mpany (mostly editing IT and Telecoms books based on conferences), and many years of freelancing from home. Medicine was my next major port of call. Here I learnt about drug names (not always intuitive) and the many diseases and conditions affecting our fellow human beings. Sticking with medicine, the BMJ filled a gap in my medico-political knowledge quite nicely. I often edited their news pages for the lighter, shorter articles, and the exercise, as I tended to run across the Ever strayed into a job you wished you hadn’t because you were just not that familiar with the terminology and housestyle? Or gotten yourself in too deep on the science side? Or just could not find that annoyingly elusive (bio)chemical/medical/science symbol and how it is represented in the text? Without wading through copious notes and thick dusty tomes, you can look it up in one easy guide.

Do you find it annoying when references aren’t cited correctly? My passion for getting book references absolutely accurate really started in my PhD days, when, as you can imagine, trying to find that all-important research paper to help me write my thesis, and finding that a reference was incorrect, would drive me mad. Hence it started, a lifelong passion for compiling book references (ones you can’t look up on PubMed or are difficult to find on the internet in general). Soon followed similar lists of helpful information you need when copyediting and proofreading (or writing and indexing) scientific and medical texts.

Following my PhD, moving straight into publishing, I started editing O and A level examination papers. The need to get things right, without ambiguity, really struck home, having just emerged from the high-stress exam-taking environment. (Oh, the trauma of sitting in exams, wondering what an examiner was really getting at, and pouring over every word to try to extract the correct meaning! And what about exam questions you couldn’t answer because not all the information was there, aargh!)

Style was the next thing that was to be important to me as I started work, all eager and enthusiastic, at the Biochemical Journal. There, I spent more time reading the foot-thick style manual than copyediting and proofreading, and again later when I went freelance. Once bitten twice shy? Not me!

After a break from Biochemistry, I did a 4-year stint at Marine Engineering and a conference company (mostly editing IT and Telecoms books based on conferences), and many years of freelancing from home. Medicine was my next major port of call. Here I learnt about drug names (not always intuitive) and the many diseases and conditions affecting our fellow human beings. Sticking with medicine, the BMJ filled a gap in my medico-political knowledge quite nicely. I often edited their news pages for the lighter, shorter articles, and the exercise, as I tended to run across the o

etting book references absolutely accurate really started in my PhD days, when, as you can imagine, trying to find that all-important research paper to help me write my thesis, and finding that a reference was incorrect, would drive me mad. Hence it started, a lifelong passion for compiling book references (ones you can’t look up on PubMed or are difficult to find on the internet in general). Soon followed similar lists of helpful information you need when copyediting and proofreading (or writing and indexing) scientific and medical texts.

Following my PhD, moving straight into publishing, I started editing O and A level examination papers. The need to get things right, without ambiguity, really struck home, having just emerged from the high-stress exam-taking environment. (Oh, the trauma of sitting in exams, wondering what an examiner was really getting at, and pouring over every word to try to extract the correct meaning! And what about exam questions you couldn’t answer because not all the information was there, aargh!)

Style was the next thing that was to be important to me as I started work, all eager and enthusiastic, at the Biochemical Journal. There, I spent more time reading the foot-thick style manual than copyediting and proofreading, and again later when I went freelance. Once bitten twice shy? Not me!

After a break from Biochemistry, I did a 4-year stint at Marine Engineering and a conference company (mostly editing IT and Telecoms books based on conferences), and many years of freelancing from home. Medicine was my next major port of call. Here I learnt about drug names (not always intuitive) and the many diseases and conditions affecting our fellow human beings. Sticking with medicine, the BMJ filled a gap in my medico-political knowledge quite nicely. I often edited their news pages for the lighter, shorter articles, and the exercise, as I tended to run across the

eading (or writing and indexing) scientific and medical texts.

Following my PhD, moving straight into publishing, I started editing O and A level examination papers. The need to get things right, without ambiguity, really struck home, having just emerged from the high-stress exam-taking environment. (Oh, the trauma of sitting in exams, wondering what an examiner was really getting at, and pouring over every word to try to extract the correct meaning! And what about exam questions you couldn’t answer because not all the information was there, aargh!)

Style was the next thing that was to be important to me as I started work, all eager and enthusiastic, at the Biochemical Journal. There, I spent more time reading the foot-thick style manual than copyediting and proofreading, and again later when I went freelance. Once bitten twice shy? Not me!

After a break from Biochemistry, I did a 4-year stint at Marine Engineering and a conference company (mostly editing IT and Telecoms books based on conferences), and many years of freelancing from home. Medicine was my next major port of call. Here I learnt about drug names (not always intuitive) and the many diseases and conditions affecting our fellow human beings. Sticking with medicine, the BMJ filled a gap in my medico-political knowledge quite nicely. I often edited their news pages for the lighter, shorter articles, and the exercise, as I tended to run across the

estions you couldn’t answer because not all the information was there, aargh!)

Style was the next thing that was to be important to me as I started work, all eager and enthusiastic, at the Biochemical Journal. There, I spent more time reading the foot-thick style manual than copyediting and proofreading, and again later when I went freelance. Once bitten twice shy? Not me!

After a break from Biochemistry, I did a 4-year stint at Marine Engineering and a conference company (mostly editing IT and Telecoms books based on conferences), and many years of freelancing from home. Medicine was my next major port of call. Here I learnt about drug names (not always intuitive) and the many diseases and conditions affecting our fellow human beings. Sticking with medicine, the BMJ filled a gap in my medico-political knowledge quite nicely. I often edited their news pages for the lighter, shorter articles, and the exercise, as I tended to run across the

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