Q: How do I upload the description text for a figure when submitting to the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience?
I would like to ask about uploading a figure (illustration) for a brief research report to the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Here are the guidelines for figures for the journal: 2.2. Figure Requirements and Style Guidelines
There is a figures upload window. So, if a figure has multiple panels, I need to label them (A), (B), (C), etc. and caption it ‘Figure 1 | Text.’ My question is: Should I upload the description text for Figure 1 in a separate Word/Notepad file? When I looked up a relevant paper, the text for the figure was not in the image but as a separate figure-and-text explanation.
Firstly, note that we have made some edits to your question for clarity and brevity. For the same reason, we have removed the text for the guidelines. Instead, we have referred to the guidelines through the provided link.
Coming to your query, it’s quite specific, and we can see why you have asked it: this detail does not seem to be provided in the guidelines listed by the journal. :-) Based on our understanding though, we believe you would indeed need to upload the description text in a separate text file. However, because this query is so specific and journals too are quite specific about their requirements, we believe it would be best to check this with the journal before submission. On their Contact Us page, you may write to their Application Support team using the following mail ID: support@frontiersin.org
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