Trusted by thousands of graduate students and researchers across New Zealand, Australia and internationally, we specialise in preparing theses, dissertations, and journal articles for submission. With in-depth knowledge of university requirements and academic style guides, we can ensure your document is submission ready.
Why Choose Our Services?
Specialised Academic Expertise
Unlike general proofreading services, we specialise in academic work. Our team understands the unique requirements of theses, dissertations, and peer-reviewed publications.
More Than Just Corrections
We don't just fix errors—we enhance clarity, consistency, and professionalism throughout your document. The result? A polished, professional submission that reflects the quality of your research.
Quality You Can Trust
Every document goes through our rigorous quality control process. Your work is reviewed by experienced academic editors who are up to date with the latest style guides and academic conventions.
Save Time and Energy
Proofreading, formatting and referencing are time-consuming tasks and it's easy to get them wrong. We look after the technical precision so you can focus your time and energy on your research.
Proofreading services include:
- Correcting all spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
- Ensuring subject-verb agreement and consistent verb tenses
- Fixing capitalisation and standardising terminology throughout
- Checking and correcting hyphenation and compound words
- Flagging awkward phrasing and unclear sentences
- Identifying repetitive words and suggesting alternatives
- Highlighting instances of informal language
- Verifying all abbreviations are defined on the first use and the abbreviation is used thereafter
- Standardising formatting of numbers, dates, and units of measurement
- Ensuring your writing is clear, precise, and academically appropriate
Formatting services include:
- Compiling documents
- Setting correct page size, orientation, and margins according to guidelines
- Formatting headers and footers with required information
- Applying correct page numbering (including preliminary pages in Roman numerals if required)
- Applying consistent heading styles (Heading 1, 2, 3, etc.) with correct hierarchy
- Applying consistent paragraph styles to paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, and block quotes
- Formatting table borders, alignment and adjusting column widths and positioning for optimal readability
- Resizing and positioning figures
- Inserting correctly formatted and numbered captions for all tables, figures, etc.
- Generating an automatic table of contents and lists
Referencing services include:
- Reviewing/correcting in-text citations for accuracy and consistency
- Ensuring in-text citations have corresponding reference list entries
- Checking reference list entries are complete and correctly formatted
- Ensuring alphabetical/numerical ordering of references is correct
- Checking for duplicate or missing references
- Verifying DOIs, URLs, and other identifiers are correctly formatted
- Ensuring consistency in punctuation, capitalisation, and italicisation
- Updating reference software database (if required)
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Proofreading services include:
- Correcting all spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
- Ensuring subject-verb agreement and consistent verb tenses
- Fixing capitalization and standardising terminology throughout
- Checking and correcting hyphenation and compound words
- Flagging awkward phrasing and unclear sentences
- Identifying repetitive words and suggesting alternatives
- Highlighting instances of informal language
- Verifying all abbreviations are defined on the first use and the abbreviation is used thereafter
- Standardising formatting of numbers, dates, and units of measurement
- Ensuring your writing is clear, precise, and academically appropriate
Formatting services include:
- Setting correct page size, orientation, and margins according to guidelines
- Compiling documents
- Formatting headers and footers with required information
- Applying correct page numbering (including preliminary pages in Roman numerals if required)
- Applying consistent heading styles (Heading 1, 2, 3, etc.) with correct hierarchy
- Applying consistent paragraph styles to paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, and block quotes
- Formatting table borders, alignment and adjusting column widths and positioning for optimal readability
- Resizing and positioning figures appropriately
- Inserting correctly formatted and numbered captions for all tables, figures, etc.
- Generating an automatic table of contents and lists
What's included in proofreading?
- Correcting all spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
- Ensuring subject-verb agreement and consistent verb tenses
- Fixing capitalization and standardising terminology throughout
- Checking and correcting hyphenation and compound words
- Flagging awkward phrasing and unclear sentences
- Identifying repetitive words and suggesting alternatives
- Highlighting instances of informal language
- Verifying all abbreviations are defined on the first use and the abbreviation is used thereafter
- Standardising formatting of numbers, dates, and units of measurement
- Ensuring your writing is clear, precise, and academically appropriate
Formatting services include:
- Setting correct page size, orientation, and margins according to guidelines
- Compiling documents
- Formatting headers and footers with required information
- Applying correct page numbering (including preliminary pages in Roman numerals if required)
- Applying consistent heading styles (Heading 1, 2, 3, etc.) with correct hierarchy
- Applying consistent paragraph styles to paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, and block quotes
- Formatting table borders, alignment and adjusting column widths and positioning for optimal readability
- Resizing and positioning figures appropriately
- Inserting correctly formatted and numbered captions for all tables, figures, etc.
- Generating an automatic table of contents and lists
Referencing services include:
- Reviewing/correcting in-text citations for accuracy and consistency
- Ensuring in-text citations have corresponding reference list entries
- Checking reference list entries are complete and correctly formatted
- Ensuring alphabetical/numerical ordering of references is correct
- Checking for duplicate or missing references
- Verifying DOIs, URLs, and other identifiers are correctly formatted
- Ensuring consistency in punctuation, capitalisation, and italicisation
- Updating reference software database (if required)
Referencing services include:
- Reviewing/correcting in-text citations for accuracy and consistency
- Ensuring in-text citations have corresponding reference list entries
- Checking reference list entries are complete and correctly formatted
- Ensuring alphabetical/numerical ordering of references is correct
- Checking for duplicate or missing references
- Verifying DOIs, URLs, and other identifiers are correctly formatted
- Ensuring consistency in punctuation, capitalisation, and italicisation
- Updating reference software database (if required)