Manuscript Editing for Albany Law Review Journal Articles
The Albany Law Review is an independent, student-run journal at Albany Law School. It publishes critical and analytical pieces by judges, lawyers, law professors, scholars, and law students. Each volume's four issues carry Lead Articles, Justice Commentaries, New York Appeals, and State Constitutional Commentary. Justice Commentaries, formerly Miscarriages of Justice, joins legal scholarship with social science and policy perspectives.
Article-length manuscripts generally run 40 to 70 pages, and excessive length weighs against selection. Essays run 20 to 40 pages, and book reviews are considered on a limited basis. Citations in footnotes substantially conform to The Bluebook, 21st edition, and The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, governs where the Bluebook is silent. Manuscripts go in as editable, double-spaced Microsoft Word files in substantially finished form. Sources should be available through law libraries, Lexis, Westlaw, Hein, or interlibrary loan. A submissions editor screens each piece, and the Executive Editor for the relevant issue decides. Our law review editing applies both manuals and confirms that each source can be located. Submissions go through Scholastica.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Albany Law Review. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.
Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed. Your draft is secure until you decide to proceed.
Manuscript Editing and Proofreading for the Albany Law Review
We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.
Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.
Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.
Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to Albany Law Review.
The Review's author guidelines cover length, citation form, and the review process. If you have reviewer comments from an earlier submission, send them with your manuscript and we will address each one. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.
Our legal editing services include law review editing, line editing, Bluebook citation checking for form, and journal formatting. Academic proofreading covers the final read. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for the Connecticut Law Review and the Syracuse Law Review.
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Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.
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Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Albany Law Review submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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