Guidelines for submission

We welcome original material about your travel adventures and stories about place, people and culture.

To get a story published in Geokult Travel, please follow these guidelines.

About you

You will need to supply a short biography (200 words or less) and a profile image (no more than 250 pixels wide).

Words

  • word length should be between 500-1000 words
  • In Plain English – check out this helpful guide
  • All online and offline references are to be listed
  • Indent all quotations
  • Please avoid the use of ampersands unless it is in a title

Images

  • Author must use their own images or have rights to publish (copyright free or via CC License)
  • Images need to be correctly cited where possible – see this site for more details http://sydney.edu.au/copyright/staff/citing.shtml
  • A thumbnail 250 pixels wide needs to be supplied as the feature image (used to profile the article)
  • Photographs need to be compressed for online publication – no more than 1200 pixels wide and 72 dpi
  • All images require caption text (used as alt text to support accessibility)

When using the copyright symbol © – please use this format: © Tracey Benson 2014

References

University of Sydney – Citing Images and Diagrams – Copyright  (accessed 7 May 2014)

Wikipedia – Plain English (accessed 16 April 2104)

Wikipedia – Creative Common Licence (accessed 16 April 2104)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0 (accessed 16 April 2104)