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  • The requirements of photos for Journal

    Hi, I know this is an non-bioinformatics question. I am preparing my manuscripts for a journal. They have some requirements about the figures. I don't quite understand, but I know a lot of people have more experience than I have.

    Here are the requirements.

    1> Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).

    2> Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.

    The first requirement, I understand part of it. They want the fonts on the final-sized figure are 8-12pts. However, I don't know how to calculate this. I have all my figures saved in Adobe Illustrator format (high resolution). The Figure size in Illustrator is about a letter paper size (8.5" by 11"). How would I know the journal will design my final figure's size. They could shirk to half of the letter paper size or a quarter letter paper size? Do you guys know if any basic rules? If they shirk to a quarter paper size (final size), what size of font should be in an original letter-sized figure? How about if they shirk to half letter paper size?



    The 2nd requirement, does it mean like this?

    If I have a X,Y scatter plot. The gradient on X (1, 2, 3..) should be exactly same size as the X label (Let say my X axis is "Time")

    This sounds stupid. Normally, the fonts for the gradients are smaller than labels.

    Thanks,

  • #2
    Does anyone know this. Thanks.

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    • #3
      Does anyone know this. Thanks.

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      • #4
        I've never had a journal make those sorts of requirements. I can only presume that they mention a maximum image size somewhere. You can then tweak the font sizes to be within their requirements.

        For part 2, yes, you've understood correctly and yes, this is a horrendously stupid requirement.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by dpryan View Post
          I've never had a journal make those sorts of requirements. I can only presume that they mention a maximum image size somewhere. You can then tweak the font sizes to be within their requirements.

          For part 2, yes, you've understood correctly and yes, this is a horrendously stupid requirement.
          Thanks. For 1>, I haven't heard before either. They even don't have the max size of photo. Most of journals will give you their max size of photo. (e.g., lengthXwidth)

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