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Conventions. How do they work?

There is no one right way of doing this. I just went to my magazine shelf and grabbed as many different magazines as I could.

Der Spiegel(1) (Germany’s most widely read news magazine) nearly always puts authors’ names at the end of articles.

brand eins (2, a German business magazine) puts the names of authors, illustrators and photographers right at the start of articles.

11Freunde (3, a German magazine about soccer culture) also puts authors’ names right at the start, as does Slanted (4, a typography magazine) and the German Wired (5).

So bylines are pretty common, but not everyone uses them. Putting names at the end of articles seems perfectly acceptable, also.

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(1) http://www.spiegel.de

(2) http://www.brandeins.de

(3) http://www.11freunde.de

(4) http://www.slanted.de

(5) http://www.wired.de