Where material needs to be prepared for publication but does not need substantive rewriting (which would call for heavy editing), we would undertake, in addition to the services listed under 'Light edit', to:

• Ensure consistency in use of numerals, units, abbreviations, lists, italic/bold face.
• Edit to conform with client's house style (if applicable).
• Convert units as necessary.
• Improve choice of words/phrases and linking passages, where appropriate, to ensure overall clarity, readability, fluency and consistency.
• Ensure that artwork, captions, labels, headings and text agree in matters of spelling and content and are consistent in presentation.
• Ensure that the text does not contradict data in tables and graphs.
• Query tabular matter that merely duplicates data plotted in graphs.
• Query inconsistent or incomplete references, footnotes and bibliography.
• Check the heading hierarchy/structure and ensure consistency of style and presentation.
• Check accuracy of arithmetic/conversions.
• Query libellous statements.
• Check accuracy of dates, proper names, place names and titles as far as they can reasonably be checked in standard reference sources.
• Check that appendices, glossaries, indexes and other endmatter are complete and consistent in style and content with the rest of the material.

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