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Q&A If magazine submission guidelines say nothing, are they expecting Standard Manuscript Format?

A lot of current science-fiction and fantasy magazines have online submission systems, accepting Word documents. And where I remember, way-back-when, submission guidelines noting that (printed) man...

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Standback‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T07:46:08Z (about 5 years ago)
A lot of current science-fiction and fantasy magazines have online submission systems, accepting Word documents. And where I remember, way-back-when, submission guidelines noting that (printed) manuscripts should follow Standard Manuscript Format, I'm now seeing a bunch of magazines that do not mention that.

One particularly confusing example is that _Clarkesworld_ magazine's guidelines [call for standard format](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/), but guidelines to submit for an anthology by the _same_ editor, using the _same_ submission system, [do not](http://neil-clarke.com/not-one-of-us-call-for-submissions/).

Is Standard Manuscript Format obsolete? Or is it so ubiquitous it doesn't even need to be mentioned?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-01-24T12:10:02Z (almost 7 years ago)
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