How to Contribute

To build section after section of YOUR USMAF web site, you to are cordially invited to contribute! Remember, this is YOUR web site!

What do we want?

• News about you, your school, tournaments, promotions, seminars and other events
• Announcements of upcoming tournaments, seminars and other events
• Articles and Essays concerning the Martial Arts
• Biographies of USMAF Leaders
• Photos and other graphics relating to your article, news, or event

How to submit:

All contributions should be sent by E-Mail.  Items sent by surface mail may have to be retyped and will take longer to get published.  Articles may be submitted in any file format (MS Word, WordPerfect, ASCII, etc), except Macintosh.  Mac users, please send via email after you have "cut and pasted" the content to the body of your message. 

If you need to submit via surface (snail) mail or fax, then please use the below address/fax number:

USMAF
3816 Belligham Drive
Reno, NV 89511
Fax: (281) 316-8420

The Online Newsletter is published within the first few days of every month.  Deadlines for submissions are the last day of the previous month.

Photos and graphics may also be submitted and should relate to the article or news item submitted.  They may be sent via by attaching them to your E-Mail or 3 1/2" floppy disk..

If your photo or graphic is not scanned, I will be happy to scan them for you! (Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that photos can be returned, so please send us a copy)

Please include a brief description of the photo and who, what, when and where as it relates to the photo.

You must state is your submission that you grant permission for your article or photo to be published here.

The author's of all submitted articles or photos will be given proper credit, however the submitted article becomes the property of the United States Martial Arts Federation and we reserve the right edit any submitted article for grammar and spelling. 

The USMAF also reserves the right to reject any article or photo that is deemed inappropriate in content. 

Guidelines:

Scanned photos may be submitted in any valid image format.  Images in .jpg or .gif format are preferred, and should be attached separately from articles that are submitted.  Do not embed them into your article file as the quality is generally rather poor. Insert typed place-holders within your article to show where you prefer the photos be inserted.

Articles should relate to the Martial Arts.   Commentary and editorial content is appropriate as it relates to the Martial Arts, but we prefer that articles be factually based. 

Before submitting your article, read it over and over and make your best attempt to correct spelling and grammatical errors.  Have a friend or colleague read it and make additional corrections.  You should correct as much as possible before submission, otherwise we will have to do it, and often editing can alter the message that you are trying to get across to our readers.