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Forensic Focus magazine welcomes your white papers, article
submissions, news and calendar items, and letters to the
editor for publication.
Forensic scientists, crime lab directors/technicians and
criminalists are invited to share their insights and
experiences, interesting case studies and research projects.
Author Guidelines
Our publication adheres to a journalistic style of AP Style
and in some instances, the AMA Manual of Style.
Our publications are not peer reviewed; they may be
reviewed occasionally by members of our editorial advisory
boards for technical content. The manuscript will be subject
to editing for appropriateness of content, grammar and syntax
by editorial staff members. Guest opinion columns run 700-800
words; feature articles run 1,000 to 4,000 words.
After the initial review, the editor-in-chief will inform
the author of the manuscript's status via e-mail. A manuscript
may be accepted or rejected, or it may need to be revised by
the author before a final decision can be made.
We encourage authors to discuss their ideas about potential
manuscripts with the editor-in-chief to best tailor it to our
audience and to ensure a manuscript on the same topic has not
been accepted recently. Query letters should include a
paragraph describing the proposed manuscript, its projected
length, how the topic will be approached, an outline, a short
biographical sketch indicating the author's qualifications for
writing the manuscript, and the author's contact information
(e-mail and street addresses and day and evening telephone
numbers). We do consider completed manuscripts without a prior
query. Manuscripts that have been published elsewhere or
submitted simultaneously to another journal will not be
reviewed nor accepted.
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the author will be sent
a publishing agreement giving us permission and rights to
publish the article in the publication and post it to our Web
site. An article will not run unless a signed publishing
agreement is returned.
Manuscripts should be composed in simple text or Microsoft
Word documents. Please do not format the text. Please include
references/bibliography for your work if appropriate,
numbering references as they appear in numerical order in the
manuscript. Tables, diagrams and other artwork such as photos
should be submitted as high-resolution JPG or TIFF file
formats. Material from PowerPoint presentations cannot be
accepted. Queries, manuscripts and artwork should be emailed
to Kelly Pyrek, editor in chief, at
kpyrek@vpico.com . Or
call (480) 990-1101, ext. 1568.
Thank you for your interest in being published in Forensic
Focus magazine!.
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