Information for Authors

2.3. Copyediting

Once your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be asked to deliver to the Press two copies of the revised manuscript, printed double-spaced on bond paper (one side only) with margins at least one inch wide. The Press requires computer files for text, photographs, maps, or other artwork pertaining to your manuscript. All such materials should be submitted on CD. See the AAUP Graphics Guidelines for help in preparing these files. Do not justify the lines of the printed version of your text and do not use end-of-line hyphenation. Be careful to distinguish the following characters, which may resemble each other in some typewritten material but can sometimes look quite different from one another when set in type: 1 (one), l (letter 'el'), I (capital i).

All manuscripts published by the University of Calgary Press are subject to copyediting in accordance with the style guidelines set out in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.). Depending upon the nature and extent of the required editorial changes, the copyeditor will consult you either during or immediately after completing the editing of the manuscript. The marked-up copy will normally be returned for your approval (sometimes with first proofs). The copyeditor will also send you a list of questions, comments, and suggestions resulting from this reading of the manuscript.

Please resist the temptation to take this stage of production as an opportunity to rewrite your manuscript. Substantive changes are not normally allowed after a revised manuscript has been approved for publication. In the extreme case, such changes could result in a very different manuscript – one that might not have received approval from the Editorial Board if it had been submitted for publication. Demonstrable improvements will be looked upon more favourably the earlier they are made.

When you review the marked-up manuscript, you may, of course, restore the original reading of a text wherever the changes suggested by the copyeditor result in a distortion of meaning or the inadvertent introduction of inconsistencies. Once you have satisfactorily responded to the questions raised by the copyeditor, page proofs will be prepared.
 

© 1995 University of Calgary Press
Release no. 1.0 (August 1995)