Bar Briefs Article Guidelines
- Articles are edited and returned to the author prior to printing.
- Articles must be submitted in electronic format to the Editor-in-Chief: EDITOR
- Articles must be submitted in Word Document format.
- Authors are encouraged to include images such as photos, charts, graphs, forms, etc. with their articles, and must include the source of the image.
- Authors must include a one to two sentence biography of themselves at the end of their article. If the author has a photograph on file with the KCBA, it will be used with the biography, unless the author informs the Editor-in-Chief otherwise.
- Author’s names must be included with submitted articles in order to be considered for publication.
- Citations must be in endnotes – not within the text of the article, or in footnotes.
- Citations must be in the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation format and consistent with the Style Manual for the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Illinois. http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/StyleManual/SupCrt_StyleManual.pdf
- Citations must be utilized when referencing a case, statute, or other source.
- It is insufficient to state that all Article or Section references within an article come from a specific statute or source, as opposed to providing a citation in an endnote.
- “Lawyering 101 – The Basics” articles should be no more than 1,000 words, unless prior approval is obtained from the Editor-in-Chief. These articles are not required to be in traditional paragraph format, but may utilize bullet points, numbered paragraphs, etc. All Lawyering 101 topics must be approved by the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission, to ensure that duplicate articles are not submitted on the same topic.
- Substantive articles should be 1,500 to 2,500 words, including endnotes.
- The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on whether to publish an article, and when the article will be published.