Writer's Guidelines
The Gettysburg Magazine is always looking for quality articles pertaining to the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War. Below are our guidelines.
Format:
The magazine has some specific formatting guidelines for articles in the following areas:
Dates:
Do not use st, nd, rd, th, with dates if the month is included. Use them when there is no month. For example: The fight was on July 2. They also fought on the 3rd.
Time:
Do not use military time and include a lowercase a.m. or p.m. where necessary. For example: They left camp at 8:00 a.m. It was more than a six hour march and they arrived at 2:15.
Numbers:
Write out all numbers less than 100, unless they are in the same sentence with a number greater than 100. For example: Captain Smith had forty-five men killed. Total casualties were 45 killed and 82 wounded out of 274 men.
For regiments, use Arabic numerals. For larger military units, write out the number. For example: The 6th Wisconsin was part of the First Brigade.
Rank:
Abbreviate rank when a person is first mentioned and include their full name. After the first mention, spell out the rank and use only the last name. For example: Maj. Gen. George G. Meade was in command. On the following day, General Meade left the town.
Footnote format:
As a general rule, we use the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes, with a few exceptions. If you're citing a reprint edition, be sure to include the publishing information from the original printing. Previous issues are a good source for how to properly format the footnotes. Sample footnote:
Edwin B. Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1979), pp. 134-67.
Submissions:
If you have an article to submit, you can send it by mail or email a computer file. If you send it by mail, please include a copy of the computer file on disc or cd.
Payment:
Author's are paid $200 and ten complimentary copies of the issue their article appears in. This is paid upon publication.
If you have any questions that were not answered above, or an article to submit, contact:
Andy Turner
The Gettysburg Magazine
P.O. Box 1311
Dayton, OH 45401
937-667-6737
