Editorial Policy & The Oakleaf Submission Guidelines
• To submit, e-mail your article to Editor Tara Ann Neville at theoakleaf@usnscf.com .
• Include "OAKLEAF: Spring/Summer/Winter Submission" in the subject line of your submission e-mail.
• Include your first name, last name, and a contact e-mail address and phone number in the body of your message. Your name will appear in the newsletter (unless you ask to be anonymous).
• Byline: author’s full name, rank, current job title and command (if military).
• A brief bio (your relationship to the SC) is suggested to be included in the email.
• Articles should be sent as an attachment, in either Word (.doc or .docx), plaintext (.txt, use Unicode encoding), or richtext (.rtf) format. Please do not send in .pdf format.
• Articles should be approximately 300-500 words. Up to 1,000 words may be accepted with prior approval.
• To submit, e-mail your article to Editor Tara Ann Neville at theoakleaf@usnscf.com .
• Include "OAKLEAF: Spring/Summer/Winter Submission" in the subject line of your submission e-mail.
• Include your first name, last name, and a contact e-mail address and phone number in the body of your message. Your name will appear in the newsletter (unless you ask to be anonymous).
• Byline: author’s full name, rank, current job title and command (if military).
• A brief bio (your relationship to the SC) is suggested to be included in the email.
• Articles should be sent as an attachment, in either Word (.doc or .docx), plaintext (.txt, use Unicode encoding), or richtext (.rtf) format. Please do not send in .pdf format.
• Articles should be approximately 300-500 words. Up to 1,000 words may be accepted with prior approval.
- Word doc should be single spaced, with one return (but no indents) between paragraphs
- Add only one (1) space after each sentence
- Please also include a title for your article
- Images must fall into one of these categories: [1] your own work—i.e. you took the photograph; [2] freely licensed; [3] public domain
- should be in .png or .jpg format
- Attach images to the same e-mail as your article submission.
- Include a short (1 sentence) caption for each image. Name, rank, location of people in photos.