Publisher
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
The Gregor Building · 716 West Avenue
Austin, TX 78701-2727 USA
Tel: (800) 245-3321(U.S. and Canada)
Tel.: +1 (512) 478-9070 (other)
www.acfe.com · dcarozza@acfe.com

Purpose
Fraud Magazine is a 72-page, four-color magazine published bi-monthly by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as a service to its members and others interested in the deterrence and detection of fraud and white-collar crime. Articles published in Fraud Magazine cover a variety of topics related to white-collar crime, including forensic accounting; fraud investigation techniques; white-collar crime statutes, legislation, and regulatory issues; computer and management information systems abuse; and industry-specific concerns such as insurance, healthcare, and financial institution fraud.

Audience
Articles published in Fraud Magazine are directed at a wide range of professionals globally who have an interest in white-collar crime, including fraud examiners, internal auditors, forensic accountants, loss prevention professionals, investigators, law enforcement officials, financial officers, and academicians. Most readers are Certified Fraud Examiners, who have been granted the professional designation by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and Associate Members of the Association.

Queries
The editors encourage contributors to submit completed articles. However, query letters, outlines, or summaries will be accepted for consideration.

Style
Material for Fraud Magazine should be written in a clear, straightforward style. Though some papers by academicians are accepted, Fraud Magazine is not an academic journal; scholarly formats and styles should be avoided. Readers want articles and columns containing practical principles they can apply immediately in their positions and careers.

Because the ACFE is a growing global entity, the best material will be of interest to readers worldwide and will provide insights and fraud examination techniques that those readers can apply. Contributors should focus on a specific type of fraud and the techniques used to prevent, detect, or investigate it. Country-specific statutes, references, abbreviations, and jargon should be avoided when possible by replacing them with globally understandable terms. When use of such terms is unavoidable, they should be explained to assist readers unfamiliar with those terms.

Contributors should use short sentences and paragraphs, similar to magazine and newspaper styles. Articles should lead off with an interesting case example of the fraud discussed. The remainder of the text will show how the fraud is investigated and resolved.

Successful articles contain strong examples, anecdotes, current facts and figures, and sound approaches to solving problems in the detection and deterrence of white-collar crime. Major points should be supported and adequately analyzed. Materials rejected by Fraud Magazine reviewers are often overly broad; inappropriate in tone; written for the wrong audience; too short; inadequately supported or researched; too "U.S.-centric"; deal with topics, approaches, or techniques that are elementary to experienced fraud examiners; are promotional sales pieces; or concentrate on just one case history or "war story" without supplying applicable fraud examination techniques.

Commercialism
Submitted articles should not be linked to proprietary products or procedures unless the article is an excerpt from a book. Specific commercial services, products, or organizations should not be written about unless they are 1) necessary to the article, such as a review of fraud examination software or a publication; or 2) if an interviewee or author mentions the product as being helpful in his or her position or on a fraud examination case. [The interviewee or author should not be employed by the company that manufactures or markets that product(s) mentioned in the article.]

Articles shouldn't promote the author's firm or product (they aren't advertising sales pieces) but should contain practical, transferable concepts backed up case histories.

Article Preparation
When submitting a draft article that has been approved for publication, the contributor(s) should provide a full name, academic or professional title, academic degrees, professional credentials, complete address (including e-mail), and telephone and fax numbers.

Articles are normally six to 12 pages in length, or from 1,500 to 4,000 words. However, shorter items, ranging from a couple of paragraphs to 1,200 words, may also be accepted for use in combination with other such pieces, particularly if they communicate insightful tips and techniques, which fraud examiners can use.

Please double space between lines and have only one character space between sentences. Please set all articles in 12 point type.

Footnotes should be used sparingly, designated numerically in the text, and be placed on a separate page at the end of the manuscript. Footnotes should follow this format:

Books
Full name(s) of contributor(s), title of book, publisher, city of publisher, year published, page(s) of reference.

Articles
Full name(s) of contributor(s), title of article, title of periodical, issue date, volume and number, page(s) of article.

Contributors should suggest titles for their articles. In most cases, the editors will reword titles to fit style and space constraints.

Be sure to check with your supervisor to see if your contribution needs to be reviewed by your entity's management. Disclaimers are allowed in articles.

Graphics
Computer-generated tables, charts, and graphs should be used where possible to help emphasize and clarify points in the article, and to provide graphic interest. Reproduced or hand-drawn exhibits may be acceptable. Artwork need not be camera-ready. The information in exhibits should be kept as simple and readable as possible.

