• Respect images copyrights:

• When using images from the internet, please check if they are free of any copyrights (Creative Common License)

• You as the author are responsible for any copyright violations in your submission to Acta Physiologica.

• Use Arial as default font.

• Use Arial Bold for highlighting headlines, etc. Use consistent font sizes for comparable elements.

• For barcharts, scatterplots and artwork:

• Use enclosed colors and gradients

• All lines, coordinates should have equal thickness.

• Submit high resolution artwork:

• Make sure your file is an RGB (Not CMYK) .JPG file at the best possible quality. Minimum file size for images is 1600 x 1200 (approx. 2MB).

• If you create images in a vector art software, like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, OpenOffice Draw, etc, please export your images as PDF file to preserve the vector quality (no calculation from vector art to bitmap image).

• If you create your figures with Prism, SigmaPlot, etc. also consider to export a PDF-file as this will provide the best quality.

• If Acta Physiologica offers to have complex artwork revised by a professional firm, please provide the orginal file format of the softwareused to create the image like Prisma (up to version 6), SigmaPlot (up to version 12.5), Powerpoint, Illustrator, MS Excel).

Guidelines to figures

Background examplefor artwork

• Fill color: • RGB: 254 254 218 • HEX: #fefeda

• Stroke color: • RGB: 127 127 127 • HEX: #7f7f7f

• Set stroke weight to 0.25pt

• Use slightly rounded corners

• Set modest drop shadow bottom right

• For charts and diagrams: use yellow background only within the coordinate plane. • RGB: 254 254 218 • HEX: #fefeda

Figure colorscheme

Set yellow background color for images:

• Black (RGB: 0 0 0) for coordinates, captions, Control-values in line-charts.

• White (RGB: 255 255 255) for Control-values in box-charts.

• Blue (RGB 79 129 189) for Intervention 1.

• Grey (RGB: 127 127 127) for Intervention 2.

• Red (RGB 180 42 81) for Intervention 3.

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Bar chart colorscheme

Color palette:

Common symbols in figures:

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Error barP<0.05P<0.01P<0.001

Figure symbols indicatingsignificance

Line size=2ptFont: Arial

Control: WhiteIntervention 1: R127; G127; B127Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81

Example scatterplotsExample scatterplots

Line size=2ptFont: Arial

Control: WhiteIntervention 1: R127; G127; B127Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81

Example scatterplots

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Colorscheme:

Control: WhiteIntervention 1: R127; G127; B127Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189

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Example boxplots

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Control: WhiteIntervention 1: R79; G129; B189Intervention 2: R127; G127; B127

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Example boxplots

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Control: WhiteIntervention 1: R127; G127; B127Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81

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Example boxplots

Examples for flowchart and artwork

Example artwork

Example complex figure