We don’t use contractors, students, or other editors to proofread or edit.

Andrea has extremely high standards and likes to make sure all of her editing and proofreading work meets these expectations.

Andrea lives in Northern Ireland, so her time zone is the same as London, UK (GMT 0).

We aim to reply to all emails and inquiries as soon as possible.

You can send a wide variety of documents, including (but not limited to):

Please provide the figures and tables for journal papers and dissertations, if possible.

It is much easier to fully understand your research if the display items are included (even in an early draft form).

Sending the figures also ensures your Results and Discussion sections and your Figure and Table captions/legends accurately reflect the data in your figures and tables.

If you select our select Intensive Interactive Editing service, Andrea will also make suggestions for improvements to your figures and tables, if necessary.

Andrea will check everything in your file, except for the reference list.

However, if you select our Intensive Interactive Editing service, Andrea will check whether the reference list and in-text citations are formatted correctly (i.e., according to the journal’s instructions to authors or your university’s thesis guidelines).

You can also Andrea to only check some sections of your file; e.g. edit the Introduction, Results, and Discussion, but not the Methods.

The details of basic proofreading and intensive interactive editing services are provided above.

If you are not sure which level of editing is required, Andrea will be happy to advise you.

Please write your email address in the inquiry box above or below these FAQs. This will take you to a form, where you can provide the details of your project. We will contact you to discuss your specific requirements.

We have several easy options for payment.

We can send you a secure electronic invoice (from either Stripe or Paypal, major global payment gateways) that you can pay using a credit card.

You can also pay by direct bank transfer. If you choose to pay by direct bank transfer, we will send you the necessary information.

For customers in China, we are working on integrating an option for Alipay. In the meantime, customers in China can successfully pay using Paypal invoices.

We can also accept purchase payments from your institution. We can provide a .pdf quote, which you can use to obtain a purchase order from your payments department.

We will begin editing your documents once the payment has been processed or a purchase order has been arranged.

Our prices are very reasonable compared to most other respected English language editing services.

Beware of services that offer very cheap editing; these services generally use graduate students who may not have very good English or may not have any experience in science or academic publishing.

When you choose Science Editing Experts, your files will only be edited by Andrea Devlin, PhD. Andrea has extensive laboratory experience as a PhD student and postdoc, has published multiple papers based on her own research, and has successfully edited and proofread over 1500 journal manuscripts/dissertations.

We provide a high quality service that includes feedback on your manuscript and a money- back guarantee.

Please contact us at support@scienceeditingexperts.com to discuss a discount for your lab group or very large files (10,000 words or more).

Your document will be returned by email within seven days if you choose regular seven-day turnaround and within three days if you choose an express three-day turnaround.

We can send you a secure electronic invoice (from either Stripe or Paypal, major global payment gateways) that you can pay using a credit card.

To avoid unnecessary delays, please check your email regularly in case we need to ask you a question.

Special rush order rates (e.g. 24 h turnaround) are available, if arranged in advance.

If you’d like to avail of this option, please tell us more about your project by writing your email address in the inquiry box above or below these FAQs.

This will take you to a short form where you can provide the details of your project. We will contact you to discuss your specific requirements and timeline.

To avoid unnecessary delays, please check your email regularly in case we need to ask you a question.

Yes, of course! Just let me know you’d like a certificate when placing your order.

There is no charge for a certificate of editing.

I know it can be difficult to choose a scientific editor. That's why I make a really important promise: if you're not happy with the editing, you can have your money back!

In the unlikely event that you are not happy with the changes, I will work with you to edit the file again.

I’m confident you'll be happy — none of my customers have asked for their money back yet!

There are many factors that determine whether a journal will review or accept a manuscript, whether you’ll pass your defense, or whether you’ll secure a grant.

Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee any of these things, as I cannot control the quality of the science in your manuscript.

However, if you choose to use Science Editing Experts, I guarantee that your work will not be rejected due to a poor quality of English.

In the unlikely event that the journal reviewers claim that your file needs to be proofread or needs to be polished, we will work with you to address these issues, provide a certificate of editing, and write a strong rebuttal for you.

(I often see our clients from non-English speaking countries receive these unfair suggestions — so I’m happy to help you stamp out this unfairness!)

This depends on the extent of the changes you make to the paper.

If the changes were quite minor (a few small sentences, changes in a few words), Andrea would be happy to edit and check your changes for free, so long as you highlight those changes in the file so she can find them easily.

If the whole paper had to be re-written or you needed to add large sections of new text, there would be a charge for the new editing.

You can choose to have just your new text edited (using our original prices) or, if you would like the whole manuscript edited/proofread again, we offer a special re-edit.