Publications from Editors Canada

The following are publications from Editors Canada. We produce these professional resources as a service to our members and to the publishing community. These tools help to define editing practices for editors and those who hire them.

Professional standards

The cover of Professional Editorial Standards 2024, one of the publications from Editors Canada. It features documents and a play button emerging from a laptop screen on a red background. Text reads: "Knowledge, skills and practices most commonly required for editing English-language material: The Fundamentals of Editing; Structural Editing; Stylistic Editing; Copy Editing; Proofreading"

Professional Editorial Standards

The 2024 edition has important additions and expansions, including new material on audience considerations, legal considerations, ethical responsibilities, conscious language, fiction editing and more. The Standards inform professional development, hiring decisions, educational and training curricula, professional certification and much more, and they provide a framework of principles and practices that are crucial to a successful career in editing.

Principes directeurs en révision professionnelle cover

Principes directeurs en révision professionnelle

Publications on language and style

Cover of Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition, one of the publications from Editors Canada about Language and style

Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition

Get the latest guidance on Canadian English, from Canadianization to spelling, abbreviations, punctuation, measurements, bilingual texts and so much more. Written by expert editors, it’s a reference guide you can depend on.

Cover of Editorial Niches: A Companion to Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition, published by the Editors' Association of Canada

Editorial Niches
 A Companion to Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition. The book delves into a wide variety of editorial niches: online materials, corporations, not-for-profits, associations, and government, educational materials, academic materials etc. Whether you are a would-be, new or established editor, Editorial Niches offers a treasure trove of information by a team of seasoned editors who are experts in their field.

The business of editing

Cover of From Contact to Contract: How Editors Get Clients to Work With Them edited by Karin Cather

From Contact to Contract: How Editors Get Clients to Work With Them

Editors Canada launches a new series with From Contact to Contract: How Editors Get Clients to Work With Them. The handbook offers pearls of wisdom from a group of respected editors who have over two centuries of experience between them. Whether you’re new to the editing business or have a solid client base, finding and contracting work is always of interest. This is one book you’ll refer to again and again.

Edit Like a Pro

Cover of Edit Like a Pro: Proofreading, Third Edition, one of the publications from Editors Canada.

Edit Like a Pro

Edit Like a Pro is a series of four workbooks published by Editors Canada to help editors assess and improve their skills through hands-on editing practice. Each book will contain exercises based on realistic scenarios, with sample answers and detailed commentary focusing on one type of editing—structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing or proofreading—as described in Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (2016).

Editors Canada Professional Certification preparation

Cover of Copy Editing: Test Preparation Guide, one of the publications from Editor's Canada that help in certification test preparations.

Editors Canada Certification Test Preparation Guides

Editors Canada Professional Certification recognizes editors who have demonstrated a high level of knowledge and skill in their profession. The program consists of four tests: Structural Editing, Stylistic Editing, Copy Editing, and Proofreading. We offer four test preparation guides, one for each test.

Pathways to Success

Illustration of red pens turned into pathways. People and text bubbles are situated along each path, describing various Editors Canada benefits and services available to student editors, junior editors, experienced editors and senior editors.

Pathways to Success with Editors Canada

Publications on a career in editing

Career Builder

Preview of the first page of Editors Canada's Career Builder tool (2024)

Career Builder

Career guide

The cover of Editors Canada's career guide entitled "So You Want to Be an Editor: Information about a career in editing" features illustrations of various writing implements, such as a mouse and keyboard, pencils, pens, markers and a yellow highlighter, presented in a stack on a red background.

So You Want to Be an Editor

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