Manuscript Editing for Journal of the American Musicological Society Articles
The Journal of the American Musicological Society is the journal of the American Musicological Society. Published since 1948, it now appears three times a year from University of California Press. It covers music studies broadly, from historical musicology, analysis, and ethnomusicology to popular music, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. Each issue carries articles, reviews, and scholarly colloquies.
Initial submissions run 8,000 to 15,000 words, main text plus footnotes, and accepted articles stay within 16,000 including the bibliography. Notes are footnotes with shortened citations under the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, chapter 14, and the complete works-cited list goes in a separate Word file. The abstract follows RILM guidelines in a single paragraph of up to 250 words. Music examples go in as separate files, with their placement marked in the text. Review is double-blind, with one opportunity to revise. Off the Grid Editing keeps the shortened notes and the works-cited file in step. Submissions go through Scholastica.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Journal of the American Musicological Society. 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 JAMS
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 the American Musicological Society.
The society's journal page links the full author guidelines. 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.
See journal article and essay editing for how we work on scholarly articles, and academic proofreading for the final check. For books, see University of California Press manuscript editing, and we prepare articles for more than 200 journals.
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