Editing Standard manuscript format (section)

==Word count==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;float:right"
! rowspan="2"|Left and<br />right margins|| colspan="2"|Font size
|-
!12-point<br /> (10 pitch)||10-point<br />(12 pitch)
|-
! colspan="3" style="background:ivory;"|Characters and spaces per line
|-
| 1"||65||78
|-
| 1.25"||60||72
|-
| 1.5"||55||66
|-
! colspan="3" style="background:ivory;"|Characters and spaces per page (24 lines)
|-
| 1"||1,560||1,872
|-
| 1.25"||1,440||1,728
|-
| 1.5"||1,320||1,584
|-
! colspan="3" style="background:ivory;"|Characters and spaces per page (25 lines)
|-
| 1"||1,625||1,950
|-
| 1.25"||1,500||1,800
|-
| 1.5"||1,375||1,650
|}

Writers can add the [[word count]] of the manuscript, although this may also be noted on a [[query letter]]. Most publishers pay writers based on a hypothetical number of words in the manuscript. However, this is not the physical count of actual words; this is a rough count of the number of characters divided to better estimate the space that the final text will consume in the published version. Normally, this involves counting every character in the manuscript, including spaces, and dividing by 6. If the correct font size is used, and if the [[Margin (typography)|margins]] are set so that lines contain an average of 60 characters, the editor can easily assume that there are 10 words per line. Furthermore, if the top and bottom margins are set so that there are, for example, 25 lines on each page, the editor can easily count 250 words per page.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.davidfarland.net/writing_tips/?a=230|title = The Importance of Standard Manuscript Format|date = 2013-06-18|accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref name=Splane/><ref name=www.aw-bc.com/>