Journal Production Services

The Humanities Publication Center provides a full range of publishing services to journals that are published at BYU or to journals whose editors are currently BYU faculty members.

• manuscript evaluation and critique
• manuscript editing
• source checking and fact checking
• light design
• scanning of images or text
• page layout
• proofreading
• indexing
• working with printers

The Humanities Publication Center exists primarily as a student lab. Unpaid interns and paid student assistants will work on your projects so that they can polish their editing and publishing skills. They receive feedback on their work from the editing faculty who supervise the Center and who also work on your projects to ensure that you receive professional service of the highest quality.

Examples of Projects

Scholarly periodicals recently produced by the Humanities Publication Center (from manuscript to printed journal) include the following:

• The Journal of Microfinance
• Selected Proceedings of the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society
• Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
• The Journal of the American Viola Society

Other scholarly publications that have received some form of editorial or production assistance include the following:

• The Saul Bellow Journal
• Literature and Belief
• The McKay Student Essays
• Emily Dickinson Lexicon