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Guidelines for Disks and Files

When authors deliver their manuscript (consult our guidelines for manuscripts ), they also provide a disk matching their manuscript. McFarland can accept any of the major disk media: floppies, CDs, zips, etc. McFarland can also work with files from any widely used word processing program. MS Word is the most popular.

It is important that the file be from a word processing program, and not a layout program (such as PageMaker). It is also important that the file not be a non-text file (such as PDF).

Authors must not imbed images in the file (consult our guidelines for photos).

It is absolutely vital that the disk and paper versions of a manuscript match word for word. The best way to ensure that they do is to make the printout at the last possible moment, then make no further changes to the disk.

Manuscripts may not be delivered by e-mail.

Authors are welcome to contact our editorial staff by e-mail or regular mail with any questions. Additionally, editorial assistants can be reached by telephone.