• Example Highlight (PDF)

Format for the Highlights

• Less than 800 words for the complete document (i.e. main text, references and legends), preferably in .doc or .rtf format
• Please include a brief but clear introduction to the subject area and a concise conclusion that emphasises the main result
• Only 2 figures or images

Many readers will not be specialists in your field, so please avoid using domain specific technical terms. If you are shortening a published paper, then try to use a more general and shorter title than the original. Space is limited, therefore we request that you limit the number of figures to two per article. Please keep the legends as brief as possible, and refer to figures like Figure 1 when explicit or otherwise (Figure 2).

Essential to the document are the Authors' names, lab, country, and the reference of the principal publication (if already published or accepted for publication). Other references should be kept to a minimum, please no more than two, and it will help us if you use the format given below [1,2].

References
[1] C.R. Smith, H. Brown, F.-J. Dubois, Phys. Rev. Lett., 22, 111-116 (1999).
[2] A. Faber, in Spectroscopy Techniques, B. Richards, H. Evans (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New York, 1-34 (1999).

Principal publication and authors
C.R. Smith (a, b), F. Müller (a), J.-P. Martin (b), J. Sync. Rad., 5, 99-102 (2000).
(a) Laboratoire de Physique des Materiaux, CNRS, Marseille (France)
(b) ESRF

Fig. 1: Please use brief figure legends whenever possible.
Fig. 2: For further precision, the reader can always refer to the principal publication.

An example Highlight article is "Directed motion of proteins along tethered polyelectrolytes ", K. Henzler et al., ESRF Highlights, p40-41 (2008).

Preparation of Images

The images are usually printed with a maximum width of 8.4 cm, at 300 dpi. Scalable verctorial images are ideal (e.g. eps format). Otherwise, if you are making bitmap images, please create your images for this size and resolution or higher (after cropping to remove unnecessary white space). Please do not add a coloured background to charts or graphs. We prefer the formats TIF or EPS, but are able to use a variety of other image formats, though a loss in quality may occur during conversion. Examples are .ps, .psd, .bmp, .pct, .wmf, .jpg, .gif, .ai, .pdf, cgr, cdm, ras, raw, wpg; etc. Sending us the images individually is far better than inserting them within a word document.

Small images (e.g. less than 6 mb) can be sent as e-mail attachments, whereas larger images are best transferred using FTP. Consider making an archive or "zipping" your files to simplify transfer. Ftp instructions for authors external to the ESRF's computer systems are available on request.