Submission Guidelines

Please keep in mind that your editorial is to be written in an unbiased, educational, and informative format. This means the information could be taken to any professional in your particular field for use. You might want to consider writing the article to address your frequently asked questions within your business. When you educate and inform perspective clients on different areas of your particular type of business, they will automatically choose you as the provider of those services. The County Woman Publication’s editorial is a proven format that has worked well for our contributors for over 31 years.

Click here to download the Publication Schedule for this year

TITLE:
Please let us know how you want to title your article. It should include words that grab the reader’s attention.

PHOTO:
Send your photos as attachments via e-mail. They must be in JPEG, TIFF or PDF form and at least 300 dpi. Identify who is in each photo.

BYLINE:
Indicate whether the editorial is written by you (if you wrote it yourself) or presented by you (if supplied by your association). Be sure to include credentials (MD, PhD, etc).

EDITORIAL:
Articles need to be e-mailed to
Lynn@ACWoman.com (Atlantic County)
Lynn@TheOCW.com (Ocean County)
Lynn@TheMCW.com (Monmouth County)
as soon as possible so they can be edited for grammar. Please use Microsoft Word, and send as a (.doc) document. Do not use bullets or columns; they make formatting very difficult. Must be sent as an ATTACHMENT.
A full page article should be about 600-700 words. A half page article should be about 350-400 words.

TESTIMONALS:
You may also include (2) small testimonials from your clients or patients. All information must be sent as ATTACHMENTS via E-mail (NOT embedded in the body of the e-mail). Though optional, testimonials have been proven to be successful marketing tools. These are included in your total word count.

BIOGRAPHY:
Here is your chance to provide your personal credentials, phone number and information
about you and your business. Include a brief biographical sketch of the author and/or company at the end of the article. This is included in your total word count.

DISPLAY AD:
Send your camera-ready advertisements to us as attachments via e-mail in PDF. They must be at least 300 dpi, CMYK, with 100% K. Please note that photos extracted from a website are not high quality, and will not reproduce well. You can convert your ads to PDF www.pdfonline. com. For a full page, a display ad may range from 4” x 4” to 6” x 6”. For a half page, display ad may range from 2” x 2” to 3” x 4”.

DEADLINE: Click here to view the publication schedule for 2009
All editorials, ads and photos are due by the 10th of the month prior to publication. If for any reason you cannot make this deadline, you need to notify your marketing representative immediately. If we do not receive all information by deadline or if you have not made arrangements for extra time, a previous article will be used or we will print a copy of your business card. The article will be printed as written. We do not change the content but may edit for grammar and formatting.