About This Role
This Copy Editor role is for a detail-oriented professional with experience in the ePublishing industry. The primary goal is to ensure manuscripts adhere to the highest editorial and publishing standards, requiring excellent language skills and a strong command of grammar and style. The position demands efficiency in a deadline-driven environment while maintaining exceptional quality.
Responsibilities
- Copyedit scholarly, academic, and professional manuscripts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, clarity, consistency, and readability
- Ensure manuscripts comply with publisher-specific editorial guidelines and house style requirements
- Preserve the author's voice, intent, and scholarly tone while improving the overall quality of the content
- Prepare and maintain comprehensive project style sheets throughout the editorial lifecycle
- Edit and standardize citations, references, bibliographies, footnotes, and endnotes in accordance with APA, AMA, Chicago, MLA, and other publisher-specific styles
- Verify the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of references, citations, cross-references, headings, tables, figures, numbering, and manuscript structure
- Identify inconsistencies, missing information, and content issues, and communicate them through clear and concise author queries
- Review and incorporate author corrections, ensuring all revisions are accurately implemented and remain consistent with the approved style
- Perform post-author review cleanup and final editorial checks before production
- Collaborate closely with Project Managers, Production Editors, and other stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of high-quality projects
- Support collation activities and ensure all manuscript versions are accurately tracked and consolidated
- Consistently achieve quality benchmarks and daily productivity targets
Requirements
- 1-5 years of copyediting experience in the ePublishing or STM publishing industry
- Excellent command of English grammar, syntax, punctuation, and editorial conventions
- Strong knowledge of major style guides such as APA, AMA, Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), MLA, and publisher-specific guidelines
- Experience in handling scholarly or academic manuscripts
- Good understanding of the collation process and post-author review workflow
- Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to identify inconsistencies and resolve editorial issues independently
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting strict deadlines
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and standard editorial tools
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
