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Good Men Project Magazine Submission and Style Guidelines:

- Include your full name, email address, and date of submission at the top of the first page.

- Include your name and the date of submission when naming the document. 

- Submissions can be any length. On average, they are 750 words. They can be sent in unsolicited.

- Include a suggested headline and one sentence sub-headline for your story. Refer to the magazine for examples.

-You may submit previously published work.

- Limit paragraph length to three or four sentences. Don't indent paragraphs.

- Include any relevant photographs at the end of the story, with captions and photo credit information, if applicable. You must have permissions or rights to any stories you submit.

- Insert any hyperlinks in Microsoft Word. 

Follow AP Style guidelines regarding numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, and punctuation, with two exceptions:

- For emdashes, use three hyphens---with no spaces before and after the dashes, even when using quotation marks---"like this."

- Use "email" instead of "e-mail."

Remember:

- AP Style calls for only one space after a period or colon.

- If you put two spaces between sentences, your submission will be printed, shredded, and set on fire.

- Numbers under 10, like nine or eight, should be spelled out, except in the case of ages, like a 5-year-old girl, or a boy, 6.

General Writing Suggestions:

- Be clear; say exactly what you mean.
- Avoid cliches like the plague.
- Never use the word "utilize."
- Avoid beginning sentences with "Look," "Listen," "You see," or "Now."
- Avoid rhetorical questions.
- Avoid squishy, meaningless adjectives, like "quite," "somewhat," and "interesting."
- If it's not un-good, it's bad.
- Here are some good rules for good writing, from George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language":

• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.


• Never use a long word where a short one will do.


• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.


• Never use the passive where you can use the active.


• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

If you are writing a research-based post or are using research to support any claims you make in a piece:

-Do not use any research behind a paywall. All research used must be available to the public.
-When linking to a large study, you must include the page number(s) where the information for the claim you are making comes from.
-You may only quote one piece of research per piece. If you want to make multiple claims, then write more than one piece.
-You may use one quote from the abstract, one from the body, and one from the conclusion. Do not use more than one from any of these sections.
-When quoting something that links to another study, that study must also be available to the public.
-When using a source that is questionable or open to bias, you MUST mention it.