Copy-Editing

What is most important is giving the publication a uniform look.

Title case

Three main Variants of the Title Case for US Publishers

• Capitalize all words except for internal closed-class words (a word class to which no new items can normally be added), or internal articles, prepositions and conjunctions.
• Some capitalize only nouns and names
• Others capitalize all words.
   

Maintain fonts and styles

MS Word Style problems

Make your editions in the original document.
Or shutoff  automatic formatting

Publication Formats

HTML, XHTML

·       HTML is an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

·       XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language, is an application of  Extensible Markup Language (XML)

·       File extensions:.html, .htm .xhtml, .xht

PDF

Examples

1. Web-born, open access

Directory of Open Access Journals: Sociology

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=131

A) The Electronic Journal of Sociology

http://www.sociology.org/

B) The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/

C) International Journal of Motorcycle Studies

http://ijms.nova.edu/

• Article Ed Youngblood http://ijms.nova.edu/July2007/IJMS_Artcl.Youngblood.html

2. WWW representation of a print journal

Social Psychology Quarterly http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/spq?

Access

Free content

Pay for article

Access by individual subscription

·       Many standards, for SPQ: ingenta

·       http://titania.ingentaconnect.com/vl=1634120/cl=19/nw=1/rpsv/realpage/contents.htm

Access by institutional subscription

·       Typically a library of your university or professional organization.

Tricks of the Editor’s Trade

You want to check

·       If an author implemented the changes you suggested.

·       The extend she worked on her manuscript.

Use the compare document function to quickly check the editions.

Example of our copy-editing

copyediting

copy editing (US)

copy-editing (British)

FILE   OPEN  Document to be checked.doc

TOOLS   COMPARE AND MERGE DOCUMENTS

Original Document.doc

CHECKMARK   “Legal blackmark”

Do not CHECKMARK  “Find formatting”

Underlined: what is inserted

Remarks: what is deleted

These formatting options can be changed to different colors etc.

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