Publication Checklist
Once a paper has been provisionally accepted subject to non-substantial modifications, authors must prepare their manuscripts for publication in Interlace. In particular:
- The manuscript must be prepared in LaTeX. Interlace uses PdfLaTeX for compiling documents. Fine-grained details appear in the checklist succeeding this one.
- Make sure the manuscript follows the Interlace style sheet.
- Proofread your paper, and better yet, if you are not an expert writer or native English speaker, have a colleague proofread your paper as well.
- Make diagrams friendly to colorblind readers by distinguishing elements in ways additional to color. For example, make all pink curves also be dashed.
- Images:
- While images should be high resolution, they should not have large file sizes. (As an example, a cell phone may take a 12Mb photo that can be resized to 1Mb or smaller without loss of quality.) See below for instructions for how to accomplish image file size reduction. For resolution, an image does not need to be more than 1500 pixels in the longest dimension (and may be of high enough resolution at smaller sizes). Generally, each image should be less than 1Mb in file size.
- Image file size reduction:
- On a Mac, Preview will reduce image size. Make a copy of your file before changing the size, just to be safe. For a .jpeg/.jpg, currently (as of this writing) this option is under Tools : Adjust Size... For a .pdf, use File : Export... and choose PDF export with a reduction in the drop-down menu. Check the result to be sure there is no loss of image quality. If you have difficulty with your image file sizes, please consult your corresponding Editor.
- On Windows, the Photos app has Resize image under the three dots at the top, and Microsoft Picture Manager has compression options in the Picture Tools Format tab.
- On Linux... we don't know. But if you're running Linux, presumably you do (or can figure it out).
- Image format: Photographs should be submitted as .jpeg/.jpg; other images should be prepared and submitted as vector images rather than bitmap images. PDF images scale better in LaTeX than .jpeg/.jpg images.
- List the relevant MSC codes for the manuscript (find them here), together with their verbal descriptions (e.g. 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs), just after the abstract.
- Supply 6--8 keywords, perhaps chosen from this list.
- In the email accompanying your manuscript files:
- Provide an image to precede your article, and an accompanying explanatory caption. This image may be used as part of a pictoral table of contents and/or on social media.
- Provide a biographical blurb for each author that explains the person's interests related to mathematics and fiber arts. (Feel free to use LaTeX.) Multi-author manuscripts may be accompanied by separate bio blurbs or by a joint statement. Examples and non-examples are available here.
- If you have an ORCID iD, supply it.
LaTeX details checklist:
- Interlace uses {fontenc, graphicx, xurl, xcolor, amsmath,amssymb, amsthm, enumerate, tikz, roundrule, hyperref, fancyhdr}, so be sure your source does not conflict with these.
- Do not hand-code where standard LaTeX commands exist.
- Remove any centering commands from figure and table environments.
- Add the [h] option to all figures and tables.
- Well, actually, about figures... Interlace uses the wrapfig package as appropriate. You can use it too---or not. That is, if you want to make decisions about where and how your figures appear, so do; otherwise, the Editors-in-Chief will. Here are some skeletal instructions: The wrapfigure environment makes sense mostly for figures that are less than 3/4 the width of the page. The syntax is \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0pt} ... \end{wrapfigure}, where the `r' means ``put it on the right'' (so you can use `l' for the left instead), and `0pt' means ``auto determine the width.'' All such wrapfigures have an implied [h] (but never an actual [h]). Note that lots of weird things can happen because wrapfigures are treated differently than figures/floats, for example figures appearing out of order, hanging off the bottom of the page, having wrong amounts of white space below, etc. These are all fixable by moving the code for the wrapfigure within the document or by adding `[k]' before the {r}, where k is an integer number of short text lines that seems to best be determined by trial and error. In any case, whatever you do, we expect some wrapfigures will have to be fine-tuned in production.
- Make sure the manuscript compiles properly in LaTeX . This includes making sure there are no error messages and removing non-ASCII characters.
- The first use of any terminology, where one usually writes \emph{the terminology goes here}, should be coded as \term\{the terminology goes here}. Institute that after making sure the manuscript is compliant in all other ways :).
