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Ensuring quality in academic and trade publishing.

Siliconchips Services provides professional typesetting and pagination solutions. We ensure precision page layout, meticulous formatting, and strict adherence to design standards for flawless results. Our services transform your content for global publishers, ready for both print and digital output.

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Your Trusted Partner for Academic Editorial Quality

Siliconchips Services provides meticulous copy editing and proofreading services for leading global publishers, including every major academic publishing company and trade houses worldwide. Since our founding, we have operated as a dedicated scientific publishing company with our headquarters established in London, UK. Our focus is on refining your content to achieve absolute clarity, consistency, and compliance with the highest editorial standards.

We firmly believe that excellent editorial quality is the bedrock of your brand reputation and a non-negotiable requirement for successful publication. Our extensive editorial support services are designed to manage your most complex and high-volume materials, ensuring that every manuscript is ready for production and final presentation. We offer responsive, scalable solutions tailored to integrate seamlessly with your existing processes, allowing you to confidently outsource the most critical stage of the publishing pipeline.

What Our Copy Editing Service Includes:
A Three-Tiered Approach

Our comprehensive editing and copy editing services go far beyond simple grammar and spell checks. We apply a rigorous, three-level approach to ensure your content is flawless, authoritative, and engaging for its intended audience, whether it’s a high-impact journal article, a university textbook, or a consumer trade book.

1. Substantive and Mechanical Editing

The Four Pillars of Editing

Our expert UK English editors (supported by US English expertise where required) focus on both the technical and structural integrity of the manuscript, ensuring adherence to the most detailed specifications.

  • Grammar and Syntax: We identify and correct all errors, eliminate awkward phrasing, and restructure run-on sentences to maximise reader comprehension without altering the author’s voice or intent.
  • Consistency and Style Sheets: We ensure the standardisation of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, and numeric style throughout the entire work, adhering strictly to your house style guide (e.g., AMA, IEEE, MHRA, Chicago, APA, Oxford). We actively develop and maintain comprehensive style sheets for long-running series or journal titles.
  • Clarity and Flow: We refine paragraph and sentence construction to ensure the author’s core meaning is clearly, logically, and concisely communicated. This is particularly vital for academic papers where precision is paramount.

Cross-Reference Validation: Detailed verification of basic facts, proper names, dates, and all internal cross-references, ensuring continuity and accuracy across the manuscript sections, footnotes, and endnotes.

2. Subject-Matter and Technical Editing for STEM and Humanities

Editorial and Technical Publishing Services

A core differentiator of Siliconchips Services is our capacity to handle high-complexity content across all disciplines. Our specialist teams provide advanced STEM Publishing Services, alongside robust editorial support for humanities, social sciences, and legal texts.

  • Formulae and Notation: We meticulously check the accuracy, formatting, and consistent display of complex mathematical, chemical, and scientific notation, ensuring that all equations and symbols are correctly rendered. This prevents critical errors that can undermine the credibility of research.
  • Technical Terminology: We ensure the consistent and correct use of technical language and acronyms throughout the text, referencing external technical dictionaries and standards where necessary.
  • Figure and Table Referencing: We confirm that all tables, figures, images, and charts are correctly cited in the text, match the corresponding list of illustrations, and align with the provided artwork files, streamlining the production process.

Bibliography and Citation Management: Verification of reference list format against the text citations, ensuring strict adherence to the specified citation style, which is critical for journal publishing services.

Seamless Integration:
Our End to End Publishing Services

Academic Copy Editing at Siliconchips Services is seamlessly integrated into our complete end to end publishing services. By focusing on quality at this critical stage, we ensure a clean, smooth transition to subsequent production phases, drastically reducing costly author and proof corrections later in the cycle.

Proofreading and Language Polishing

While our primary focus is copyediting and proofreading services, we offer distinct levels of quality control. Our separate proofreading checks target final stage errors after typesetting has occurred, focusing on layout and formatting integrity.

For international clients, our advanced language polishing service is vital. It focuses specifically on ensuring manuscripts from non-native English authors are elevated to a native, fluent standard without altering the technical meaning or scholarly conclusions. This is a crucial offering for research institutions seeking impact in top-tier journal publishing services and international markets.

