The following form should be used for transferring large files relating to the inside content of contracted books. Please do not use this form for dust jacket related files. You will need to obtain a password from your contact at CSP.

Submit the names and addresses of journals to which you would like us to send your book for review:
BkReviews.htm

We have a variety of ways of dealing with sending out books for review to journals, magazines, newspapers, websites etc. A certain number of journals in each field are automatically sent every book that we publish in the given field. Others are sent some but not all books in an area. Author recommendations are consulted, and for each each entry placed through the above link, we will either send a letter to the editor or a copy of the book.

We send out books about once a week and letters once a month.

If you experience any difficulty with the above site, please contact

For general guidance, see Chapter 4 of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th (or later) Edition(s) published by the University of Chicago:

Cloth edition: ISBN: 978-0-226-10403-4 (ISBN-10: 0-226-10403-6) Fall 2003

CD-ROM Mac and Win: ISBN: 978-0-226-10404-1 (ISBN-10: 0-226-10404-4) Fall 2006

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15542.ctl

For public records in the UK:

www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/copyright-guidance/index.htm

For the post-2003 UK copyright law, please see:

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/copyright/index.html

Upon receipt of proposals or manuscripts, the materials we receive will be reviewed inhouse. If we decide to accept, you will be notified by email with a proposed contract. If we feel we are not in a suitable position to make a decision inhouse, we will send the manuscript to one or two external referees, and their comments will then consulted, and a decision arrived at, for publication. The proportion of works we peer-review varies from month to month, and could be as low as 10% or as high as 60%. If a work is approved for publication, the ensuing process consists of:

Offering a contract to the author. In most cases, this is 10 or 15 percent on the price of books aimed at the library market, for all copies after the first 500 that have been sold. However, we are willing to negotiate if authors believe they have good reason to ask for better royalties.

Preparing the manuscript for the camera. How long this process takes depends on how carefully our submission guidelines have been adhered to.

When proofs are approved by the author, we send the book to press. Printing takes anywhere from one to three months.

The book is listed in a number of databases and approval plans, including Bibliographic Data Services which offers the British Library cataloguing in publication service. In addition, the book is made available on all the major online bookshops such as amazon.co.uk, blackwell.co.uk, alphabetstreet.co.uk, and so on.

Review copies are sent to 15-20 journals. Flyers are sent to all major and specialised libraries which we believe would have an interest in purchasing the book as well as specialist bookshops.