Contractual Copyeditor - Medicine and Life Sciences

Cactus Communications; Ernakulam; À distance; INR 300 000 - 540 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote within India

Contractual role

Renewable upon mutual consent

Résumé du poste

Cactus Communications is seeking copyeditors for a work-from-home contract role. You will join a team of subject-area experts and help ensure manuscripts meet high scholarly standards while maintaining flexibility.

Responsibilities include editing manuscripts for grammar, style, and clarity; applying journal guidelines; and crosschecking references and metadata. This role offers remote work within India with renewable contracts upon mutual consent.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Life Sciences is required.
• Experience in editing in any form is required.
• Proficiency in MS Word, specifically Track Changes and styling options.
• Familiarity with the AMA style guide is preferred.

Responsabilités

• Copy-edit manuscripts to ensure standard scientific English and readability.
• Ensure manuscripts meet journal guidelines and house style.
• Crosscheck metadata such as references, author affiliations, and callouts.

Connaissances

Editing experience

MS Word proficiency

AMA style guide familiarity

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Life Sciences

Outils

MS Word

Track Changes

Styling options

Description du poste

Are you looking for a stable work opportunity that does not require you to travel? At Cactus Communications, you can work among several highly skilled copyeditors who are experts in various academic fields. We're currently looking for Copyeditors on a work-from-home basis. This would be a contractual agreement, and renewable upon mutual consent. Work will be available regularly so that you can maintain a predictable schedule.

Job responsibilities

• Copy-edit manuscripts such that the final text is in standard scientific English: Edit academic and scientific manuscripts for grammar, punctuation, clarity, conciseness, logical flow, and overall readability, while preserving the author's intended meaning. Ensure that the language is appropriate for a global academic audience and meets the conventions of formal scientific writing.
• Make changes to ensure that the manuscript conforms to the journal's style requirements: Apply specific journal guidelines related to structure, formatting, referencing style, abbreviations, units of measure, and other stylistic conventions. Adapt manuscripts to match house style guides or individual journal requirements, ensuring consistency throughout the text, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.
• Crosscheck document metadata such as references using software tools: Review and verify key metadata elements such as in-text citations, reference lists, author affiliations, figure/table callouts, and other bibliographic details.

Qualifications and prerequisites

• A degree (min. bachelor's) in Medicine and Life Sciences
• Experience in editing in any form
• Proficiency in using MS Word, specifically, Track Changes and styling options
• Familiarity with the AMA style guide (preferred)

Benefits of this Role

• Work-from-anywhere flexibility: Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from any location within India.
• Access to industry insights: Get unlimited access to exclusive interviews with subject-matter experts, resources on emerging trends, and practical tips on academic writing and publishing through our internal platform.
• Global exposure: Gain insights into cutting-edge research from across the world and develop a deeper understanding of the fast-growing, multi-million-dollar scholarly publishing industry.