Font: 14-point Times or Times New Roman
Line spacing: 1.5
Margins: 1.5” left and right; 1” top and bottom
First-page Header: upper left-hand corner, single-spaced. Include title of your article in quotation marks on first line, word count and story type (or abbreviation used in syllabus) on second line, your full name on third line.
Page numbers: sequential, bottom of each page, centered
Standard first-line paragraph indentation (0.5”)
No extra lines between paragraphs
All pages stapled at top, left-hand corner (contrary to the author’s suggestion, which calls for clipping pages together)

Query & Cover Letters

Font: 14-point Times or Times New Roman
Single-line spacing
Margins: 1” all around
Standard letter format
Your full address, phone number and date at top, right corner (unless using letterhead), followed by extra return (blank line)
Addressee, flush left: Correct, full name, complete mailing address, followed by two returns
Salutation, punctuated with colon, followed by one return
Body copy:
- Flush left
- Continuous single-line spacing; no blank lines between grafs
- Standard 0.5" first-line indentation, each paragraph
Closing:
- Flush right, followed by four returns (room for your signature)
- Your full name, typed, followed by your e-mail address, next line
- "enc:" preceded by blank line, if sending enclosures.

Submitting Electronic Files

1. When submitting assignments electronically to the instructor, a standard Microsoft Word document (*.doc) is preferred. If you do not use MS Word, the preferred file format is RTF (rich-text format, *.rtf).

Do not send files created in WordPerfect, MS Works or any other word-processing application unless saved as RTF.

2. For story assignments, please string all components into a single document, with hard page breaks between each component.

3. Copying writers' guidelines from the Internet and pasting them into your documents may prove frustrating (sometimes a formatting nightmare). Providing the URL in place of the actual guidelines will suffice.