calling all english whizzes...

turboH
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:05:07 +0000

This is not a homework question. I’ve been asked to proofread/edit a research paper for submission to a scientific journal, and I’m not sure of the most efficient way to make a certain correction. There is a particular mistake that is made consistently throughout the paper; I want to say something like:

mistake correction; and make the same correction throughout the paper

How would an editor write this? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an elegant way to do this. Another example: in a quote where something is consistently misspelled, could the editor write (sic) for the first instance and then something like ff. to indicate that the same mistake is made throughout?

Thanks for any input.

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