Before layout is begun, it is essential that your text is finalised orthographically, stylistically, and in form and content, that is, it must be edited down to the last detail. Please read your text very thoroughly before submitting it and prepare it extremely carefully.
All figures and images must also be complete and of sufficient quality when the manuscript is submitted for typesetting, and the legal situation must be clarified.
To help you with the preparatory work, we have compiled some guidelines on these pages. Every project is different, however – so, if you have any questions, please write to us, or give us a call.
If you would like to use our professional proofreading service to add that final polish to your text, we would be happy to hear from you.
Publication approval
On receipt of the manuscript, did the editorial board of your series inform you of any amendments to be made? If so, please clarify whether you need to submit the final version of the manuscript again for (content) approval.
Likewise, in the case of dissertations, please obtain publication clearance from the doctoral supervisors in advance.
Next steps
As soon as we have received your final manuscript version, our editorial management team will first check whether there are any open points or issues that could cause problems later on in the layout, and will give you feedback.
Only after this control round do we transfer the text to our typesetting program and begin with the layout. From this point on, no more text changes are possible! The subsequent page proofs serve purely to correct errors caused by the layout process itself (e.g. incorrect hyphenation, unclean microtypography, errors in the running heads, incorrectly placed images).
Deadlines
Our entire production is geared towards flexible scheduling. Our service providers and suppliers are (almost) all based in Germany – with a few exceptions in our neighboring European countries. This enables close cooperation over short distances. So we do not have to impose deadlines, but instead adapt ourselves to your working pace.
However, if your book needs to be available by a certain date because of a deadline set by a sponsoring foundation, for example, or because of examination regulations, please contact us in good time. Also, if you are targeting certain lectures, conferences or anniversaries, please do not forget to include us in your plans.
