Communitas Submission Guidelines

Communitas Article Guidelines

The purpose of the Monthly magazine, Communitas, is to represent the entire SCIS-HIS system equally, and interestingly, reflecting our vision and mission.

Submission procedures:

• Text may be submitted directly to the Communitas editor at Communitas@scischina.org as either a Word document or within the body of the email
• Photographs / artwork should be left on your campus’s T-share drive in the @Communitas folder.  Please create a folder with your name or article topic and place graphics within.  Text may also be included in this folder
• In order to publish a quality image, we need:
  • Resolution - 300-350 DPI CMYK
  • Format - pdf, jpg, tiff
  • Size – Quality images will be at least 1 or 2MG and up
• Please email the editor at communitas@scischina.org to notify them that your work has been deposited on the share drives!

The articles should:

o   Be written from your area of expertise and your professional perspective

o   Be appropriate for a system-wide audience

o   Pertain to an educational or international audience

o   Incorporate one or more of the ESLRs

o   Be informative, well-written and interesting

o   May or may not address the theme of that issue

o   Be original and not the same articles as entered in the Dragon News

o   Should be written in accordance to the length requested

o   Include appropriate photographs or artwork if possible

Length

o   Full page is about 800 words; can be 750 with artwork or photograph

o   Half Page is about 500 words; can be 450 with artwork or photograph

o   Quarter Pages or “blurbs” are from 150-300 words