Manuscript Editing for Journal of the American Planning Association Articles
Since 1935, the Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and reviews useful to planners, policymakers, scholars, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural places. Taylor & Francis publishes it quarterly for the American Planning Association. Its editor is in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC Chapel Hill.
The journal publishes only in English, with standard articles, review essays, planning viewpoints, reviews, and commentaries. Standard articles run no more than 6,000 words, excluding the abstract, endnotes, references, tables, graphics, and appendices. Their structured abstract of up to 300 words has two parts: Problem, Research Strategy, and Findings, and Takeaway for Practice. The managing editor checks length and abstract structure before review, which is double-blind with at least three reviews. Authors may email the editor an abstract to ask about fit. Off the Grid Editing writes the structured abstract to the journal's sections and keeps the article within its limit. Submissions go through the Taylor & Francis system.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Journal of the American Planning Association. 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 the Journal of the American Planning Association
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 Planning Association.
The journal's instructions for authors cover article types, length, and abstracts. 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 planning research, and academic proofreading is the final pass. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. For books, see Taylor & Francis and Routledge manuscript editing. We also prepare articles for the Journal of Planning Education and Research and Planning Practice & Research.
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Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.
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Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Journal of the American Planning Association submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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