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GENERATIONS (formerly Minnesota Genealogist) Writer guidelinesTypes of articles considered for publication in Minnesota Generations:
Submission instructionsEmail digital files to journal@mngs.org. Please follow these instructions.
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If your article is accepted for publication, you will be asked to sign a writer's agreement giving MGS an exclusive one-year right to publish your article. You will retain copyright ownership.
All articles will be edited for style and length. The editing process includes four steps:
We do not expect our authors to be professional writers. The editors collaborate with authors to polish their articles so they will be easy for readers to read and understand.
Research reports, teaching articles, and reviews require a more formal technical style of writing, usually in third-person voice. Memoirs, personal essays, and travel stories may be more casual and written in first-person voice.
Avoid first-person “travelogue” narration: “After I saw the death certificate, I contacted the cemetery…” Tell the reader what you found, not the order in which you found it.
Minnesota Generations uses the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, as the arbiter on matters of punctuation, grammar, and usage. Writers are encouraged to consider the following tips for good writing.