journal-copyeditor-docx

Comprehensive academic journal copyediting and manuscript review for Microsoft Word (.docx) files across disciplines and target journals. Use when the user asks to proofread, line-edit, polish, revise, redline, or prepare a manuscript with tracked changes, editor comments, a clean accepted copy, PDF review copy, and a structured editorial report. The skill preserves existing formatting, revisions, comments, citation fields, equations, tables, figures, footnotes, and document structure while auditing language, argument logic, construct terminology, methods, statistical reporting, citation-refer

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Lightly copyedit an academic DOCX

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Use journal-copyeditor-docx to perform a light copyedit of [PATH/TO/MANUSCRIPT.docx]. Preserve the document's formatting and existing revisions and comments, make the edits with tracked changes, and use a journal-neutral academic profile unless I provide a target journal.

Required inputs

Replace [PATH/TO/MANUSCRIPT.docx] with the path to the manuscript copy to edit.
Optionally provide the target journal, discipline, article type, English variety, citation style, reviewer name and initials, and desired deliverables.

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