Submission Guidelines

As a forum for NCO professional development, we highly encourage submissions from all viewpoints, but we ask that you read and agree to the Terms of Participation listed below. Ensure your article is related and relevant to NCO professional development. However, we will consider articles that have value to the Army ... articles that introduce new concepts, best practices, provide fresh perspectives or views that differ from popular views, and show critical thinking. The experience and knowledge you share through this website will help support present and future NCOs and positively affect the future of the U.S. Army. Please note the following Submission Guidelines:

NCOJ Publication Agreement PDF

• There is no limit to article length, but we encourage your submission to range from 600 to 3,000 words. Our word of advice is to make it as long as it needs to be.
• NCO Journal follows the writing and citation guidance outlined in the publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). - 7th ed.
• Your submission must be original work – your words and your ideas. If you borrow ideas, quotations, and statistics from other sources, you must cite them using APA style. Submissions plagiarizing another's work will not be considered for publication.
• Ensure your submission is a Microsoft Word document and please don't use formatting devices in the article.
• If available, please attach relevant multimedia content that supports your submission (photographs, video, audio, etc.) at the highest resolution possible, write a detailed description in the body of your email, and provide photo credit. Please do not embed your pictures in a word document.
• Authors should not submit an article to the NCO Journal while it is being considered elsewhere.
• Fill out the NCO Journal Publication Agreement and attach it with your submission.

Terms of Participation

This is an official Department of Defense website, and you represent yourself when commenting. We hope to receive submissions from all viewpoints, but we ask that all participants agree to the following Terms of Participation:

• The NCO Journal reserves the right to edit all submissions.
• To ensure constructive questions, please post only questions directly related and relevant to the Department of Defense and to the noncommissioned officer corps.
• Refrain from posting questions that contain threats, obscenity, material that would violate the law if published here, abusive, defamatory or sexually explicit material.
• Promotes services or products (not including non-commercial links that are relevant to the topic).
• Includes any personal or sensitive information (phone numbers, email or postal addresses).
• Operational Security (OPSEC). All personnel (including families and friends of service members) have a responsibility to ensure that no information that might put our military members in jeopardy or would be of use to our adversaries is posted to websites that are readily accessible to the public. Not surprisingly, that information includes, among other things, technical information, operation plans, troop movement schedules, current and future locations of military units and ships, descriptions of overseas bases, details of weapons systems, or discussions of areas frequented by service members overseas. Other information that’s not as obvious but should also not be discussed in an open forum includes daily military activities and operations, equipment status, unit morale, and results of operations. Any of these topics, if released in an open medium, have the ability to provide our adversaries opportunities to harm our military members.