A large portion of academics will at some point in their career send submissions of their work to academic journals, and for those on the tenure track, being successful at publishing may be the most ...

CFRS provides editing services & resources for researchers working on manuscripts and grants at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. If you would like CFRS editing services for manuscripts or ...

In an era where everyone with a laptop thinks they’re destined for literary stardom, the art of self-editing remains the secret weapon separating the amateurs from the pros. Think of it as the ...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that an author’s (often unstated) expectations usually go unmet. No matter how many columns I write extolling the hard work that editors do — or how many ...

Manuscripts should be submitted via the online submission system. The corresponding author should indicate whether the work described in the manuscript has been discussed with a specific Nature ...

As Sebastian Eggert prepared to submit a conference article, he realized he had a problem: neither he nor his research adviser were native English speakers, and neither had much experience in writing ...

More and more often, the editing stage of a book or journal article headed for publication is entirely paperless. Copy editors work on screen with the use of the tracked-changes feature of their word ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Meet a UChicagoan,’ a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. Read about the others here. After decades of ...

Editors are the unseen warriors of the writing world. Their work — advising, shaping and cutting a piece of writing to make it more readable — is done in private. Their names are rarely widely known.