When you decide to send your work to us for one of the
Services, this is what you need to do:
- Please send files to us in RTF (Rich Text Format) or Word, as we may
otherwise have difficulty in opening them.
- If you have prepared your book with separate files for each chapter,
you now need to gather them into one big file. Open a new file and
import each chapter in turn.
- Having gathered all the files into one large file, include the
introduction and other preliminary
information.
- Make sure you are sending the most up-to-date versions of your file!
- Remove all the formatting such as page numbers. You can tell the
designer what you want in the design brief.
- Check that the chapter titles you have used in the text match
those in your list of chapters.
- If you are sending your work for copy editing or will be including
any pictures, check the instructions on the right.
- You can now send the files. It makes a lot of sense to zip the
them first,
as this makes them quicker and easier to send and you have a compact
archive.
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Two other things to check:
 | | If you are sending your manuscript for copy editing, it's a good
idea to send any
 | | dedication, |
| | list of contents, |
| | picture list, |
| | preface, |
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biography, |
| | acknowledgements or |
| | other material to go in the prelim
pages, |
so that the copy editor can make sure that these are all in
order. |
| | If you are sending any diagrams, pictures or illustrations, you need to give
these a logical, sequential file-name such as figure 1, 2, 3 etc. Mark
the place where the illustration should go in the text by inserting the file-name and
the caption and leaving a lot of space to make it easy for editors to
find where they go. |
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