General | Editorial Services

Common Ground Research Networks, in partnership with Editage, presents Author Services intending to empower research careers by improving manuscript quality according to global scientific communication standards.

Founded in 2002, Editage is a leading consumer technology business helping researchers improve the speed and impact of their research. Editage has served over 250,000 researchers and doctors across 173 countries and transformed over one million research papers across 1,200 disciplines. Editage is a division of Cactus Communications, a global science communication organization that collaborates with STEM, life sciences, social sciences, and humanities researchers, universities, publishers, and organizations to accelerate research impact.

Find out more about the services we offer below:

To use Common Ground’s Full Editing Service, authors must contact the Publishing Department for a Price Quote.

Services and Responsibilities

Description of Services

The cost for full editing is calculated at $0.05 USD per word. When an article receives full editing services, one of our freelance editors will:

  • Correct spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors in the full article, abstract, and author biographies.
  • Revise articles for clarity, readability, logic, awkward word choice, and phrasing. 
  • Check and correct typos and formatting inconsistencies.
  • Confirm the use of British or American English.
  • Change references to confirm proper use of the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition.
  • Check that in-text citations are included in the reference list. 
  • Indicate if a citation in the reference list does not appear in-text. 
  • Verify the correct year of in-text citations to the corresponding references.
  • Verify the correct/consistent spelling of names for in-text citations for the corresponding references.

Author’s Responsibilities

The following is not included with Common Ground’s full editing services and is the responsibility of the author(s):

  • Adding content to the article (developmental editing).
  • Ensuring that all material is properly cited and that direct quotations are indicated using quotation marks.
  • Formatting the article in our typesetting template. 
  • Formatting tables and figures in the article.
  • Obtaining source permissions for tables, figures, and/or images.
  • Fact-checking citations in the reference list.

Editing Service Terms and Conditions

If an article that we have edited is rejected by a Common Ground journal on purely English language grounds, you can receive either a full refund or have your manuscript re-edited free of charge. However, if you make alterations to your article after we edit it or choose not to accept our recommended revisions, you are not eligible for a refund or free re-editing. Your article will be edited within fourteen to twenty-one business days. While arranging for editorial services and while your article is with the copy editor, any deadlines related to this article will be extended.

Please note that this service is not mandatory for publication in a Common Ground journal. Using this service does not guarantee acceptance for publication, nor are you obliged to submit your edited manuscript to a Common Ground journal. Please note that we take academic integrity seriously. By submitting your article to our editing services, we trust that the material you have submitted is based entirely on original material. If plagiarism is found after an article has gone through our editing services, you waive the right to a refund. If plagiarism is found and your article has been uploaded to our system, the article will be withdrawn from the publication process, and future revisions of this article and any article submitted by you will be ineligible for submission to our journals and our editing services.

Step 1: Price Quote

To express interest in full editing, message your editorial contact (the person who is currently managing your article), or request a quote by opening a ticket.

  • You must login to your CGScholar account in order to submit a ticket.
  • Please select "Editorial Services" as the Topic, and include "Full Editing" in the Subject.
  • To assist our staff, kindly attach the article to the ticket as a doc or docx file.
  • A member of our Publishing Department will review your article and provide you with a quote.
  • Request a Quote / Open a ticket

Step 2: Payment & Service

Once you have received the quote for this service, we will provide instructions on how to submit payment.

  • After your payment has been successfully processed, we will assign one of our freelance editors to your article.
  • When your edits are complete, you will receive a copy of your edited article via email.
  • This typically takes between fourteen to twenty-one business days, depending on the size of the article and the extent of the edits.

Common Ground Research Networks is pleased to offer editing services for authors who would like to have their work professionally edited. Authors may request editing services prior to the initial submission of their article or request editing after completing the peer-review process. In some cases, peer reviewers may recommend professional editing as a condition of publication.


Did this solve your problem? Click ‘No’ to submit a support ticket