• neither too short nor too long
• highly significant and searchable by search engines in an intuitive and direct way
• no gross abbreviations except for standard units of measurement :
  • in the title the developed form of an expression will be followed by its acronym or abbreviation in parentheses
  • abbreviations and acronyms will be kept alone afterwards in the body of the text

     

• Recommendations to the Authors are very precise as regards technical details on their insertion and their appearance, including for the legends
• The figure being often isolated a posteriori in the form of a slide for a presentation of the Slideshow type, it must be very clear
• In case of taking an illustrative item from another document, the authorization of its authors and publishers must be acquired and specified with mention of the source.
• This authorization is obviously not required if this item is definitely in the public domain.

• Use the metric system, degrees Celsius, quantify the blood pressure in mm of mercury ...
• If exorbitant units of measurement from the International System are used, mention as much as possible the alternative in parentheses

• it is the basis, with the title, for the harvesting of search engines
• actually it is often the only portion of the article read by the community
• it allows to judge at first sight the value of the article and to decide to read further or not
• carefully written, every word being well weighed for engines:
  • you can add keywords, which are important for search engines and that will inform the potential reader very quickly. Warning theses keywords must be sharp or highly significant acronyms.
  • avoid in keywords empty shells such as "method" "analysis", "process", "preparation"... for it might pollute the search
  • Optional: an Author Summary, second abstract written in a style that is accessible to those familiar with the discipline in general but not related to the specialty

• Mention some reviews, useful to referencing the state of the art.
• Priority to research articles.
• Avoid long lists. Focus on memorable items.
• Avoid mentioning abstracts as bibliographic references.
• Do not mention "in press" or "forthcoming" articles unless you have:
  • Authorization of their authors
  • verification of their "accepted" status
• Avoid quoting "personal communication" (e.g. e-mail) unless absolutely necessary. If applicable, the interlocutor and the date will be clearly mentioned between (), to guard against any possible dispute in this matter.
• Scrupulously respect the style of referencing imposed by the editors
• Take advantage of the possibilities offered by specialized software such as Zotero

• Two possibilities depending on editorial requirements and format (HTML or PDF):
  • The ordering of the figures must follow very closely the scrolling of the text in which they are embedded
  • The figures are grouped in a dedicated space and are referenced by notes

• The figure should help to avoid text. The text must never fully translate the content of a figure into words

• Legend writing is crucial

• If a table is too dense, replace with a graph as much as possible.

• The topology of an article is crucial: think in terms of space saving and meaning of visual items without redundancy with text

• Graphs, tables, images, figures, are often (with abstract) the only items captured by the researcher in a hurry.

• it is repeated at the head or foot of each page
• approx. 40 characters max. standard
• extract significant expressions from the title
• the publisher sometimes does it himself

• Research can lead to conflicts of interest between laboratories or towards industrialists
• Even if this is not the case, a paragraph should mention it
• Examples:
  Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
  Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

• Datasets are most often digital data on which the publication is based
• In their untreated state, they are almost always free of rights (check on a case-by-case basis) and appear in the appendix.
• Their publication may be subject to payment (see below CIRAD Guide / Datasets)
• Slideshows and videos are also included in the appendix
• The publisher's guidelines for multimedia (resolution, pixels, format etc.) are very strict

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