Senior academics and scientists who are not native speakers of English but who want or need to publish their academic or scientific research in the English language make up a large portion of our clientele. Our academic and scientific book editors can assist such authors in communicating as clearly and with as much precision and sophistication in English as they would were they writing in their native language. However, the academic or scientific editing services that we offer are also extremely useful for native speakers of English who would like a second pair of professionally trained eyes to ensure that the academic or scientific work that they submit for publication contains no errors or inconsistencies and is generally polished to perfection.

An enormous amount of time, effort and often money is invested in writing an academic or scientific book, and the demands of such a project are more complex and challenging than those associated with writing a short article or a single chapter. Certainly a coherent and engaging argument must be developed through numerous details and sustained over a large body of text, but effective and consistent formatting, accurate and thorough citations and references and informative language that is clear, correct and appropriately formal are also essential throughout a successful scholarly book. The fact that the chapters of a book are often written separately – in some cases at different times by the same author and in others by entirely different authors – makes meeting these requirements both difficult and complicated and necessitates extremely careful proofreading and editing. Each author must check and correct his or her own writing, of course, and editors of collections will need to oversee the work of others, but there is simply no substitute for the services of a professional proofreader who specialises in academic or scientific writing. For example, when you send your academic or scientific book manuscript to us, you can rest assured that a highly educated native speaker of English who is familiar with your discipline and subject area will proofread your work with the utmost attention to detail, correcting any errors in your grammar, spelling and punctuation and ensuring that you have observed all the relevant publisher guidelines for structure, formatting and referencing.