Typesetting & composition
Print and digital pages composed to your style sheet, in InDesign, LaTeX or 3B2.
Read moreThe read that catches what four previous reads missed.
Light, medium or heavy copyediting, language polishing for authors writing in a second language, reference checking against the literature, and cold-read proofing at proof stage.
The work
Copyediting & proofreading
at Vivlio.
Chicago 17APA 7AMA 11VancouverHarvardMLA 9OSCOLATracked changesBatched queries
Editing is the one part of production that cannot be automated into quality. A checker will find a doubled word; it will not notice that Table 4 is cited before Table 3, that the third author's affiliation changed between submissions, or that a sentence says the opposite of what the data shows.
Our editors work to your level of intervention and your style manual, and they raise queries the way a production editor wants to receive them — batched, numbered, in context and answerable in one pass.
What you get
Six things included
in every job.
Three levels of edit
Light for a clean manuscript, medium for structure and consistency, heavy for a manuscript that needs the sentences rebuilt. You choose; we quote against a sample.
Your style manual or ours
Chicago, APA 7, AMA 11, Vancouver, Harvard, MLA, OSCOLA and IEEE, or your own house style sheet applied exactly as written.
References checked, not skimmed
Citations reconciled against the reference list, references checked against the source, DOIs matched and added, and missing details traced.
Language editing for global authors
Grammar, register and idiom corrected for authors writing in English as a second language, without flattening the author's voice.
Queries you can clear in one sitting
Author queries batched, numbered, written in plain language and placed against the text they refer to.
Proofreading at proof stage
A cold read against the composed proof, checking running heads, folios, figure and table numbering, cross-references, and everything typesetting can quietly break.
Specification
The detail your
production team
will want to see.
Need something not listed? Ask. Most of what is missing here we have done for someone already.
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Levels
Proofreading only, light copyedit, medium copyedit, substantive or heavy edit, developmental review
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Style manuals
Chicago 17, APA 7, AMA 11, Vancouver, Harvard, MLA 9, OSCOLA, IEEE, publisher house styles
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Subject areas
Medicine and life sciences, engineering, computing, social sciences, humanities, law, education, business
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Reference work
Citation reconciliation, reference verification, DOI matching, link checking, retraction screening
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Delivery
Tracked-changes Word, clean copy, query list as Word or spreadsheet, editorial report per title
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Working tools
Microsoft Word with tracked changes, PerfectIt, publisher QA macros, editorial checklists per house style
