One of the most important purposes of the IAEI News is to disseminate information relating to the safe installation and use of electricity in a way that will advance the education of the members of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors.  Through its articles, IAEI News fulfills this purpose in several ways:

1. It offers many Code-based explanations and interpretations of situations encountered by electricians, inspectors, and others involved in the field.
2. It provides best-practice models and techniques from experts from testing laboratories, manufacturers, contractors, and inspectors.
3. It reports on the latest proposals and research by testing laboratories, manufacturers, consultants, and academics. 
4. It gives insight into the nature of an inspector’s work and how he or she responds to demanding challenges in the field.

 
Directed predominately to electrical inspectors, industry professionals, installers, utilities, manufacturers, testing laboratories, the electrical contracting industry, and many educational institutions, IAEI News seeks to provide practical and useful information in each issue. These individuals and various groups who are interested in improving their performance and in learning and benefiting from the thinking and experience of experts read and study IAEI News, often keeping the magazine for years as a valuable reference source. Proposals for articles that demonstrate clear, technically accurate information, fresh and useful ideas, accessible and jargon-free expression, and unambiguous authority and expertise are most likely to meet such readers’ needs.

Unsolicited Manuscripts
The best way to inquire about IAEI News’ potential interest in a topic is to send a letter with a two-page proposal and a full-sentence outline. The proposal should clearly and succinctly answer the following questions:  

1. What is the message of the article you propose to write?
2. What are the implications of the message? Why should a busy inspector stop and read your message? What is new, unusual, useful, counterintuitive, or important about your message?
3. Who is the targeted audience?
4. What research have you conducted to support or substantiate the logic in your article?
5. What is the authority or expertise that you will draw on to make your argument convincing?

 
After you have answered these questions, outline the manuscript, offering enough detail for an editor to be able to understand the article’s main points and the evidence or examples that will support those points. You should also write a draft of the first few paragraphs of the article, which contains the central message of the piece.

Send the letter, the outline, and the introduction to IAEI News, 901 Waterfall Way, Suite 602, Richardson, Texas 75080. We will review the proposal and get back to you within one month.  We appreciate your interest in IAEI News and ask for your patience.

In order to widely disseminate your article, it is necessary for IAEI to hold the copyright. If for any reason you are unwilling or unable to assign such rights to IAEI if your proposal is accepted, you must indicate this at the time you submit your proposal. 

Unsolicited materials will be returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Solicited Manuscripts
Follow the steps above for targeting and outlining your article. The same assignment of copyright applies.

As you write your article, be aware of the following critical guidelines:

Technical 

• Focus on education.
• Write from a Code-based perspective, not personal experience or opinion.
• Use Code-based language.

Endorsements
Because IAEI specializes in education, we have chosen to remain unhampered by inappropriate commercial involvement so that we can bring unbiased focus to the code. To fulfill this goal means that we do not and will not endorse specific products or organizations. Consequently, we ask authors to:

• Avoid product endorsement or preferences
• Avoid personal endorsement or preferences
• Avoid negative comments about any organization, product, or manufacturer

Style
IAEI News uses the NFPA Manual of Style for its technical terms and The Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and general style. Your article will be edited according to these two stylebooks. 

1.  Endnotes. In order to properly attribute material to its source, IAEI uses notes at the end of the article. The following information is found in Chicago Manual of Style:  
1. Notes should be numbered consecutively, beginning with 1.
2. Notes should come at the end of the sentence.
3. Note numbers should follow the quotation.
4. Content of notes:

a. Author: full name of author, or editor, or name of institution responsible for the writing of the book.

b. Title: full title of book, including any subtitle.

c. Editor, compiler, or translator, if any.

d. Edition, if not the first.

e. Volumes, total number if multi-volume work is referred to as a whole.

f. Volume number of multi-volume work, if single volume is cited.

g. Title of individual volume, if applicable.

h. Series title, if applicable, and volume number within series.

i. Facts of publication: city, publisher, and date.

j. Page number (s); or volume and page number(s), if applicable.

2.  Examples of Endnotes.

1. From a book, the endnote would look like this:

¹West, Donald  J., and D. P. Farrington. Who Becomes Delinquent? (London: Heinemann, 1973) p. 96.

 
2.   From a magazine article, it would look like this:

²Answcombe, G. E. M. “Modern Moral Philosophy.” Philosophy 33 (1958): 1-19.

or

²Anscombe, G. E. M. “Teaching and Learning.” The Center Magazine 9, no. 6 (November-December 19976): 36-45.

Length
Most articles can be covered in 4-6 pages. Should you require additional space, please contact the managing editor well before your deadline to see if additional space might be available.

Photo/Text Mix
We prefer a 70/30 mix of text with photographs or drawings.

Plagiarism
As professionals, each of us come into contact with the ideas, theories and opinions of others in our industry on a daily basis.  It is imperative that authors give credit to originators of any such ideas, theories or opinions that are not their own or merely common knowledge within the industry. Not doing so constitutes plagiarism and is not acceptable to IAEI News.  The following basic guidelines should help you avoid inadvertent plagiarism.  Also attached to these guidelines is a short article published by Writing Tutorial Services of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and re-published here with their permission.

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

• another person's idea, opinion, or theory; 
• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge; 
• quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or 
• paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

(Quoted from “Plagiarism: What It Is and How We Avoid It”)

Submission of Materials
Submit materials as follows:

Text
Microsoft Word or WordPerfect 
Do not embed photos or graphics in Word, WordPerfect or PowerPoint.  

Captions
Write captions in text, preceded by identification number, for example:

Figure 1. AFCI protection is required on the branch circuit that supplies the smoke alarm.

Graphics
Send as separate attachments; do not embed in text files.
Submit in tiff, eps, or jpeg formats
Number graphics:  figure 1; figure 2; figure 3

AutoCad Graphics
Pen width must be set a 1.  Hairline widths do not print well.

Photos
Send as separate attachments; do not embed in text files.
Reflective:  four-color
Slides:  35 mm
Electronic:  300 dpi at 8.5 x 11

Please do not submit PowerPoint photos, because the resolution is too low for quality printing.

Number photos:  photo 1; photo 2;  photo 3

Biographical Information
Current bio, not longer than 25–50 words.
Photo:  color or black & white
Electronic photo:  300 dpi at 3 x 3

Sample Copies of IAEI News
For sample writing styles, please request samples of current copies of IAEI News.

Contacts
Managing Editor:  
Kathryn Ingley   972-235-1455 x30  or kingley@iaei.org

Art Director:   
John Watson   972-235-1455 x 35  or jwatson@iaei.org

Associate Editor:
Laura Hildreth  972-235-1455 x 33  or iaei@iaei.org

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