Preliminary Book Information Form

This form will be used to consider your book project for publication.
Thank you for taking the time to complete it as fully as possible. In addition to the questions
within the form please submit the following items as attachments:

- description and purpose of the work in a 1-2 page Summary, please include main
themes, arguments and objectives;
- a Table of Contents (including a list of contributors if applicable);
- an analytical Synopsis of the contents of each chapter (approx. 200 words per
chapter);
- a Curriculum Vitae and a list of your publications (and co-authors or co-editors if
applicable);

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Bulk Order: if you are considering purchasing a bulk order of your published book, please
indicate this in your proposal email. It is advantageous to include mention of this in the
agreement to ensure a fixed price. Bulk orders of the hard cover version start at 50 copies.  If
we are to run a special soft cover bulk printing, then the minimum is 100 copies.  

Open Access:
It is possible to publish books with Springer as Open Access. If you are interested in this
option:
1. Please indicate if your research was funded, and if applicable provide the name of
the funder:
Funded / not funded
Name of funding organization/institution:

2. Please indicate you are interested in making your publication available Open Access:
My funder requires Open Access publication [ ]
Open Access publication is not required, but I wish to explore this route [ ]
I am not required/do not wish to publish Open Access [ ]

3. There is a 15% loyalty discount for editors affiliated with an OA Member Institute,
please see list of members.
If your institution is not currently a member, visit our OA funding and policy support
page to learn more about funding options, and to view our list of organizations with
OA funding.

More information on Open Access publishing can be found at:

http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access

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Contact Information:

Author(s)/Editor(s) of work:

Full author/editor contact details (for each editor/author if applicable):

(if co-authors/editors are from other affiliations, please attach their full address and other
contact information to this form)

Name:

Position:

Affiliation:

Address:

Email:

Tel:

Name:

Position:

Affiliation:

Address:

Email:

Tel:

Author-Bio:

Although we will need your CV attached to the proposal, a brief paragraph that provides an
overview of your current interests and backgrounds (Author-Bio) is most useful. That way,
the shorter version can be picked up readily for promotional pieces and so forth.

Preliminary Information:

Proposed title of the work: (please note, the title should be a clear reflection of the content of the
work):
Subtitle of work (optional):

Preference for a series in which to be included (if any) :

Expected manuscript completion date (mm/dd/yyy) :

Audience:
Primary:

Secondary:

Type of Work:
Please indicate the exact type of work you are proposing:

a. [ ] Monograph
b. [ ] Edited volume:
1. [ ] containing completely new material
2. [ ] containing previously published materials/papers*
c. Conference proceedings:
1. [ ] invited papers only
2. [ ] all papers
d. [ ] Reference Work:
e. [ ] Translation:
f. [ ] Other, namely:

* Please indicate if any portion of the work has been previously published. If your work will
contain previously published materials, what percentage of the book proposed will be new?
Please note: It is the editor/author’s responsibility to secure the rights and permissions of
any reprints used.

Manuscript Specifications:
a. No. of words in manuscript :

b. No. of manuscript pages (525 words per page) :

c. No. of photographs b/w :

d. No. of line drawings :

e. No. of tables :

f. Other items :

Manuscript will contain:

(please check those applicable)

a. Preface (if so, by who) :

b. Bibliography of selected titles :
c. Name and/or subject index :
d. Translator’s note :
e. Introduction (if so, by who) :
f. Glossary of terms :
g. Other items (if so, please list the other items) :

Marketing Information:

To be able to promote and sell this title, you are kindly requested to submit a
Promotional Text (of approximately 200 words), which:
- is to the point, succinct and relevant;
- includes the unique features of the book;
- includes the target audience (please narrow down the audience to the niche target
groups);
- can be used on the back cover of the book, in promotional brochures, catalogues
and on the Web.
Focus on the benefit of the book for the reader in your field. Do not tell what the book is,
but what it does; what it aims to achieve rather than dwelling too much in general terms on
the field that it is covering, although a little of the latter is fine. Also utilize key phrases,
allowing your book to be found with searches. A potential reader will often look at the top of
your text and Google will only show the first 60 characters. So your first few sentences are
very important. We suggest starting the first sentence with “This book offers/provides
etc…” followed by a short overview of the field/current situation and ending the text with a
short description of the target audience.

Unique Selling Points (USP):

What are the significant contributions this work makes to research in your field, when
compared to existing literature on this topic? Please try to use catch phrases that will attract
readers such as: ‘Introduces a New Conceptual Framework on Workplace Incivility’ to
describe the Unique Selling Points:

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Could you list at least 6 Keyword terms that pertain directly to the content of your book?
Try to think in terms of which phrases you or your colleagues would use when looking for
information on Google or Amazon, such as ‘Negotiating Psychological Contracts’ or ‘Job
Demands-Resources Model’:

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Product Market Codes:

Using our list of Product Market Codes, please indicate under 1 and 2 the major disciplines
covered by this title (these two should cover 80% of the content). Please use 3, 4 and 5 to
indicate the most relevant minor disciplines, in order of importance:

Code: Description:
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Course Book:
Do you foresee that your book can be picked up as a Course Book, for use in a university
classroom or seminar?

a. If your book could be used in coursework, please list:

- possible courses, include course title/type, level (BA/MA/graduate);
- estimated enrollments;
- main text, supplemental reading,;
- information on possible contacts, institution, and instructor giving the course(s).

b. Could you list societies/associations through whose membership lists it would be easier
to reach the target audience for your book?

c. Could you list the most important electronic discussion lists for the target audience of
your book?
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d. Which contacts/organizations might be interested in ordering multiple copies of your

work?
National Council on Family Relations (US, flagship journals Journal of Marriage Family)

Competing Titles:
Please provide a listing of relevant Competing Titles, including books and journal articles
related to your proposed book (titles, authors, date of publication, publisher and ISBN):

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In what way does the proposed book differ from those titles mentioned above?

Peer-Review:
Please suggest three or more Reviewers, experts (include research departments,
university/institution, location, e-mail address) that are familiar with your work and you
think would be capable and willing to evaluate the topics covered in your book:
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Could you also suggest three or more leading experts (include research departments,
university/institution, location, e-mail address) whom you think would be capable of
evaluating the research topics covered in your book:

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Date form completed:

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I look forward to receiving your proposal information and reviewing it for inclusion in the
publishing program.

Best regards,

Lucy Fleet
Publishing Editor
Philosophy & History of Science

Springer
Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX  Dordrecht, The Netherlands
[email protected]
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