Getting published - PBO Contributors' guidelines
- Wed, 30 Jun 2010
Practical Boat Owner – Britain’s biggest-selling yachting magazine Contributors’ Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in writing an article for Practical Boat Owner.
To help you present your article in the most publishing-friendly way, we have prepared these basic guidelines on how to send us your words and photos.
Feature articles are between 1,500 and 2,500 words long.
Other sections of the magazine including Practical Projects, Cruising Notes, News and Bosun’s Bag are composed of shorter pieces. Please look at the magazine to get an idea of the length of article we print.
Please type your article, or get someone to type it for you.
It can be sent on paper or by email as a Word document. If you send it in the post, and have the facility to also send the Word document and separate jpg photo files on a CD, then please do so.
Please send plenty of photographs to illustrate the various points made in your article. The more the better! Ideally, photos should be high-resolution jpgs, as our production process is now digital, but we can still accept transparencies and prints
Note for if you are sending digital photos: Unfortunately, high-resolution jpgs quickly overload our email inbox, so if you are sending your article by email, please attach a sample high-res, and a few more low res samples. Then if we want to see more, we will ask you to send them by post on a CD.
Please feel free to send a large selection of high-res photos on CD in the first instance if you wish. If you can add a print-out of captioned thumbnails, even better! The art editor tells me that filenames of photos should not exceed 30 characters, including spaces, punctuation marks, and the ‘.jpg’ if used.
Please send your article(s) to: Roz Jones Practical Boat Owner IPC Media Ltd Westover House West Quay Road Poole Dorset BH15 1JG Or email to: Roz_jones@ipcmedia.com
