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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

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Book Publication

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Metrics

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Configuration Management Database

Configuration Management (CONFM)

Open Source Software

About Our Book Production Process

There is a number of open source software platforms that we deploy at punctum books. We list them below.

Manuscript Submission and Review

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Copyediting

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Typesetting

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Proofing

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Outreach

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Hosting

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Journal Publication

Service Portfolio Management (SPM)

Service

Supplier Database

Supplier Relationship Management (SUPPM)

Library Metrics Report

Service Reporting Management (SRM)

Activity and Financial Report

Service Reporting Management (SRM)

Employee Handbook

Policy Library

This Employee Handbook is a living document, chronicling the ways in which punctum books as a company operates vis-à-vis its employees.

Policy

Standard Production Deadlines

Policy Library

Policy

Incidents

Incident and Service Request Management...

Service Requests

Incident and Service Request Management...

Known Error Database

Problem Management (PM)

1. Preparing the Manuscript Files

Monograph Guidelines

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

Monograph Guidelines

Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.

3. Manuscript Check and Cover Design

Edited Collection Guidelines

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

Monograph Guidelines

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

Monograph Guidelines

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

Monograph Guidelines

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

Edited Collection Guidelines

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

Edited Collection Guidelines

Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.

4. Copyediting

Edited Collection Guidelines

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

Edited Collection Guidelines

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

Edited Collection Guidelines

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

Monthly Procedures

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

Weekly Procedures

Quickbooks check

Quarterly Accounting

Quarterly Procedures

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

Annual Procedures

Tax filing

How To Submit Your Manuscript for Review

About Submitting Your Manuscript

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?

About Submitting Your Manuscript

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

About Submitting Your Manuscript

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

About Our Book Production Process

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

Annual Procedures

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. ...