Manuscript Submission

We welcome book proposals for academic and general audiences. Most of our publications deal with Pakistan but we do publish a few works on South Asia. Proposals for School and Higher Education textbooks are also considered. We encourage prospective authors to view our website to make sure that their book would fit the list before submitting the proposal. The Press does not publish and will not examine original fiction (novels, short stories), poetry, drama, memoir, how-to or self-help books, cookbooks, 'coffee table' or photographic books, medical books, or festschriften.

In order to submit a book proposal to Oxford University Press Pakistan, please send the following information:

Author Details

Name
Job title
Address
Telephone number
Fax number
Email address

Professional Details

Your degree and professional qualifications
Present appointment
Previous appointments of relevance (and dates)
Previous and forthcoming publications
Related teaching/research experience

[What makes you qualified to write this book? List your credentials and experience in relation to the topic of the book. Do you have experience speaking, teaching or writing about this or similar subjects? Have you published other books, periodical or journal articles?]

Brief Synopsis of the Book

This should consist of the information below and a few sample chapters:

Table of contents
What is the manuscript about?
Who should read it?
What will the reader learn from it?
Why it is important?
Why is a new book needed?
What is the purpose of the book and how will this book achieve its aim?
How would you summarize your approach to the subject?
What is included? What is left out, and why?
What prior knowledge will the book assume?

Anticipated Market for the Book

Who is the book addressed to?
How big is the audience and how can it be reached?
How many copies do think the initial demand for the book will require?

Information on Competing Books

Please give a list of books (with as much information on length, date of publication, publisher, price, etc. as possible) that might be considered as 'competing' with your book.

What are their strengths and weaknesses?
How will your book differ from each?
What are the advantages of your book over these titles?
If you had to come up with three unique selling points for your book, what would they be?

Promotional resources

Do you have a marketing plan for the book? Speaking or networking opportunities to promote the book? How many copies do you think would be sold based on your personal, professional or teaching contacts?

Mechanical Specifications

Estimate the size (in the case of print product, height and width and number of printed pages; in the case of electronic product, number of disks). Estimate the number of illustrations to be included, according to halftones (photographs and X rays) and line drawings (drawn by an artist or on a computer, including anatomical drawings, charts, graphs, etc.)

Response Time

Please do not send extensive material such as an entire manuscript unless requested. We will contact you as soon as we have had a chance to thoroughly examine your manuscript proposal. Decision time can vary from as little as a few weeks to several months for full-length manuscripts. Policies on simultaneous submission, etc., should be discussed with the individual editor.

We will circulate your proposal among the members of Editorial Board and canvass their opinion. This stage generally takes two weeks. If the verdict is favourable, we will ask you to send a copy of the complete manuscript.

Thank you for your interest in Oxford University Press. We look forward to reading your materials.

Preparing the Manuscript for Review

We need two copies of the manuscript, which should include all elements in the book except the dedication, acknowledgments, and index. Please do not bind your manuscript. Please print on one side of the sheet only. Use a large size of type (11 or 12 points). Leave one-inch margins on all sides. Double-space the text proper. Set-off block quotations and footnotes can be single-spaced. A manuscript that is physically easy to read and to handle is less likely to generate irritation among reviewers. Be sure that each page is numbered. Consecutive numbering of the pages throughout the manuscript is best; if each chapter is paginated separately, the running heads should indicate the chapter as well as the page number. At the review stage, footnotes are preferable to endnotes and are more likely to be read.

The Review Process

Peer review is an important component of the OUP evaluation process of new manuscripts and proposals. All projects will be evaluated by outside readers before being accepted, and any book's final acceptance for publication by the Press must be approved by the OUP Editorial Board.

We commission two reports on each manuscript we consider for publication. If the reports are favourable, the author is shown copies (shorn of any information that might identify the reviewer) and asked to respond to the readers' comments. The reports and the author's response are then sent to the members of the Editorial Committee, who will discuss and vote on the project at their meeting. We try to keep the review process moving. You should, however, expect the review to take a minimum of four months; it may well take longer. Be advised that we cannot guarantee that the review process will be quick or that the reports will recommend publication. Nor do favourable reports necessarily mean that our Editorial Committee will vote to accept the manuscript for publication.

Multiple Submissions

Many presses will undertake the review of a manuscript only if the author agrees not to send the work to other presses for review at the same time. We will review a work that is under consideration by another press provided that the author agrees to keep us informed about the progress of the other review process and to let us know if it appears that the other press is about to accept the manuscript. This allows us to stop our own review process. This is in the author's best interest as well. Manuscript reviewing is a tedious and ill-paid process, and readers do not take kindly to learning that their work was unnecessary.

Please fill out the form below to send an initial submission for review by an editor. An asterisk (*) indicates a required field. We respect your privacy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to any organization.