ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITING
Submission information
Upon receiving your project submission, we will perform some basic initial checks, including for plagiarism and ethics. We may need to send you a query during this stage.
We will then send you a PDF invoice with instructions for how to make your payment.
Once we have received your payment, work on your editing project can commence.
You will receive your completed project and editing certificate within the turnaround time selected by you at submission.
Turnaround times quoted for all services are based on normal working days of Monday to Friday. Weekends and UK national holidays are not included in the turnaround time. Please see the upcoming UK national holidays at www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
Please note that the turnaround time that you select is counted from the day in which we receive payment into our bank account, or the first business day after, if the payment is received on the weekend or a UK national holiday.
Please visit our FAQs section for some of the most commonly asked questions regarding our services.
For all other enquiries, please contact us at: languageediting@spandidos-publications.com
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Services
Our London-based editorial team provides the highest quality in scientific communication, with a fast turn-around time and an affordable range of services. Please see below the different services we can offer and click here for further information.
English Language Editing - Standard
A high-quality proofreading service provided by an editor fluent in English. We will correct erroneous word choice, sentence construction, punctuation, article usage, grammar, and consistency throughout your manuscript.
English Language Editing - Premium
Have your manuscript thoroughly edited by an experienced subject-area editor. The senior editor will pay close attention to the flow, structure and style, highlight scientific problem areas and make context-related suggestions.
Custom Manuscript Formatting
Avoid having your manuscript returned to you before review! We can help save you time by ensuring the layout, style and referencing system of your manuscript follow the requirements of your intended publisher.
Figure Preparation
High quality figures are essential for effective data communication. We can help by consolidating images, improving resolution, highlighting errors, and correcting the size, fonts, labelling and format of your figures to match specific publication requirements.
The content of this webpage is also available for download in Chinese.
Disclaimer: Please note the that editing of manuscript files by Spandidos Publications - English Language Editing service in no way implies that your article will be automatically selected for peer review or accepted by a journal of Spandidos Publications, or any other publisher. Journal editing is a completely independent process, and a journal editor’s decision will be based on the quality and suitability of the manuscript for their journal. The use of the Spandidos Publications English Language Editing service is an option that is intended to help authors present their results and interpretation clearly to journal editors, peer reviewers and readers effectively, using good English. Articles that are submitted to Spandidos Publications do not have to be prior submitted to the English Language Editing service in order to be considered for publication. It remains the author’s responsibility to ensure that the manuscript they submit to a journal contains no unattributed text and that they disclose the use of our English Language Editing service where appropriate.
