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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY INTERACTIVE CARDIOVASCULAR AND THORACIC SURGERY GUIDELINES FOR ART PREPARATION Dear Author, Please find on the following pages general rules of the European Journal of Cardio- Thoracic Surgery and Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery on how to prepare good quality artwork. These instructions are aimed at helping authors produce the very best quality artwork for their manuscripts and establish a more uniform figure style for the Journals. EJCTS and ICVTS do not redraw figures in accepted manuscripts. Therefore, figure preparation is the authors responsibility. Please read the following guidelines carefully and thoroughly. Failure to comply with these guidelines may result in lower- quality figures and delay the publication of your article. For better understanding, a series of examples is attached to illustrate the quality differences that can be achieved by abiding to our instructions. 1. TEXT WITHIN FIGURES 1.1. Fonts All text should be in a sans-serif typeface, preferably Arial, not smaller than 10-point. Make sure that the visual information is readable at column width (8.4 cm). Special instructions are available for text on line drawings (see 5.1.). 1.2. Panel labels Multi-panel figures (those with parts A, B, C, and D) should be submitted as a single file that contains all parts of the figure. Label the individual parts with capital letters (A, B, C, D) on the top left hand corner of each composite figure. 2. FIGURE ASSEMBLY Figures with parts A, B can be assembled vertically or horizontally. We will be guided by your suggested layout of parts within figures, but may rearrange parts if necessary. Please note that if you arrange them vertically your figures can be printed larger in your publication. For the article type ‘Images in Cardio-Thoracic Surgery’, the parts should be assembled horizontally. 3. WHITE SPACE Each figure should be closely cropped to minim