Submitting Articles & CD Reviews

1. You will receive a confirmation email message when your article is submitted and when your article/CD review is activated. Activation time on any given article/CD review runs between 4-6 days, though sometimes it may take longer during high-traffic periods.

2. You can edit your articles/reviews by clicking the EDIT THIS ARTICLE link at the bottom of your article pages. This link can also be found in the auto-confirmation message you receieve after submission.

3. Enter at least one email address in the "email notification" box for each article/CD review. Upon activation, the system will send the contact person (label rep, publicist, artist, etc.) an email mentioning the title of the article, the author name and a link to the article.

4. Italicize album titles and place song titles in "double quotes."

5. Rate each CD you review, as objectively as possible. This information is for internal use only and will not be visible to readers.

6. Not sure how to add cover art to a CD review? Click "Upload Cover Art and insert link" to the left of the "URL for CD cover art" text box.

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Basic HTML Formatting

Please learn these seven basic HTML tags to properly format your piece. For articles, we ask that you look at a previously published example to know how your piece should look. We prep 8-10 articles daily, so your help adding formatting tags is a big time-saver and is much appreciated.

• Use the paragraph tag <P> between paragraphs.
  Please note: If you use the <P> tag you don't need to also use a line break tag (<BR>) - as the paragraph break tag will place a blank line between the two paragraphs.

• To force a skip to a new line, use a line break tag <BR>. Note: typed text automatically wraps around to new lines as necessary, so this tag is very rarely used.

• To italicize a word, use <em> and </em> (eg. <em>jazz</em>)

• To bold a word, use <strong> and </strong> (eg. <strong>jazz</strong>)

• To hot link a URL: <A HREF=http://milesdavis.com TARGET=_blank>Miles Davis</A>

• To hot link an email address: <A HREF=mailto:joe@aol.com>Joe Jones</A>

• To ensure special characters and symbols, such as letters with accents above, below or through them, are properly displayed, look for the corresponding HTML code in the HTML Document Character Set table and insert it.

  Example: For the word élan, look up the "é" character in the table to find that it is &#233;. To insert the word properly use: &#233;lan.

  If you require any special characters and symbols that are not in the table, please contact John Kelman to have them added.

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Your Contributor Profile

• If you haven't already, please fill out your contributor profile. Your mini-bio and bio are the most important pieces of information; your mini-bio will appear at the bottom of your articles.

• To access your archive of articles and CD reviews, click the corresponding links within your "Private Contributor Information" box (in the right column).

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Site Numbers

• We communicate AAJ's activity in terms of visitors (people who visit the site on a monthly basis). 1.5 million readers visited AAJ in March 2008. For current website figures, please visit our traffic page or the Alexa.com rank page.

• AAJ publishes 200+ CD reviews per month, 100+ articles per month, and 300+ news items per month. We syndicate our news via RSS, AAJ Live Content and Google. We also have the most active jazz bulletin board, averaging well over 100 active members at any one time.

last update: August 18, 2008