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Public Documentation – A Punctum Vademecum
Public documentation about punctum books's review and submission process and the punctum books style guide.
Monograph Guidelines
Author guidelines for the submission of monographs.
Edited Collection Guidelines
Editor guidelines for the submission of edited.
Style Guide
Follow Chicago Manual of Style, notes and bibliography style, 18th edition (CMoS), with the specifications listed below. If a style question is not answered here, please use CMoS as the first default authority (with Merriam-Webster online for considerations of...
About Submitting Your Manuscript
About Our Book Production Process
Everything you may want to know about our book production process, from contract to promotion. Different aspects are covered on the different pages, the FAQ collects questions we often receive and is constantly updated.
Subscriptions and Invoicing
How to manage your subscription and deal with invoices.
Scripts
Different types of scripts to extract data here and there.
FAQ
Our frequently asked questions. If anything is not clear in our documentation, you may find it here!
Service Portfolio Management (SPM)
Configuration Management (CONFM)
Supplier Relationship Management (SUPPM)
Service Reporting Management (SRM)
Policy Library
Incident and Service Request Management (ISRM)
Problem Management (PM)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Script Library
Service Component Library
Procedure Library
Weekly Procedures
Administration
Book Publication
Metrics
Configuration Management Database
Open Source Software
There is a number of open source software platforms that we deploy at punctum books. We list them below.
Manuscript Submission and Review
Copyediting
Typesetting
Proofing
Outreach
Hosting
Journal Publication
Supplier Database
Library Metrics Report
Activity and Financial Report
Employee Handbook
This Employee Handbook is a living document, chronicling the ways in which punctum books as a company operates vis-à-vis its employees.
Standard Production Deadlines
Incidents
Service Requests
Known Error Database
1. Preparing the Manuscript Files
If you are seeking to submit a manuscript to be considered for publication, please go here. Please read these guidelines entirely. Failure to follow them will result in your manuscript being returned and delays in production. 1.1 Create a folder on your comp...
2. On Our House Style
Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.
3. Manuscript Check and Cover Design
3.1 You have sent us the folder containing your completed manuscript. We will check the contents against our submission guidelines, and do a rough check of the contents so we can pick out any major editorial issues, such as related to orthography, referencing ...
4. Copyediting
4.1 Once we have agreed on a cover design a few months will pass as your book works itself up along the queue. About three months before the expected launch date, we start copyediting. 4.2 Depending on the length, style, nature, and format of your book and a ...
6. Publicity and Promotion
6.1 Your book has been a designed PDF for a while now. Everyone has tried to squash errors. It is about to be published. We need to think a bit about publicity and promotion. How will readers find out about your book? 6.2 It is imperative that you work closel...
7. Publication Day
7.1 Publication can happen abruptly, but we will try to let you know the day of its coming a few weeks in advance. Although we generally get books published within 10-12 months from the time of final submission of the manuscript, there are many twists and tur...
1. Preparing the Manuscript Files
If you are seeking to submit a manuscript to be considered for publication, please go here. Please read these guidelines entirely. Failure to follow them will result in your manuscript being returned and delays in production. 1.1 Create a folder on your comp...
2. On Our House Style
Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.
4. Copyediting
4.1 Once we have agreed on a cover design a few months will pass as your book works itself up along the queue. About three months before the expected launch date, we start copyediting. 4.2 Depending on the length, style, nature, and format of your book and a ...
6. Publicity and Promotion
6.1 Your book has been a designed PDF for a while now. Everyone has tried to squash errors. It is about to be published. We need to think a bit about publicity and promotion. How will readers find out about your book? 6.2 It is imperative that you work closel...
7. Publication Day
7.1 Publication can happen abruptly, but we will try to let you know the day of its coming a few weeks in advance. Although we generally get books published within 10-12 months from the time of final submission of the manuscript, there are many twists and tur...
Monthly Accounting
Stripe Payouts Stripe does a monthly payout, but this amount does not correspond logically to any subset of payments. Therefore, the following procedure is set up: In Stripe, for the pertinent month download the full report Select Reports from left menu (...
Weekly Accounting
Quickbooks check
Quarterly Accounting
Generate Quarterly Report At the end of each quarter, enter the numbers from Reports > Profit and Loss > Last Quarter from Quickbooks into the prognosis Google spreadsheet. File AZ unemployment tax Here: https://uitws.azdes.gov/ This is not done automat...
Yearly Accounting
Tax filing
How To Submit Your Manuscript for Review
In 2025 punctum is pausing manuscript submissions, and we will reopen submissions in 2026. Read more about this decision here. punctum books welcomes submissions from academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, ...
Will I Be Charged for Publishing?
punctum is one of the very few Open Access (OA) presses in the world that does not charge what are known as Book Processing Charges (BPCs), because we feel they are inherently anti-democratic and exacerbate the historic inequities of academic publishing, yet t...
Submitting Your Manuscript through an Imprint
If you are interested in publishing with one of our Imprints, such as Brainstorm Books, Dead Letter Office, or 3Ecologies (among others), contact that Imprint’s director(s) or editor(s). Imprints follow and manage their own manuscript review and acceptance pro...
Proof Correction
You have received the draft PDF of the interior of your book, we're getting close to publication now! You will have received a link to the PDF in our Nextcloud. When you open it, it will look like this: Click to download the file in the upper right corner. ...
Federal Taxes
Federal Taxes are paid through the EFTPS System https://www.eftps.gov/eftps/. After login via id.me, provide the form number and amount for payment. This should be automatically deducted from our Montecito bank account, which has been connected to the system. ...