Automation and Workflow Integration: The AI-Friendly Advantage

We leverage proprietary editorial workflow management software and tools built by our in-house technology teams. This allows us to deliver speed and scale without compromising quality.

  • Structured Markup: By marking up content correctly at the copy-editing stage, we apply essential structural tagging (XML, proprietary tagging) that prepares the manuscript perfectly for subsequent LaTeX typesetting services or high-speed InDesign XML automation. This guarantees a cleaner, automated path to final digital publishing solutions and reduces the manual intervention needed during page layout.
  • AI and Search Optimisation: Our structured editing process produces highly organised, clean, and consistent data. This inherent clarity and structural integrity makes the final published content inherently more Google and AI-friendly, enhancing its indexing and discoverability across scholarly search engines and abstracting services (AEO).

Why Choose Siliconchips Services:
Our Global Differentiators

Choosing Siliconchips Services means choosing a partner committed to excellence, efficiency, and scale. We combine traditional publishing craftsmanship with modern automation capabilities.

Native UK and USA Editors

We provide uncompromised language quality tailored to the precise regional market you serve. Our editorial teams comprise highly experienced native English speakers, ensuring your content adheres perfectly to the linguistic nuances expected by readers in the UK, North America, and other Anglophone markets. This blend of native editorial expertise and global operational efficiency ensures a cost-effective, high-quality model, crucial for maintaining your brand’s international standing.

Deep Domain Expertise

We offer accurate, reliable handling of complex scientific, technical, and academic manuscripts. Unlike generalist editing services, our specialist teams are trained in specific disciplines (Physics, Medicine, Law, etc.), enabling them to spot not just linguistic errors, but also technical inconsistencies, flawed notation, or incomplete references. Our expertise enhances your content’s authority and trustworthiness, significantly reducing the need for costly author revisions and time-consuming subject-matter expert review.

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Frequently Asked Questions

General Copy Editing

Copy editing is the comprehensive process that occurs before typesetting. It focuses on grammar, spelling, house style, technical accuracy, language flow, and consistency. Proofreading occurs after the manuscript has been typeset into pages. It is the final check focused solely on catching residual errors, layout mistakes, and ensuring the formatting matches the source text. We offer both services as part of our end to end publishing services.

Our process starts with a thorough review of your house style guide. If you do not have one, we can help develop one. During the editing phase, we create a specific, project-level style sheet that is rigorously enforced by our UK English editors and then used to train our automated validation tools.

Yes, our core expertise lies in STEM Publishing Services. We maintain specialist teams trained to verify formulae, notation, and complex figures in areas like physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. This is a key capability that distinguishes us as a top-tier scientific publishing company.

We adhere to all major international and regional standards, including The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), AMA, APA, IEEE, Harvard, and Oxford. We are entirely flexible and can strictly enforce any publisher-specific guide you require for journal publishing services or book series.

Technology and Workflow

Our editors apply structural XML or proprietary tagging during the editing process. This ensures the manuscript is logically structured with correct headings, paragraphs, and elements (like block quotes and references). This pre-processing is essential for high-speed InDesign XML automation and seamless transition into LaTeX typesetting services, saving you significant time and cost in later production stages.

We use proprietary editorial workflow management software which incorporates AI-driven tools primarily for initial consistency checks and structural validation. These tools enhance our editors' efficiency but do not replace human intervention. Every single manuscript undergoes meticulous review by a human editor—a key component of delivering true editorial quality.

Absolutely. We support the entire ecosystem of publishing, including major Open Access journals and platforms. Our commitment to accuracy, rapid turnaround, and providing clean, machine-readable output makes us an ideal partner for the agile demands of OA academic publishing company models.

Geographical and Quality Assurance

Our London base provides legal and financial assurance, offering a strong, stable point of contact for European and North American clients. This ensures global accountability with local expertise and responsive account management.

Quality assurance is built into our workflow. We use a three-point checking system involving the copy editor, a quality control team member, and a final technical check before manuscript delivery. This robust process guarantees that our editorial support services remain consistently high, regardless of volume.

Yes, we are confident in the expertise of our UK English editors. We are happy to offer a sample edit on a short section of your manuscript or a pilot project to demonstrate our commitment to quality and consistency before engaging in a full partnership.

