Hello,
The high-end journals Nature and Cell not only publish top-quality research but also very catchy schematic figures, for instance, those on infection
Article Trained immunity: a tool for reducing susceptibility and sev...
Article Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation
One thing that I have noticed is that these figures have remarkably the same style. I imagine that, if each team produced its own schematic image, the style would have been different. It look like, instead, there is a single person drawing these schematics.
The question I have is:
- does Cell (or Nature) have stardards for the production of schematic figures?
In other words:
1. does Cell have a publication team that produces the figures based on the drafts given by the authors?
2. alternatively, do the authors produce their own schematics following certain rules?
3. if 2, what are these rules?
4. are there ready-made vectorial files with the elements of these schematic figures (such as cells, molecules etc)?
Thank you
The usual, apart that artwork are made with Illustrator https://www.cell.com/figureguidelines
I have seen that journals from the American Medical Association use a specialized artist firm (ScEYEnce Studios).
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