Manuscript Preparation for Scholarly Publishing
Editing, copyediting, proofreading, and indexing for university faculty, academic presses, and scholarly journals. Our team brings doctoral training and hands-on publishing experience to every manuscript, so your work arrives at submission or production clear, consistent, and ready.
Our Services
Developmental Editing
Strengthen structure, flow, and the coherence of your argument across chapters or sections.
Copyediting
Refine clarity, grammar, consistency, and terminology at the line level, with your voice perserved throughout.
Proofreading
Catch the final errors in typeset pages or near-final files before publication.
Citation and reference styling
Format and verify references to Chicago, APA, MLA, or your publisher's house style.
Formatting
Prepare files that match your target press or journal's submission guidelines.
Indexing
Build a thorough, reader-focused index for monographs and edited volumes.
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Common Project Types
We work with the full range of scholarly publishing formats. Faculty authors most often bring us journal articles, single-author monographs, and individual book chapters — each at a different stage of readiness, and each requiring a different level of attention. We also support edited volumes with multiple contributors, where managing consistency across voices and citation practices is as important as the line-level editing itself.
Conference proceedings and journal issues require the same discipline and care, particularly when contributors are writing across institutions or in English as an additional language. We also prepare manuscripts for translation or bilingual publication, ensuring the source text is as clean and precise as the version it will become.
Journal articles
Single-author monographs
Edited volumes with multiple contributors
Conference proceedings
Book chapters
Journal issues
Manuscripts prepared for translation or bilingual publication
Why Scholars Work With Us
Doctoral expertise: Founders Jessica Kaplan and Edward Zegarra hold PhDs and understand academic argument from the inside, not just at the level of grammar.
Disciplinary fluency: We know how conventions shift across fields, and we edit accordingly.
Respect for your voice: We sharpen what you've written without flattening it into generic prose.
Publishing experience: As the founders of Westwood Press, we know what presses require because we work to those standards ourselves.
Bilingual capability: We support manuscripts moving between English and Spanish, from terminology to final proofs.
Tell us about your project.
1. Tell us about your manuscript.
Share your project type, length, stage, target publisher, and timeline.
2. We’ll review your goals and scope.
We’ll assess the manuscript, or a sample of it, and clarify what you need and when.
3. We’ll recommend the right level of support.
You receive a clear proposal outlining the services, timeline, and fee.