Figure Style Guide

Each professor has a certain style that they like their images to be formatted as so they are consistent. The Specs from the Facchini Lab is as follows.

• Arial Font, Size 12 -16

• No colour, only black and white as much as possible

  • Avoid grey as well
  • Colours help with colour blindness and printing clarity if they happen to be reproduced

• 1 pt to 1.5 pt weight for the lines including the axis, trendlines and error bars

  • Axis should have outer ticks, not inner ticks

• Must be editable in Powerpoint

  • If the figures were made in R, port them over to powerpoint as much as possible
  • R only does not fly

• Structures should be ChemDraw, 16 pt font and bolded, the weight/distance should be smaller

  • Let him rearrange the structures.

• Chromatograms should be exported into excel and drawn there in centroid mode

• Write the methods and materials of the paper first

  • Then the results, discussion and wrap it back up to the introduction
  • He will only read complete drafts :(