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Editorial Services*

Proofreading (Proofreading is undertaken after editing, copyediting, and final layout is completed.)

• Follow editorial style sheet or or compile one.
• Flag spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammatical, and typographical errors.
• Cross-check preliminary material with text and end matter.
• Ensure TOC corresponds to chapters.
• Ensure chapter headings and subheadings are consistent.
• Ensure illustrations are present and appear in appropriate location and verify captions.
• Ensure running heads are correct.
• Identify misalignments, issues with fonts, and irregular word and line lengths.
• Check for bad column and word breaks.
• Verify links to online material.

Light Copyediting (Light copyediting is undertaken after editing is completed.)

• Mechanical editing: check spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, punctuation, numbers and numerals, abbreviations, quotations and dialogue.
• Language editing: check grammar, syntax, usage, and flag wordy or incoherent passages.
• Content editing: flag factual inconsistencies or suspected inaccuracies.
• Correlating parts: check TOC against chapters and heads, verify bibliography, illustrations and captions, tables, in-text cross-references, footnotes, endnotes, and index.
• Compile project style sheet.

Medium Copyediting (Medium copyediting is undertaken after editing is completed.)

• Includes light copyediting tasks.
• Language editing: note terms new to readers; flag and provide suggested revisions for wordy or incoherent passages.
• Content editing: flag incorrect facts and provide suggested revisions easily verifiable with online references.
• Query organizational issues and gaps in logic.

Research & Fact-Checking

Research involves identifying and gathering source material to aid in the writing process while fact-checking generally occurs near the end of the editorial process.

*Adobe Acrobat is used for proofreading and Word's Track Changes feature is used for copyediting.