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English copyediting is the last step of your manuscript preparation before submission to your selected journal. It is imperative that you comply with the instructions to authors for the target journal. We prefer that you submit your manuscript in Microsoft Word for Windows or Macintosh format, depending on the requirements of your publisher in their respective instructions to authors. We recommend Times Roman or similar serif font and left-, rather than full-justification, as this enhances readability and facilitates editing. We do not format tables and figures, but please provide them for our editing references.

You will receive an email directly from one of our front desk managers confirming that we are proceeding with the cost estimate. The front desk manager will provide a cost estimate for editing your manuscript in our cost estimation system and the estimate will be delivered to your email. We will not proceed with the editing without your approval (click the Accept button on the cost estimate Web page). Once you accept, we will begin to process your manuscript for editing. At this time, you will receive the invoice with detailed payment information.

Our front desk manager will email you when the revisions have been completed and the edited manuscript will be attached to the email. Two copies of your revised document will be sent to you: one showing all of our changes using the ‘Track Changes’ function and one with all of our changes accepted. Please review your edited manuscript carefully, and inform us if you have any questions or concerns. If you change or add anything, please mark them clearly and inform us. Quality is our company’s core value. Before you submit your revised manuscript according to our corrections and comments, we can review your document again if necessary.

We will issue a free English editing certificate if we have copy edited your entire manuscript.