Summit Book Submission Guidelines

Please follow these guidelines for your submissions. Doing so will greatly increase the chances of your submission being accepted.

The theme for 2010 is "What is LARPing in North America?" All articles should tie into this theme in some way, shape or form.

The deadline for submissions is April 20, 2010.

All articles are to be written in English. American English is preferred, but British English will be accepted too. Translation services will not be available for those who submit articles in any other language.

As this publication is an exploration of LARP within the North American region of the world preference will be given to articles that originate from said area.

Please include a suggested title and subtitle with your article. It's also suggested that you include a few sentences overview at the start.

Please use subtitles within your article copy as it makes it easier to read. Depending on your article, it may be a good idea to end it with a summary or conclusion section.

There is no minimum or maximum word length, however articles less than 1500 words long are rather short while those over 10,000 words tend to be rather long.

Please send all submissions in Rich Text Format (.rtf).

Use simple HTML code tags (ex. <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, <u>underline</u>. <editor: this is the caption for picture 3>Author eating candy</editor>.) to signify formattings so that as the book is put together such formatting isn't lost as the article moves between different programs.

Please separate paragraphs with an empty line (two line breaks) and do not manually indent the paragraphs.

If you use footnotes, note them in the text like this <1>. List your footnotes at the end of your article like this: <1> As noted by the LARP Alliance.

Please be aware of the words you use and how you describe things. When in doubt please clarify your use of a term or word.

Pay extra attention to the distinction between role-playing, live-action role-playing, live-action battle gaming and tabletop role-playing. If you mean only theater or role-playing in general for examples, say so.

At the end of your article please include a bibliography of the works cited. Please use the MLA (MLA Handbook, 7th edition) citation format (http://www.mla.org/) for references. If you need help making sure your citations are in the right format please utilize one of these generator links:
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&more=yes
http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/

When referring to a game, use the original, whole name of the game. Also, include the year(s) and name(s) of the head organizer(s).

Please include a brief author biography (maximum of 100 words) of yourself with your submission. Biographies which are longer will be cut down to size.

If you include images with your article, please do not embed them in the .rtf file. Please send them in high-quality tiff or jpeg format. Please give every picture you send in a caption and note who took the photo for proper attribution.

If you do not agree with any of the following, please do not send a submission. By sending a submission, you are agreeing to the following terms:

There is no monetary or material compensation provided to summit book article authors other than getting a byline in the book.

Content (image and articles) authors retain the copyright(s) to their own work.

The image and article author(s) grant the Summit book committee nonexclusive rights to use their submitted material as part of their work and in all future editions and revisions thereof, however they may be exploited, in any language or medium now known or hereafter discovered, including, but not limited to: print, microfilm, and electronic media.

The articles and images will not be sold by the Summit book committee to any other party or included in any other compilation or work that the Summit book committee participates in or creates with any other groups or organizations unless written permission is obtained first.

All copies and displays of work submitted by image and article authors will credit each author as the creator of a given submitted work.

Submission of an article or image is not an agreement of surety of publication. It is a guarantee that it will be considered, but that is all.

Images sent in with an article may or may not be used if the article is printed. If they are used, the captions and photo credits provided with them will be used.

Guideline Acknowledgements: These guidelines have been built off of those Stenros and Montola made for the Solmukohta 2004 book. Those guidelines can be found at http://www.ropecon.fi/solmukohta/submission.html. Thank you to the creators of those for their inspiration and well thought out and presented guidelines.