Project management

Our project management for journals can include:

  • using web-based submissions systems, such as Editorial Manager
  • managing peer review
  • handling author queries about your Word template, LaTeX class file or other formats
  • handling author queries about your style guide
  • checking files into production
  • checking copyright-transfer material
  • liaising with authors, editors and printers
  • copy-editing and typesetting
  • collating author and editor corrections
  • issuing make-up and checking final output including XML
  • creating cover proofs
  • ordering offprints
  • backing-up and archiving securely off-site as well as on-site


Our project management for books and conference proceedings can include:

  • checking files into production
  • checking budgets
  • setting schedules
  • liaising with authors, editors and printers
  • copy-editing, typesetting, proofreading and indexing
  • collating author and editor corrections
  • checking final PDF files and output including XML, ePub and Kindle
  • backing-up and archiving securely off-site as well as on-site

Whether you’d like us to be responsible for the entire process – in the case of journals, acting as your team’s journal manager – or just a part of it, we’d be happy to help. Publishers for whom we currently provide the full service include Cambridge University Press and Manchester University Press.