Editorial
Academic publishing: apparatus handled as carefully as argument.
Scholarly books live or die on their apparatus — citations, references, permissions and index. Getting them wrong undermines work that is otherwise sound.
What this is
Academic and educational titles carry requirements that trade books do not: a referencing style applied consistently across hundreds of citations, permissions cleared for every reproduced figure, tables and equations typeset correctly, and an index built by someone who understands the subject.
We handle that apparatus alongside the editorial and production work, to the style your discipline or institution requires.
Academic Publishing
What you get
What academic publishing actually delivers
Referencing applied consistently
Chicago, APA, MLA, Harvard or a press's house style, enforced throughout rather than approximately.
Permissions tracked
Third-party figures, tables and extracts identified, with clearance requirements set out.
Complex typesetting
Tables, figures, equations, footnotes and endnotes set properly rather than approximated.
Professional indexing
A subject index built around how readers will search, not generated automatically from word frequency.
Institutional requirements
Formatting to the specification your department, funder or press requires.
How it runs
The process, stage by stage.
Each stage finishes before the next begins, and you see the work at the points where your decision changes what happens next.
Requirements
Referencing style, formatting specification and any institutional or funder requirements confirmed.
Editorial pass
Copy editing with the apparatus checked alongside the prose.
Permissions audit
Third-party material identified and clearance requirements documented.
Typesetting
Layout handling tables, figures, equations and notes correctly.
Indexing and proof
Index compiled against final pages, then proofread.
Questions
About academic publishing
No. Peer review belongs to academic presses and journals. We prepare the manuscript to the standard those processes expect.
We identify what needs clearing and document the requirements. Whether we can pursue clearance for you depends on the material and is agreed case by case.
Yes, and it usually needs substantial developmental work. A thesis is written for examiners; a book is written for readers, and the difference is significant.
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