Manuscript Format
for VoxClarus Press

A carefully prepared manuscript is essential
to the creation of a high quality book.
 
(Also, please see the sample manuscript format.)
 
VoxClarus asks writers to present their manuscripts in both printed and electronic formats. The following are the most important format details for the printed manuscript:

• The manuscript should be produced on ordinary 8½" x 11" white paper, approximately 20# weight.
• It must be printed on one side of the paper only, in conventional caps & lower-case type, at 10 pt. or 11 pt. size, preferably using a serif typeface such as Times New Roman, Times, Book Antiqua, or Georgia.
• The text must be double-spaced.
• All margins should be approximately 1¼"—on the top, bottom, and both edges of the page.
• All pages except the first page should be numbered.
• The manuscript should not be stapled, punched or bound in any way.

The above details are important for the production of an editable, easily readable manuscript.

The following suggestions are also typical for book manuscripts:

• A manuscript doesn't require a cover sheet or title page.
• The pages should be submitted loose, in a box or heavy envelope.
• Personal identification information should be typed, single-spaced, in the upper left corner of the first page. This includes the author's name, full mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and Social Security Number. If the author is using a pseudonym, his or her legal name, not the pseudonym, should appear in this space.
• The approximate word count of the manuscript should be typed in the upper right corner .
• The rest of the manuscript should be double-spaced.
• The title should be centered in capital letters one-third of the way down the first page. The word "by" is centered on the next line, followed by the author's name (or pseudonym), centered beneath that.
• If the manuscript has preliminary content such as a dedication, acknowledgements, table of contents, preface, introduction or foreword, they follow the title and byline. Each of these elements should either be separated from adjacent text by two double-spaces, or each element should be started on a new page.
• The body of the manuscript should either begin two double-spaces below the last of the preliminary content, or should start on a new page, leaving the top one-third of the page blank.
• First line of paragraphs should be indented one-half-inch.
• Every page after the first should begin with the author's last name, a dash, then the page number, typed either in the upper left or upper right corner. Optionally, the title of the manuscript, or a shortened version of the title, may be typed on this line or beneath it. The top of page two for example, without the optional title, would read: LastName— 2.
• Each new chapter should be started on a new page, leaving the top one-third of the page blank before typing the chapter number or title.

Click here to see a sample manuscript format.

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