Copy-Editing

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Notes

1 Ruth Rendell, ‘Piranha to Scurfy’, in Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories (London: Arrow, 2001), pp. 1–73 (pp. 26–27); emphasis in original.

2 Ibid., p. 66.

3 Sylvia Hunter, ‘Why Copy Editors Matter’, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 36.1 (2004), 6–14 (pp. 8–9).

4 Editors’ Association of Canada, ‘Definitions of Editorial Skills’ <http://www.editors.ca/hire/definitions.html> [accessed 16 March 2014].

5 Ibid.

6 Society for Editors and Proofreaders, ‘Ensuring Editorial Excellence: The SfEP Code of Practice’, Section 5.1.3 <http://www.sfep.org.uk/pub/bestprac/cop5.asp> [accessed 16 March 2014].

7 Bay Area Editors’ Forum, ‘Editorial Services Guide’ <http://www.editorsforum.org/what_do_sub_pages/definitions_copyediting.php> [accessed 16 March 2014].

8 Fytton Rowland, ‘Copy-Editing – Essential or Frill?’, Learned Publishing, 22.1 (2009), 71–72 (p. 72).

9 Rowland, ‘Copy-Editing – Essential or Frill?’, p. 72. See also Sanford G. Thatcher on the potential cost to reliable scholarship of open-access publication of articles that have not had the benefit of copy-editing, ‘From the University Presses – The Value Added by Copyediting’, Against the Grain, 20.4 (2008), 69–70 (pp. 69–70) <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5163&context=atg> [accessed 17 March 2014].

10 Thatcher, ‘From the University Presses’, pp. 69–70 and Rowland, ‘Copy-editing – Essential or Frill?’, p. 71 describe copy-editing as a ‘value added’ by publishers of academic journals, as does Hunter, ‘Why Copy Editors Matter’, p. 7.

11 Thatcher, ‘From the University Presses’, pp. 69–70; Hunter, ‘Why Copy Editors Matter’, p. 11.

12 Rowland, ‘Copy-Editing – Essential or Frill?’, p. 71.