Editorial Guidelines
AmericanLegalJournal.com provides publishers and readers with high quality, original content. To ensure that your articles meet our criteria, please use the following guidelines when producing content to be published:
Content
All articles must be original articles.
Submit your article to one category only. Multiple submissions of the same article will not only result in the article being removed, but it can also lead to the author being suspended should we consider them to be abusing the system.
You may include up to 4 hyperlinks in an article You may include up to 3 hyperlinks in your Author All contact information should appear only in the author’s bio.
Every article must have an article summary. HTML tags are not allowed within the summary. You can only place HTML tags in the body of your article and in your Author Bio.
Please select up to 10 highly relevant keywords that are separated by a comma. Non-relevant keywords will be removed.
Articles that are advertisements, or appear to be advertisements, will be considered spam and will not be approved for publication.
Formatting
Article Title: A maximum of 150 characters and minimum of 2 words. Do not use ALL CAPS. Do not have the name of your company or website in the title. Your author name should not appear in the title.
Article Body: A minimum of 250 words and a maximum length of 10,000 characters. The following HTML tags are allowed within the body of the article: <br />, <p>, <b>, <i>, <u> and <a href>.
Author name: Do not user your website as the author name. Your author name should not appear in the title of the article.
Do not use hard breaks in your article, only at the end of a paragraph (clicking Enter twice or using the <br /> tag)
Bold, italicize, or underline only text that needs to be emphasized, not the entire article
Make sure to use paragraph breaks. If you don’t divide your article up into short paragraphs, it will be difficult to read, and the readers will give up on your article.
Illegal subject matter
Family Safe Content Only: We do not allow articles on illegal subjects (such as movie downloads), potentially dangerous information, or hate speech. This includes both written and visual material.
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we reserves the right to reject any article.
Articles cannot include plagiarized material from any other person or source. You must own 100% of the article you publish.