Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Preliminary copy-editing, design and specimen pages 3. Preparing the typescript for the typesetter 4. Illustrations 5. Proofs 6. House style 7. Preliminary pages 8. Indexes 9. Other parts of a book 10. Bibliographical references 11. Literary material 12. Multi-author and multi-volume works 13. Science and mathematics books 14. Other special subjects 15. Reprints and new editions 16. On-screen editing Anne Waddingham Appendixes: 1. Checklist of copy-editing 2. Book sizes 3. Abbreviations for states in the USA 4. Phonetic symbols 5. The Russian alphabet 6. Old English and Middle English letters 7. French and German bibliographical terms and abbreviations 8. Mathematical symbols 9. Hebrew 10. Arabic 11. Islamic and other calendars 12. Countries of the former USSR, Baltic States and former Yugoslavia 13. Proof correction symbols 14. How to check that an ISBN is correct.