Start from the target journal’s current instructions

Use the journal’s current primary source for its actual artwork category. Record the article type and submission stage before applying dimensions, file or caption rules.

Use the Nature research figure guide for its stated scope and the cover guide for cover preparation. Check each journal's instructions and editor correspondence separately.

Nature Machine Intelligence

Consult the journal’s author information. Keep manuscript figures separate from cover candidates and verify archive versus official-cover records.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Use JACS author guidelines. Confirm the named figure or TOC category rather than transferring another ACS journal's specification automatically.

ACS Nano

Check ACS Nano author guidelines. Record the actual dimensions, text rules, file format and submission field relevant to your article.

Nature Reviews

Read the Nature Reviews artwork guide, then confirm the commissioned journal and editor requirements. Review source and attribution checks.

RSC Publisher

Start with RSC author and reviewer resources. Select the actual journal and article category before applying any artwork rule.

Small

Use Small’s publisher journal page to find its current author instructions. A cover archive is a composition example, not an independent source of submission requirements.

Make a submission record

Keep the primary URL, retrieval date, article type, submission stage, dimensions, formats and editorial exceptions together. Complete the eight-check handoff. No numerical specification on this hub is presented as universal.

Sources and scope

Sources apply within their stated scope. Archive records describe existing work; international account access and checkout remain closed.

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