Importing MS Word Documents to Indesign- how to avoid pitfalls

I am planning to edit a Journal which will comprise about 40 professional articles from 40 different authors.

 I have seen intructions sent out which are basically MS Word focussed.

But I know importing many articles from different authors into InDesign can be a nightmare.

Paragraph and Character Styles will be lost, Footnotes are not in the same character style, Quoyes are not indented and so on.

Therefore I plan to send them guidelines on working with MS Word. I suggest the following:

1. I will create a MS Word template.
2. I will remove all the styles.
3. I will introduce custom styles like Heading, Sub Heading, Body, Quote, Author Name, Author Designation.
4. The Authors should strictly follow these styles.

Will this make sense?