Editorial Assistant: Manuscript Polish & Publishing Support

Crimson Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 3,800 - 5,600; Full time

Job summary

Crimson Interactive is seeking Editorial Assistants to work on scholarly manuscripts across multiple disciplines. You will ensure consistency, formatting accuracy, and adherence to publication standards, contributing to publication-ready documents.

You will support Academic Editors by enhancing author-facing communication and performing detailed quality checks, ensuring manuscripts align with style guides and journal requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and excellent language skills.
• Experience reviewing academic documents for consistency, formatting, and presentation.
• Ability to ensure manuscripts meet international publication standards.

Responsibilities

• Format documents in accordance with relevant style guides and journal specifications.
• Ensure consistency in citations, references, tables, figures, equations, abbreviations, terminology, and structure.
• Review manuscripts for formatting, presentation, and document-level inconsistencies.
• Enhance and refine author-facing comments for clarity and professionalism.
• Perform detailed quality checks to deliver publication-ready manuscripts.
• Verify adherence to internal editorial standards and client-specific requirements.
• Identify inconsistencies, missing elements, or formatting issues affecting quality.
• Support process improvements by documenting recurring issues for the editorial team.
• Work across manuscripts from diverse subject areas while maintaining turnaround expectations.

Job description

Crimson Interactive is seeking Editorial Assistants to work on scholarly manuscripts across multiple disciplines. You will ensure consistency, formatting accuracy, and adherence to publication standards, contributing to publication-ready documents.

You will support Academic Editors by enhancing author-facing communication and performing detailed quality checks, ensuring manuscripts align with style guides and journal requirements.