The editing process is a combined effort with the author. The final submission of an accepted title will be better prepared if the following guidelines are followed before submitting a final draft to the editor.

Word 2003 or higher

 

Margins:

Sample 6 x 9 book—

2” top/bottom margins

2.1” Left/right margins

1.5” header/footer margins

 

Body text:

Spell checked

Justified aligned (not ragged)

Font & text size consistent throughout

Correct use of ellipsis symbols (…)

Correct use of section symbols (§)

Subchapter headings consistently formatted (bolded/underlined/italics)

Correct use of footnotes

Correct use of emphasis phrasing with emdash (—) instead of hyphens (-)

Correct use of indenting vs space bar to set paragraphs and subsections

Each chapter starts on a right hand page.

 

Headers/Footers:

Tower willing to do finalizing of headers and pagination for footers. Author is certainly encouraged to submit if possible.

 

Table of Contents:

Set up with page numbers and in author’s preferred summary or detailed outline

 

Index:

Correlated to chapters and subchapters (vs page numbers)

Consistent formatting in index outline

 

Finished product to be submitted in Word format.

Tower will then review; edit as needed; create headers/footers if needed; create final pages with printer’s requirements.