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Formatting Requirements

LAP Publishing provides formatting guidelines for manuscripts submitted to them for publication. The guidelines specify requirements for file format, page size, margins, character encoding, line spacing, font sizes, page numbers, and other formatting elements. Manuscripts must be in PDF format and follow margins of 2-3.6 cm depending on length. Font sizes of at least 14pt for body text, 16pt for headlines, and 11pt for footnotes are required. Illustrations must be at least 300 dpi and 10pt font size. Page numbers must be centered and pagination must be consecutive without missing pages.

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Formatting Requirements

LAP Publishing provides formatting guidelines for manuscripts submitted to them for publication. The guidelines specify requirements for file format, page size, margins, character encoding, line spacing, font sizes, page numbers, and other formatting elements. Manuscripts must be in PDF format and follow margins of 2-3.6 cm depending on length. Font sizes of at least 14pt for body text, 16pt for headlines, and 11pt for footnotes are required. Illustrations must be at least 300 dpi and 10pt font size. Page numbers must be centered and pagination must be consecutive without missing pages.

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Hema Bhagat
Copyright
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Formatting your manuscript

☑ Your manusc ript will be printed in black and white and should c omply with the following c hec klist:

1) File format 3) Illustrations / Graphics 5) Line spacing


Is your manuscript file in PDF format?
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Do your illustrations and graphics have Is the line spacing between 1.15 and 1.60 (for
(Instructions: footnotes / illustrations at least 1.0)?
a minimum resolution of 300dpi?
www.omniscriptum.com/downloads/pdfcreator.zip)

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Is the font size in your illustrations and
Are all pages in DIN A4 (210x297mm) portrait format?
graphics at least 10pt?

Do your illustrations, graphics and


page numbers respect the margin
size? (see point 2, "Margins")
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2) Margins 4) Character set 6) Page numbers


Did you set the margins' size for the body text, Are all used font types embedded?
footnotes, illustrations and page numbers according
to the number of pages in your manuscript?
(we recommend Arial or Times New
Roman)
☐ Is the pagination continuous and consecutive
(no missing pages or page numbers)? ☐
-> Up to 140 Pages: 2 cm
-> Up to 390 Pages: 3 cm
-> Above 390 Pages: 3.6 cm
☐ Is the used font size for the body text
at least 14pt? ☐ Is the alignment of page numbers centered on
top or bottom? ☐

Others
Is the used font size for headlines at
least 16pt? ☐ Do the Table of Contents and Chapter 1 start
on an odd-numbered Page? ☐
-> 1st page in PDF = right side in book
-> 2nd page in PDF = left side in book
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Is the used font size for footnotes at
Does the manuscript contain a table of contents? -> etc
least 11pt?

Are title, certificate or statutory declaration pages (if


any) removed? ☐

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