Manuscript Editing for American Journal of Legal History Articles
Founded in 1957 as the first English-language periodical in its field, the American Journal of Legal History publishes scholarship on all facets and periods of legal history. Oxford University Press relaunched it in 2016 and publishes it quarterly as a peer-reviewed journal.
Articles run 8,000 to 15,000 words, inclusive of footnotes or endnotes, and longer manuscripts are returned for reduction. The journal also publishes book reviews and invited review essays, and it welcomes special issue proposals. The suggested abstract runs 250 words at most, without citations or abbreviations. Any readable reference style works at submission, and references must be in OSCOLA before final acceptance. The editor screens each paper, and most go to two anonymous reviewers. Manuscripts are anonymized and carry a statement that the work is exclusive to the journal. Every image needs alt text under its caption. Our editors convert the notes to OSCOLA. Submissions go through ScholarOne.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to American Journal of Legal History. 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 American Journal of Legal History
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 American Journal of Legal History.
OUP's instructions to authors cover length, OSCOLA, and anonymization. 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 Law and History Review and the Journal of Legal Education.
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