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Stanford University Press Manuscript Editing Services

Order Manuscript Editing Stanford University Press is particularly strong in law and in interdisciplinary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. Its editors acquire in sociology and law, history and Jewish studies, anthropology, Asian and Asian American studies, Middle East studies, global studies, and literature, media, and theory, among other areas. Dissertations must be revised first.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for Stanford University Press submissions in Chicago style, or APA for social science manuscripts, and applies Stanford's own guidelines when you send them. Our editors are experienced in social science and legal scholarship.

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Natural Intelligence for Stanford University Press

Natural Intelligence is our name for editorial judgment: an editor who reads your manuscript the way Stanford's acquisitions editors and peer reviewers will and verifies every change before it comes back to you. Theory and evidence are read together, chapter by chapter. Track Changes stays on throughout.

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We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Stanford University Press. 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 Stanford University Press

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.

Manuscript Copy Editing

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.

Manuscript Line Editing

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.

Manuscript Proofreading

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 Stanford University Press.

Social Science and Legal Scholarship

Stanford manuscripts in sociology, law, and the humanities often move between theoretical argument and empirical evidence, so they need an editor who can track the argument across both. Include any series guidelines you have. Stanford University Press describes what a prospectus should contain on its author page. 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.

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Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.

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