible e-mail it, or contact the editor to obtain a postal address. If editorial modifications are made, whenever possible and time permitting the editor will attempt to make copy available to contributors for checking before publication.

Typed articles will be scanned using optical character recognition software. Requirements:
• At least 12-point font preferably Times or Courier, with margins at least 20mm on all sides.
• Line spacing double if possible.
• Paragraph breaks clearly identified with an extra carriage return (Enter key).

Hand-written articles should be legible and submitted well before publication, to allow for typing and proofreading.

Photo-ready articles (where electronic copy not available): A4 in 12-point Times font, with margins at least 14mm on all sides, for scanning and optical character recognition software.

Images

Photos and graphics must be accompanied with: name of photographer or artist, names of subjects, source (if from another publication), date or occasion, and proposed wording for the caption.

Images are preferred in compressed formats. Please don't send by e-mail bitmaps (BMP format) or TIFF, the default on many scanners – deliver these on a CD ROM.

For photographs, JPEG format scanned at around 400dpi to 600dpi is recommended in order to keep file sizes low while retaining sufficient quality for publication. As a guide, for a photo, file sizes in the range 400k to 1500k give reasonable quality for publication.

For text and line art with few colours and gradients, GIF or PNG formats are strongly recommended.

Important Advice to contributors

It is the responsibility of contributors to seek permission from any sources where copyright might be an issue, and give appropriate acknowledgement.
Enclose a post-paid self-addressed envelope if you want materials returned to you.
Contributors are advised to retain a copy of all materials in case of loss.

Please enclose a post paid self addressed envelope if you want materials returned to you.

Deadlines for submission of content

Note that these are the "official" ones - in recent years only two have been produced each year due to resource limitations (i.e. Kieron).

March publication - January 31

November publication - September 30

See Contacts page for Folk Dance New Zealand contact details.