What We Publish

We publish nonfiction, with particular strengths in anthropology, Asian studies, biological sciences, classics, history, industrial relations, literary criticism and theory, natural history, philosophy, politics and international relations, veterinary science, and women's studies. Submissions are not invited in poetry or fiction.

If you are not currently working with one of our acquisitions editors, please refer to the Acquisitions section of the Contact the Press page for a list of our editors and their areas of expertise

Submitting Manuscript Proposals

For initial submissions, we like to see a proposal describing your project, a table of contents, a sample chapter or two, and a copy of your curriculum vitae or resume. Please also include information about length (in numbers of words or double-spaced manuscript pages), intended audience, and plans for illustrations.

If your manuscript is currently under consideration by another press, please include that information in your letter to us.

Mail your proposal to:

Cornell University Press
Sage House
512 East State Street
Ithaca, New York 14850

Guidelines for Authors under Contract

The Author Guidelines file is in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF)* and the size is 123K (updated March 2003).

The Art Guidelines are more technical than our general guidelines and are intended to assist in preparation of art for science books. For more general instructions consult Graphics and Illustrations in our complete Author Guidelines. The Art Guidelines file is a PDF* and is 64K in size (updated July 2003).

*You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or greater for reading the PDF versions of the Guidelines.

Download Author Guidelines (.pdf) and
Download Art Guidelines (.pdf)