Manuscript Proofreading and Editing Services
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Our Editing Service Marketplace
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At ServiceScape, you select your editor from a network of experienced specialists, ensuring the right fit for your manuscript.
Many of our editors:
- Hold Ph.D. or Master's degrees
- Offer decades of research editing experience
- Have hundreds of client ratings and reviews
- Are experts across various research and scientific fields
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What makes ServiceScape work for you
Your Questions, Answered
FAQ
Our manuscript editing services are crafted to refine your writing at every level, helping you communicate your research with clarity and authority. Key features include:
- Language and Readability Improvements: Enhancing sentence flow, structure, and grammar to ensure your manuscript reads smoothly and professionally.
- Punctuation and Spelling Corrections: Fixing typographical errors to maintain a polished and credible presentation.
- Structural and Paragraph Organization: Improving transitions, paragraph coherence, and section flow to strengthen overall cohesion and clarity.
- Argumentation and Focus: Clarifying your key points, reinforcing logical progression, and highlighting the significance of your findings.
- Tone and Voice Alignment: Adjusting tone to reflect the conventions of academic discourse while maintaining your authorial voice.
- Terminology and Precision: Refining word choice for technical accuracy and discipline-specific language.
- Field-Specific Expertise: Editors bring subject-matter expertise to ensure your manuscript meets the conventions and expectations of your academic discipline.
- Formatting Consistency: Applying consistent formatting in line with academic or journal requirements.
- Constructive Editorial Feedback: Offering suggestions to enhance clarity, argument strength, and reader engagement.
Our goal is to support your journey by ensuring your manuscript is polished, persuasive, and ready for publication.
We follow a thorough approach to help your manuscript meet the formatting and stylistic expectations of scholarly journals and academic institutions. This includes:
- Style Guide Compliance: Formatting your manuscript to align with APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, or specific journal guidelines—including citations, layout, and headings.
- Manuscript Presentation Formatting: Adjusting margins, line spacing, font styles, and numbering systems to meet submission standards.
- Reference and Citation Accuracy: Verifying the structure and consistency of in-text citations, reference lists, and bibliographic elements.
- Abstract and Section Formatting: Ensuring the abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusion follow the format required by target journals.
- Data and Visual Element Preparation: Formatting tables, figures, and charts according to publisher specifications, including correct labeling and placement.
- Consistent Style and Language Use: Harmonizing terminology, spelling (e.g., British vs. American English), and units of measurement throughout the manuscript.
- Ethical Language Practices: Ensuring the use of inclusive, unbiased language in line with academic standards.
With precision and care, we help your manuscript meet the technical and editorial standards required for successful journal submission.
You can hire an editor by just browsing our marketplace of editors, clicking on the "View Profile" button of an editor you want to hire, and clicking on the "Hire Me" button. After your payment method has been processed, your editor will get to work and will deliver the edited version before your due date.
A list of prices and due dates can be found within each editor's profile. Just find your editor and click on the "View Profile" button.
Our fastest delivery option is one hour using our Express Delivery service.
Sure! Many ServiceScape editors provide free samples. You can submit a free sample request by just browsing our marketplace of editors, clicking on the "View Profile" button of an editor you want to request a free sample from, and clicking on the "Free Sample" button. If the editor accepts your free sample request, you will receive the sample edited version within a couple of days.
You can send a message to an editor by just browsing our marketplace of editors, clicking on the "View Profile" button of an editor you want to contact, and clicking on the "Send Message" button. We will email you a notification as soon as your editor replies to your message.
You can schedule a teleconference call by just browsing our marketplace of editors, clicking on the "View Profile" button of an editor you want to contact, and clicking on the "Teleconference" button. We will contact you right away about availability and set up the teleconference for all parties involved.
You can find ratings and reviews from past clients within most editor profiles. Just find your editor and click on the "View Profile" button to see them. You can also read thousands of ServiceScape ratings and reviews on eKomi.
In addition, ServiceScape has been featured in several publications and websites, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, UpWork, HuffPost, and The Ladders.
Many editors have portfolios which feature their editing. Just find your editor and click on the "View Profile" button to view these edited versions.
Yes, we provide editing certifications. Simply request the document when you hire an editor. When your project is delivered, you can download the editing certification by clicking on your project and clicking on the "Certification" button. These signed declarations certify that a document has been professionally edited by a ServiceScape editor.













































Our Testimonials and Experience
What we bring to the table
ServiceScape is built on 25 years worth of experience, working on over 347,000 projects with over 99,000 clients. Our manuscript editing and proofreading services are rated 4.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,152 reviews collected over the last 5 years. Join the thousands of people who have chosen ServiceScape to find the best and brightest talent.
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