|
PPN
Newsletter Guidelines
ASLA asks PPNs
to produce at least one newsletter per year, at least two pages
long. The PPN Chair or designated newsletter editor provides ASLA
staff with content (text and graphics). ASLA provides final edits,
layout, and posting to the Web.
I. Content Requirements:
Letter from the Chair(s)
Table of Contents
List of PPN officers (include office title and ASLA designation)
Additional text materials and graphics
II. Text Requirements:
Text should be in MS
Word or plain text (.txt) format
Do not provide any formatting
except for capitalization, paragraph divisions and punctuation
Provide complete reference
information for any documents cited in the text
Along with name of author(s),
include ASLA or FASLA designation, and 1-2 sentence bio (job location,
title and email contact information)
Single space between
sentences
III. Graphics Requirements:
Send graphics in files separate from text. Indicate where they
should go in the text if not obvious
Preferred electronic file format is .jpg
DO NOT send images embedded in MS Word or Powerpoint, or .gif
files from the Internet
Source of graphics must be attributed; indicate if image belongs
to author, that permission to use image has been obtained if source
is other than author, or that image is in the public domain.
Captions are preferred but not required if graphic is self-explanatory.
Send captions in separate Word file.
Optional:
Text boxes, sidebar
material, charts, etc.,
which may be included in the text
Preference for order/placement of articles
|
