Manuscript Editing for Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Articles
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy is “dedicated to publishing quality articles and reviews of books in Chinese philosophy,” especially work that brings Chinese philosophy into dialogue with other traditions. Springer publishes it, and it is housed in the School of Philosophy at Fudan University, where its founding editor, Huang Yong, is based. It is affiliated with the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, and its reviews cover books published in Chinese.
Citations are author-date with the page after a colon, as in (Thompson 1990: 235), and the reference list gives authors' full first names. Notes are footnotes and never consist of a citation alone. Chinese appears in Hanyu pinyin with traditional characters, and a philosophical term takes an English translation first, followed by its romanization and characters. The abstract runs 150 to 250 words, with four to six keywords. Review is double-blind. Off the Grid Editing checks every term against that order. You email the manuscript to the editor.
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Manuscript Editing and Proofreading for Dao
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 Dao.
Springer's submission guidelines cover citations, romanization, and characters. 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 journal article and essay editing page explains how we edit philosophical articles, and academic proofreading is the final pass. For books, see Springer Nature manuscript editing. We also prepare articles for Asian Philosophy.
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