ANU Press Author Guide
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Author Guide January 2021 Welcome to ANU PRESS Thank you for choosing ANU Press as your publisher. We’re looking forward to working with you! In this document, we’ll run through the process of publishing your book and outline what we need from you and what you can expect from us. ANU Press press.anu.edu.au The Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601 T +61 2 6125 0262 E [email protected] CONTENTS 2 ANU Press publishing process 3 Checklist 4 Before we start > ANU Press Editorial Boards > Publication subsidy fund > What to send your copyeditor > How to check image size and resolution > DOIs > The copyediting process 8 What we need to begin production > Licensing > Copyright 9 Our production process > Indexing > Cover design 10 Publication > Formats > Distribution > Launches > Marketing and promotion > Book prizes ANU PRESS PUBLISHING PROCESS 1. Submission Author prepares and submits book proposal to ANU Press. Author will: > Read ANU Press Author Guide > Fill out online Book Proposal Form > Provide to ANU Press: – Synopsis – Two or three sample chapters – Detailed chapter outline or table of contents 2. Evaluation – Brief author/editor resume > ANU Press evaluates submission and, if appropriate, passes submission on to the relevant Editorial Board 3. Editing > Editorial Board reviews the proposal and sample The author is responsible for paying for the manuscript to be chapters and, if submission is of interest, requests the copyedited by a freelance editor; ANU Press publication subsidy full manuscript and arranges a rigorous peer review fund can also help with these costs for eligible authors (see page 4). of the manuscript ANU Press will provide the author with a list of freelance editors to > Peer reviewers return reports to Editorial Board choose from. The author will: and the Board liaises with author to review > Ensure all steps outlined in the Author Guide to prepare the recommendations and revise manuscript based manuscript for the copyeditor are complete before providing on these recommendations the final draft to the copyeditor to begin work > When the Board is satisfied with the revised manuscript, > Work directly with and respond promptly to the copyeditor it will advise ANU Press staff that it is approved for in order to edit, prepare and finalise the manuscript for final publication submission to ANU Press > The manuscript is then sent to a professional copyeditor > Advise ANU Press of any specific needs (for example, to work on the final draft if the book needs an index) and time frames (for example, if there is an event or deadline the book needs to be published in advance of) 4. Production > Provide all illustrative material at a high resolution and any copyright permission documentation required for ANU Press to publish the images > ANU Press reviews final manuscript to ensure all elements have been provided and are of the correct > If the work is an edited collection, the lead editor/s will be quality for conversion responsible for contributing authors responding to queries in a timely manner and provide final approval for manuscript > Manuscript is typeset and designed and a PDF proof is on behalf of all contributing authors created At the end of the editing process, the copyeditor will provide > Book cover is designed and sent to author for approval ANU Press with the final, styled manuscript ready for ANU Press (final approval rests with ANU Press) to begin work. > ANU Press conducts an in-house proof of the manuscript and compiles any queries arising from this proof to be sent to the author 5. Publication > Author receives and checks electronic proof. Any changes to be related to design, format and factual errors only > Book is published on the ANU Press website and paperbacks are available to purchase > Final proof approved by author for publication > Paperbacks are ordered and sent to the author(s) > ANU Press prepares files for publication > Paperback and digital copies are provided to distribution outlets such as JSTOR Open-Access, Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index, OAPEN, DOAB, Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon, iBooks, ProQuest, NLA (Libraries Australia, Trove and WorldCat) and ANU Library Catalogue > Publication is promoted through various social media channels > Author works with ANU Press marketing coordinator to implement marketing plan for the book 2 ANU Press CHECKLIST We can start working on your book once we have received from your Editorial Board: > a Proposal Evaluation Form > two referee reports. ANU Press will provide you with: > a contract > a Cover Brief Form. You will then need to provide: > a signed contract > a completed Cover Brief Form > copyright permissions (if applicable). Your copyeditor will provide to the Press: > the final, copyedited text of the book > all illustrative material to be included in the book > an image spreadsheet listing details of all images in the book > a style sheet. Upon completion