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Forum Authors’ Guidelines

News Articles

• News articles are intended to briefly convey events within the life of local AEUNA churches that will be of significant union-wide interest.
• Subject matter might include:

--Arrival or departure of a pastor

--Completion of a significant building project

--Churchwide retreat

--Noteworthy speaking engagements (lectures, classes, seminars)

--Commissioning of a missionary, lay worker, or seminarian

--Ordination of a pastor

--Major cultural events (musical performances, art exhibits)

• Regular, periodic events are generally inappropriate. Examples include:

--The annual banquet

--The annual choral cantata

--The ladies’ monthly fundraising luncheon

• The distinction between "noteworthy" and "regular" is clearly subjective. The editorial board will make final decisions regarding the appropriateness of each news item.
• In addition to AEUNA church news, articles can report or comment on the following kinds of issues:

--News from Armenia, the Middle East, or elsewhere, especially relating to Armenian Evangelical interests

--Ecumenical developments within the worldwide Christian church

--Developments or news relevant to or emanating from American church bodies, particularly the UCC and PC-USA

• News items may have a typical length of 300–600 words. In no case should the length exceed 800 words.
• Please provide a title, author’s name, and source (if appropriate) for the item.
• Quotations from people involved in or attending the events being described are highly recommended for increasing reader interest.
• Use of footnotes, endnotes, or Greek/Hebrew is not acceptable in this context.
• Photographs of individuals or events are extremely useful in generating reader interest and providing graphic content. Please submit either original photographs or 150 dpi minimum scans (saved in JPG, TIF, or GIF format).
• Email submissions are preferred; articles may be sent in the following formats in order of preferability: (a) Word97 file; (b) RTF file; (c) plain text (ASCII) file, which may also be inserted directly into the body of the email. Send to: vahet@aol.com.
• If email submission is not possible, clearly typed or legibly written copy may be mailed to:

  Vahe Tcharkhoutian, Chair and Forum Editor-in-Chief
  1495 Riviera Dr.
  Pasadena, CA 91107
  E-mail: vahet@aol.com

• Submission of an article does not guarantee publication. All submitted articles are subject to editorial review and correction. Unless specifically requested by the author, the editorial changes will not be sent back to the author for approval.
• Unless other arrangements are explicitly made prior to publication, the author of any article submitted for consideration consents to the publication of the article and waives any rights under U. S. copyright law arising from the publication of the article against the AEUNA or its agents.
• If the article has already been submitted elsewhere for publication, please notify the editor at the time of submission.
• Deadlines for submission for each issue are as follows:
  
      APRIL issue - February 10^th
      OCTOBER issue - August 10^th