Article Submission Guidelines

My School Rocks! Magazine (MSR) is looking for articles of potential interest to our readers; parents ages 25-55, teachers, schools, and children ages 5-14. This information is provided so that you can submit articles with the greatest chance of being accepted for publication. We look forward to receiving your articles and sharing it with our readers; these guidelines will help us to achieve this goal.

This guide is here to help show how an article should be written, it defines an acceptable method of structuring your article for our publication. Also, included are some suggestions of what not to include in an article

For your article, select a topic, unless topic is assigned to you, of interest to our readers and which you have personal knowledge or experience. An ideal length is 800 to 1,500 words unless otherwise noted. Longer articles might be edited for length. Unfortunately, not all submissions can be used.

All articles should be written by you or by a ghost writer, and all copyright holdings to the article must be yours, and only your name may be associated with any articles you submit to MSR. By submitting your work, you grant My School Rocks! Magazine and Kidz Biz Publications, LLC full, rights to publish your submission in any printed and/or electronic form both now and in the future. Your article must be unique and not found in other publications or throughout the web unless notified during submission. All articles become the property of MSR, unless otherwise agreed in writing and can't be used in any other publication or throughout web unless approved in writing by publisher of MSR prior.

When writing an article keep the following in mind:

• Make sure there is a good "hook". Ask yourself: Is it fun or interesting to read?
• Keep in mind what pictures might best depict or complement the article?
• Is this new information or is the information presented in a new way?
• How compelling is the information?
• Use examples of good scenarios.
• Is the article timely, meaning is it what people care about now?
• Articles should focus on the selected topic such as allergies, School Safety, Bullying etc., rather than the company/organization or practice that is contributing the article.
• Articles should be generic in nature and should not Promote any one company, unless assigned and informed to do so. (ie: An assigned Article on a specific company, organization, or program like Classroom Central, Donors Choose etc.)
• Contain more than one quote from a particular company/source unless absolutely necessary.
• The goal is to educate our readers about the topic by providing information, statistics and quotes from individuals, if applicable.
• All material should be documented, referencing facts, not opinions. Characterizations should be avoided. Keep rhetoric to a minimum, avoid speculation, and focus on providing verifiable facts. Each factual assertion should be accompanied by a link to an external source
• Clean Copy: no spelling errors, missing words, typos, or formatting issues.
• All facts must be checked for 100% accuracy.
• There should be examples of local schools and students/teachers participating in a program whenever possible.
• When possible articles should be "Public School Heavy" but include all other types of schools as well.
• Each article should have some information that we can pull out to draw the readers to a specific message.
• Unless article is a gender-specific piece, balance examples of gender, race and age quotes but staying within our readership demographics ( parents (25-55) and children (5-14).
• Create a short headline that readers will be intrigued by and want to read about. Include engaging words like "fun" or "How To". Ask a question in the headline.

Accepted articles will be edited for length, style, grammar, organization, syntax, and clarity; additional text could be added. This is at the sole discretion of My School Rocks! Magazine and should not be taken personally. Authors will not be notified of edits that the editors may make. When editing, we will act in good faith to preserve your intended message.

Once published in the magazine, your article will also be included on the digital online version which can be found at http://www.myschoolrocks.com.

My School Rocks! Magazine is not able to compensate writers, unless article is assigned and an agreement is made in writing, for such compensation, prior to submission of article. We do ask you to include a short bio about yourself in which we will try and use parts of, at our discretion, at the conclusion of your article,

All articles must be submitted via email or via our online submission form. Articles should be attached as a Microsoft Word document. Email all submissions to editor@myschoolrocks.com. Mailed and faxed articles will not be considered. Your submission of such article is considered acceptance of these terms and conditions.

My School Rocks! Magazine accepts submissions on a continual basis and will try and use them as soon as possible, which might not be until future issues.ÊThere is no guarantee that an article will be published unless assigned in writing.