Professional Editing for Bibliographic Information
You’ve just spent a year, three years, or maybe more than six crafting your ideas for publication. Presenting your research at its best is self-evident but not everyone has the time, the delight in tiny details, or the executive functioning to make that happen.
Let me take the pain out of your referencing and give you back that time to spend on your final draft—because your ideas aren’t the only thing under review.
See what I work with… and how much time I can save you!
You’ve done all the creative work and the research, and now you’re stuck on the last 10% of getting this article/chapter polished and ready for publication.
I fill in any missing bibliographic information checking for consistency between the citations and reference list, and make sure that the formatting is up to the publishing specs.
You supply:
The entire document formatted as a .docx or .doc file
A link to any style guide documentation for the journal
Specify the referencing style required and/or edition required by the journal/editor
Please note: there is a 3 day turnaround on this service.
Do you wish that the indexing would just do itself? It’s the MOST TEDIOUS part of preparing to publish. I’m your fairy godmother!
For 1 index - select buy one. For 2 indexes (eg. author & subject) - select buy two etc.
You supply:
The entire manuscript
A link to any style guide documentation
A preliminary list of key terms for a subject index
Please note: there is a 2-day turnaround on this service.
Your publisher is sending you emails about that manuscript, but you just don’t have the time or energy to meet all their formatting requirements.
I will fix it for you: the sooner we get started, the sooner you will feel a sense of relief!
This is a custom plan that comes in approximately 11-hour segments so that you have control over the costs associated (and can negotiate with your Institution for financial assistance). Each segment is AU$935. I will send an invoice of AU$935 to be paid on the commencement of each 11-hour block.
For example: Turning a thesis into a manuscript ready for a publisher, with 6 chapters (plus intro, conclusion and appendices), converting charts and tables into acceptable formats, writing style notes, checking all citations and no bibliographic database, plus indexing takes approximately 45 hours.
You supply:
The entire document (or individual chapters) formatted as .docx or .doc files
A link to any style guide documentation from your publisher
Specify the referencing style required and/or edition required by your publisher
(Optional) a database, however partial, of your bibliographic information so far
Please note: Depending on the number of hours you need, consider each billing unit to be 2 weeks. If you need an express service, please add the PhD express package. NB: I will prioritise your work, but it will take more than one week. (I have pulled 45 hours into 9 days of work before, but that kind of magic requires a premium!)
You’ve heard the stories—you know that marker number two is going to start by reading your bibliography (probably looking for their name!)—and yet we always leave the footnotes and bibliography to the last minute. The way you present your research counts. It forms impressions of competency and clarity.
Make that last 10% work for you! Have someone else fine-tooth comb all in-text references, footnotes, endnotes and the entire bibliography as required by your institution, and in compliance with the style guide nominated by your Institution. You’ll be putting your best foot forward with a polished bibliography and references.
You supply:
A bibliographic database compatible with either Endnote or Zotero
The entire document to be formatted as a .docx or .doc file
A link to any style guide documentation from your institution
Specify the referencing style required and/or edition required by your Institution
Please note: there is a two week turnaround on this service.
Executive functioning got the better of you, and now you are facing submission of 3+ years’ work, but you don’t have a database, and your bibliographic information has gaps.
I will fix it for you: the sooner we get started, the sooner you will feel a sense of relief!
This is a custom plan that comes in approximately 10-hour segments so that you have control over the costs associated and can negotiate with your Institution for financial assistance. Each segment is AU$935. I will send an invoice of AU$935 to be paid on the commencement of each part.
Part 1: Building you a complete database for Zotero or EndNote and a polished final bibliography/reference list in compliance with the style guide nominated by your Institution.
Part 2: Formatting all in-text references, footnotes, endnotes and the entire bibliography as required by your Institution, and in compliance with the style guide nominated by your Institution.
Part 3: *Silver Service* An optional extra of manually checking that all references are legitimate and accurate. Billed in 11-hour chunks. (You may need to scan/photograph/post some hard-to-access resources.)
You must supply:
The entire document formatted as a .docx or .doc file
A link to any style guide documentation from your institution
Specify the referencing style required and/or edition required by your Institution
(Optional) a database, however partial, of your bibliographic information so far
Please note: Depending on which packages you require, this may take up to a month or more to untangle the bibliographic knots. Consider each billing unit as 2 weeks’ work. It is time-critical to build the bibliographic database as soon as possible. During this 2-week period, you may continue to work on finessing your draft while I build the database. Once we have progressed to Part 2, it is not advisable to work on referenced sections of text.
Buy the PROJECT JOURNAL designed for researchers
Have you ever been reading a journal article or book, seen another article referenced and thought, "I'd like to follow this source later"? Or as you read, your brain sparks with ideas for new projects? This journal is designed for career researchers to keep organised long-term research and record/access new ideas. It also builds healthy reflective end-of-day/session practices that allow our brains to 'tools down' and transition to other tasks.
Have this logbook open beside you as you research, and you'll spend less time wondering what the name of that article was and more time in effective research. And should you ever need to defend your time to a supervisor or your use of AI, you have a readily accessible record.
Have you ever been reading a journal article or book, seen another article referenced and thought, "I'd like to follow this source later"? Or as you read, your brain sparks with ideas for new projects? This journal is designed for career researchers to keep organised long-term research and record/access new ideas. It also builds healthy reflective end-of-day/session practices that allow our brains to 'tools down' and transition to other tasks.
Have this logbook open beside you as you research, and you'll spend less time wondering what the name of that article was and more time in effective research. And should you ever need to defend your time to a supervisor or your use of AI, you have a readily accessible record.
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