Science, Technology and Medicine

Stage 1: Preparing and submitting final and complete material for production

• Text
  • Introduction
  • Word limit
  • Spelling, punctuation and capitalisation
  • Numbers and dates
  • Notes and reference systems
  • Headings and subheadings
  • Numbering systems
  • Units
  • Notation
  • Quotations and permission to reproduce them
  • Layout and pagination
  • Sensitive language
  • Electronic files
• Illustrations
  • General
  • Illustration checklist
  • Photographs
  • Line illustrations
  • Tables
  • Electronic illustrations
  • Plate sections
  • Images for the jacket or cover
  • Permissions
  • Labelling figures
• Information relating to particular subject areas
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Mathematics and physics
  • Medicine
• Contributory Volumes
• Samples
• Checklist for submission
  • Checklist for Submission
  • Summary of artwork instructions

Stage 2: The production process, once material has been submitted

• Introduction
• The XML workflow
  • Technical evaluation and XML
    • What is XML?
  • Transmittal meeting
    • Deadlines
  • Copy editing
  • Indexing
  • Typesetting
  • Design
  • Page proofs
    • Contributory volumes
  • Proofreading
  • The cover and/or jacket
  • Final stages
  • Advance copies, publication and publicity
• LaTeX Workflows 1 and 2
  • Technical evaluation
  • Transmittal meeting
    • Deadlines
  • Copy editing
    • Contributory books
  • LaTeX Indexing
  • Typesetting
  • Design
  • Page proofs
    • Contributory volumes
  • Proofreading
  • The cover and/or jacket
  • Final stages
  • Advance copies, publication and publicity
• LaTeX Workflows 3 and 4
  • Technical evaluation
  • Transmittal meeting
    • Deadlines
  • Copy editing
  • LaTeX Indexing
  • Design
  • Proofreading
  • The cover and/or jacket
  • Final stages
  • Advance copies, publication and publicity
• The Direct Workflow
  • Technical evaluation
  • Transmittal meeting
  • Copy editing
  • Page proofs
  • The cover and/or jacket
  • Final stages
  • Advance copies, publication and publicity
• Conventional Workflow
  • Technical evaluation
  • Transmittal meeting
    • Deadlines
  • Copy editing
    • Contributory books
  • Typesetting
  • Design
  • Page proofs
    • Contributory volumes
  • Indexing
  • Proofreading
  • The cover and/or jacket
  • Final stages
  • Advance copies, publication and publicity
• Indexing Downloads
  • The content and organisation of your index
    Guide on Making an Index (PDF 32KB)
  • The XML indexing process
    XML Indexing Version 2 (PDF 43KB) | XML tsv Version 2 (PDF 236KB)
  • Indexing directly into a pdf of the XML typescript
  • The LaTeX indexing process
    LaTeX workflows 1/2 and LaTeX workflows 3/4

Other Options

• Submitting author-generated
  • [sub-sections to follow]
• Submitting LaTeX files
• Submitting material for a second edition
  • [sub-sections to follow]