DESPATCH
The Branch Newsletter "Despatch" is currently published twice a year in May and November. The first Despatch and supplementary information is available below as Adobe pdf format files.
The following are guidelines for submitting articles to the editor:
- All contributions/articles should be word processed and sent as an email attachment to the editor at editor@wfanlancs.co.uk.
- I do not wish to discourage the submission of any article and if you have any difficulty in meeting 1 (above) please contact me (see 8 below).
- The maximum length of any contribution or article is not fixed but for long articles (say over 500 words) it may necessary (for me) to summarise the article for the Despatch with the full version being made available on our website.
- Please do not use any special formatting within the article (e.g. columns, indents, bold, italics) since these will have to be stripped out before laying out the Despatch
- Photos, maps and any other material which could be used to illustrate an article are very helpful. These should be emailed to the editor as graphic (e.g. jpeg) file attachments. Don’t send photos embedded in Word files – the quality, when extracted, is low (even when the original is inserted as a high resolution image) and may not be suitable for reproduction. It is better if attachments to emails are less than 5MB per email. If necessary send them in multiple emails.
- The copyright of all articles remains with the author.
- The Despatch will (initially) be published twice a year for the May and November meetings. Deadlines for submitting articles are 1st April (May edition) and 1st October (November edition). EARLIER RECEIPT OF ARTICLES WOULD BE HELPFUL, IF POSSIBLE.
- If you have any further enquiries about submitting items for the Despatch or our website please email editor@wfanlancs.co.uk