Copyediting and Proofreading Services

Consistency, accuracy, experience, and the flexibility to meet your specific needs—these are the keys to quality editorial services. Whether it’s the accurate display of data or adherence to a recognizable style, you can trust us to handle your valuable content with skill and attention to detail. Allowing us to focus on the basics of style, mechanics, and organization allows you to focus on the most important part—the research.

Benefits

Clear, concise language
Allen Press copy editors understand the importance of clearly communicating the procedures, results, and discussion of academic research. They ensure that your readers concentrate on what’s being said, not on how it’s said.

Industry expertise
All of our copy editors have extensive experience in the industry. Many of our copy editors hold master’s degrees in a scientific field and are board-certified editors in the life sciences. Some have also served as managing editors for scholarly journals.

Consistent style
Allen Press copy editors use style sheets built in-house by our style sheet team to ensure a consistent look and feel for your journal. Whether it’s the placement of critical data in a table cell or the placement of a hyphen in a word, our copy editors make sure it’s correct every time.

Quality control
Rigorous quality control steps, combined with knowledge of scientific writing and style, ensure that the final product will meet your high standards. Protecting the integrity of research—and presenting it professionally—is important to you and to your authors and readers. Our proofreaders will work with you to fulfill that mission.

Experience
Our dedicated proofreaders understand your publication’s unique requirements and individual style. You can rest easy knowing that an experienced team is managing your material at every stage of the process.

Services
 

Style sheet development
We will work with you to develop the style guidelines used by our copy editors. From the look of the title to the punctuation in the references, we’ll ensure that the copy editors will have accurate, dependable materials with which to edit your manuscripts.

Standard copyedit
The primary concentration of our standard edit is language, style, mechanics, and overall organization. From grammar and syntax to punctuation, your manuscripts will benefit from enhanced clarity and consistency. In addition, our copy editors will query authors for missing information or references that haven’t been cited. Whether you’re aiming for a more natural feel to the writing in your journal or looking to clean up specific style concerns, our standard copyedit can provide the service you need.

Technical copyedit
In addition to checking language, style, mechanics, and overall organization, the technical edit provides a more in-depth look at your manuscripts. Our copy editors make more substantial edits to the organization and logic of your manuscripts, research and edit references that are evidently incomplete or otherwise nonstandard, convert math and equations as needed, and more extensively edit the text of authors whose first language is not English.

Proofreading
Proofreading is performed during each composition stage to confirm that the typeset content is consistent with the style sheet and specifications, that your instructions have been followed, and that your revisions and edits have been incorporated into the final version.