The sentence (suitably disguised for confidentiality) stopped me in my tracks: "The absence of pregnancy and lactation may explain the...

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

In my post Researcher Name Coincidence, I quoted from the book Academia Obscura by Glen Wright: As part of a long-running bet, five...

The difference between summation and sum should be clear enough: summation is the process of adding, whereas a sum is the result of the...

On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

Last year I was editing a report for a major international consulting organization. There were several co-authors, and the review...

This should not happen, because Word automatically renumbers the remaining footnotes if a footnote is deleted. I have experienced this...

This email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...

I spend a lot of time Googling while editing; it's an integral part of working with scientific material. To speed up the search, I use...

It seemed simple enough. The style called for figure captions to be placed above figures (in fact, they were even called figure titles),...

This is a terribly worded public health message that seems to be spreading like a virus: it is now appended to routine SMSs from public...

Double punctuation is ugly, but unavoidable sometimes. For example, it appears in dialogue: He said, "I try to avoid double punctuation."...

I edit PDF documents using Acrobat Reader DC, a free tool. It generally works flawlessly, but which complex piece of software is bug...

The deadline was near, and I had to copy a table the author had sent into the main document. A routine task—except that the table would...

The books I edit arrive as separate Word files, one for each chapter. I cannot recall ever receiving a book as a single file. For one...

The typo is the bane of the copyeditor. However careful I am, I'll invariably find a handful during my final read. It could be an extra...