Submitting your illustrations, pictures, tables and other artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. This site shows how to prepare your artwork for electronic submission and includes information on common problems, suggestions on how to ensure the best results can be gained plus image creation guides for popular applications. See the links under Application Guidelines for details about using specific artwork software for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Before you send us your artwork, make sure you can answer 'yes' to the following:
My files are in the correct format - TIFF, EPS or MS Office files. See File Formats
My colour images are provided in the RGB colourspace. Note that for a number of Elsevier Health Science journals there is a preference to receive colour images in CMYK, click here to view the list.
The physical dimensions of the artwork match the dimensions of the journal I am submitting to.
The lettering used in the artwork does not vary too much in size. See Sizing of Artwork
I have used the recommended naming conventions. See File Naming
If you are delivering your artwork on disk:
All illustrations are provided as separate files and as hardcopy on separate sheets.
All artwork is numbered according to its sequence in the text.
Figures, schemes and plates have captions and these are provided on a separate sheet along with the manuscript, in addition all figures are referred to in the text.
If required, I have specified the preferred magnification factor of my artwork on the sheet with filenames that accompany the disk.
My artwork is on a 3.5" disk, CD-ROM, ZIP disk or JAZ disk. See Acceptable Media