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Elsa is a smart authoring tool designed specifically with authors in mind to support the publishing process. Elsa’s suite of tools make creating, updating, and revising content easy, so you can spend less time formatting and receive fewer queries from editorial and production staff.
Elsa automates and simplifies the most tedious parts of the publishing process by formatting your chapter as you write and automatically numbering and re-numbering your table of contents, references, callouts, figures, tables, boxes, and equations. Elsa auto-populates in-text citations and updates references without the need for an external reference manager like EndNote.
Elsevier staff import previous edition content directly to Elsa so you can immediately get started making your revisions.
You have enough to think about so let Elsa help you keep track of key publishing requirements. Elsa’s Publishing Assistant dashboard helps ensure that your manuscript meets submission requirements by tracking key information such as word count, references, figures, borrowed materials and more. The Publishing Assistant updates as you write and is accessible to all chapter members at any time to help everyone stay on the same page.
Elsa ensures your content formatting and structure is maintained through production and proofing so you receive fewer queries from editorial and production staff. With Elsa, you can view upcoming deadlines and publishing requirements from one centralized platform. You can even import draft materials to jumpstart the writing process while making the most of Elsa's suite of tools.