Publishing lingo explained
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In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise demystify publishing language – the terms professionals use to describe the parts of a book – so that you can talk with confidence about your text. Listen to find out more about: the beginning (or front matter; prelims), the main or body text and the end matter (or back matter) part titles, half titles, and title pages forewords and prefaces acknowledgements pages, page numbers, and folios double page spreads (DPSs) rectos and versos running heads and running feet drop caps or dropped capitals chapter drops appendices and glossaries footnotes and endnotes bibliographies, references, and indexes Editing bites The Chicago Manual of Style New Hart’s Rules Indexing societies American Society for Indexing Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers Australia and New Zealand Society of Indexers China Society of Indexers (site in Chinese) Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer/German Network of Indexers Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation Nederlands Indexers Netwerk/Netherlands Indexing Network Society of Indexers (UK) Ask us a question The easiest way to ping us a question is via Facebook Messenger: Visit the podcast's Facebook page and click on the SEND MESSAGE button. Denise and Louise Denise Cowle Editorial Services (non-fiction) Louise Harnby | Proofreader &...
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Denise and Louise demystify publishing language – the terms professionals use to describe the parts of a book – so that you can talk with confidence about your text.
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