Partnering with Ideas on Fire for your journal means you can count on expert-level academic journal editing support as you publish cutting-edge research.
We provide professional copyediting of academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, arts, and interdisciplines.
Our global team ensures the timely production schedules and professional quality necessary to keep your journal at the center of vibrant and ever-changing scholarly, artistic, and community conversations.
We specialize in interdisciplinary approaches to academic research, highlighting the accessibility and political stakes of scholarly knowledge production.
Don’t relegate copyediting to the back burner. Ideas on Fire has got it handled so you can focus on the big picture: getting awesome ideas out in the world.
“Ideas on Fire has been a vital partner in launching and sustaining Feminist Anthropology. The thoughtfulness and deep intent that go into the copyediting process are reflected in the content expertise of the team and the clear communication with our editorial team and authors. Transparency has been a steady component of this relationship: journal style is revisited and articulated as necessary, and timelines are always honored. Working with IoF gives us confidence in the quality of our journal.”
“Ideas on Fire has a superb team of editors who handle interdisciplinary scholarship with rigor and care. It was a pleasure working with them on a special issue on visual evidence for First Monday. The scope of the issue was ambitious. Ideas on Fire helped me bring this ambitious vision to fruition, copyediting articles from psychology to journalism studies.”
“Previously, Catalyst’s managing editor and editorial board members copyedited the manuscripts in our journal. It was time-consuming and we were very excited to work with Ideas on Fire, which was recommended by a board member. Working with the group was straightforward and hassle-free. We are extremely happy with the results of our joint effort.”
Academic journal editing services
Monthly editing
Our monthly academic journal editing package includes detailed editing of each article’s writing—fit with the journal’s style guide, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, consistency, typos, document formatting, and citation formatting.
Each article receives one round of in-text edits using Track Changes in Microsoft Word and a style sheet to ensure internal consistency and alignment with journal style.
This package is ideal for journals that need regular batches of copyedited manuscripts (rather than per-issue work), for example those that publish pre-prints as they are ready.
Turn-around for the monthly package is 20 business days.
USD $0.09 per word
Per-issue editing
Our per-issue academic journal editing package includes detailed editing of each article’s writing—fit with the journal’s style guide, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, consistency, typos, document formatting, and citation formatting.
Each article receives one round of in-text edits using Track Changes in Microsoft Word and a style sheet to ensure internal consistency and alignment with journal style.
This package is idea for special issues as well as journals that focus on one issue at a time.
Turn-around for the per-issue package is 20 business days.
USD $0.09 per word
Single article editing
Our single article editing package includes detailed editing of the article’s writing—fit with the journal’s style guide, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, consistency, typos, document formatting, and citation formatting.
The article receives one round of in-text edits using Track Changes in Microsoft Word and a style sheet to ensure internal consistency and alignment with journal style.
This package is ideal for journals that have a few articles in need of professional editing but not an entire issue.
Turn-around for the individual article package is 15 business days.
USD $0.09 per word
Journal style guide
Our academic journal style guide package includes the creation of a comprehensive style guide that outlines the journal’s stylistic choices.
You’ll use the style guide to govern author submissions, post-acceptance copyediting, production preparation, article proofreading, and individual journal issue elements such as tables of contents, audio-visual content and captions, and author bios.
We can work with you to either create a new journal style guide from scratch or revise your existing style guide to fit your journal’s evolving vision and goals.
Turn-around for our academic journal style guide package is 6–8 weeks, depending on the specifics of the project. We set a schedule with you ahead of time in accordance with your journal’s production timeline and staff calendars.
USD $2,495.00 flat rate
How academic journal editing works
Send
You deliver the articles on the project start date via email or we can download them from your journal’s workflow management platform.
Edit
Our team of editors dives in: reading through each article multiple times, adding in-text edits and revision recommendations, and writing up the accompanying style sheets.
Review
Each edited article and style sheet is thoroughly reviewed by two members of our senior editorial team. If additional work is needed to ensure the edit meets our high IoF standards, our team dives back in until the texts truly shine.
Return
We return the edited articles and style sheets to you via email or your journal’s workflow management platform. You’ll work with your authors to incorporate the edits and revisions you desire, and then you’ll send the final versions to your typesetter. You can go forward with your journal’s publication plans, confident that you have a fantastic set of scholarly articles!
Our recent journal partners
“Ideas on Fire has always provided timely copyediting for our journal’s manuscripts, saving us precious time for editorial work. I highly recommend their services!”
“I approached IoF because I was struggling to revise an article I had been working on for a long time for resubmission. I was frustrated by the challenge of incorporating the journal’s reviewers’ very detailed comments. Working with IoF helped to revise my work substantively. The IoF team’s deep developmental work in the first phase and then careful copyediting in the next helped immensely to sharpen and clarify my writing. I recommend them to any academic looking to bring clarity and shine to their written work.“
“I felt like I was just spinning my wheels on an article when I sought Ideas on Fire’s help. Afterwards, I am very excited to get back to work on it. I have a brand new perspective on the piece and very clear suggestions for discrete steps I can take. I recommend IoF to all colleagues, particularly junior colleagues.”
Frequently asked academic journal editing questions
What kind of academic journals do you edit?
We provide academic journal editing to publications in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. See our full list of fields here.
We do not edit journals in STEM fields, business, or marketing.
For more examples of our journal editing work, see our portfolio page.
Can you format the citations to fit our journal's style?
Yes. Our academic journal editing service includes citation formatting for in-text parenthetical citations, endnotes/footnotes, and bibliographies.
Our copyeditors are well versed in the latest formatting styles used in the interdisciplines, humanities, and social sciences, including those set by the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), American Psychological Association (APA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Harvard, and others.
If your journal uses a unique citation style, we can also format the articles in accordance with that.
How does payment work? Are you already a registered vendor with my institution?
We are a registered vendor with hundreds of universities, publishers, and scholarly associations, so the process is streamlined for payment. If we are not already on your institution’s vendor list, we will register to enable direct payment.
We will send you an invoice with the edited manuscript(s); payment is due 30 days later.
We accept payment by credit/debit card and bank transfer only. We do not accept paper checks.
Do you have any additional journal publishing resources?
Tons! Check out our publishing resource library for courses, videos, articles, and podcast episodes on the ins and outs of scholarly publishing.