Tag: Data tables and figures

Although standards for writing legends for your figures vary from journal to journal, there are a few common principles that may help to ensure clarity.

Your next academic research article will stand or fall with readers based on your images in your manuscript. Your figures can determine how well you sell your results to other academic researchers, peer reviewers, or a grant funding agency.

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The unnecessary use of abbreviations in figures can make a paper more difficult to read and may be particularly troublesome for journal reviewers.

Figures represent an extremely important, yet often overlooked, aspect of a scientific paper. Learn how to use and adapt them without violating copyright.

This is the second part of our “Ask an Expert” interview series. In this installment, we speak with figure formatter Stacie Meaux about the top issues in her work.

The phrase “data not shown” peppers scientific manuscripts, referring to findings that are relevant enough to be mentioned but not to be depicted in a figure or table. This lack of visual evidence seems to contradict the scholarly focus on careful documentation.

Graphs and tables are powerful storytelling tools and are critical components of scientific publications. Learn different ways to present data and things to consider

One of the issues that can make generating figures for research papers challenging is the array of file types that must be dealt with. In this article, we break down the different types of files a scientist is likely to encounter and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each.