Preparing to submit your manuscript
If you are a book author or editor, we are delighted that you will soon be submitting your book. Please read on...
Keep us informed
Let your Commissioning Editor know when you are close to delivering your final manuscript files. They will be able to tell you the best way to deliver and may pre-empt any queries you have. Keeping us informed on your progress will also allow us to start marketing your book at the right moment.
Submit only the complete and final materials.
Please remember that you need to deliver all the material to be included in the book at the same time and that it won’t be possible to make changes to the files once you have delivered them. Please ensure that you have finished work on the book before you contemplate delivery of the material.
Chapter contributor?
If you are a chapter contributor please submit your manuscript directly to your book editor. Please ensure that you have reviewed the As you write your book or chapter and Elgar copyright policy sections of the Author Hub, and are familiar with the Additional information for contributors to multi-authored books.
This will greatly assist your editor in compiling the full book manuscript and accompanying materials for review and submission to Elgar.
Book submission checklists
Once you have reviewed this section and have the compete manuscript files and information ready to submit, please complete the appropriate checklist and include this in your submission. This will allow us to expedite the preliminary checks and begin work on producing your book more quickly.
Please complete a Submission Checklist and include this in the materials that you submit
Checklist - Authored book Editable PDF
Checklist - Edited book Editable PDF
Checklist - Textbook Editable PDF
Checklist - Law Practitioner books Editable PDF
Checklist - Subsequent editions Editable PDF
Textbooks
Preparing the preliminary pages
- Title page – title, subtitle, author’s name and affiliation
- Copyright page – to be compiled in house by EEP. Please leave blank
- Dedication (if applicable)
- Contents page showing part and chapter titles (no subheadings)
- List of figures (if more than 5 and fewer than 20)
- List of tables (if more than 5 and fewer than 20)
- List of boxes (if more than 5 and fewer than 20)
- List of contributors (if applicable)
- Foreword and/or Preface (if applicable)
- Acknowledgements (if applicable)
- List of abbreviations (if applicable)
Table of contents
- Do not include individual chapter contents pages.
- Please do not bookmark the table of contents.
- Please include only main part titles in your table of contents, using roman numerals (e.g. I, IV, III...) for part numbers.
Numbering chapter files
Please number all chapters with Arabic numerals (e.g. 1,2,3...) and save each chapter as a separate file. Every chapter should contain a logical sequence of headings.
Please double-check that the table of contents chapter titles match those on the actual chapter pages.
List of contributors for edited books
Please include a ‘List of contributors’ after the table of contents. This should be prepared in Word, ordered alphabetically with either a brief affiliation or a short biographical paragraph, ideally a maximum of 80 words long. Please follow one style or the other and check that author names on the list of contributors exactly match those on the table of contents and chapter page.
Example: Brief affiliation
Example: Short biographical paragraph
Cover design
Textbook companion website pages
If you have agreed with your editor that your textbook will include a companion website please send these materials when you submit your manuscript.
Clearly label each resource and include in the resource filename whether it is for the student or instructor sections of any companion site. For example, 'Student Quiz Chapter 1', or 'Instructor Powerpoint Chapter 1'.
How to send your files to us
Well done, you have filled in the checklist and have the complete and final files ready to submit!
Submit the manuscript files via email, Google Drive or a file transfer service such as Dropbox to your commissioning editor. If you do not have access to such a service your commissioning editor will be able to provide you with a link to our own.
Our production schedule will start once we have reviewed the checklist and all materials, received confirmation from you that all necessary copyright permissions have been cleared, and have confirmed that submission is complete.