Greater Chicago Midwest HERC

For regular and supplement issues of the journals, prepares manuscripts for publication, including screening electronic manuscript files for completeness and enforcing adherence to publication guidelines, working with authors to obtain usable figures, managing freelance copyeditors, proofreading, administering publication agreements and reprint orders, and coordinating supplement billing.â¯Â 

Maintains the journals♠style sheets (including periodic redesigns) and negotiates editorial changes with authors. 

Oversees the peer review process, including extensive author and reviewer correspondence, event tracking, paying honoraria, and peer review performance reporting.  

Manages editorial office operations, including issue preparation, copyediting, production, copyright and grants of permission, and selected marketing efforts, including coordination of rate setting. 

Provides reports to the editors detailing submissions statistics, editor and reviewer performance, and general trends in submission rates and turnaround times.  

Conducts long-term planning for all financial, style, and design aspects of the journals. 

Supports the journalsâ™ marketing efforts.â¯Â 

Prepares journals♠budgets and balance sheets and tracks expenses in University financial systems. 

Maintains relationships with outside vendors.

Works with minimal guidance to edit complex manuscripts and other forms of copy for grammar, punctuation, spelling, style, form, sentence structure, clarity, consistency and accuracy. Creates online and/or print versions of publications. Performs quality control checking at all stages of production for all written material in an editorial group. 

Provides expertise to designing and maintaining editing schedules and managing the proofreading, review, and correction of page proofs and additional proof stages. 

Performs other related work as needed.