Each discipline has its own commissioning editor, its own referee pool and its own reading levels. Pick a field to see what we publish there and who decides.
AR
Academic & research
1,280 titles
Monographs, edited volumes and conference proceedings across every field we cover.
Postgraduate & specialist
ET
Engineering & technology
960 titles
Reference works, design handbooks and course texts for engineering faculties.
Undergraduate onward
MB
Management & business
830 titles
Case studies, leadership research and professional reference for practitioners.
Professional
SM
Science & mathematics
1,105 titles
From first-year problem books to specialist treatments in pure and applied fields.
All levels
HS
Humanities & social science
960 titles
History, law, philosophy, policy and the social research methods that support them.
Postgraduate
LF
Literature & fiction
780 titles
Criticism, translation and new writing, including our translated-fiction list.
General reader
CY
Children’s & young readers
450 titles
Curriculum-aligned non-fiction and reading schemes for ages 6–16.
School
ES
Environment & sustainability
310 titles
Climate science, policy and the teaching materials that translate them for classrooms.
All levels
KR
Knowledge resources
300 titles
Encyclopaedias, digital collections, datasets and open teaching repositories.
Institutional
How to place a manuscript
Not sure which list your book sits on?
Most manuscripts we receive could plausibly go to two editors. This is how we decide — and how you can guess right before you submit.
Placement guide · updated January 2026
If your book is…
It goes to
Typical extent
Review route
Original research for other specialists
Academic & research
80,000–140,000 words
Three referees, double anonymous
A course text with exercises
The relevant subject list
60,000–110,000 words
Two referees plus a teaching reviewer
An edited collection of chapters
Academic & research
10–16 chapters
Proposal review, then per-chapter
Written for practitioners, not scholars
Management & business
45,000–80,000 words
Two practitioner readers
Aimed at the general reader
Literature & fiction, or Environment
50,000–90,000 words
Editorial review, single referee
A dataset, archive or teaching repository
Knowledge resources
Not measured in words
Technical and metadata review
Still unsure? Send it anyway. If it belongs with a different editor, we pass it along internally rather than declining it.
Libraries and departments can subscribe to a whole list rather than ordering title by title. You get everything we publish in that discipline for the year, MARC records supplied, at consortium pricing.
Annual budgeting from a published forward schedule
MARC 21 and ONIX records with every shipment
Print and ebook bundled, with perpetual access terms