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• ASPAN Guidelines for Authors
• CDQ Guidelines for Authors
• CES Guidelines for Authors
• CVJ Guidelines for Authors
• JAOC Guidelines for Authors
• JCC Guidelines for Authors
• JCD Guidelines for Authors
• JEC Guidelines for Authors
• JHCEAD Guidelines for Authors
• JMCD Guidelines for Authors
• MECD Guidelines for Authors

Submission Guidelines for Figures in ACA Journals

Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy and content of their artwork. See the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) pp. 188–201 for detailed formatting and style requirements for any artwork. All figures should be submitted camera-ready, at the approximate size they will appear in the journal. A final copy of figure(s) should be output on a high resolution printer on white paper and submitted with your final manuscript to the journal field editor as specified in each of the above journal guidelines. If artwork is not supplied electronically, ACA will use this supplied hard copy to scan your artwork for publication.

If electronic artwork is submitted, please follow these guidelines:

• Any text within the figure should be a minimum of 8-points in size for legibility.
• Artwork should be black only. The use of color in your figure is not acceptable because it will not reproduce. To distinguish different elements in your artwork, use alternate patterns or clearly distinguishable lines (i.e., alternate cross hatching within bar graphs or solid and dashed lines).
• Keep the use of any shading within the artwork to a minimum and do not place type over shaded areas because it will not be readable.
• All abbreviations and symbols must be explained in a figure legend or caption (see APA Publication Manual, p. 199). Figure captions are to be supplied on a separate page from the artwork.
• ACA requires electronic artwork to be at a minimum resolution of 600 dots per inch (dpi) up to 1200 dpi. Halftone line screens should be a minimum of 300 dpi. JPEG or PDF files are preferred. Do not embed artwork within your manuscript, but rather insert a figure callout in text and attach artwork as a separate file with your electronic submission.
• Figure file(s) should be appropriately labeled with author name and/or brief article title for easy identification. (i.e., Smith Counseling Teens Figure 1)