ECO Research
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Ecology;
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another
and to their physical surroundings.
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Economy;
the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of
goods and services and the supply of money.
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ISBN Numbers; An ISBN is an International Standard Book
Number. If you wish to sell your publication through major bookselling
chains, or Internet booksellers, they will require you to have an ISBN to
assist their internal processing and ordering systems. The ISBN also provides
access to Bibliographic Databases such as BookFind Online, which are organised
using ISBNs as references. These databases are used by booksellers and
libraries to provide information for customers. The ISBN therefore
provides access to additional marketing tools, which could help sales of your
product. ISBNs can be order from the UK ISBN Agency, which is the national
agency for the UK and Republic of Ireland.
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Points To Consider While Writing Your Book
House Style Guidelines-
A
generic version is available for reference on this site, but please consult
your Commissioning Editor for guidelines specific to the list or imprint for
which you are writing. We recommend that our house style is implemented
from the outset, since the task of re-editing your manuscript to comply at the
last stage can be very laborious.
Delivery Date and Length
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The agreed delivery date of your manuscript is stated in the contract. We need
to know of any delays you encounter as soon as possible so that we can agree a
new date. We schedule books for publication up to fifteen months in advance and
it is imperative that we work from correct schedules to organize the production
and promotion of your book. The contract also states a maximum length for your
manuscript. If, while writing your book it becomes clear that the agreed length
is unworkable, please let us know as soon as possible. We can generally
accommodate minor changes in length (i.e. within 10%) but more significant
changes will require serious consideration as they are likely to have an impact
on the selling price and, in turn, on the sales potential of the book.
Permissions-
Permission
from the copyright owner must be obtained for any third-party materials cited
that fall outside the remit of ‘fair dealing’ or (in the US) ‘fair use’
conventions. For information on the interpretation of fair dealing in UK law,
please consult the Society of
Authors website.
You should note that there is no fair dealing
exemption for epigraphs, which always require permission, as do quotations of
any length from poems, letters, lyrics and recipes. Artwork and images,
including photographs, maps and line drawings also require written permission.
Photocopies or scans of permissions granted must be submitted with your
manuscript on delivery.
Artwork and Images
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The use of images and the number permitted will have been agreed with your
Commissioning Editor and stated in the contract. Any changes to these
specifications must be approved by your Commissioning Editor in advance of
submission of the final manuscript.
Cover Design and Book Titles-
The sales cycle for your book may begin before you
have completed the manuscript. Our designers will start working on the cover
design approximately 15 months before the scheduled publication date. If you
have ideas, or specific images in mind please discuss these with your
commissioning editor well in advance. You should note that a high proportion of
images found on internet searches are unlicensed. We require
high-resolution images, licensed for commercial use (as opposed to editorial
use), with model releases where appropriate. We would thus prefer that images
suggested to us are sourced through reputable agencies such as Corbis, Getty
Images or Shutterstock.
If you are considering a title change for your
book, please discuss this with your commissioning editor as early as possible.
Once your book has been advertised in a catalogue it will also have entered all
the major bibliographic services internationally, with advance sales being
generated. At this point it is unadvisable to consider changing the title.
Delivering Your Manuscript
- Please ensure that the final manuscript has
been proof-read and is as free from error or omission as you can make it.
Corrections made at proofs stage are very expensive and costs will be passed on
to the author. If English is not your native language, you should consider
having the book read by a colleague or professional editor who is a native
speaker before submission. If you are the editor of a contributed volume,
it is your responsibility to check through the entire manuscript, paying
particular attention to any chapters by non-native speakers. We ask you to
ensure that the chapters are consistent in style throughout the book,
especially in terms of their notes and references.
A checklist for submission
is available on our website or through your Commissioning Editor. Please ensure
that you include every element to be incorporated in the book, including (but
not limited to):
• Title page
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• List of illustrations
• Glossary
• Foreword or preface
• Notes
• Bibliography
The manuscript should be delivered electronically as
an email attachment or on a memory stick or CD. Please ensure that each chapter
is saved as a separate document. Artwork should be supplied electronically as
high resolution scans (minimum 300 dpi). Scans or photocopies of all
permissions documents must be supplied at this stage. On receipt of the
manuscript, the Commissioning Editor will check the word count and the number
of illustrations to ensure that the book is in line with its contracted length
and you will be informed of the next stages. Many books are sent for external
peer review at this stage and this process takes approximately 6 -10 weeks.
Books appearing in series will be sent to the series editor/s for review.
