Manuscript Editing for Journal of Dharma Studies Articles
The Journal of Dharma Studies began publishing in 2018. It encourages critical-constructive reflection on Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions, drawing on their conceptual, textual, and experiential resources with theoretical and empirical methods. The journal places these traditions in the contemporary global era and welcomes work in environmental ethics, contemplative studies, consciousness studies, and diaspora studies. Springer Nature publishes it in partnership with the Center for Dharma Studies. Its editor-in-chief is at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Research papers run 7,500 to 10,000 words, counting references, footnotes, tables, and figures; book reviews run about 1,000 words. Citations are author-date in parentheses, with an alphabetized reference list and DOIs as full links. Notes are footnotes, and each one adds more than a citation. Sanskrit takes IAST with diacritics, Tibetan takes Wylie, and Chinese takes traditional characters or Pinyin. Quotations appear in English in the main text, with the IAST source text in a footnote. The abstract runs 150 to 250 words, with four to six keywords. Review is double-blind, and a Statements and Declarations section is required. Off the Grid Editing checks every IAST diacritic and footnote. Submissions go through Springer's online submission system.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Journal of Dharma Studies. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.
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Manuscript Editing and Proofreading for the Journal of Dharma Studies
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 Journal of Dharma Studies.
Springer's submission guidelines set out transliteration, citations, and required statements. 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 scholarship on Indian religions, and academic proofreading is the final pass. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for Contemporary Buddhism and the International Journal of Hindu Studies.
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