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How to pack up your manuscript

When you decide to send your work to us for one of the Services, this is what you need to do:

Please send files to us in RTF (Rich Text Format) or Word, as we may otherwise have difficulty in opening them.
Make sure you are sending the most up-to-date versions of your files.
If you have prepared your book with separate files for each chapter, you now need to gather them into one big file. Open a new file and import each chapter in turn.
Check that the chapter titles you have used in the text match those in your list of chapters.
If you are sending your work for copy editing or will be including any pictures, check the instructions on the right.
You can now send the files. It makes a lot of sense to zip the them first, as this makes them quicker and easier to send and you have a compact archive.

Two other things to check:

If you are sending your manuscript for copy editing, it's a good idea to send any:

	dedication
	list of contents
	picture list
	preface
	biography
	acknowledgements
	other material to go in the prelim pages,

so that the copy editor can make sure that these are all in order.

If you are sending any diagrams, pictures or illustrations, you need to give these a logical, sequential file-name such as figure 1, 2, 3 etc. Mark the place where the illustration should go in the text by inserting the file-name and the caption, and leaving a lot of space to make it easy for editors to work out where they should go.

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