{"id":18650,"date":"2018-09-07T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/a-step-by-step-guide-to-formatting-tables-and-figures-in-your-manuscript\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:03:11","slug":"a-step-by-step-guide-to-formatting-tables-and-figures-in-your-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-step-by-step-guide-to-formatting-tables-and-figures-in-your-manuscript","title":{"rendered":"A step-by-step guide to formatting tables and figures in your manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Tables and figures are an author\u2019s best tools to communicate large or complex bits of information. Do you struggle to understand how your tables and figures should be formatted in your manuscript? 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Learn simple ways to include tables and figures in your manuscript and some excellent tips on how to add formatted captions and references in the text that will update automatically.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Related reading:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/presenting-your-tables-effectively\">Presenting your tables effectively<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/6-tips-for-preparing-effective-tables-for-a-research-manuscript\">6 Tips for preparing effective tables for a research manuscript<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/footnotes-in-tables-part-2-formatting-spacing-and-punctuation\">Footnotes in tables (part 2): formatting, spacing, and punctuation<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Give more time for your research, spend less time formatting!<\/em> <em>Check out\u00a0<\/em><em>Editage\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/services\/research-paper-manuscript-formatting-services?utm_source=editageinsights&amp;utm_medium=article-boilerplate&amp;utm_campaign=a-step-by-step-guide-to-formatting-tables-and-figures-in-your-manuscript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Manuscript Formatting Services<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>and get<\/em><\/strong> <em><strong>professional support for journal formatting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-18650","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A step-by-step guide to formatting tables and figures in your manuscript | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tables and figures are an author\u2019s best tools to communicate large or complex bits of information. 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