Louisiana State Bar Association

Feature Article Dos and Don'ts

• Do submit your article on disk.
  
  
• Do label your disk with your name and address.
  
  
• Do not label your disk "Journal Article."
  
  
• Do include a short biography on each author with the article.
  
  
• Do send a recent photograph (taken within the last 12 months) of each author with the article.
  
  
• Do include three to five key words to assist in indexing your article.
  
  
• Do use one inch margins for your article.
  
  
• Do not set your article in columns.
  
  
• Do use subheadings in your text.
  (You can use a primary subheading and a secondary subheading.)
  
  
• Do not set the subheadings in all CAPS.
  
  
• Do set the subheadings in upper case and lower case.
  
  
• Do indent your paragraphs with one [tab].
  
  
• Do not use extra lines of space between paragraphs.
  
  
• Do italicize your case citations.
  
  
• Do not use bold or any other form of emphasis.
  
  
• Do use line spacing in format at beginning of article.
  
  
• Do not manually double space between each line.
  
  
• Do capitalize a person's title if it is before their name.
  (i.e., President Bill Clinton, Gov. Mike Foster, Rep. John Hainkel
  
  
• Do not capitalize a person's title if it is used after their name.
  (i.e., Bill Clinton, president, Mike Foster, governor, John Hainkel, state representative)
  
  
• Do capitalize the formal name of a court.
  (i.e., 5th Circuit Court of Appeals)
  
  
• Do not capitalize the word court when it is not part of the formal name.

Darlene Labranche
Communications Coordinator
Louisiana Bar Journal
601 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, La. 70130
Call (504) 619-0112 or (800) 421-LSBA, ext. 112