Manuscript Editing for Communications of the ACM Journal Articles
Communications of the ACM is the flagship publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, a forum where the computing community shares its most important results. Its articles are written for a broad computing readership, giving context that readers outside the specialty can follow while keeping the technical detail. ACM publishes it fully open access.
Research and Advances articles run to 10 single-column, single-spaced pages with 40 or fewer references. Practice articles also run to 10 pages, about 6,000 words, and Opinion pieces run to five pages with ten or fewer references. References fall outside the page limits, listed alphabetically by author and cited in the text by number. Accepted articles are copyedited to The Chicago Manual of Style and CACM house style. Manuscripts use the acmsmall template in Word or LaTeX, and headlines run six or seven words at most. Unsolicited submissions include an abstract and a statement of why the material interests the computing field. Our editors fit the article to its page limit and write for the journal's broad readership. Submissions go through ScholarOne Manuscript Central.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Communications of the ACM. 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 Communications of the ACM
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 Communications of the ACM.
The CACM author guidelines cover sections, page limits, and references. 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 scientific editing services include computer science copy editing, line editing, LaTeX and Overleaf editing, and IEEE and ACM citation formatting. Academic proofreading covers the final read. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.
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Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Communications of the ACM submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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