Content

• No text missing or repeated

​Spelling and Capitalization

• Proper nouns, common words, special terms, trademarks, brand names properly spelled / capitalized 

• Abbreviations, shortened forms properly spelled / capitalized; defined on first use 

• Proper capitalization following a colon  

​Punctuation

• No punctuation missing, duplicated, or misplaced 

• Apostrophes used only for possessives or missing letters, not plurals

• Apostrophes and quotation marks face the correct way 

• Parentheses, brackets, quotation marks always in pairs (opening and closing)

• Spacing around em dashes and ellipses consistent 

Hyphenation

• Words correctly hyphenated 

• Correct word division (end-of-line hyphenation)

• No hyphen stacks (more than 2-3 consecutive lines ending in hyphens or dashes)

Word and Line Spacing 

• Words separated by only one space

• End punctuation, commas followed by only one space 

• No orphans or widows (too-short line at end of paragraph or beginning of page)

• No tight or loose lines (no “rivers”)

• Pleasing rag in rag-right copy

Titles and Headers / Footers

• Alignment of and spacing above/below titles, subtitles, headings consistent 

• Title, subtitles, headings, running headers / footers properly spelled / capitalized

• Verso (left) running headers / footers give document or chapter title 

• Recto (right) running headers / footers give chapter or section title 

Numbering 

• Sequence correct (consecutive) for chapters, pages, figures 

• Form (Arabic vs. Roman numerals) consistent

Table of Contents Cross-check 

• Entries exactly match wording and level of headings in document 

• Page numbers for entries match document (if applicable)

Images

• Images match surrounding text, are high resolution, and include caption and credit information

• Tables are logical and have no typos