3: Illustrations and Tables
- Illustrations defined
- Tables defined
- Continuous tone versus halftone
- Line art
- Text figures and plates
- Galleries
- Captions, legends, keys, and labels
- Placement of illustrations relative to text
- Text references to numbered illustrations
- Continuous versus separate numbering of illustrations
- Double numeration of illustrations
- Identifying the parts of an illustration
- Working numbers for unnumbered illustrations
- Numbering illustrations in a gallery
- Submitting artwork to the publisher
- Identifying artwork for the publisher
- Author’s inventory of artwork
- Publisher’s inventory of artwork
- Cropping, scaling, and shading
- Artwork to be redrawn by the publisher
- Format and wording for captions
- Formal titles in captions
- Separating illustration numbers from captions
- Using locators in captions
- Identifying symbols or patterns used in figures
- Identifying electronic enhancements in captions
- Including original dimensions in captions
- Illustration captions and accessibility
- Sources and permissions
- Placement of credit lines
- Crediting author as source of illustration
- Crediting material that requires permission
- Crediting commissioned material
- Crediting material obtained free of charge
- Crediting material in the public domain
- Crediting agency material
- Crediting adapted material
- When to include a list of illustrations
- Listing illustrations from a gallery
- Shortening captions for a list of illustrations
- Charts defined
- Consistency among charts
- Axes and curves in graphs
- Chart titles and labels
- Abbreviations in labels
- Genealogical and pedigree charts
- Table preparation
- Use of tables
- Consistency among tables
- Table numbers and text references
- Placement of tables relative to the text
- Table structure and use
- Horizontal and vertical rules
- Table numbers and titles
- Parenthetical information in table titles
- Column heads
- Spanner heads
- Cut-in heads
- Stub entries
- Stub entries with subheads
- Runover lines in stub columns
- Abbreviations in stub columns
- Totals
- Using leaders with stub entries
- Table body and cells
- Column data
- Empty cells
- Matrixes
- Presenting multiple values in a single cell
- Alignment of rows
- Alignment of column heads
- Alignment of numbers within columns
- Alignment of columns consisting of words
- Format for totals, averages, and means
- When to use totals
- Order and placement of notes to tables
- Acknowledging data in source notes to tables
- Notes applying to the whole table
- Notes to specific parts of a table
- Notes on significance levels
- Editing table content
- “Percent” versus “percentage”
- Number ranges
- Signs and symbols in tables
- “N” versus “n”
- Adjusting and checking tables
- Tables of more than one page (“continued” tables)
- Ensuring accessibility for tables