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Writing for the
Quarterly
It is easy to write for the Quarterly! It could be anything that has been
on your mind as an intelligence professional: a substantive article with
academic leanings, an essay on how to professionalize the craft, recommendations
for improvement, a caustic letter to the editor, book or film review or a look
back on deployments just concluded or wars fought long ago. Anything that bears
on the craft of maritime intelligence is fair game, and we deliberately have a
wide net. That can include active duty and reserve officer and enlisted issues,
civilian professional, generalist or INT-specific topics, be they the national
community, USMC, USCG or plain old USN.
You can submit via attached files to: NAVINTPRO@aol.com, or mail
to:
NIP Executive Director
Post Office Box 11579
Burke, Virginia
22009-1579
Some general
guidelines: If you are reviewing a book, get the thumbnail of the cover from
Amazon or Barnes & Nobel to go along with the file. If you are doing an
article, find appropriate pictures that illustrate your points, and have the
copyright permissions to use them. Feel free to embed the images in your Word
document; that helps to ensure that captions are properly placed, and that the
correct picture is going with the text it is intended to augment. That said,
Word is a pernicious program. Embedded pictures are reduced in pixel quality to
300 DPI- “dots per inch,”- and thus should be enclosed as separate original
picture files (.jpg preferred, but most other common formats can be
accepted).
If you have photos that must be returned and you cannot scan them, or
have them scanned at the local Kinkos-FedEx, we can do that and return them. It
may no t be timely, but we are trustworthy. My recommendation is to have it done
and don’t trust precious original photos in the mail, or to the tender
ministrations of the Editor and his steam-powered flatbed scanner.
You may be a Veteran PowerPoint Pentagon Ranger, and can fully exploit
the fulsome capabilities of the entire Office Suite. Good on you! For our
purposes though, do not use the fancy Word tricks
like headers and footers, or pagination, or the rest, since each document is
reduced to a rich text file in the lay-out process through the miracle of Qwark
Express. Our lay-out people would really prefer to get the documents as .rtf/s,
but don’t worry about that.
Bottom line: footnotes neatly included at the foot of each page just
increases the possibility of getting something out of whack as the document is
translated into something else. Picture of the author is always desired.
If you have something to say about our profession, don’t hold it in. The
Quarterly strives to be there for you! Questions? You can always get to us
through a call or an e-mail to NAVINTPRO@aol.com!
Cheers,
J.R. Reddig
Editor,
NIP Quarterly
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