Proofing Your Designed Pages

Second is the author proofing. You will receive a copy of the designed pages for a 10-day review. During this period, it is important that, in addition to reviewing text, you check all artwork, tables, equations, and subheads to insure that all elements are correct and in the right location. Your equations and subheads should all be in their original location in the text. However, you may see some artwork or tables that are not positioned exactly in their original locations. This will usually be due to page design limitations, but we make every effort to locate artwork and tables as closely as possible to their text references for reader convenience.

If your book contains equations or chemical symbols, note that occasionally some of these symbols do not translate correctly from Word to the Quark production program. In those instances, you will see that the program will leave a "box" or an alternate symbol (usually something foreign to math or chemistry) in place of the mistranslation. It is our goal that these mistranslations will all be noted and corrected during the initial proofing. However, we ask the author to keep an eye out for them as well, as he or she will know the equations best.

Again, please keep your managing editor notified of your travel schedule during the production process, so that we can make arrangements to keep your page reviews on schedule.

Once the author review is completed, those corrections will also be added to the designed pages. At that point, the final pages will go through a third review by the Managing Editor for any final corrections before the pages are prepared for indexing.