Manuscript Submission

A Note to Our Prospective Authors/Editors

Editorial Policy

We publish professional books, textbooks, academic works, course manuals and related materials under the Captus Press imprint. Scholarly books, which are submitted to us for peer review prior to publication, may be published under Captus University Publications (formerly University Press of Canada), our imprint for scholarly works.

Our editorial policy is to assist authors and editors in the development of their books, with emphasis on materials for post-secondary education and the practicing professional market.

We also provide publishing services for conference proceedings, journals and other publications not under our publishing imprint.

The Author/Editor Questionnaire

Captus Press requires an Author/Editor Questionnaire to be completed in order to determine the feasibility of your project. We will contact you with our initial assessment and offer publishing suggestions.

We may also wish to review sample chapters that would assist us in confirming the acceptance of your project for publication.

If you would like us to consider your manuscript for the Captus University Publications imprint, we will require the entire work for submission to external academic reviewers.

You may submit the questionnaire electronically using our form or via email. Please contact Jason Wormald (Production/Acquisitions) at Info@captus.com for more information.

Visit Captus Press to locate the Author/Editor Questionnaire

Captus In-House Operations

Marketing and Promotion

Once published, we will market your work, except course-specific texts that are not suitable for broader distribution, through direct sales, insert and journal advertising, direct mail, and web advertising.

International promotions and distribution will be brokered through co-publications or distribution agreements with international publishers.

Internet Learning

Should your project involve the development and distribution of instructional online courses, we have professional programmers available to assist you.

Please supply us with the details of your online course proposal if you wish to consider such assistance.

To view our current projects, see the section entitled Online Learning Resources .

Lead Time and Quantities for Custom Editions and Course-Specific Texts

In general, we need between four weeks and four months to produce a book to a professional standard, depending upon the format supplied, the length of the work, and our workload.

If your book is to be a text for a specific course, we require an estimate of the number of copies that will be needed. Generally, a feasible print run for these books is 200 copies or more.

Contact us to inquire about what we can do for your special situation.