I often encounter the situation that the number of words contributed by the author exceeds the standard. Because the number of words involves pricing, it will also affect the sales and publishing cycle. If it is a monograph, it will also affect the funding fee. It is necessary for more authors to understand the calculation method of the total number of words in books.

The calculation method of the total number of words in a book is always based on the number of words in the book layout, that is, the total number of words = the number of words per line? Number of lines per sideline? Total number of faces.

1. Except for blank surfaces such as ring linings, all texts, tables of contents, auxiliary texts, etc., regardless of typesetting or not, are counted as a whole page. With consecutive page numbers. For books with column layout, the number of words in the layout is also calculated according to the column spacing.

2. The book head (or the middle seam), single-line page number and edge code are included in the text as lines or words per line, and the words are counted together.

3 index, appendix and other font size changes, respectively, according to the actual layout to calculate the number of words.

4. If the footnotes in small font are more than 5 lines and less than 10 lines, the front is calculated according to the number of words in the full text plus 15%; If the line exceeds 10, the number of face words shall be calculated according to the full text. The method of converting lines into footnotes can be used to calculate bracket characters in small typesetting.

5. The first cover, the second cover, the third cover, the back cover, the protective cover, the envelope and the cover page, excluding the blank face, are calculated as 50% of the words in the full text; Copyright page, spine and text are counted as a whole page on one side of the text.

6. Figures and tables in the text are counted according to the number of words in the text: 20% of the words in the full text are counted if the figures occupy one side.

7. For books with pictures as the mainstay, the layout with text descriptions shall be calculated as 50% of the words in the whole page; For pages without text description, 20% of the whole page text should be calculated.

8. Music books and atlases are calculated in full according to the number of words on the whole page.

9. The pinyin part of foreign language books, minority language books and pinyin books shall be calculated by adding 30% to the Chinese full-page words of the corresponding font size.