16. Supplementary material to appear in the Electronic Edition. Authors are encouraged to request that lengthy tables and other data appear on the Protein Science Electronic Edition; such material will not be printed in the journal. In such cases, authors should include a short paragraph after the Materials and Methods section entitled “Electronic Supplementary Material” with a brief description of the content. Supply supplementary material in electronic form (3.5” diskette or CD) with the manuscript and describe it briefly (including filenames) at the bottom of the article title page. Electronic publication of supplementary material is strictly at the Editor’s discretion.

Supplementary tables for the Electronic Edition should be constructed, if possible, in a manner that will permit them to be read by common computer programs. They should be in plain ASCII without word processor formatting information.The tables should be constructed using a nonproportional spacing font such as Courier with close attention to spacing. Each diskette file should include a header paragraph specifying page orientation, typeface, and font size used in viewing the table.

If it is not practical to construct supplementary tables in the ASCII format because special characters or elaborate layouts are essential for the presentation of the data, then formatted tables must be provided that can be read by standard word processor or spreadsheet software using IBM or Macintosh compatible computers.

Data that are best viewed in a graphical form should be submitted suitable for viewing by means of standard spreadsheet software. The files should be in plain ASCII text arranged as columns separated by tabs or commas. Each column should be identified by a short name or letter set off by double quotation marks, e.g. "X", "Y1", "Y2", etc. There should be a header paragraph with each line (80 characters maximum) enclosed in quotation marks that gives the titles of the X and Y axes and any other information that may be useful to the reader. Any other means of electronic publication of graphical material should be cleared in advance by the Editor and the Electronic Publishing Coordinator.

Graphical data that cannot be readily prepared as ASCII text may be provided as bitmap images, Microcal Origin data files, Jandel SigmaPlot data files, Lotus 123 or Excel spreadsheet files, or as standard word processing files containing embedded images. Any other means of electronic publication of graphical materials must be cleared in advance by the Editor and the Electronic Publishing Coordinator.

In the letter of submission, include a brief description of all Electronic Edition materials and indicate their desired treatment (provide this information as well at the bottom of the title page of the manuscript, including filenames). Electronic publication of such material is subject to availability of space and to the Editor’s discretion.

While abstract and reference files for the Electronic Edition will be prepared by the journal, preparation and submission of material for publication only in the Electronic Edition are the responsibility of the author.

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