Once you have finished writing your manuscript, it’s time to submit it along with all the supporting documents. Send everything to your assistant commissioning editor by email or, if your files are large, transfer them using WeTransfer. As an academic press, we nurture every project from idea to publication and beyond, to maximise its influence and impact. To achieve this it’s typical for books to undergo a full manuscript review when it is first submitted, to provide our authors with an additional opportunity to refine their work.

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Before you submit​

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Mark-up your headings and display quotes​​​

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• Guidelines for marking up your manuscript (pdf)

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Choose your cover image

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We want you to love how your book looks, so we give you the opportunity to choose your own cover image (unless it’s in a series with a typographical design). Check the cover image guidelines for more details on choosing your cover image.

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• Guidelines for choosing your cover image (pdf)

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Clear copyright

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If your book includes material in copyright, you will need to clear permission to use it before submission.

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• Find out about clearing copyright

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Check out and collect your illustration

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If your book has illustrations (pictures, graphs, tables, charts, maps – anything that’s not plain text), these must be of high enough quality to print and submitted as separate files. Do not embed your illustrations in your Word document.

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• Follow the illustrations submissions guidelines

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Fill out your submission forms

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• Nordik Academia Book Form (Microsoft Forms)/(Microsoft Word) - all books

• Illustrations check list (xlsx) - for books with illustrations

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What to submit

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• Your manuscript as one complete Word document, from the table of contents, through the text of the book, to the bibliography (you don’t include the index at this stage)

• Your completed Book Form

• Cover image – either the high-resolution image or a link to the website where it can be found

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For books with special characters, non-Roman alphabets or other special features

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• Your manuscript as one complete PDF document (created from the final Word document and submitted in addition to the Word document)

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For illustrated books

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• All illustrations as separate, high-resolution files (for more details on this, see the illustrations submissions guidelines

• Your completed Illustrations Checklist

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For books that are reproducing material in copyright

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• Your permission confirmations: copies of the emails or letters from the copyright holders.​

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Next steps: production

 

​Once you have submitted your manuscript, your assistant commissioning editor will hand it over to our in-house production team.

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• Find out more about the production process: from manuscript to finished book

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