We thrive on challenges

We’re known for our experience with complex and technical text. Our talented programmers welcome challenging typefaces, fonts, symbols, languages, formulas, graphs and tables.

You can trust our expertise, diligence, and professionalism to make your project a seamless operation.

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What our clients love about us

Shahid and his team treated me and my publishing project as if they were their most important responsibility, even though I knew my book was a very small job for them. The level of detail, passion for their work, and professionalism they brought was impressive, and I felt throughout our engagement that I was in the very best of hands. The outcome is a beautiful book that meets all of my publishing needs perfectly, and presents me in a truly sophisticated way.

Shahid and his team have earned my highest esteem and recommendation.

Lisa Petrilli

Founder & CEO Higher Conscious Leadership LLC

I am very grateful to my friend Geoff Hudson- Searle, who introduced me to Shahid Chowdhary, Founder and CEO of Siliconchips Services.

Shahid’s personal touch, along with his dedicated team, pulled together My “Tall Tree Sculpture Series” manuscript into an outstanding digital book. As an artist, I was amazed with how they edited and enhanced my artistic visions.

Thank you for your expertise and patience in making the numerous changes and revisions to bring this project to fruition.

Liam Herbert

Visionary Artist

We recently worked with Siliconchips Services for the editing and publication of my daughter’s book, and we were very pleased with the experience.

The team was professional, responsive, and helpful throughout the process. They provided thoughtful editorial input and helped us navigate the publishing steps with clarity and care. We appreciated their attention to detail and the respect they showed for the original work.

The final result was of high quality, and we’re happy with how everything turned out. I would gladly recommend Siliconchips Services to anyone looking for reliable and supportive publishing assistance.

Dr. Nilu Mammadova

I would just like to thank Shahid and his colleagues who helped me out on a very difficult editorial and design issue that I had. I couldn’t figure out how to get round a particular problem that I had and I was delighted to say that Shahid and his team were able to advise a way forward, and resolved it quickly and very efficiently. I have always found Siliconchips services to be highly professional and accurate, and I look forward to working with them again soon.

Bruce Nicholson

Editor, Oxford

“I have been working with Siliconchips for six years now as the editor of a scholarly journal that publishes 140 articles per yer. Our articles demand careful attention to the detail of graphs, tables, typefaces, and symbols. I am very satisfied with the high level of quality that Siliconchips brings to the typographical challenges posed by our articles. Their copy-editing and typesetting services are first-rate. The team is fast, diligent and resilient. All queries are answered within 24h, and accurately incorporated into the final proofs. The team is patient, courteous and precise with even the most demanding tasks. It is a real pleasure to be able to work with such professionals.”

PROF. DO. JOHN ROORYCK

Editor-in-Chief, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

“We have been working with Shahid Chowdhary for a number of years and the service has been exemplary. Over that time we have had numerous books typeset, with content ranging from simple to complex and that includes recreating engineering books from old files are a data loss. We also put all our eBook conversions to Shahid. In all they do, under the emanating from Shahid’s leadership, Siliconchips is totally professional, timely and observant – all the qualities a publisher needs! Whatever your size and requirement, don’t hesitate to make that call or send that e-mail to Siliconchips.”

KEITH WHITTLE

MD, Whittles Publishing

“I am delighted to have Shahid as a friend and mentor. He is a superb professional in the digital publishing space. He helped me transform my two ebooks for digital selling. Highly recommend for any such projects. You will find him available and always humble to help you.”

HAMMAD SIDDIQUI

“Oneworld Publications have used Siliconchips as one of our main typesetters (both for print and ebooks) for a number of years, and we have always found their service to be excellent, professional, accurate and fast.”

Team, Oneworld Publications

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Umesh Nair

International Executive with focus on Global Growth -20 years working experience in Germany, Singapore, India,Asia, Middle East, Switzerland, Europe across a cultural multi-functional environment.

Specialties: Business Strategy & International partnerships, Global Alliances network in Startup, Technology,Airlines, Aviation, Travel, online travel, E-commerce Business, Luxury Retail, BPO, b2b, ERP Software BusinessDevelopment – Sales, Go to Market, Growth Specialist, Incubation, Entrepreneur in Residence, Senior ClientPartner, Consulting, Market Research – Coleman Research, Lynk Global, Guidepoint, Insight Alpha, GersonLehrman Group.

