Submitting Articles & Film/DVD Reviews

1. You will receive a confirmation email message when your article is submitted and when your article/film review is activated. Activation time on any given article/film review runs between 1-2 days, though sometimes it may take longer during high-traffic periods.

2. You can edit your articles/reviews by clicking the EDIT THIS ARTICLE link at the bottom of your article pages. This link can also be found in the auto-confirmation message you receieve after submission.

3. Enter at least one email address in the "email notification" box for each article/film review. Upon activation, the system will send the contact person (label rep, publicist, artist, etc.) an email mentioning the title of the article, the author name and a link to the article.

4. Italicize album titles and place song titles in "double quotes."

5. Rate each film you review, as objectively as possible. This information is for internal use only and will not be visible to readers.

6. Not sure how to add cover art to a film review? Click the icon to the right of the "URL for Film/DVD cover art" text box.

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Basic HTML Formatting

Please learn these five basic HTML tags to properly format your piece. For articles, we ask that you look at a previously published example to know how your piece should look. We prep 8-10 articles daily, so your help adding formatting tags is a big time-saver and is much appreciated.

• Use the paragraph tag <P> at the start of each new paragraph

• Use the line break tag <BR> to skip to the next line

• To italicize a word, use <I> and </I> (eg. <I>jazz</I>)

• To hot link a URL: <A HREF=http://www.yoursite.com TARGET=_blank>Your Site</A>

• To hot link an email address: <A HREF=mailto:joe@aol.com>joe@aol.com</A>

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Your Contributor Profile

• If you haven't already, please fill out your contributor profile. Your mini-bio and bio are the most important pieces of information; your mini-bio will appear at the bottom of your articles.

• To access your archive of articles and film reviews, click the corresponding links within your "Private Contributor Information" box (in the right column).

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