How to submit Articles, Forms, Photos, News Items, Calendar Notices, Advertisements, and Letters to the WTGS Bulletin:
The WTGS Bulletin is a bi-monthly publication: January-February; March-April; May-June; July-August; September-October; November-December
All submissions need to be received by the 10th day of the month before the upcoming publication. I.e. A submission for September-October would need to be received by August 10th.
Technical Articles:
- Text submissions should be submitted in either PDF or DOCX format
- Approved Fonts: Arial, Times
- Body Font Size: 11
- Title at Top, Centered, Bolded
- Authors and Contact information underneath, centered
- Illustrations, Pictures, Graphics should be integrated into the article at appropriate sections. Utilize PNG, TIFF, PDF, or BITMAP files for pictures, as these are lossless formats
- Include the Illustrations, Pictures, Graphics separately in lossless format for potential resizing needs
Permian/Oil Field Perspective Articles and Letters:
- Text submissions should be submitted in either PDF or DOCX format
- Approved Fonts: Arial, Times, Franklin, Georgia
- Body Font Size: 11
- Title at Top, Centered, Bolded
- Authors underneath, centered
- Illustrations, Pictures, Graphics should be integrated into the article at appropriate sections. Utilize PNG, TIFF, PDF, or BITMAP files for pictures, as these are lossless formats.
- Include the Illustrations, Pictures, Graphics separately in lossless format for potential resizing needs
Forms:
- Text submissions should be both digital and hard copy. Digital in either in PDF or DOCX format.
- Formatting can remain per how the form was originally designed
- Illustrations, Pictures, Graphics integrated into form should ideally utilize PNG, TIFF, PDF, or BITMAP files.
Photos:
- Submit any relevant photos to the WTGS Bulletin! It could be utilized on one of our covers, or write out short captions for us to display as in our Permian/OilField Perspective Section!
- Acceptable Files: TIFF, PNG, PDF
- If using JPG/JPEG: Maximize quality, and save as Baseline (“Standard”) for maximum quality and the least amount of compression
- If files are large, create and share a link to files through GoogleDrive or DropBox
Calendar Notices/Short Items:
- Relevant community calendar notices and other short items may be informally sent through email
- For Calendar Notice, please note: Society, Date, Event Type, Event Speaker (if relevant), Event Title
Submissions to WTGS Editor-in-Chief: Haleigh Fitzgerald (hfitzgerald@diamondbackenergy.com) – Add ‘WTGS Bulletin’ in Email Subject Line
Potential Advertisers:
See “Advertising” link at http://www.wtgs.org or call (432) 683-1573 for more information on submitting advertisements to the Bulletin.
Help:
The WTGS staff will be happy to assist with questions about submissions: wtgs@wtgs.org, or (432) 683-1573.
Downloadable Document on Submission Guidelines:
