Paper Editing Services
Maximize your paper’s potential with clear and effective writing.
Expert paper editors polish your writing to reflect the work you put into it. Professional paper editing will:
- Ensure your arguments are judged on merit
- Lift the quality of your paper as a whole
- Make you stand out from your peers
Proofreading & Editing
Personalized editing with human expertise, revisions within 12 hours, 100% happiness or a refund or re-edit.
Get your paper back, free of language errors and inconsistencies
Standard paper Proofreading & Editing is perfect if you’re confident about your writing but need a second pair of eyes to catch:
- Spelling and grammar errors
- Inconsistencies in dialect
- Overuse of passive voice
- Subjective or inflated language
For a more comprehensive edit, you can add one or multiple add-on editing services that fit your needs.
Add-on services
Customize your editing package to get the help you need, structure check, clarity check, paper formatting, citation editing.
Ensures sections and chapters are structured and focused and your writing is free of redundancies.
- Through in-text feedback, your editor will help:
- Organize and focus individual chapters and sections
- Eliminate repetitive and redundant information
- Perfect transitions between sentences and paragraphs
- Align titles and headings with the section’s content
You’ll also receive a personalized Structure Check Report meant to help you identify missing elements in each chapter or section and prioritize improvements.
Ensures ideas are presented clearly, your arguments are consistent, and your audience can follow along.
Through in-text comments and checklists, your editor will:
- Make sure your text tells a clear and logical story
- Check that you’ve clearly presented concepts, ideas, and key terms
- Make sure your key takeaways and conclusions are front and center
- Highlight contradictions within the text
- Ensure you’re keeping your audience’s needs in mind
Ensures a professional look and feel of your document that meets your formatting requirements.
Your formatting expert will apply the 7th edition APA Style guidelines to all elements in your paper, including:
- Margins, spacing, and indentation
- Body text and headings
- Page numbers
- Abstract and keywords
- Explanatory footnotes
Citation Editing ensures your citations and references are consistent and meet your style guide’s requirements.
After you provide your document with a reference list, your citation expert will:
- Format the layout of your reference page (margins, indents, spacing)
- Ensure that your chosen citation style is applied consistently according to the guidelines
- Cross-check citations with reference entries
- Provide feedback on reference list entries that you need to complete due to missing information
Your expert is familiar with all common citation styles. Find more information about the service and our requirements in our FAQs .
Get matched to the perfect editor - or editing team
At Scribbr, you can rest assured that only the best editors will work on your paper.
All our 800+ editors have passed the challenging Scribbr Academy, which has a passing rate of only 2%.
We handpick your editor on several criteria, including field of study and document type. And we’ll even expand your team with citation and formatting experts if needed.
I have a doctorate in biology and studied a range of life science subjects. I specialize in editing academic texts.
I researched at Harvard, taught English with a Fulbright in Peru, and earned a master's from Johns Hopkins.
I have a PhD in German studies, an MS in library science, and extensive experience teaching undergraduate students.
I have a bachelor's in electrical engineering and a master's in psychology and am pursuing a PhD in neuroscience.
I am an ESL teacher and academic editor with a research background in the humanities, arts, and culture.
I am an academic editor and book reviewer. I am familiar with many style guides and have edited over 6 million words.
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“I needed to have a paper proofread that was going to be published. Because English is not my native language, I was unsure about the text’s linguistic quality. I’m all the more grateful that B. & K. from Scribbr took care of my request very professionally, thoughtfully, and above all, quickly. It couldn’t have gone better!”
How it works
Stay in control throughout the paper editing process, upload any time.
Upload your document and easily select the pages that need editing. Next, choose your turnaround time and services and explain your situation and needs to the editor.
Stay in the loop
After placing your order you can keep track of our progress. From finding your perfect editor to potential hand-overs to formatting or citation experts.
Revise and submit
You’ll receive back your document with tracked changes and feedback as well as a personal letter from your editor. The last step is submitting your work with confidence!
Scribbr & academic integrity
Scribbr is committed to protecting academic integrity. Our proofreading service, our AI writing tools ( plagiarism checker , paraphrasing tool , grammar checker , summarizer, Citation Generator ) as well as our free Knowledge Base content are designed to help students produce quality academic papers.
We make every effort to prevent our software from being used for fraudulent or manipulative purposes.
Your questions, answered.
At Scribbr, we promise to make every customer 100% happy with the service we offer. Our philosophy: Your complaint is always justified – no denial, no doubts.
Our customer support team is here to find the solution that helps you the most, whether that’s a free new edit or a refund for the service.
The fastest turnaround time is 12 hours.
You can upload your document at any time and choose between three deadlines:
Yes, in the order process you can indicate your preference for American, British, or Australian English .
If you don’t choose one, your editor will follow the style of English you currently use. If your editor has any questions about this, we will contact you.
Yes, regardless of the deadline you choose, our editors can proofread your document during weekends and holidays.
Example: If you select the 12-hour service on Saturday, you will receive your edited document back within 12 hours on Sunday.
Your editor is on stand-by and ready to start editing your paper.
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We answer your questions quickly and personally from 9:00 to 23:00 CET
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Essay Editing Services
Expert Academic Proofreading
Exceptional Essays, Excellent Results
Throughout your university studies, you may have to write a lot of essays. Each one is a chance to showcase your ideas and the research you have done. But to ensure you get the marks you deserve, your writing needs to be clear, concise, and error free. And that’s where our essay proofreading service comes in.
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Expert Essay Proofreaders
Our team of professional proofreaders has helped thousands of students refine their academic writing. And with our extensive editing experience, we are perfectly equipped to help you prepare a first-rate essay.
Make sure your writing is the best it can be with our expert English proofreading and editing
Essay Proofreading And Editing
When you submit a document, one of our expert essay proofreaders will:
- Ensure punctuation, spelling, and grammar are correct
- Refine sentence structure to ensure your writing reads smoothly
- Highlight any inconsistencies or unclear text
- Check that your tone and vocabulary are suitably academic
- Flag issues with citations or references
After this, we will provide two copies of your edited essay:
- A ‘Clean’ copy in the original file format
- An MS Word Track Changes copy
You can use this Track Changes copy to review every edit we make, so you are always in control of the final draft. And if your chosen file type doesn’t support Track Changes, we will adapt our process to match.
If you are writing an essay for university, we will always follow academic plagiarism guidelines when we proofread your document. This protects your academic integrity, allowing you to submit your work with confidence.
However, we also offer a full editing service for non-student documents, so we may still be able to help if you have an essay that needs more work. Just let us know your situation and we’ll see what we can do.
Lightning-Fast Delivery
You’ll never miss a deadline with our speedy services: our Next-Day Guarantee means we’ll return any document up to 10,000 words long within 24 hours
And if you need a faster turnaround, simply select your desired delivery speed when you submit your document. We have three options:
We can also meet custom deadlines! Just let us know what you need.
*For documents up to 8,000 words
**For documents up to 3,000 words
How We Work With Students
You’ll never miss a deadline with our speedy services: our Next-Day Guarantee means we’ll return any document up to 8,000 words long within 24 hours.
We can also meet custom deadlines! Just let us know what you need.
* For documents up to 8,000 words
** For documents up to 3,000 words
Great Pricing
Our pricing is affordable and transparent – the cost is based on the exact length of your document. Check out our pricing calculator for an instant quote, and rest assured that you’ll receive the highest quality proofreading and editing for the best value on the market.
Referencing Expertise
Our editors are experts in various referencing styles, including but not limited to APA, Harvard, MLA, Chicago, and IEEE. No matter what style you’re using, they’ll make sure your citations and references are correct and let you know if any information is missing. Visit our referencing page to learn more.
Subject-Matter Experts
Our team includes over 750 professional editors with expertise in thousands of topics. This means we can always match you with the best proofreader for your writing, whether you need help with a dissertation in medicine or an essay on economics.
24-Hour Support
Our support team is available around the clock to address any concerns or questions you have about your order. This means you’ll never be left in the dark, no matter where you are or what time it is.
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