Supplemental Materials Policy

Annual Reviews now offers an additional opportunity to its authors. Article-relevant material that is costly, difficult, or impossible to include in the printed volume can now be made available online. Candidates for inclusion in this Web repository are color figures, figures that will not reproduce well in print, data sets, and multimedia objects (e.g., sound, video, animations, 3D objects, etc.).

Please note: It is the author's responsibility to put supplemental material in a final, copyedited form before submission (see guidelines below). In most cases we will be unable to revise these materials, either upon submission or thereafter.

General Guidelines for Authors
Annual Reviews encourages authors to submit article-relevant, online-only supplementary material, such as figures that will not reproduce well in print, data sets, and multimedia objects (e.g., sound, video, animations, 3D objects, etc.). Supplemental material must directly supplement the material presented in the primary Annual Review article. The article in turn must form a coherent whole that does not depend for comprehensibility on the online supplement. For example, an online-only (supplemental) color figure should enhance but not supplant a grayscale figure or diagram in the printed volume. An online-only dataset should flesh out but not replace explanations or conclusions in the printed article. Think of this Web-accessible material as directly supportive but not primary.

Size Limitations
Supplemental material must not exceed a total of 7 Megabytes or 30 files (including graphic files).

Preparation Guidelines for Authors
Supplemental Material must come to us in a Web-ready state. This means:

• Files intended for online publication/reading must be submitted in HTML format.
• Sets of hyperlinked HTML files are accepted but they must be organized within a single directory (folder) with no sub-directories (folders within folders).
• Sets of hyperlinked HTML files must be linked with relative URL's.
• Supplemental material projects should be self contained. This means HTML files should not contain hyperlinks to other WWW files, sites, or locations.
• Files intended for download and use off-line (e.g., downloadable PDF files, Excel files, or Word documents) must be submitted in the download-ready format (i.e., .pdf, .xls, .doc).
• Supplemental material projects may not contain either a parallel or revised version of the original Annual Review article.
• If file compression is necessary, a standard compression program such as WinZip must be used.

Submission Guidelines for Authors

• Supplemental material must be submitted concurrently with article text materials, well in advance of the expected text publication date.
• Supplemental material must be submitted to the appropriate Production Editor in an electronic format via e-mail attachment, ftp, or on portable media.

Supportable File Types

• Animations (.avi, .gif, .vrml, or .swf)
• Audio/Video (.mov or .mpg)
• Compression (.hqx, .tar, or .zip )
• Document files (.doc, .dvi, .pdf, .txt, .xls). Please note, .dvi files will be converted to .gif files.
• Graphics (.gif, .jpg, .ps, or .tif)
• Supplemental material must not rely on the use of atypical browser plug-ins. Acceptable plug-ins are: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash/Shockwave, and QuickTime.
• All files and graphics should be cross-platform (MAC, PC, and UNIX) accessible.

Unacceptable File Types
We do not support executable files of any kind. This includes Java applets and streaming media files.

Maintenance Guidelines
Annual Reviews will keep materials in its Web repository as long as practical within the limits of our resources. In a situation where we are forced to remove data, we will remove older and/or exceptionally large files first. Please maintain updated copies of your supplemental material among your own file backups. Annual Reviews will not revise or update Supplemental Material after the initial online publication.

Calling Out Supplemental Material
Text in the printed volume should refer to Supplemental Material as follows:

Please note, if the author fails to provide acceptable Supplemental Material files in a timely fashion (i.e., before the print manuscript goes to the typesetter) the Supplemental Material will not be referenced in the article.

Authors who wish to publish Supplemental Material should notify their Production Editor early in the production process to avoid delays.