By the Editorial Staff

Authors submitting articles for publication consideration are expected to follow these guidelines. Please review them before you start preparing your manuscript. If you cannot follow any of them, or have questions, please contact the editorial staff at editor@nevadacountyhistory.org.

1.  Provide text in Microsoft Word, using 12 pt Times New Roman, regular and italic. Apple’s Pages does not translate well into Adobe InDesign which is the layout program used by our layout editor, Katy Hight.

2.  Use single returns between all lines and paragraphs (no extra returns), and single spaces between sentences (no double spaces).

3.  Set paragraph indents in the program you are using-not by using the space bar.

4.  Center type using the centering feature in your program-not by using the space bar.

5.  Italicize words in a foreign language, newspaper and book names and journal titles.

6.  Quotations of four lines or more should be set off.

7.  Do not use all capital letters unless you want it to appear that way in the  Bulletin.

8.  Use endnotes rather than footnotes with Arabic and not  Roman numerals or letters. While the Bulletin does not have mandatory citation rules, feel free to consult the article on Tom Bell which appeared in the July 2025 issue for guidance.

9.  Consider working to an outline, and use subheadings, so the storyline is clear at the outset. Subheadings make the article present better.

10. Throughout the research process, keep a good record so that you can provide complete citations.

11. Include in the text or notes definitions for any specialized words of phrases not likely known to a general audience.

12. Obtain ahead of time permission to use any images that are not your own, from the Searls or in the public domain.

13. Provide high-resolution images, preferably JPGs, for photos. Screenshots from web pages or photocopies do not reproduce well. Images from the Searls collection are gratis for Bulletin and Newsletter articles.

14. Provide a duplicate of your article, in which you suggest preferences as to where the images should be placed in the text and insert captions for the images that are descriptive and credit the source. For example, at the spot where you would like Photo 1, insert: 

Photo 1

Caption: Image of Blank Mine” (or whatever).

Courtesy Searls Historical Library (or whatever)

15. Provide the editor with a three-four sentence bio and a high-resolution head shot if desired.