of copyediting, the author is responsible for paying the copyeditor for their work. A publication subsidy is available to eligible authors to assist with this cost (see page 4 for more information on this). ANU Press will only accept manuscripts from the copyeditor. If the manuscript is not sent to ANU Press by the copyeditor, it will not be accepted. This is to ensure that no changes are made to a final, copyedited manuscript without the copyeditor’s or ANU Press’ knowledge. Please tell us immediately if there is a special event, planned book launch or any other deadline your book needs to be published in advance of. For more information on book launches, please see page 11. Please note: We are unable to print books over 1,000 pages in length. If your publication exceeds this length you will be required to cut down the material included in your book. Please also note that books over 500 pages long that include colour will not be able to be provided to some of the third-party distributors (e.g. Amazon). Author Guide 3 BEFORE WE START Your manuscript will need to be evaluated, taken through a rigorous peer-review process and approved for publication by one of our Editorial Boards. ANU Press Editorial Boards MONOGRAPHS Once your manuscript is approved for publication, it will need to be professionally copyedited. ANU Press Aboriginal History Monographs will provide you with a list of approved copyeditors Anthropology in Pacific and Asian Studies who are most suited to the job based on their skills ANU.Lives and experience with your subject matter. ANU Press Asian Studies will also be able to offer advice on likely costs. Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs Please note: If you wish to use a copyeditor not on Asia-Pacific Linguistics our list, you must have discussed this with and have Asia-Pacific Security Studies approval from ANU Press before work commences. If Australian and New Zealand School of Governance (ANZSOG) you have not received approval from ANU Press and contracted a non–ANU Press approved copyeditor to Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) carry out the work, ANU Press may require the work China in the World to be re-edited at your expense. Comparative Austronesian Environmental History Publication subsidy fund Humanities and Creative Arts The ANU Vice-Chancellor allocates funds to assist Islam in Southeast Asia with the publication of academic research of staff Law members of the University by ANU Press on the Pacific basis of the University’s commitment to scholarly publishing. Public Policy Applications are called twice a year and the maximum Science and Engineering amount granted for any one subsidy is $3,000. Each Social Sciences subsidy is discrete and no longstanding commitment Summations will be made towards the costs of ongoing publications, Terra Australis such as journals or other series. Typical activities Vietnam funded are copyediting and indexing. The publication subsidy will not be approved for commissioning cover JOURNALS designs as ANU Press includes cover design as part Aboriginal History Journal of its services. Translations of works into or from English are unlikely to be supported unless they are Agenda of exceptional literary or scholarly merit. Australian Historical Journal II All staff members and students of the University may Australian Journal of Biography and History apply. The application must relate to a completed East Asia Forum Quarterly piece of work conducted while at the University and Human Ecology Review negotiations with ANU Press must be at an advanced International Review of Environmental History stage. Subsidies will only be allocated to works that Lilith: A Feminist History Journal have been accepted by an ANU Press Editorial Board for publication. Made in China Journal For more information, please visit press.anu.edu.au/ authors/submit-book/publication-subsidy-fund. 4 ANU Press What to send your copyeditor Make sure you send your copyeditor final and complete files to work on. This means the whole text that will form the published book, along with any of the following you choose to include: foreword, preface, contributor biographies, acknowledgements, list of abbreviations, introduction, appendices, bibliography. Before you send your manuscript to your copyeditor, you must have included all relevent DOIs in the referenced books, articles and journals in your work’s bibliography or bibliographies (for information on how to do this see the DOIs section on pages 6–7). You also need to send your copyeditor all illustrative material (figures, illustrations, photos, graphs, etc.) that will be in your book. All illustrative material included in your book must be of good quality and of resolution high enough to reproduce in both digital and paperback formats. Please see below for the minimum requirements of image resolution and instructions on how to check this. For more information on ‘Preparing your manuscript for submission’, please contact ANU Press for the factsheet or download it from our website.