MIT Press Manuscript Editing Services

The MIT Press publishes books and journals where science, technology, art, social science, and design meet. Its books often cross fields, so a manuscript has to make sense to a reader outside the author's own specialty. Jargon gets in the way.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for MIT Press submissions in Chicago style, which the press strongly recommends to its authors. We mark technical language that a reader from an adjacent field would need explained. Trade books at the press avoid author-date citations. We check which system your book uses before we start.

MIT Press manuscripts often serve readers from several fields at once. Our editors mark passages where disciplinary terms need a brief gloss, where the move between technical and discursive sections needs a better transition, and where a reader from outside your subfield needs the structure of the argument made plain. Send any series guidelines, and we will apply them. The MIT Press page for prospective authors explains how to approach its editors. 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.

For more, see our pages on manuscript editing for all academic presses, book and manuscript editing services, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.