WhitePubs Enterprises, Inc.

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Non-Fiction Submission Manuscript Guidelines

Adobe PDF eBooks can be sold over the Internet to users with computers running Microsoft® Windows® or Mac OS. Readers then have access to a wide variety of annotation and bookmarking tools, enhancing both their reading experience and your bottom line. McGraw-Hill, Random House, and Simon & Schuster are a few of the large publishing houses that offer books in Adobe PDF. This is the only format we have planned for Non-Fiction books.

Software: We can accept Word, Word Perfect, FrameMaker and InDesign. PageMaker files are obsolete. Upgrade to InDesign. FrameMaker files are fairly obsolete. InDesign preferred if you are going to use a page-layout package.

Spelling: If you have a special word, one you had to add to your spell-checker, you ned to supply us with that list. Our spell-checker will not accept it unless told to do so. Justify the spelling (not required for names).

Spell-Check: This is the responsibility of the author.

Grammar-Check: This is the responsibility of the author.

First-Sentence Indent: Do not use tabs! Use the proper Paragraph settings to indent the first sentence in a paragraph.

Em-Dash: If you must use them, use no spaces before or after, and if you do not know how to make one, use two hyphens. BE CONSISTENT so these can be found and replaced. A Hyphen is the smallest (used in compound words), an En-Dash is the middle width, and an Em-Dash is the longest.

For All Manuscripts

In questions of editorial style and practice, White Enterprises follows the Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition. Please follow it or the best professional style manual in your field (that of the Modern Language Association or the American Geophysical Union, for example) in areas such as notes, citations, and bibliographic references. For the mechanics of manuscript preparation, please observe the guidelines below without exception.
General references for technical authors, Elements of Technical Writing, Elements of Style and Elements of Grammar.
All manuscripts must have been spell-checked. Provide a list of words added to your spell-checker because of this manuscript. You spell checker and ours will not match if you do not do this.An end-of-book glossary is highly recommended.
Manuscripts should be set-up in the approximate layout you are seeking, (including text, tables, extracts, notes, tables, footnotes, and bibliography). Please do not add extra blank lines between paragraphs, notes, or bibliography entries, or between extracts and text. Use style tags to set paragraph spacing (4 pt above and 4 pt below for example.) Extraneous linefeeds and stray symbols will have to be removed.
Manuscripts can be submitted in FrameMaker, Word, WordPerfect, QuarkXpress or InDesign. Word and Word Perfect files will be imported into one of the page-layout programs.
Page margins should be at least 1 inch on top and both sides, and 1.5 inches at the bottom, with an unjustified right margin.
Paragraphs should be indented from the left margin using the style definition. If a block format (no first line indention) is required, be sure that proper paragraph spacing has been observed.
Bullets should be indented inside the left-hand paragraph margin.
Second level bullets need a different symbol and are indented under the first-level bullets.
Please use a 10-point (12 characters per inch) serif font (Times, Times New Roman, Century School Book) for text and a sans serif font for headings, figure and table labels, table cells and labels within the figures.
Number pages consecutively throughout the manuscript, not restarting the page number sequence with each chapter. Do not use running headers with Word or Word perfect. Page templates for the layout programs may be used but they may be altered after submission.
Technical books generally use numbered headers. Please state clearly that you do not want to use a numbered format.
Be sure to include a title page, table of contents, and, if applicable, lists of illustrations and/or tables. (In FrameMaker this is TOC, LOF and LOT.)
Please keep a hardcopy of the manuscript exactly as it is submitted to us for your records. The hard copies you submit to us for copyediting and production will not be returned.
Use Bold, underline and italics as desired but do not over-use. Please use capital and lowercase letters, not all caps, to indicate chapter titles, subheads, and other display elements.
Make a glossary of all symbols that appear in your book. Also prepare a glossary of terms used in your book (this is not to be confused with an index.)
We currently do not include an index as PDF has bookmarks and easy search capability.
Since we publish eBooks only, color is recommended for headers and cross reference tags. Stick to shades of blue. Color is recommended but should be used sparingly.
We do not publish animations at this time. (Flash)
Illustrations, including photographs, charts, diagrams, and maps, must not be embedded in the manuscript or in any word processing file. The artwork should always be linked by reference – meaning that the art files are kept separate.
Artwork created in applications such as Excel or PowerPoint generally cannot be used and should be redrawn in a graphics program such as VISIO, Freehand or Adobe Illustrator. The manuscript must be accompanied by a complete illustrations log that lists the format and other relevant details for each figure, map, or photo. Artwork submitted on disk must be accompanied by a disk directory.
The diskettes you submit (ZIP or CD) must correspond exactly to your hard copy. Provide a list of filenames with your diskettes, keying each filename to the appropriate chapter. WE prefer that the art be in chapter files.) All CDs must be PC/MAC format (read by either system). ZIP disks should be clearly labeled as to what they are (PC or MAC format). Mac format always preferred.
Keep separate files for front matter, appendixes, bibliography, and the like.15. Use hard returns only at the end of paragraphs.
In the bibliography, create a hanging indent for each entry.
Subheads should be formatted in descending font size and heading should never be more than 3-levels deep.
Quotes longer than eight lines should appear as indented extracts. (block text)
In typing extracts, please reset the left margin of the manuscript by means of the appropriate software command. Do not insert extra spaces to set off such text matter. Similarly, in preparing tables, use tabs or your word processor's column-alignment feature to set columns. Use properly defined style tags. Use insert table commands wherever possible (especially in Word or Word Perfect as they will be converted.)
If the manuscript has accented or foreign-language characters that cannot be created through normal ASCII commands (e.g., ALT-137 for ë, ALT-162 for ó), please provide a list of those characters and mark them with colored ink on the hardcopy of the text.
We currently prefer manuscript files created in FrameMaker, InDesign or QuarkXpress. Word files must be saved .rtf. WordPerfect files can be accepted. Your system MUST be equipped with up-to-date virus protection software. On the file directory – add the OS you were running, the CPU (Mac or PC), all Software used and its Version. (Panther, Mac, FrameMaker 7.0; PhotoshopCS) Mac formatted disks are preferred.

The final manuscript must be accompanied by:

Illustrations: A complete set of photocopies (or printouts) of all illustrations in the book must be furnished with the manuscript, along with a detailed log indicating the format (e.g., photograph, original drawing, or electronic file) of each illustration.
Copies of permission requests for all illustrations and previously published text, and copies (not the originals) of forms granting permission if already received. Because this process can take several weeks or months, permission requests should be made well in advance of the deadline for submitting the final manuscript.
About the author (on disk): Approximately 250 words on academic background and affiliation, recent publications, and current research interests. If you want your email published, list it here.
Book summary (on disk, for in-house use in marketing): About 250-500 words on thesis, significance, conclusions, and intended audience. List magazines specific to your subject field.
Author photo for permanent file; include photo credit information. Art may be digital but must never be less than 300 dpi.