Writer's Guide
Protection, Army Chemical Review, Engineer, and Military Police are professional-development bulletins designed to provide a forum for exchanging information and ideas within the proponent Army communities. The publications include articles by and about officers, warrant officers, enlisted Soldiers, Department of the Army civilian employees, and others. Writers may discuss training, current operations and exercises, doctrine, equipment, history, personal viewpoints, or other areas of general interest to proponents. Articles may share good ideas and lessons learned or explore better ways of doing things.
Articles should be concise, straightforward, and in the active voice. If they contain quotations or information from other attributable or copyrighted sources, the excerpts must qualify for “fair use” privileges and appropriate endnotes must be provided.
Text length should not exceed 1,200 words (about five double-spaced pages). Shorter after action type articles and book reviews are also welcome.
Submissions may include photographs and/or line diagrams (with captions) that illustrate information contained in the article. Photographs/diagrams should not be incorporated into the text or otherwise embedded in Microsoft® Word or PowerPoint files; instead, each of them should be sent as a separate file. Digital images should be saved at a resolution no lower than 200 dpi. Images that are not original or obtained from Army sources must be accompanied by a copyright release. The Photograph/Illustration Guide (available at https://home.army.mil/wood/application/files/8617/1076/8518/Photograph_Guide.pdf) may be consulted for additional information.
A one- to two-sentence summary of the article; a short biography that includes the author’s full name, rank, job title, current unit, and civilian education; the author's current e-mail and physical mailing addresses; and a current commercial daytime telephone number must be included with the article submission. Following is an example of a one-sentence article summary:
Combat Support Enablement of Protection Security and Mobility Operations
By Captain Andres N. Figueroa
Through security and mobility operations, military police combat support units enable protection on the battlefield, thereby demonstrating their worth to maneuver commanders and significantly contributing to winning the Nation’s wars.
Protection, Army Chemical Review, Engineer, and Military Police are distributed to military units worldwide; as such, they are readily accessible to nongovernment or foreign individuals and organizations. Therefore, all information contained in articles must be unclassified, nonsensitive, and releasable to the public. To ensure compliance, articles must be accompanied by a security release from the author’s unit or activity security manager as well as clearance from the organization's public affairs office (PAO); neither the security release nor the PAO clearance memorandum may be signed by the author. Sample formats for security releases and PAO clearances are available here:
To ensure that all submission requirements have been met, a Professional Bulletin Article Submission form should be completed and included with the article submission.
Publication of submitted articles, photographs, or diagrams is not guaranteed. Materials are cleared for publication only after thorough review. Authors will be notified if their articles are slated for publication in upcoming issues; for this reason, it is important that notification of any changes in e-mail addresses or telephone numbers be provided.
All articles accepted for publication are subject to grammatical and structural changes as well as editing for style. Articles for Protection, Army Chemical Review, Engineer, and Military Police are accepted year-round. Send submissions by e-mail to:
Protection | Army Chemical Review | Engineer | Military Police
Note: Please indicate if a submitted article has been, or is being considered for, publication elsewhere. In general, articles that have previously been published are not accepted for publication in professional bulletins.