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Why do some journals request that headings are not included in figures?
The information that would go in a figure title is information that should be in the caption anyway, so including a title is redundant. Not using titles also makes it easier to have a relatively ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
wrzlprmft's advice is sound, but has in my opinion an important caveat, which I will illustrate with two examples.
I learned today that Roger Penrose, famous mathematical physicist of quantum ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
The best thing to do is to consult the submission guidelines for the journal in question - e.g., Physical Review. I have never seen anything prohibiting hand-made figures... in fact, until a few ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
Your example of Paint is often used as a shorthand for poor quality figures, though it has improved since it gained that reputation. There's still no reason to use it.
In general, diagrams should be ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
Whether we like it or not, verdicts on publishability from editors and reviewers are consciously and subconsciously affected by non-scientific aspects of a manuscript like quality of English, ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
No ... but if your figures look messy & unprofessional, you can expect a stream of requests to improve your figure(s), from all three of reviewer + editor + publisher. The publisher might even ...
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Are there any disadvantages of pre-publishing figures for a paper separatly using a CC-BY license?
This depends on the field, and, more specifically, on publishers in that field. Some publishers won't publish anything for which they won't hold copyright as it can reduce the value of the publication ...
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