Preparing your manuscript for Green Hill
Format your manuscript.
Before you send your manuscript to Green Hill Publishing, please put it into a design-friendly format
Using our template will help our processes move more smoothly and there will be no extra fees for us to prepare your manuscript.
Please download our MS Word Template and Styles Guide with the download button below and style your manuscript accordingly. Watch our instructional video for a walkthrough of how to properly use the documents.
Note: Mac users with Word may have a different layout, so please disregard the steps referring to the “Options” panel. You will be able to copy and style as intended without the “Options” panel steps. If you have difficulties, please get in touch.
This template does not translate to Pages or any other writing software. If you are using Pages to write your manuscript, please get in touch.
Step 1. Download the documents
Step 2. Watch the instructional video
Optional: Read our written walkthrough
For a detailed written walkthrough of how to use Green Hill’s styling documents and how to best format your manuscript, read our blog post below.
How to submit your manuscript to Green Hill Publishing
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Nearly every publisher, no matter how big or small, has guidelines for manuscript submissions. Green Hill Publishing is no different. Read this blog and learn about our submission guidelines and how to use our templates.
Correctly name your files.
To help our designers navigate your files, please follow the steps below to save your manuscript and images correctly
1. Naming your manuscript
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- All images and captions are to be inserted in the manuscript (if images are present in the text)
- Ensure the manuscript is styled in accordance with our Green Hill Submission Guideline Documents.
- Save your manuscript as a singular Microsoft Word Document (.docx)
- Name your manuscript document in the following way: FirstnameLastname_ManuscriptTitle_ddmmyy (eg. JohnSmith_TheGreen_220323)
2. Naming your images and graphics
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- The quality of the images must be 300dpi or more to maintain quality
- All images are to be submitted as jpg, tiff, or psd files only.
- Images must be submitted as either:
- high resolution .jpg files embedded within the manuscript; OR
- high resolution .jpg files within a folder with a clear reference in the manuscript in this format: Caption: Mary Campbell’s early life File: 1 mary campbells early life.jpg. The numbers will help keep the images in order.
- If supplying images via folder, all image files must be submitted in one transfer (not incrementally or over a number of days) ideally included in a single zip file.
- The file names should correspond to the captions you include within the manuscript to help the designers more easily identify where to insert the image in the manuscript.
Email us.
Now that your manuscript and files fit our styling guidelines, you’re ready to send us your manuscript!
Please email your manuscript to Sarah or your project manager via support@greenhillpublishing.com.au. The team at Green Hill will contact you shortly.*
*Our turn-around time for all communications is 2-3 business days. If we do not get back to you within that time, please send us a follow-up email.