1. Editorial Overview Angie A. Raja Editorial Manager June 8th 2015

2. Agenda About Us Department Structure Editing Reports Major Companies
Scoring Reports
Editorial Advice
Sources

3. About Us
At IBISWorld, we aim to produce reports that are insightful, engaging, objective and original. In order to maintain the level of quality that IBISWorld clients have come to expect, the editorial department was developed to ensure quality is consistent across out product line. However, although IBISWorld has an editorial team, you should submit work that you would be comfortable publishing with you name attached. By proofreading your work before submitting, editors will be able to spend less time fixing careless mistakes and typos and more time ensuring that your writing is clear, consistent, accurate, and engaging.

4. Department Structure Jordan Ho VP of Production Angie Raja
Editorial Manager
Kathryn White
Copy Editor
Matthew Dougherty
Copy Editor
Michelle Ha
Assistant Copy Editor
Iris Peters
Assistant Copy Editor
Anya Cohen
Assistant Copy Editor
Taylor Palmer
Assistant Copy Editor
Devin McGinley
Assistant Copy Editor

5. Editing Reports Caption Resources Executive Summary KEDs
Current Performance
Products and Services
Major Markets

6. Major Companies
Brand names are not to be confused with logos: It may say adidas on the shoe, but in text, we cap the A as with any proper noun. Exception: Company names that begin with a lowercase letter and have a secondary cap, as eBay, can stand as is but avoid beginning a sentence with such company names.
Nonacronym company names should not be written in all caps regardless of the company’s style (Time magazine, Elle magazine). (Note: IKEA is an acronym, so we let the caps stand. If, however, the acronym is longer than five characters, avoid using all caps and use sentence case, instead.)
Omit periods in all-cap acronym names (IBM), and use an ampersand for and only when the company uses it (Procter & Gamble).

7. Major Companies
When a company’s name is also its website, the first letter should still be capped when referring to the company itself (Amazon.com’s profits were). Do not capitalize the when it precedes a company name, even if it is part of the official title.
The part of the company name that specifies the type of entity it is should always be abbreviated (e.g. Inc., Corp., Co., Ltd., LLC, PLC, LP, etc.) Use the name of the company that actually operates in the industry, not the name of the parent company or investment firm, unless the parent company has two or more subsidiaries that operate within the industry.

8. Major Companies: Tables

9. Major Companies: Tables
Use Estimates
Asterisk in title = Footnote applies to entire table
Asterisk next to one or more years = Footnote applies to these rows only
Asterisk in Year column = Footnote applies to fiscal year-end
Semicolon between notes (i.e. *Estimates; **Year-end March)
Make sure asterisks are in sequential order
Add .0s to figures

10. Scoring Reports
Data errors – Instances where the analysis misstates a statistic from Key Stats or IBISbq. (1.2% instead of 2.5%; grow instead of decline). instance where the analyst wrote 1.3% instead of 1.4%.
Logical inconsistency – Analysis contradicts 1) Key Stats; 2) basic laws of the universe; or 3) other parts of the report.
Readability - Issues with unnecessary repetition, incomplete thoughts; unnecessary information; or incoherence that interfere with clarity and/or credibility.
Typos – Misspellings, missing spaces, wrong words, missing or extra words
Out of date – Referring to past performance periods (over the five years to 2014…).
Problems with attribution – Quote used out of context or incorrectly; quote transcribed incorrectly.
Missing manual requirements – stems from the section checklists (found in the Writing Manual) are missing; direction of a KED is wrong; missing threat or opportunity in KEDs

11. Editorial Advice
Never hyphenate prefixes e.g. Nonemployer, postrecessionary, multifaceted
Avoid anthropomorphisms e.g. The industry saw revenue growth of 4.5%
Do not capitalize segments
Postrecession should be postrecessionary
Avoid redundancies e.g. Over the past five years to 2015.
Avoid words such cheap use inexpensive instead.
Do not use firm in reference to an incorporated business entity – use company or corporation instead (or farms, wholesalers, etc.).

12. Sources Chicago Manual of Style: Username: useditors
Password: ibisworld
Merriam Webster Unabridged:
Username:
Password: IBISWorld13
IBISWorld Style Guide: NY Edition