Scientific
and medical editing, writing, and formatting manuscripts, papers, and books
Editing styles and services
We offer a variety of services to help the hard-pressed scientist
in his or her labors: line editing, writing or rewriting, critique of papers,
and assistance with dealing with those "difficult" reviewer comments. We
can also assist you in writing science or papers or even textbooks if you're
having trouble.
Because of our backgrounds, we can deal with scientific material in most
areas, from geophysics to evolution, to biochemistry. About the only we
won't tackle is pure math.
Currently we write or line edit to Chicago, APA, or AMA style for scientific
and medical papers. We can also edit to specific journal styles. Some additional
points we can assist with:
•Overall
layout
•Readability--restructuring
overly complex sentences for clarity, taking care not to lose the essence
of what is being 
communicated
•Logical
presentation of content (restructuring by sections)
•Correct
format and placement of equations, figures, photos and illustrations.
•Appropriate
scientific terms and units
•Correct
citation format.
If you want to learn more about our general
editing services, (especially editing definitions) see our editing web page. If you'd like to see in general
how editing works, visit our Chicago Style Editing Demo Page. or our APA
Style Editing Demo Page. If your book or medical paper needs a major
formatting overhaul, you will incur an nominal charge for fixing it. Also,
it helps us enormously if you know which journal or publishing house you
propose to use, since we can edit to that journal's or publisher's house
standards. Editing in MS Word allows us to offer you tracking features so
you can see what's been edited, and insertion of comments (highlighted text)
to draw attention to items that we cannot fix, or to comment on repetitive
types of errors we might see in the text.
Critiquing of scientific papers
Our Style
and Critique service addresses those situations in which you suspect that
your work isn't all it could be, or a number of reviewers indicated your
paper or book is lacking in certain areas. (Having seen hundreds of these
comments over the years, we must admit we are baffled by them, too, from
time to time.) If it's within our capability we are more than happy to quote
you to fix all the problems within a given manuscript on this basis. Depending
on the size of the manuscript and how much rewriting, reorganization, and
rework it will take costs will typically vary from about $200 to $800.
Areas of scientific expertise
We have
expertise within the life sciences (including medical science), chemistry,
psychology, sociology, and some other earth sciences. Visit our research studies page for more details.
We also ghostwrite chapters of science books at various
levels, from popular to text. Please visit our ghostwriting page for more details. For this kind
of work we need to be throughly immersed in your field, and will require
at least a beginning set of research papers to start.
Please note we have the capability both to verify
literature sources for accuracy and conduct systematic searches for reviews
or relevant literature to cite in manuscripts.
We're more than happy to have a conversation with you and examine manuscripts to determine how we may be of assistance, how much the project is likely to cost, and how long it will take.
