Editorial services

Yellowback provides peer review management, proofreading, editing and English-language support for publishers, subject associations, research groups and authors. Specialists in academic research and non-fiction, we are adept at dealing with complex subject matter and the demands of peer review. We always tailor our services to our clients' needs and we have experience of working with a range of clients from individual authors to global publishing houses.

Yellowback combines its expertise in editing, publishing and image selection in managing a range of projects. We spend a lot of our time working alongside large international publishing houses to make sure their journals run as efficiently as possible in collaboration with the academic community of learned societies, editors, authors and reviewers. We also help editors and research groups bring their research outputs together by editing multi-authored volumes for language, consistency and to improve the coherence of the overall publication.

Peer review management

Peer review management services for journals are tailored to individual publications. Services can include the following but we are also able to accommodate any additional services you require:

• Checking the formatting of new and accepted submissions.
• Responding to author, referee, editor and general enquiries about the publication and submission process.
• Checking new submissions for their fit with the journal and making desk reject recommendations to editors.
• Assessing and advising on plagiarism checks on submissions.
• Finding and inviting appropriately qualified peer reviewers. 
• Providing feedback on, and suggesting possible improvements to, the peer review management process. 
• Performing final quality checks and copyediting on accepted manuscripts.
• Checking and providing necessary formatting corrections to article and issue proofs.
• Producing running orders for forthcoming issues.
• Creating annual and ad hoc reports on submissions and peer review activity to support journal strategy and review.
• Supporting marketing and dissemination activities. 
• Supporting the management of the editors and editorial boards, including training new team members as required.
• Organising, attending and minuting editorial board or other strategy meetings. 

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