I offer the following types of editing:

Copyediting, which includes:

• ensuring clarity
  
• adjusting writing style to fit the intended audience
• correcting grammatical errors
• ensuring consistency
  
• suggesting changes to figures and illustrations
• reformatting references to fit standard styles
• querying the author about unclear sentences
• applying house style
• discussing changes with the author and agreeing on a final version

Developmental/substantive editing, including:

• checking that the scientific content makes sense
  
• checking that no necessary sections or pieces of information are missing
  
• rearranging to improve the logical flow
  
• shortening to a word limit
  
• rewriting unclear or wordy text
  
• suggesting areas for the author to work on further
  

I mainly edit on screen, as I use a range of macros and sophisticated search and replace tools to speed up the process. I work in Microsoft Word 2007 and can edit files in .doc, .docx, .odt and .rtf formats.

I am particularly experienced at editing text written by non-native speakers of English and in making dense academic text more accessible for a general scientific audience.

I also offer copyediting of biomedical manuscripts directly to scientists. If you have peer reviewed a manuscript and the referees say that it needs editing by a native English speaker, and you do not have the budget to edit the paper in house, I would be happy to offer my services to the authors.