Information and Guidelines for Authors
Free and Re-Printable Content
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the basic terms and conditions outlined on this site. If you are an author that
charges a fee for publication of your articles or requires that special terms
be met prior to publication of your work, you should NOT submit your writings
to this site.
Article Submissions
Article submissions to The Urban Gazette are free and new additions to our
database are indexed throughout the day.
Submit your article to one category only. Multiple submissions of the same
article will be removed and, in extreme cases, authors spamming The Urban Gazette
will be banned.
Article Criteria
Article submissions are subject to length restrictions. These are outlined below:
Article Title: maximum 150 characters.
Article Body: maximum of 15,000 characters or roughly 2,500 words.
Author Bio: 400 characters or roughly 60 words.
Article Formatting and Links
We strongly recommend that authors submitting to The Urban Gazette copy and
paste articles from a basic text editor like Notepad. Following this suggestion
will ensure that paragraph breaks, line length and other basic formatting will
be properly handled by our submission form. Copying and pasting content from
applications like MS Word can and does result in a variety of formatting problems.
The reason for this is that MS Word and similar applications use non-ASCII,
sometimes invisible, characters that are copied with article content into our
submission form, causing articles to appear very differently from the way they
were submitted.
Keeping the above in mind, it is not necessary for authors to use html tags
for specifying font size or to create paragraph and line breaks. Use of HTML
should be minimal and we suggest html tags only be used for creating live links
to sites, services or products. Our submission process does not automatically
create activated links. You must do this.
Copyright and Violations
The Urban Gazette policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material in a manner
that violates the copyright owner's rights. In general, this means that authors
should only submit their own original written work to which they have natural
copyright.
In cases where copyright is disputed (usually as a result of plagiarism or
unauthorized copying), articles will be immediately removed without recourse
or discussion, regardless of the arguments presented by the disputing parties.
Authors should also be aware that there is significant personal exposure if
they are found to be in violation of copyright laws. Individuals who violate
copyright law are legally liable and subject to possible fines.
Disclaimer
The articles on this web site are provided for information purposes only and
for redistribution as outlined in our guidelines. urbangazette.com does not
accept any responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the article
content on this site or reliance by any person on the site's contents.
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