Step 10: Publication

I will upload your manuscript to our publisher, Taylor and Francis, along with any images or tables that you have requested. You will then receive a copyright declaration form, which you can return via email.

Taylor and Francis send the manuscript on to a copyeditor, who checks that it is presented in house style. We are fortunate to have very attentive and careful editors working with us, and tey almost always compile a set of short questions for each author, regarding minor problems such as information missing from footnotes and abbreviations that are not expanded.

After this period, the copyeditor's questions are sent out to you along with an electronic proof copy of the article. This gives you a chance to see your work laid out on the page, and gives you once last opportunity to check the paper before it goes to press. It is particularly important that you take the time to answer all the copyeditor's queries, and it is vital that you ensure that all of your tables, figures, and images are present and correctly located. However, you will only be able to request small changes and tweaks to the article's language at this stage. You are normally given 14 days to correct proofs.