How to publish in high quality scientific journals

101 Hints and Tips to get you published

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• Tip 72. Don’t expect graphs, figures and tables to stand alone
  
  A picture paints a thousand words, but sometimes the pictures need a little support from the words. Too often, a paper refers to a graph, a figure or a table and then expects the reader to draw out the useful information. Only rarely will a graph, figure or table be able to convey its meaning without some explanation from the author. It is not good enough to say Looking at figure 1, it is obvious th ...... read more in the book