Editorial Standards
& Corrections
The principles governing selection, attribution, evidence, historical interpretation, cultural responsibility and correction across our books and digital collections.
Serious publishing requires visible method
Accuracy
Factual claims should be supportable through reliable sources appropriate to the subject. Dates, names, quotations, statistics and translations receive particular scrutiny.
Independence
Editorial judgment is not purchased by advertisers, suppliers or featured institutions. Commercial relationships should not determine conclusions.
Provenance
Primary sources, archival records, images, datasets and editions are identified as precisely as practical, including institutional origin and date.
Plural interpretation
Serious disagreement is represented fairly. Balance does not require treating demonstrably false claims as equivalent to evidence-based scholarship.
Reading contested pasts
Evidence, interpretation, hypothesis
These categories are distinguished. Later tradition and living memory are valuable evidence of remembrance, but are not silently substituted for contemporary documentation.
Colonial archives
Colonial records are contextualised by purpose, power and omission. Their administrative authority does not make their categories neutral.
Sacred and living traditions
Religious texts and practices are not reduced to curiosities. Translation, community usage, sectarian diversity and the difference between scripture and interpretation are identified.
Names and borders
Historical names, transliteration systems and political borders change. Maps and labels must carry a source and date where the distinction matters.
Heightened standards for consequential claims
- Casualty estimates and territorial claims are dated and attributed.
- Official statements are identified as the position of the issuing body.
- Propaganda, manipulated media and unverified material are not presented as established fact.
- Current policy papers display publication date, jurisdiction, institution and revision status.
- Survivor testimony is handled with dignity and is not used merely for dramatic effect.
- Potential conflicts of interest are disclosed where material.
Living documents: pages describing current conflicts, legislation, institutions or policy conditions may be updated. The “reviewed” date is part of the record and does not guarantee that every linked source remains unchanged.
From proposal to durable edition
Commissioning and scope
The press defines the work’s question, readership, evidence base, structure, rights requirements and realistic production pathway before a project is represented as forthcoming.
Developmental editing
Argument, organisation, narrative movement, context and evidentiary gaps are examined at the level required by the work. Revision remains a substantive editorial process, not cosmetic polishing.
Source and rights review
Quotations, statistics, archival material, translations, illustrations and permissions are checked against identified sources. Specialist, sensitivity or legal review may be used where the subject requires it.
Copy, proof and metadata
Names, dates, references, captions, cross-references, ISBN data, edition statements and accessibility information are reviewed before release. Later corrections remain part of the edition record.
Originality, attribution and automated tools
Authors are responsible for the originality and accuracy of submitted work. Plagiarism, fabricated sources, invented quotations and undisclosed manipulation of evidence are incompatible with publication. Any use of generative or automated tools must comply with the project’s contract, protect confidential material and be disclosed where it materially affects authorship, research, images or factual reliability.
A record should improve when evidence improves
Minor correction
Typographical, formatting or link errors may be corrected without changing the substance of the work.
Substantive correction
A material factual or interpretive error should receive a dated notice explaining what changed.
Withdrawal
Material may be removed or restricted where law, safety, rights, grave inaccuracy or ethical obligations require it. A record may be retained when appropriate.
Right of reply
A person or institution materially criticised may submit relevant evidence. Publication of a response remains an editorial decision.
How to raise a concern: identify the page or publication, the precise statement, supporting evidence and the correction requested. Send correction notices to editorial@indiehorizonpress.com. Notices are assessed on their evidence and relevance; receipt does not guarantee amendment or removal.