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Manuscript Prep Checklist

Please review the following checklist as you prepare your final manuscript and get it ready for design and production. Check each item against your manuscript file to be sure you have tended to each. When done, please attach your final manuscript file below and submit to your team. Email or call if you have any questions.

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Have you worked with a copyeditor?
Has a proofreader completed a thorough review of your manuscript?
Is your manuscript in a Microsoft Word Document (saved as a .docx file)?
If you’ve converted your file from a different word processing tool, have you double checked the results of the conversion for accuracy?
3. Is your manuscript provided with all sections and chapters in a single master manuscript file?
4. Have you used spell check on your Word Document?
5. Have you accepted / rejected any remaining track changes or comments in your Word Document?
8. Have you removed all double spaces after periods and replaced them with a single space?
9. Have you removed all instances of spaces on either side of an em dash?
10. Have you ensured that all em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens are consistent and not used interchangeably?
11. Have you removed all instances of double, triple, or excessive spaces in succession?
12. Have you removed all of instances of soft returns?
13. Have you removed all excess hard returns?
14. Have you removed all instances of tabs and replaced them with paragraph indents?
15. Have you removed any instances of excess returns between paragraphs?
16. Have you removed all excess hard returns between sections and replaced them with page breaks?
17. Have you replaced all ellipses with the ellipsis symbol?
18. Have you appropriately labeled your different header levels?
19. Have you properly indicated where images will be placed in your manuscript?
20. Have you checked to ensure that your images are all high resolution (2000 pixels on their shortest side)?
21. Have you removed all images from your Word Document and provided them in a supplementary folder?
22. Have you removed all instances of floating textboxes from your Word Document?
23. Have you removed all instances of text effects from your Word Document?
24. Have you confirmed that all bulleted and numbered lists are formatted as such using Word’s list tools?

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