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PSRL books are prepared
on a Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon. We use Microsoft Word® for the early stages of editing
and lay the pages out in Adobe InDesign®. Please submit
files in Microsoft Word, either for the Mac or for PC. We accept files
produced in most word processors and prepared on both Mac and PC platforms.
However, WordPerfect files should be saved as Word files. Below are some guidelines and hints for preparing your files. If you
have further questions, please contact the production editor, Susan
Clawson, PSRL, Stanley Coulter Hall, 640 Oval Drive, West Lafayette,
Indiana 47907-2039 USA, tel. (765) 494-3843, fax (765) 496-1700.
- Preparing Your Manuscript and Electronic Documents
Please follow the directions found here
when preparing your final manuscript. Keeping them in mind from
the beginning of your project will make the work easier at the
end. The best results will be obtained if the work can be submitted
in Microsoft Word® for either the Mac or the PC. A downloadable version is found here.
- Note that our series requirements differ somewhat from the Purdue University Press requirements.
- Be sure to number the pages straight through the manuscript. You may use roman numerals for the front matter if you like, but the main part of the manuscript should be numbered consecutively from beginning to end. Do not number the manuscript by chapter; that is, do not start over with page 1 on the first page of each chapter. Besides the difficulty of referring to pages in a manuscript containing more than one page with the same page number, there is the possibility that if the manuscript is somehow spilled onto the floor or the pages mixed up in some way, it will be very difficult to get the pages back in the right order. NOTE: Readers may react very negatively when they are sent a manuscript with unnumbered pages or pages numbered by chapter.
- Include a table of contents that supplies page numbers. This makes it easier for both the editors and the readers to handle the manuscript.
- Working with Languages Other Than English on Mac and PC
This PDF file (which
downloads) offers some pointers on working with special characters
in Microsoft WordŽ. Here
is a Word document with the same information (downloads).
- For advice on revising your dissertation to make it into a book,
we suggest the following publications:
1. Harman, Eleanor, Ian Montagnes, and Siobhan McMenemy, eds.,
The Thesis and the Book (1976; Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003).
Classic work on the subject.
2. Luey, Beth, ed., Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from
Leading Editors (Berkeley: U of California P, 2004).
3. Germano, William, From Dissertation to Book, Chicago
Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing (Chicago: U of Chicago
P, 2005).
- For general advice on publishing, we suggest: "Basic Advice for Novice Authors," by Allan H. Pasco, Journal of Scholarly Publishing 33.2 (Jan. 2002): 75-89.
Earlier version in same journal, Jan. 1992.
Sage advice from a scholar and editor who is a past PSRL editor
and still on the PSRL editorial board. Information on what to
look for in a publisher, how to choose among the options available,
what to expect during the evaluation process and once a manuscript
is accepted, and what an author should do to publicize a book.
Includes discussion of the difficulties facing scholarly publishers.
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For questions about the
content of these pages, contact the production editor at clawsons@purdue.edu
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