Please read this document carefully before submitting your book proposal. Once you have submitted a book proposal and/or a manuscript, we will review it and reply to you within two weeks.

Book Proposals

Prior to manuscript submission

For an initial check of whether your manuscript is suitable for Aldus Press, please complete our publication proposal document and make sure to clearly outline the following:

1. The title, subtitle, and list of authors/contributors, including their affiliations
2. The academic discipline
3. The intended audience
4. Your Open Access funding source
5. The type of book (monograph, edited volume, textbook, reference work, conference proceedings, etc.)
6. An abstract describing the book (max. 500 words)
7. The complete table of contents
8. An estimate of the number of words, images (color and/or black-and-white), and pages

After receiving the outline, we will discuss your proposal/manuscript with our Advisory Board and get back to you as soon as possible. We are usually able to provide initial feedback within two weeks.

Manuscripts

In order to publish your book quickly and without delays, we would kindly ask you to observe a few simple guidelines.

Preparing your manuscript

1. Please provide your manuscript as a Microsoft Word or Rich Text File, with a basic structure using headings (up to 4 levels).
2. LaTeX should be converted into a Rich Text File (RTF) format.
3. Please do not submit a PDF file.
4. Please ensure that all chapters are clearly labeled and have separate titles, abstracts, and keywords.
5. Index terms should be given as a list at the end of the manuscript or marked using the feature in Microsoft Word. When no list is provided, we will not prepare an index.
6. References must be included. Your manuscript may have either footnotes or endnotes, but not both. Please use a common reference style, such as APA or Chicago, and adhere to a single style across all chapters. When an ISBN and/or DOI is available for the sources cited, these should be included.
7. Please choose one form of spelling for the entire document (either British or American English) and use it consistently.
8. Please apply one style of metrics (e.g., metric or imperial) consistently throughout the manuscript.

Ethics

Intentionally falsifying information (for example, suggesting reviewers with a false name or email address) will result in rejection of the manuscript and may lead to further investigation.

We expect that all authors follow national and international guidelines on scientific and medical ethics and reporting. Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. For all research involving human subjects, informed consent to participate in the study should have been obtained. An appropriate declaration must appear in your manuscript.

Authorship

Aldus Press endorses the ICMJE guidelines for authorship.

Ghost authors, honorary authorships, and gift authorships are not allowed. Contributions that do not justify authorship may be acknowledged individually or together as a group under a single heading (e.g., ‘Clinical Investigators’ or ‘Participating Investigators’), and their contributions should be specified (e.g., ‘served as scientific advisors’, ‘critically reviewed the study proposal’, ‘participated in writing or technical editing of the manuscript’).

Copyright

Aldus Press will not accept a text that was not written by the authors themselves, with the exception of a clearly labeled quotation of fewer than 100 words. Only after specific written permission from the quoted source, creator, or publisher is obtained are we able to reprint longer texts, poems, news items, etc.

It is possible to reprint longer extracts if these are your own texts previously published elsewhere, but you must obtain written permission from the original publisher. This also applies to translations or modified works. Please include an appropriate reference to your previous publication. All manuscripts are scanned for plagiarism. If you have included reprinted texts, please explain this in your cover letter.

Obtaining any necessary permissions is the responsibility of the author(s).

Tables, figures, and images

Please provide all figures, images, and tables as separate documents, and clearly mark in the text where each figure should be placed, using: < Figure X >. Figure captions should be provided with the figures in the separate documents as well as in the manuscript.

For best results, please provide images and figures as digital image files (black-and-white or colour) with a minimum 300 DPI at 100mm x 100mm minimum size. We can work with lesser quality files, but the result will not be optimal. Avoid 1pt (hair)lines, as these may be too narrow to show up properly.

There are no charges for colour images.

The following file types are suitable: TIF, EPS, JPG, PPTX. Please note that PDF files are not suitable. Tables, line art, and (vector) images made in Microsoft Office software (PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Excel) do not have to be converted and can be submitted as is.