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Communications and Publishing Office

Corey Astrom, ELS, Coordinator, rastrom@anest.ufl.edu, 294-5076

Leah Buletti, Editorial Assistant, lbuletti@anest.ufl.edu, 273-8640

Christina Hendricks, MA, Web Designer/Administrator, chendricks@anest.ufl.edu, 294-8543

I. We Edit

Manuscripts, Abstracts, Book chapters, Grants, Posters, Slide presentations, Departmental

reports, Letters to the editor, Letters of evaluation, Letters of support, News columns,
Newsletters, Website content, etc.

Editing Process

• A member of the department sends me a manuscript, usually with a journal in mind,
but can also ask me to research journal possibilities.
• I run all manuscripts through iThenticate and send the report back to the
department member, letting him/her know if the report/manuscript is ok or not. If
not, I make suggestions on how to improve the paper. I send the iThenticate User
Guide if he/she is unfamiliar with the process.
• Once a journal is decided on, I use that journal’s Author Instructions/Guidelines and
edit the paper according to that journal’s particular style.

• In addition to the Author Instructions, I reference a printed version of whatever type
of manuscript it is (from a pdf online or an actual copy of the journal I may have) to
make sure I am formatting the manuscript as correctly as possible.
• I edit for grammar, spelling, punctuation, readability, consistency, and
generally…does it make sense? I add my edits and comments using Track Changes
and send it back to the department member so that he/she can address the
edits/comments. We go back and forth until a final version is reached.

• Editing References, Tables, and Figures can take a lot of reformatting and has to be
very specific; tables often have to be copied from Excel files into Word documents
and re-worked, and figures have to be sent out to Kendra to be fixed or created from
scratch.

The average turnaround time for completion of a manuscript is two to four weeks. If you
need work back in a shorter amount of time, please e-mail or call me so that we can
make other arrangements. I do my very best to work with everyone in the department

to meet specific needs. Don’t hesitate to ask for what you need.