Editing Process

 

The Scientific Editor's customized editing service was built in-house to meet the ever-increasing needs of the diversified scientific community at large. Whether English is your second language or your English is impeccable, unclearly worded phrases, poor word choice, and faulty sentence structure may spell ruin for technical papers as found in academic, private, and government research.

 

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An example of standard editing in action:

 

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As can be seen above in our simple standard editing example, you will be presented with a marked-up copy as well as a clean copy so that you may see exactly what was edited and review editorial comments along the way, which will appear in addition to the side marking comments. Editors will always alert you to any unclear passages that may require your attention. This is the case in all of our editing levels. We will never simply check for grammatical or punctuation errors and quickly return the documents back to you. Our edits are always involved -- just as we are involved in the success of your work.

Whether your piece calls for a standard, advanced, or substantive edit, you will always have the option of stipulating that a particular style guide be used (e.g., APA, MLA, AMA, CBE, etc.) Otherwise, the appropriate style guide will be delivered. (It is generally recommended to leave the style guide decision in the hands of the editor unless the author has something particular in mind for whatever reason). Please keep in mind that we always edit the reference section and everything else that is sent to us unless otherwise noted.

Independent to the level of editing and to some extent the style guide used, the author has the choice to request the additional service ofour Journal Matching Service™. This is recommended as it ensures that every journal guideline -- from word count to reference style to overall format -- is followed. Coupled with submitting a paper that is a perfectly clean copy, proper adherence to journal guidelines clearly enhances the potential of publishable piece. And from our experience, journal editors are always thankful to come across papers that exemplify clean grammar, sentence structure and format.

 

To begin the process, we ask that you fill out our editing quote sheet. In addition to the quote sheet, supporting documents should be emailed as well and may be in the form of .DOC, .PDF, or .RTF formats. We recommend that you include any footnotes, references, graphs and tables with your text so that we may supply you with an accurate quote. Upon receiving your file(s), we will supply you with the quote, and your editing will be carried out upon your acceptance of this quote. All edits will be performed in Word® with the editorial tracking feature, as shown above. This enables the option to view and print the manuscript with or without the editorial changes that have been made. The majority of orders take 7-10 business days for completion, whereas involved, difficult or lengthy documents may take longer. Rush orders that must be returned in under one business week are subject to a 20% surcharge if we can accommodate them at the time.

RATES AND PAYMENTS

 

Due to the wide variability we see not only in the technicality of documents, but also the level of English, we must first examine your documents in entirety or at least must see a large portion of a document along with a word count in order to provide you with a rough quote for the editing. We have found our rates comparable to other leading technical editing houses that have only one single reviewer for basic grammar and punctuation editing. Because two levels of specialists will edit your documents, we feel that we offer a superior yet affordable service.

All editing projects are initiated upon payment or acceptance of an emailed invoice. We accept all major credit cards and bank transfers. Please take a moment and fill out our editing quote sheet and we will promptly send you a quote for the project.