Cosimo - Specialty Publisher - Submission Guidelines

We use these guidelines to keep the process simple, making your experience fast and easy.

Please follow these steps:
Send us information about yourself and your proposed publications by using our Application Form Once you have received an initial positive response from us, please select your publishing program and return two signed hardcopies of our Publishing Agreement to us. In addition submit one or more of the following items:
			For out-of-print books (if no digital file is available)**:
			we accept two complete copies of your book as previously published, which we will scan.

			For publications, ready for publication:
			please contact us (info@cosimobooks.com ) for specific submission standards.

			For manuscripts, which need to be edited:
			we accept files on disk, CD or by email in MS Word, which need to be formatted as follows:

			MS Word program (other formats need to be reviewed before acceptance) Do not attempt to layout or design text in a special way (this could hamper our own designer's work). Manuscripts must be double-spaced. Paragraphs should be left justified (a straight, flush line on the left side with a jagged edge on the right side), not justified on both sides. Do not use the centering function or other type of page formatting. Use the "enter" or "return" key only at the end of a paragraph or at the end of a list item. Use your word processor's word-wrap feature within paragraphs. Use the "enter" or "return" key only once between paragraphs. There should be no extra line space between paragraphs. All paragraphs must be indented by using the "tab" key. Insert only one space between sentences, not two or more. Please indicate where all illustrations, tables or other special material belong, but submit this material separately as hard copy. Do not insert page headers or other types of page formatting within the manuscript. Pages should be numbered. Submit both a hard copy print-out of the manuscript and submit a MS Word file version of the manuscript that matches the manuscript exactly to the editor as an email attachment.

For graphics (i.e. photographs, illustrations, tables, charts & drawings), the following guidelines apply:
			All interior graphics will be printed black and white. However, we do accept color photographs. You may send the actual images to be scanned, or you may scan the images and send them to us in a digital format (on a diskette or CD-ROM). If you scan your own images, they should be scanned at 100%, 300 dpi, then saved as a TIFF or JPEG (please save as JPEG if e-mailing). If you provide images at a resolution lower than 300 dpi, they will not print well in your book. Please compress your files in zip format, if emailing us your content.

Payment of the Publishing Program Fee (and any additional selected fees). Please use our Credit Card Order form to be sent by mail or fax. We accept Visa and Mastercard (US organizations only can issue a check or money order payable to Cosimo, Inc.)