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Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission

Article Number: 000095563

Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission (Including Supplemental Files) Submit as a PDF

Embed all fonts (further information is provided below related to embedding fonts)
Make sure there is no password protection on the PDF
Ensure that security settings allow printing
Format as individual, single pages

Verify Proper Formatting

Manuscript specifications, supplementary materials.

Do not embed media files in your PDF.
Upload media files as supplementary files. During online submission, you will be asked to upload any supplementary files.
Describe files in your abstract. Add a description of each supplementary file in your abstract.

Supporting Documentation for Supplementary Materials

Reprint Permission Letters: If you are going to include multimedia material covered under someone else's copyright—an audio or video clip, a digital photograph, etc.—you must provide us with written permission to include it.
Third Party Software Licenses (if needed): If you are including third party software with your submission, you must provide written permission to distribute it. Note that this is different than including a file generated by a particular program. For example, including a Microsoft Excel file (.xls) does not require including the software license.

Embedding Fonts

*Arial 10pt
Century 11pt
*Courier New 10pt
Garamond 12pt
*Georgia 11pt
Lucida Bright 10pt
Microsoft Sans Serif 10pt
Tahoma 10pt
*Times New Roman 12pt
*Trebuchet MS 10pt
*Verdana 10pt
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
Select the Embed TrueType fonts check box.
Save the document.
Open your document in Microsoft Word
Click on the Acrobat tab at the top. Select preference.
Click on Advanced Settings.
Click on the Fonts folder on the left side of the new window. In the lower box on the right, delete any fonts that appear in the "Never Embed" box. Then click "OK."
If prompted to save these new settings, save them as "Embed all fonts."
Now the Change Conversion Settings window should show "embed all fonts" in the Conversion Settings drop down list and it should be selected. Click "OK" again.
Click on the Adobe PDF link at the top again. This time select Convert to Adobe PDF. Depending on the size of your document and the speed of your computer, this process can take 1-15 minutes.
After your document is converted, select the "File" tab at the top of the page. Then select "Document Properties."
Click on the "Fonts" tab. Carefully check all fonts. They should all show "(Embedded Subset)" after the font name.
If you see "(Embedded Subset)" after all fonts, you have successfully embedded all fonts.

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