Manuscript Editing for Crime, Law and Social Change Journal Articles
Crime, Law and Social Change publishes peer-reviewed original research on crime and the political economy of crime at global, national, regional, and local levels. Its main focus is financial crime, corruption, terrorism, and organizational crime. Cybercrime, environmental crime, state crime, human rights, and comparative criminal justice also fall within its scope. Springer Nature publishes it, and its editor-in-chief is at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Original research and review articles run 10,000 words at most. The abstract runs 150 to 250 words without undefined abbreviations, followed by four to six keywords. References follow a lean version of APA, cited by name and year, with journal names written in full and DOIs as full links. Notes go in footnotes, and each footnote carries more than a citation. Headings stop at three levels. A separate title page carries the declarations, including funding, competing interests, ethics, and data availability. Any use of a language model is documented in the Methods section. Submissions go through Editorial Manager.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Crime, Law and Social Change. 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 Crime, Law and Social Change
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 Crime, Law and Social Change.
Springer's submission guidelines cover abstracts, footnotes, and the declarations. 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 cover criminology and criminal justice research, where social science references and legal citations meet in the same paper. Academic proofreading covers the final read. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for Criminal Justice Studies and the Journal of Drug Issues.
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