Editing services

At American Journal Experts, we understand the importance of publishing your research in the absolute best journal possible. In an environment where your reputation depends on the written word, it is essential to present the best possible manuscript to the scientific community. AJE allows you to concentrate on your research, not your English skills, by bringing you in contact with our subject-expert editors. An editor from your field will read and edit your manuscript so that it will be ready for the top English language journals.

AJE editing services include:
  • correcting spelling, grammatical, punctuation errors
  • checking for problems in parallelisms, tense, and conjugations
  • eliminating improper language and poor word choice
  • making your document sound natural and professional
  • understanding the science behind your document
  • conforming to British or American English

AJE editing services do NOT include:
  • changing the formatting of the document, word count changes or adhering to a specific style sheet
  • editing for research content - that is the job of the journal's peer reviewers
  • translation from a foreign language - our editors are native speakers and are not translators
  • verifying, editing or formatting references
  • writing, rewriting or paraphrasing any part of the document

Two levels of service

To accommodate the needs of various clients, AJE offers two levels of service. Most researchers will be satisfied with our Standard Document Proofing, which for years was our only level of service. Thousands of customers have come to rely on our Standard document proofing for comprehensive English-language editing. We also offer a Premium document editing service to cater to a small number of customers who desire a more in-depth edit. Read the descriptions below to decide which service is the best fit for you.

Standard document proofing

Our standard document proofing is done by one subject-expert editor and approved by a managing editor. The two editors working on your document will focus on correcting spelling, grammar, usage and punctuation errors. They will change improper language and suggest alternate phrasing when poor wording is used. The editors will alter sentences that sound awkward or unnatural and may point out portions of your document that are vague, confusing or simply need to be rewritten.

Premium document editing

Our premium document editing (PDE) is performed by two subject expert editors and approved by a managing editor. In this process, the first subject editor provides the same type of editing as our Standard document proofing. The second editor will then re-edit the document, checking for omissions and offering more nuanced suggestions for language improvement. Our second round of editing places additional emphasis on the overall flow and sound of the document. With PDE, you can expect more suggestions regarding the finer points of language and style. Furthermore, the use of an additional editor inherently produces a more thorough editing of the document.

Our PDE service also incorporates an editing summary: a short document that assesses the editing performed on your manuscript and addresses any concerns or comments the editors may have.

Our guarantee

We stand behind the quality of our work and are confident that our editing will improve your chances of publication. If your manuscript is rejected from publication for reasons of English alone, and we believe that you have made a good faith effort to incorporate our changes, we will reedit your manuscript for free.

If you have any complaints about the quality of our work, please see how to file a complaint.

Unfortunately we cannot promise to re-edit manuscripts that undergo rewriting after our editors have performed their revisions. For that reason, we suggest that you submit your manuscript to us in its final form, just before you send it to the journal. If you have made significant revisions to your manuscript and wish to have AJE proofread these again, it will be considered a re-edit and will receive a 20% discount off of another round of editing. Learn more about re-edits.

Editing certificate

AJE will provide a certificate confirming that your paper was edited by a native English speaker at AJE and, assuming all of the changes we proposed are incorporated into the manuscript, is ready for journal submission. It will allow journal editors to feel confident that the English language in your paper has been reviewed and verified. Not every paper will earn a certificate, but every paper will have the opportunity. Learn more about the certificate program.

Editing tools

AJE accepts submissions in two forms: Microsoft Word Documents (preferred) and text documents. Once we receive your submission, we use a tool built into Microsoft Word called 'Track Changes' to edit your document. This feature is present in all Microsoft Word editions under the 'Tools' bar. After we edit your submission, you will get a finished document back that shows you the changes we suggest. If you open your finished document in Microsoft Word, you will have the option of accepting or rejecting any changes that we have suggested. Therefore, if for some reason you disagree with one of our suggestions, you have the option to accept all of the edits but the one you dislike. For more suggestions to help you make the best use of our service, please visit our submission suggestions for authors.

Editing sample

The best way to explain the service AJE provides is to show you an example. Here is a sample paragraph from a manuscript that AJE would receive:

Sample unedited text

Our editors would read this paragraph and return it with their suggestions in the following form:

Sample text after undergoing editing
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Satisfied AJE Clients
Gregor Cevc · Germany

I was very content with the quality and speed of your editorial process, which left the original text meaning unchanged but provided a linguistic comfort-level that would be more difficult or (time)expensive to reach without your help.

Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva · Brazil

In 2006 I sent a paper for publication and one of the referees made the following criticism: "In general the quality of the written English is poor, colloquial, and verbose. It is not always possible to decipher the authors' meaning". The paper was refused. I sent the same paper, after submitting to American Journal experts, to other Journal, and the editor said "This paper is well written with good English". After that, I always send my papers to American Journal experts before submitting to a Journal.

Jae Cho · South Korea

I am almost new user of this service. But since I met this good friend, American Journal Experts, I have really satisfied at all my submissions. Now, in fact, this web site plays a critical role in improving my scientific story. This is the reason why I am strongly recommending this website to my friends. -Jae Youl Cho, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea

Silvia Dias · Brazil

I was expecting a good job, but actually the job was much better. As a result, my paper was accepted. - Professor Silvia Dias

Orkun Muftuoglu · Turkey

Unlike other services with unrelated people, AJE finds you the editor in your field.

Zhang Jinghong · China

I have been using AJE for my paper since January 2007.I first heard your service in June 2006.It is well known that there are urgent need in version my and our college classmates in respective paper which are going to publish the journal. However, my research is novel and interesting, but my language is poor. No matter how can I try my best ,the result is "reject", this only reason was I was not a native speaker. The most important is I could hardly find a company to help me. Some bad service in another company make me unsatisfied. Today I was encourage by my friend to resubmit to AJE .I am very satisfied your assistance. I decided to resubmit my second paper for AJE. Thanks very much.