EFS Article Submissions

Thank you for considering EliteFTS.com for publication of your original article.  We encourage all of our readers, customers and friends to submit work that would be both informative and of real interest to the visitors at EliteFTS.com.

Before you send us your piece, however, please review the following guidelines that detail the specifications we have set prior to publishing your work.

Submission

• Please submit your article using the Article Submission Form at the bottom of the page. Copy and paste the complete article into the form. Be sure to include your first and last name, email address, and company name, if applicable. You must have this information before we can accept your draft.

• Authors can also send articles via email to articles@elitefts.com as attached Microsoft Word documents or .txt files only. Please be sure to save your document as a Word 2003 file (.doc file extension). At this time, we cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 files, nor can we accept WordPerfect, PDF, or HTML formats.

• If you’re sending an article as an attachment, please don’t forget to include your first and last name and email address within the article.

• Authors should include a short paragraph of biographical information with their article submissions, as well as any appropriate images, photos, or charts.

Content

• Your article should be training, nutrition, or business related, and be roughly 1200–2500 words (3–5 pages) in length.

• Try to be informative and share your unique expertise with the readers by including tips, techniques, case studies, analysis, opinions, and commentary in your articles. Please try to include no more than five lines of quoted or sourced material, however.

• Articles cannot be press releases, advertisements, sales letters, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype. They must not include replies to personal emails, letters, or other correspondence nor may they contain any content that is a violation of any law, is considered defamatory or libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

• All submissions must be original work.  If you are submitting an article written by someone other than yourself, please indicate the original author, including his or her name, email address and background information.

• Please do not submit the same article more than once.  Some authors like to submit the same article several times with only a few words changed in the body copy. We cannot publish articles under these circumstances.

• We cannot accept articles with links to adult-oriented websites, including but not limited to websites that include pornography or adult-oriented sexual content. Articles with content that contains pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented material, or suggestive of racial intolerance or articles that advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, or degrading tones, or contain profanity are prohibited.

• Authors may include links to their own products or websites, but they must not be “under construction.”  Websites must be active and have content in order for you to link to them from your article.

• We encourage the use of proper English, spelling and grammar. Our editors will review your work to ensure it meets publishing standards, but you can expedite the process by carefully self-editing your material before submitting.

Formatting

• Pre-existing document formatting is stripped out during preparations for posting on the site so anything used for emphasis or decoration will be lost. Please note if your article contains special characters and/or symbols that may be lost during this process. Please do not insert headers and/or footers.

• Please put any references at the end of the document. Be sure to include all pertinent information with references such as author name, publication year, volume number, page numbers, publisher, and publisher location.

General

• Submission of an article does not automatically guarantee publication on the site.  We reserve the right to accept or reject any article based upon quality, appropriateness and editorial judgment. We cannot return any articles that have been sent to us for publication consideration.

• All articles submitted are considered complete and final. Once the article is submitted, no changes can be made unless the author is contacted by our editor to do so, or unless there is a factual error. If your article is accepted, we may edit, abridge, or condense the material if we deem it appropriate.

• Although we want to provide authors with the best exposure that we can, we do not pay for content.

• Due to the volume of emails that we receive on a daily basis, we are unable to respond to individual queries regarding the status of your submission. If we have any questions, we will contact you.