1. Guidelines to Figures 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 software used to create the image like Prisma (up to version 6), SigmaPlot (up to version 12.5), Powerpoint, Illustrator, MS Excel).

2. Figure Colorscheme Set yellow background color for images: Color:
RGB:
HEX: #fefeda
Use slightly rounded corners
Set modest drop shadow bottom right
For charts and diagramms: use yellow background only within the coordinate plane
Background example
for artwork

3. Bar chart colorscheme Color palette:
Black (RGB: 0 0 0) for coordinates, captions, Control-values in line-charts.
White (RGB: ) for Control- values in box-charts.
Blue (RGB for Intervention 1.
Grey (RGB: ) for Intervention 2.
Red (RGB ) for Intervention 3.

4. Figure Symbols indicating significance
Common symbols in figures:
Error bar
P<0.05
P<0.01
P<0.001 * † ‡

5. Example scatterplots Please add tick lines Control: White
Line size=2pt
Font: Arial
Please add tick lines
Control: White
Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189
Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81

6. Example scatterplots Control: White Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Line size=2pt
Font: Arial
Control: White
Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189
Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81
Please add tick lines

7. Example boxplot Error bar P<0.05 P<0.01 * P<0.001 † ‡
Colorscheme: Control: White
Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189
Please add hatched tick lines

8. Example boxplot Error bar P<0.05 P<0.01 * P<0.001 † ‡
Colorscheme: Control: White
Intervention 1: R79; G129; B189
Intervention 2: R127; G127; B127
Please add hatched tick lines

9. Example boxplot Error bar P<0.05 P<0.01 * P<0.001 † ‡
Please add hatched tick lines
Colorscheme: Control: White
Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189
Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81

10. More colours for interventions
Colorscheme: Control: White
Intervention 1: R127; G127; B127
Intervention 2: R79; G129; B189
Intervention 3: R180; G42; B81
Intervention 4: R30; G200; B110
Intervention 5: R250; G180; B140
Intervention 7: R0; G0; B0

11. Examples for flowchart and artwork

12. Example artwork
A B
A schematic representation of microinjection sites in the PVN region (a). Black or red dots represent the sites of termination of the microinjections. Black dots were considered to be within the PVN. Red dots were considered to be at the margin of PVN or outside of the PVN, which were excluded from data analysis. A representative photo of microinjection sites in the PVN evaluated by 50 nL of Evans blue diffusion, and arrows showed the microinjection sites (b). PVN, paraventricular nucleus; 3V, the third ventricle.
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13. Example complex figure