After you submit your final, complete manuscript, your editor prepares it to begin the production process. When the production process begins, the original manuscript and disk are sent to the copyediting department for editing. The production department uses the second copy of the manuscript for book design. In copyediting, the manuscript is carefully read, edited, and marked for the typesetter. The copy editor examines the manuscript for spelling, grammar, consistency, cross-referencing, unclear or ambiguous sentence structure, and style.
Style includes capitalization, punctuation, hyphenation, treatment of numbers, and so on.
See the Appendix for copyediting style information. At the same time, the copy editor marks the manuscript for the typesetter by identifying the different text elements. The manuscript is then returned to you with queries from the copy editor. You will be given two to three weeks to examine the copyediting, answer queries, and return the manuscript. Do not erase or obliterate the editing marks on the manuscript .