Readers’ reports, series editors’ reports and any queries or suggestions from
the Commissioning Editor will be sent to you for a response. Any
revisions should be negotiated with your Commissioning Editor and a final
submission date agreed.
Please inform your Commissioning Editor if you will
be unavailable at any point during the production process. Any absence we have
not been alerted to will have an impact as we work to very tight schedules. We
also need to know if you do not plan to supply your own index for the book at
proof stage, so that we can commission a freelance indexer.
Following receipt
and approval of the final manuscript, your Commissioning Editor will arrange
handover to the Production Editor.
The Production Process-
You will receive a
letter of introduction from the Production Editor at Bloomsbury Academic,
confirming receipt of the manuscript and outlining the route your book will
take to make it ready for print and digital distribution.
The next stages
are:
• Copy-editing
• Typesetting
• Proof-reading
• Revision
• Indexing
• Digital Bundle creation (including, among
others, a press-ready file and an ePub file)
Most of our books are taken
through this process by specialist, out-of-house Project Managers. Your Project
Manager will be in regular contact, sending you information on the production
process, what is required of you, and a detailed schedule.
As a rough guide a
standard schedule from handover to our production department to publication,
for a non-complex, project-managed book is as follows:
• Copy-editing (4 weeks, with author queries
arising in the 3rd week)
• Typesetting (2 weeks)
• Proof-reading and collation (3 weeks)
• Revision (1 week)
• Revises check and indexing (1 week)
• Final correction (1 week)
• Digital bundle creation (1 week)
• Printing (5 weeks)
• Delivery of bound copies to warehouse and
distribution (4 weeks)
Copy-Editing-
An
experienced, professional copy-editor will be assigned to your book. The level
of editing we request varies according to the needs of the project. It is usual
for the copy editor to:
• Correct grammar, spelling and
syntax
• Check references and bibliographies for
omissions and inconsistencies of style
• Bring any suspected errors, omissions or duplications
to your attention. It is not usual for the copy editor to make stylistic
interventions other than to implement our house style, or undertake any
rewriting.
Queries will be sent to you by the copy editor and it is your
responsibility to supply answers by the requested deadline. All changes are then
incorporated into the electronic text. Please note that you will not see the
copy-edited manuscript.
Proof-reading
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The edited files are tagged to create the XML from which the digital versions
of your book will be produced, and the print version of your book is set in
Indesign. You will be sent page proofs, in electronic PDF format. Please check
these carefully since this is the last chance to make any amendments before the
book goes to press. Only essential corrections (e.g. typographic errors)
will be made at this stage. Once corrections have been made your Project
Manager will supply revised proofs in electronic format for you to check, and
to allow you to finalise the index if you are preparing it yourself.
Indexing-
If
you are preparing your own index, your Project Manager will supply you with
detailed guidelines. A list of headwords and subheadings may be drawn up at
first proof stage but we recommend that page numbers are not added until
revised proof stage, when the pagination of the book is secure. If you have
opted for the services of a professional indexer, they will be asked to compile
the index at first proof stage, and you will be sent the index to check at
revised proof stage.
Printing-
Once
revised proofs have been approved, the Project Manager supplies digital and
print-ready files to us, no later than six weeks before bound copy date. Final
artwork for the cover is submitted from the Design Manager. The Production
Editor checks all files and sends them to the printer.
Publication-
Advance
copies of the book are checked by the Production Editor. On approval, stock is
delivered into our warehouse, the gratis copied agreed in the contract are sent
to the author and arrangements are made to ship the book to our distributors
around the world. As a guide, the UK publication date is approximately four
weeks after receipt of bound copies by the publisher, and the US and Australian
publication dates are eight weeks later – though this may vary according to
where the book has been printed and what the key market requirements are.
Marketing your book
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We will promote your book to the book trade and the academic market, including
it in relevant catalogues, listing it on our website and exhibiting it at
relevant academic conferences. In advance of submitting the manuscript you will
be asked to complete a marketing questionnaire, which forms the basis of the
marketing plan for the book and assists us with drawing up a review list.
Please do alert us if you plan to attend a conference or other event at which
you may be able to promote your book, as we may be able to supply flyers or
other promotional materials. We would also be grateful for information on
prizes for which your book may be eligible.
Rights
- Bloomsbury has an active rights
department, who will try to negotiate rights deals for your book wherever
possible. We attend all the major book fairs, including Frankfurt and London,
which are the major marketplaces for rights sales.