Tables, charts, and graphs should be cited in the text. Contributors should refer to them as exhibits, and number them consecutively. The exhibit should include a brief title as well. For example, "Exhibit 1: ABC Co. Statement of Income."

Submission Format
Contributors should e-mail contributions as attachments to dcarozza@acfe.com. All submissions should be in Word or WordPerfect. No PDFs or non-digital submissions accepted. To ensure an anonymous and impartial review, contributor(s) name(s), affiliations, biographies, and other identifying information should be deleted from the copy. (Those details will be added if the material is accepted for publication.)

Contributors should also submit résumés or curriculum vitae with their draft articles.

Review Process
Contributors should allow approximately four to eight weeks for the review process. The editors and members of a peer board review manuscripts submitted to Fraud Magazine. Reviewers consider each manuscript on the basis of technical accuracy, usefulness to readers, and timeliness.

If reviewers believe material is not appropriate for Fraud Magazine, an editor will notify the contributor(s) by letter, telephone, or e-mail. If reviewers believe additional clarification or information is needed before the material can be evaluated, an editor will ask the contributor(s) to make changes before reviewers make a final decision.

If the editors accept a draft article, editors will notify the contributor(s) by letter, telephone, or e-mail. The editors and contributor(s) then will work closely on preparing the material for publication. The editors will send a final version of the article to the contributor(s) before the art director designs the magazine issue.

Author Compensation
Fraud Magazine generally does not pay contributors for providing material. Contributors receive five complimentary copies of the issue in which their articles appear. Contributors may make reprints at no charge. However, they must place the following copyright permission line on the first page of every copy:
Reprinted with permission from the xxxxx/xxxxx 20XX issue of Fraud Magazine, a publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Austin, Texas
©20XX.

Publication Scheduling
Fraud Magazine operates on a two- to four-month lead schedule. That is, the staff begins planning an issue approximately four months before the publication date. When combined with the time needed for editing and review, six or more months may elapse from the time material is received until it is published.

Other factors affecting the publication date are the existing backlog of manuscripts already accepted, the subject matter of the material (an article on a similar topic may have appeared recently), or an issue's theme.

Copyright
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners assumes sole copyright of any article published in Fraud Magazine. Fraud Magazine follows a policy of exclusive publication. Permission of the publisher is required before an article can be copied or reproduced. Requests for reprinting an article must be directed in writing to the publisher or editor. (See attached Contributor Agreement.)

Contributor Agreement
Title of Article:
Contributor(s):
Publication: Fraud Magazine

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Inc. (hereinafter "ACFE"), 716 West Avenue, Austin, TX 78701, USA, publisher Fraud Magazine, and the undersigned ___________________________
(hereinafter "contributor(s)"), of _______________________________________________ hereby agree as follows:

(a) The contributor(s) specifically warrants to ACFE that the above-named article is an original work created by the contributor(s) and that it does not infringe on the rights of others, including copyrights, and that all source material has been attributed.
(b) The contributor(s) specifically warrants that they have obtained permission and copyright releases for materials quoted, adapted, or otherwise included in the article.
(c) The contributor(s) specifically grants to ACFE the right to publish the article in any edition of Fraud Magazine as selected by the editors and the non-exclusive right to reprint the article, either in whole or in part, in any other ACFE publication, including promotional pieces. The publishing and reprint rights granted herein include all forms of media, including, but not limited to, print, electronic databases, and Internet/Web site distribution.
(d) The contributor(s) warrants that the article has not been and will not be printed or distributed by any other publisher prior to its publication in Fraud Magazine. Either the contributor(s) or the ACFE may withdraw the article if it becomes outdated before publication.
(e) ACFE recognizes that the author may grant reprint permission to other publications. The contributor(s) specifically agrees that if the article is reprinted either individually or as part of any other publication, credit will be given to "Fraud Magazine (month/year), a publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Austin, TX, © 20XX" as the source of first publication. The contributor(s) agree to notify ACFE of all reprints.
(f) The contributor(s) and ACFE agree that the only consideration for the rights granted to ACFE is the publication of the article by ACFE in Fraud Magazine. The contributor(s) and ACFE agree that all expenses involved in production, publication, and promotion of the article (e.g., e-mail, fax, express delivery, phone, research, etc.) will be borne by the party incurring the expense.
(g) In the event the above article is not published by ACFE or is withdrawn by the contributor(s) before publication, this agreement becomes null and void.