As a native speaker I try to read it aloud (perhaps only in my head). I also know the mistakes I am likely to make, so I might do a read-through looking for those specific mistakes.

When I finish writing and proofreading an article, I just leave it for a couple of days and then, I proofread it once more before submission.

In the last time mostly I have given lectures which were published subsequently. When the text is finished, I read it to my wife. If she finds the text good which is usually the case, I'm glad. She is much more intelligent than me (I tested this once a time with a highly reliable i-test)

Note: When reading the text loudly to another person I am finding mistakes at once, much more than if I read the text alone.

The greatest problematic effort is not the elemination of mistakes but the adaptation to the specifications for formatting the respective journal. Each publisher, each journal has different specifications with referenced, footnotes, bibliography, etc. - that is terribly exhausting for the author.

"Each publisher, each journal has different specifications with referenced, footnotes, bibliography, etc. - that is terribly exhausting for the author." Yesterday, I spent the whole night for only formatting and still there are hours to go. This is a really frustrating issue

Dear Steven,

Thank you all for the invaluable insight. I think it is a good strategy to looking for specific types of mistakes. I sometimes do it, and I call it analytical checking.

Dear Cihat,

Thank you for the comments. Yes, it is very difficult to do it, especially when you have to revise your article based on format rules for a journal other than you originally intended. Yet, some paid and free software could make this task less tedious. I am sure you're familiar with referencing software. I think they are worth a try because it literally takes several minutes to change between styles and formats. EndNote is a paid program,Zotero and Refworks are not. I recommend you to begin with myendnoteweb.com It is easy to use, free and highly functional. Take care.

Dear Arif,

Thank you very much for the advice. Those programs really help organise references. What I actually intended to say was all the differences in table formats,writing styles indents, referencing and so on all together. All in all,I wish there was more consistency across journals.

Cihat,

That's right. It would be much easier in that way.

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