Rowman & Littlefield Manuscript Editing Services
Rowman & Littlefield, now part of Bloomsbury, publishes academic books across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Bloomsbury bought the Rowman & Littlefield academic business in 2024, bringing the Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints and more than 40,000 academic titles into its list. Each discipline brings its own conventions.
Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for Rowman & Littlefield in Chicago style and applies the press's own guidelines when you send them. Our editors check argument, citations, and prose against the conventions of your field, so a history monograph and a political science study each read the way their reviewers expect. The editing follows the discipline.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Rowman & Littlefield. 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 Services for Rowman & Littlefield
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 Rowman & Littlefield.
If your acquisitions editor has sent author instructions or a series style sheet, include them with your manuscript and we will apply them throughout. Our editors keep citations consistent across chapters and mark passages where the argument loses its thread. 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 other presses, see our page on manuscript editing for academic presses. We also offer book and manuscript editing, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.
Manuscript Instant Invoice
Ready to prepare your manuscript for Rowman & Littlefield? Use our secure portal to generate an immediate, word-count-based quote and secure your delivery deadline.
Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.
Direct Support
Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Rowman & Littlefield submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
608-535-6324
editors@offthegridediting.com