We accept submissions throughout the year for our publications:

Classroom BirdScope (Published September 1) 

BirdSleuth Reports (twice yearly)

Classroom BirdScope contains the most innovative student research papers submitted during the previous school year. We publish it on September 1 each year.

Keep in mind that we keep materials that are sent to us, so your report or art might show up in a future webzine or in Classroom BirdScope. Therefore, if you send us your report in November, it might make it into the winter webzine or the September Classroom BirdScope—or both!  Keep checking back!

For all text files, please add the following at the beginning of the document so we know who sent it.

1. Title
2. Student's first name
3. School name
4. School address (city, state)
5. Teacher's name
6. Grade

It helps us to keep organized if you name the file that you send something we can easily recognize.  We like to include the teacher name, student first name, and topic, along with the file extension.  So, Jim Smith's report on feeder color in Ms. Thom's class might be named: thom jim feedercolor.doc. And Beth Benanti's drawing of a crow in Mr. Byer's class might be named: byer beth crow.jpeg. 

We want to learn about the research you are doing!  Send us your scientific reports!

• Send us your report in a Word document.
• You are welcome to send a digital photograph or graph to illustrate your report!  You can send them imbedded into your report or send them separately—see guidelines below!

Graphs

• Send graphs as an Excel file. Sending a hand-written graph is fine, too. In either case, please include the data used to create the graph (your Excel data table if using Excel). Every graph needs to include:
  
1. Title
2. Descriptive labels for both x- and y-axes
3. Legend
4. Temporal context (when you observed the birds — for example, "bird counts conducted March 1- April 15, 2005")
   

Art and Photos

We accept original art but prefer that you send us your work electronically as a JPEG or TIFF file. In order to reproduce your art so it looks fantastic, we need files that are high resolution. Please use the following settings when scanning your art or photographs:

If you would like to submit a photo digitally, please be sure that your photo is high resolution—300 DPI when sized to about 3 inches wide. Usually, if you set your camera to the highest or best quality setting, this will produce a fine image. Lower resolution photographs may look sharp on your computer screen, but will not work in the online or print magazine. Please save the photo as a TIFF or JPEG file.

Use these settings for photographs or art created by pencils, crayons, paints, colored markers, or multimedia:

• RGB
• 100% original size
• 300 dpi
• Save as highest-resolution JPEG

Use these settings for art created with pen and ink, or black markers or pens:

• BITMAP
• 100% original size
• 1200 dpi
• Save as a TIFF file

If you have any questions about submitting work to us, please call the BirdSleuth staff at (607) 254-2489.