Manuscript Submission
Checklist
PRENTICE HALL COLLEGE DIVISION,
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY 07632
Author. It is necessary for
you to complete this form and return it with your manuscript.
Title___________________________________________
Author_________________________________________
- If more than one author, who will be the contact author (the
one who will review edited manuscript and proofs)?
- Should materials be sent to the contact author's home or office?
- If you plan to travel during the next year, please let us
know as soon as possible and send us an itinerary. Such plans
may affect the scheduling of your book
Office address of contact author.__________________________Phone______________
Home address of contact author___________________________Phone______________
- Please indicate what kind of word processor or personal computet
has been used to keyboard your manuscript:
REMINDER OF A FEW BASICS
1.Please reread your Authors Guide and your Authors
Guide to Electronic Manuscripts.
2.Please send us original manuscript and keep a duplicate
for yourself. Make sure any changes made on the original are
also marked on your duplicate.
3 Please send sample disk for one chapter (or more) along with
corresponding hard copy, for testing immediately.
4 All manuscript pages should be 81/2 x 1 1. If tear sheets (pages
removed from other books) are used for revisions, they should
be pasted up on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
5.Type (do not write) on only one side of the page.
6.Type double-spaced.
7. Send a complete manuscript including such things as questions,
glossary, and preface.
8. Return this completed form with your manuscript
Check the elements that are included in your manuscript
Title page _____________ Quotations in text____________Answers_______________
Dedication_____________ in chapter openings__________ Glossary_______________
Table of contents_________Bibliography ______________ Foreword_______________
Footnotes______________ Illustrations________________(written
by another)
Questions______________ Figure captions_____________ Preface________________
References ___________ Acknowledgments___________ Appendices____________
- If any element that you've checked is not with the manuscript
or is not complete, please list the element below and indicate
when the missing material will be sent.
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- Is any portion of the text such as part of a chapter, not
included? If so, please indicate what is missing.
Will your book include an index? Yes_____No_____ If yes will you
compile it?Yes_____ No_____ Or should we engage a professional
indexer and charge the fee against your royalties? Yes_____No______
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Number of line drawings______Number of photographs________
- Is position of illustrations indicated in the manuscript?
Yes___ No____
- Will any illustrations be reproduced directly from copy you
have provided? Yes____No____ (For example, are you planning to
use art from previous editions? _______from other books you have
written?_______ or from books or articles by other authors?______
If you have a reproducible copy of an illustration, please send
us that and not a duplicate.
PERMISSIONS
- Please check pages 7-18 of the Authors Guide to determine
what types of material require permission. Check if your manuscript
is accompanied by the following:
Completed Permissions Checklist___________
Complete permissions file________________
- Please indicate if your manuscript contains the following
elements that have been taken from other sources and require permission:
Quotations: Poetry ______________________
in text__________ Music ______________________
in chapter openings_______ Song Lyrics_______________________
Tables/charts/maps_________ Letters____________________________
Illustrations_______________Business and/or court cases_____________
Readings_________________Photographs__________________________
- If a permissions agreement is not on hand for any element
that you've checked, please list the element below and indicate
if permission has been requested.
- Do any of your photographs contain recognizable faces?_______________
If so, have you obtained releases from the subjects?___________________
- Where you have obtained per-mission to reproduce material,
what type of rights have you been granted? North American_____World
in English_____ Worid in all languages________ If you are not
sure of the type of rights you need, please check with your acquisitions
editor.
.NOTE.- Permissions for material being reused in a second
or subsequent edition must be renegotiated if they were limited
to a specific edition. Please see page 100 of the Author's
Guide.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Author: In order to register, the copyight for
your book, we are equired to furnish the Libray of Congress with
the information requested below. Please complete and sign this
form.
Title_______________________________
Author(s)_____________________________
_________________ _____________ ____________
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Name of Author Date of Birth Date of
Death Citizenship
(if applicable)
________________ _______________ ____________ ___________
_________________ _______________ _____________ ____________
Year in which creation of this work was completed: if original
work______
if revision___________
1. Identify (by providing the following information) any preexisting
work or works that your book is based on or incorporates. (This
does not refer to short excerpts quoted from other works for which
permission has been or will be obtained.)
Title:_____________________________
Author(s):_________________________
Publisher:_________________________
Year of Publication:__________________
2.Date of copyright registration certificate number, and name
of copyright claim of any and all earlier version(s) of the work
(if not previously copyrighted by Prentice Hall). Please
furnish us with copies of any earlier versions, the copyright
certificate, assignment of copyright, and the termination agreement
with the previous publisher for all prior editions; also send
us the permission file from the previous publisher.
3. For revisions: Give a brief general statement of the
material that has been added and in
which copyright is claimed.
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