How to copyedit scientific books & journals (The Professional editing and publishing series)

This book is an invaluable tool for every editor, copyeditor, and proofreader who works in the demanding field of scientific publishing. This is the first comprehensive guide for copyeditors in the sciences. It will help you work with editors who are scientists with little professional editorial training and will show you how to edit material that is very difficult for a nonspecialist to understand. It will also help you solve the special problems of copyediting journals and other periodicals, the prevalent form of literature in the sciences. Look inside for techniques and guidelines on: 1. editing for grammar, spelling, and punctuation, 2. making authors' additions legible to the typesetter, 3. putting bibliographic references into proper format, 4. checking simple arithmetic and querying complex statistics, 5. bringing manuscripts in line with 'house style,' 6. and examining illustrations for accuracy and reproducibility. Taken from the back cover.