| Submission Guidelines
| Formatting
LENGTH GUIDELINES
- CD reviews: 250-350 words. Not less than 150 and not more than 500 words, with a few exceptions.
- CD multi reviews: at least 100 words of introduction and 200 words per disc.
Ideally each review should fall under the guidelines for independent CD reviews as above.
- Concert reviews: 500-700 words. Not less than 300 words. Longer is great.
- Interviews: at least 1000 words, not including the introduction. Not less than 500 words. Longer is great.
HTML FORMATTING
When you first get started at All About Jazz, the idea of HTML formatting may seem a daunting task. It's really quite simple.
For the most part, the only tags you need to concern yourself with up front are the paragraph and italics tags. Use the paragraph tag to introduce a new paragraph and use the italics tag to highlight the title of a recording. As you continue down the road, you will find the addition of other tags a logical and useful extension of this process.
We have also provided special pages devoted to
formatting HTML links and
including images.
- Use the paragraph tag <P> (at the start of each new paragraph)
- Break a line with a <BR> (rarely used; does not introduce a blank line).
- To italicize a word, use &emt;em> and &et;/em> (eg. <em>jazz</em>)
- To bold a word, use <strong> and </strong> (eg. <strong>jazz</strong>)
- To underline a word, use <U> and </U> (eg. <U>jazz</U>)
- To hot link a URL: <A HREF=http://www.yoursite.com TARGET=_blank>www.yoursite.com</A>
- To hot link an email address: <A HREF=mailto:joe@aol.com>joe@aol.com</A>
TEXT FORMATTING
- Format song titles in "double quotes." For record titles use italics.
- For band names, record labels, or venues use mixed case, with no quotes, bold, or italics.
- Where appropriate, abbreviate years using a preceding apostrophe: '54; '90s.
- Place punctuation within quotes. For example, write:
"Autumn Leaves," her favorite standard, ...
instead of
"Autumn Leaves", her favorite standard, ...
- Do not use UPPER CASE unless you have a very good reason... use italics instead. Use italics instead of bold or underlined text when you want to lend emphasis.
See index above for additional pages.
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