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Mr. Manoj Mehta

Mr. Manoj Mehta, is a Science Graduate and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), practicing as a Chartered Accountant since 1984. He had the great opportunity to complete his article training with M/s. S.V.Ghatalia & Co. (now part of E&Y, one of the big four Consulting Firms in India).

He has got vast experience of 40 years in the profession. His core strength is in the field of Finance, as a Corporate Advisor to public, private and multinational companies in the field of financial planning, raising debt and equity, structuring,  etc. His forte is strategic business and financial planning, compliances, deployment of funds, optimum utilization, budgeting, Preparation and analyzing of qualitative Project feasibility reports, anything and everything related to advising on financial decision making.

He holds trusteeship of a few charitable trust to show his philanthropy side.

He has held leadership roles and has been in the forefront in articulating values and beliefs in a team building approach.

Manoj Mehta

Paul Evans

Dr Paul Evans has a long career in publishing in STM and business sectors since graduating from Oxford University and first working as a computer programmer. He worked for Reed Elsevier in a variety of roles for nearly 25 years (in UK, Netherlands and China) up to, in later years, Senior Vice President at the global headquarters in Amsterdam. He then became Managing Director for SAGE Publishing’s Asia Pacific company at its hub in Singapore for 7 years, doubling its size and performance. Latterly he was for three years Director of Nature Research China with Springer Nature in Shanghai and an adviser to the Chinese government for his industry, and then on return to the UK during Covid he has worked for Maverick Publishing Specialists as a consultant and Charlesworth Publishing Services as Director of Partnerships.

He has also taken a strong interest in education initially as a teacher in Japan, as a lecturer and course leader in Publishing Studies at a Scottish university, and now in working in UK education areas.

Paul Evans - Non Executive Director

Bharath Ramadoss

Head of Production and Operations, has been with Siliconchips since 2015. In his time with us, he has managed a team of dedicated and experienced production team members, both in books, journals development.

A graduate of University of Madras, Bharath has a strong experience in quality, complex workflows in the publishing industry. His skill set includes e-publishing, project and team management, XML and HTML, content development, workflow improvement, and now working closely with technology team and developing various tools and platforms.

He enjoys cricket, and you will find him playing every Saturday.

Bharath-R

Becca Mosher

Becca Mosher, US Editorial Project Manager, helped to develop the Siliconchips editorial department in 2015, and her team continues to grow. A graduate of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Missouri – Columbia, Becca has been in the publishing industry since 2007, where she has specialized in e-book project management, editorial management, and editing in a wide variety of styles at all levels, from proofreading to developmental editing. She is proficient in several languages and adept at client relations.

An avid board gamer, Becca teaches different games at a “Learn to Play” night once a week.

becca

Abhijit Pathre

Abhijit Pathre, our Director of Account Management, manages data, accounts, delivery and operations, and maintains client relationships. He is highly experienced in the technology field and possesses excellent communication and problem-resolution skills; prior to joining Siliconchips Services, he was with Hutchison Global Services, working in 3G, and Goldshield Business Solutions, a UK-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm.

He leads with a humbleness that compels the team to follow his direction. His firm commitment and his vast fifteen-year experience spanning various industries contribute to his essential role as a member of the Siliconchips Services team in India.

Abhijit

Shahid Chowdhary

Shahid Chowdhary began Siliconchips Services in London in September 2010, with one basic idea: to build an organisation committed to value-based leadership and promoting a culture of trust, transparency, integrity and mutual respect.

Shahid received his graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Srinagar and his post-graduate in Marketing and Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai – both leading engineering and business schools in India and he was certified by Baan in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He has acquired numerous professional qualifications in innovation, strategy and leadership development throughout his career, including Leadership Management Institute (LMI) in the US and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) in London. Over the years he has worked with various multinational companies in India, the US and the UK, including engineering, software development and publishing companies.

Shahid is the driving force behind Siliconchips Services; he focuses on new markets, business development, human resources development and planning for the continued growth of the company. He unites his teams across borders, and encourages a cohesive working community to give our clients a professional and pleasant experience with Siliconchips Services.

Over the weekends, Shahid spends time with his two daughters, practicing martial arts, and volunteering at the stables for his love of horses.

Shahid Chowdhary