Electronic Artwork Checklist

Before submitting your artwork you may find it helpful to take a moment to run down the following checklist.

• Your artwork meets our artwork standards and specifications
   
• Your artwork is, where possible, correctly sized and proportioned. Consult the journal Author Guidelines or journal editor for more information
   
• You have used standard fonts
   
• Your labelling is well sized (8/10pt is adequate)
   
• Charts, graphs and illustrations have been converted to encapsulated PostScript  (preferred) or 600 dpi bitmaps  (the latter at their intended print size)
   
• Photographs ( continuous tone  ) with no labelling have been supplied as TIFFs  at 300 dpi at their intended print size
   
• Annotated/combination figures  have been created using correctly sized TIFFs at 300 dpi
   
• You have restored the size of TIFFs embedded in PowerPoint presentations 
  
• Annotated/combination figures have been converted to encapsulated PostScript (preferred) or 600 dpi TIFFs at their intended print size
   
• Black and white TIFFs (either alone in annotated form) are saved in grayscale  mode
   
• Colour TIFFs (either alone or in annotated form) are, where possible, in CMYK  mode
   
• You haven't supplied JPEG   or GIF   files or converted these files to TIFF or EPS
   
• Figure files have been clearly named  with a correct PC suffix (even Mac users!)   .eps for encapsulated PostScript    .tif for TIFF    are clearly named, e.g. not Fig1.eps (these are easily lost!)
   
• All multipart figures have been saved as clearly named separate files or have been embedded into a single figure
   
• You have submitted adequate hard copies for comparison if colour critical
   
• Accompanying figure legends have been included in the manuscript text submission
   
• You have not repeated information in a key in the legend (either one or the other is best, not both, and overcomplex keys should be avoided for clarity)
   
• Figures have been cited in the text in numerical order