Style Guide Formatting ($1,000/hour)*

This service includes checking:
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Ensuring citations, page numbers, table of contents, headers and overall spacing are consistent with the style guide employed, including APA style guide, MLA style guide, or Chicago manual of style. 


Proofreading ($2,000)                                                                                                           
This service includes checking:

• Typographical errors (including direction of curly quotation marks and apostrophes)
• Misspelled words (including incorrect word usage)
• Grammatical problems (including verb tenses and syntax)
• Punctuation mistakes (including proper abbreviations and capitalization)
• Inconsistent format (in font size/style for text/chapter headings/subheadings, lists, tables, page numbers, margins, spacing, indentations/paragraphs, quotes, references, citations, footnotes/ endnotes etc.)
• Letter or sentence spacing errors
• Inappropriate end-of-line word breaks
• Specialized terms, character names, location references, etc.
• Numerical and alphabetical sequence
• Vertical and horizontal alignment of set-off text (including paragraph indents)
• References to illustrations, tables, and figures within the text

 

 Copyediting ($3,000 - $5,000/hour)                                                                                         
Level 1. Basic Copyedit ($3,000)

A basic copyedit includes:

• Making sure material is logical and understandable
• Correcting continuity problems
•  Making sure sources are cited for all statistics and quotations
• Flagging inaccuracies (including incorrect spelling of song or book titles, proper names, dates, or well-known facts—extensive fact-checking not supplied)

Level 2.  Moderate Copyedit ($4,000)

In addition to all services listed under the Basic Edit, these areas are also checked:

• Redundancies
• Sentence clarity
• Word choice
• Maintenance of tone/voice

  With the Level 2 copyedit, the editor may make minor changes and suggestions for rewriting, but extensive corrections are done by author.

Level 3. In-depth Copyedit ($5,000)

In addition to everything in the above levels, an in-depth copyedit also includes:

• a review for consistency of style and mood or presentation of content
• analysis of the point of view chosen for each scene (fiction)
• cross-checking references, figures, tables, equations, etc. (nonfiction)
• pointing out items that may require permission from the copyright holder

An in-depth copyedit may involve preparing a style sheet. For nonfiction, this would include the format for chapter titles, headings, subheadings, text, footnotes, etc. For fiction, a timeline and list of characters (with details such as hair and eye color, birthday, height/build, and any other details mentioned in the text). The editor makes corrections and detailed recommendations to the author, occasionally reworking awkward or unclear sentences/paragraphs without altering the author’s intended meaning or style. 

*All prices are for documents that are up to 200 pages. Additional pages are charged at the hourly rate of $150 per hour.