Finally, Standard Manuscript Formatting asks that you do not staple the pages together. And please only print on one side of the paper. If submitting in paper, use high quality 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper. And leave a half to a third of a page of space at the top below your contact information but before the title. It’s easier for editors to spot that way. Underline anything that is supposed to go into italics. ![]() Choose a “Center” alignment for those lines.) (Don’t use your space bar to center your title and author at the beginning of your manuscript, either. But if using a word processor, and most of us are nowadays, PLEASE do not use your space bar! You can set the indent so it will happen at the beginning of paragraphs automatically. You show new paragraphs by indenting the first line of the new paragraph by five spaces. That means you will have a nice, even start point at the left side of the page and a ragged right side. So yes, all that and double space your text. It helps editors decide if they can fit a story or a novel in a certain number of printed pages. Why a mono-spaced font? Because at 1” margins and 12-pts, a double-spaced page has, on average, 250 words and takes up a certain amount of space in print books. Some good ones are Courier, Courier New, and Lucinda Console. A mono-spaced font (also called a non-proportional font) is best, one where each character takes up the same amount of space. ![]() ![]() Fancy fonts, colored fonts, blinking fonts, and different-sized fonts for the title and body of the work…they all make you look like a rank amateur. In the Standard Manuscript Format ( SMF), your manuscript should look as though you typed it. Here is how they work, and why they are shifting. Things are shifting from Standard Formatting to Shunn. Formatting-wise, most places either ask for Standard Manuscript Formatting or Shunn Manuscript Formatting. Always, always read the guidelines very carefully and give an editor exactly what they ask for.
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