@helenajambor @steveroyle @nature Great checklist. One addition: if your scales don't start at zero: indicate this clearly, not only in text but also visually (especially for bar charts etc), i.e.: learn how lying with graphs works and avoid all of it. Bonus points for typography nerds: use a font that is also used for text/headings in the paper itself. Extra: use font sizes that are also used in the paper itself. This also means: don't just scale down the image (as a scaled down font is _not_ the same as a smaller font size). Oh, and (if the publication allows you to do this): use vector graphics (e.g. directly generated pdf), not bitmap. If bitmaps are required by the publisher: tiff or png, not jpeg.