The editing services we provide can include, depending upon your needs:
- language, including clarity, voice and tone, grammar and usage, spelling and punctuation
- completeness, consistency and continuity including logical sequence
- use of clichés, jargon, ambiguous or awkward expressions
- unnecessary repetition, tautologies and redundancies
- rambling sentences or structure
- unduly long paragraphs, sentences or words
- monotonous style resulting from the use of too many sentences of the same length or structure
- the use of lists, illustrations and tables
- help with compiling lists for contents, abbreviations, illustrations and tables
- checking tables and other non-text material for style consistency and editorial and other errors
- consistent use of technical terms, scientific notation, symbols, acronyms, and numbers
- cross-referencing within the text
- checking of citations and references consistency/concordance
- general formatting and layout of the document (word breaks, orphans & widows, paragraph indentation, spacing between lines and words, page numbering, heading styles, running headlines)
- full manuscript preparation for publication.