Article Submission Guidelines for Just Resolutions eNewsletter

1. The Editors of the eNewsletter reserve the right to edit and alter submitted articles for clarity or content. Submission of articles to the eNewsletter transfers copyright to the Section of Dispute Resolution.
2. The average word count of a newsletter article is 750 words. Longer or shorter articles are accepted; the acceptable average is 750 words.
3. If you are writing an article on behalf of a Committee, please notify and receive the approval of the Committee chairs before submitting the article for publication.
4. We encourage authors to be familiar with past editions of the eNewsletter for formatting and style. Authors should provide submissions that highlight the key points of the article within the first two sentences of the article. Only the first two sentences of the article are shown in the eNewsletter; the remaining text is placed on the Section website to be read in its entirety.

For example:

Preview a Chapter from the New Section Publication: The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: Agents and Informed Consent

By Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

How can you the negotiator ensure that your client is really on board? Nolan-Haley argues that by paying more attention to informed consent not only before, but again at intervals during negotiation, and taking care to reaffirm consent as the process reaches agreement, agents will not only better serve their clients but reach better, more lasting agreements.

The remainder of the article would be placed in its entirety on the Section website.

• 5. Where referring to the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, use the full name or abbreviate as Section with a capital "S"
• 6. Capitalize the names of committees - e.g., Mediation Committee