Reviewer checklist

For straightforward Acts

Macro structure / issues

• Table of Contents: numbers follow

• PREFACE, LONGTITLE, PREAMBLE, BODY used as and where appropriate

• Commencement date/s captured

• Schedules: headings / subheadings / section references marked up correctly

• Headings are Sentence case

• Defined terms captured

• References linked correctly (and no references linked incorrectly)

• Terms italicised correctly

• Editor warnings all resolved

Keywords

• Heading keywords used appropriately (e.g. PART, not CROSSHEADING Part)

• Formatting (// for italics and ** for bold) not overused, e.g. not used for crossheadings

• Table heading style used rather than manually bolding text

• Superscripts (12{{^th}}) and subscripts (CO{{_2}}) captured

Structure

• Subsection, paragraph, etc. numbers follow

• Annotations indented correctly

• Text at end of nested lists indented correctly

• Line breaks – text that was pulled back into section heading

• Line breaks – heading that ran over a line

• Line breaks – body text that was incorrectly broken up

OCR issues

Check for these by skimming the text and searching for repeated occurrences of any errors.

• (1) accidentally recorded as lowercase (L) or uppercase (i) (there should be an editor warning for this)

• Words joined together, e.g. of the recorded as ofthe

• Ligatures misrecognised, e.g. ri recorded as n

• Numbers picked up incorrectly (e.g. SO,OOO instead of 50,000)

• Currency symbols misrecognised (e.g. N instead of ₦)