Manuscript Editing for Sexual Abuse Journal Articles
Sexual Abuse publishes peer-reviewed original research and scholarly reviews on the causes, prevention, assessment, treatment, management, and consequences of sexual abuse perpetration. It addresses clinical, theoretical, and policy questions for mental health, criminal justice, advocacy, and academic readers. It is the journal of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse, and it was formerly titled Annals of Sex Research. Sage publishes it.
The journal takes quantitative and qualitative studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, narrative reviews, and theoretical papers. Typical empirical manuscripts run about 35 to 40 double-spaced pages, including the title page, references, tables, and figures. The abstract runs 150 to 200 words, with four or five keywords. References follow the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, with DOIs where available. Person-first language is required, such as persons with sexual offense histories. Four author statements cover data integrity, funding, financial interests, and ethics approval. Review is masked, so the title page and main document go in as separate files. Submissions go through Sage Track.
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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Sexual Abuse. 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 Sexual Abuse
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 Sexual Abuse.
Sage's manuscript submission guidelines cover article types, author statements, and language. 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 the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse and the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
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