Journal of New Developments in Chemistry

Language Editing Service

The Language Editing Service is devoted to enhancing the accuracy, clarity, and readability of articles by proficiently improving language use. This involves editing for grammar, punctuation, syntax, form, and structure, as well as enhancing academic tone and style. The service also ensures the proper use of specialized terminology, abbreviations, and foreign language phrases, while maintaining consistency in spelling and formatting.
 

Utilizing language editing services for your scientific manuscript, provided by native English speakers, can help you avoid potential rejections due to poor writing quality or grammar errors. This service will review verb usage in relation to the subject, ensure consistency of tense for the information being presented, verify the correct use of prepositions, check article usage, and substitute ambiguous words with clearer, more meaningful, and quantitative alternatives.
 

The process of proofreading includes scrutinizing written work for a variety of errors, including spelling mistakes, typographical errors, improper use of punctuation marks, grammar errors, incorrect sentence formation, inconsistent verb tense, and inappropriate word and phrase usage.
 

When preparing a manuscript for a journal, it is important to adhere to the journal's specific guidelines regarding the structure, style, and formatting of articles. This process usually includes:
 

• Ensuring compliance with the specified guidelines for fonts, margins, headings, subheadings, line spacing, pagination, and other layout elements.
• Adhering to the prescribed referencing style and formatting of figures, tables, and their placement as per the guidelines.
• Ensuring that the manuscript includes all necessary sections and follows the recommended sequence of sections (title page, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgment, references, and appendices, where applicable) in the correct order.
• Modifying the document to adhere to the maximum word count or page limit stipulated by the journal.
• Incorporating all required information such as capitalization, abbreviations, consistent and accurate hyphenation, references formatting, spacing, and text formatting in the manuscript, and providing all necessary documents as per the journal's requirements.
• Verifying that all essential information is presented in English, whether American or British English, as per the journal's language guidelines.