Finding photos
Photographs are integral elements of ANR publications. ANR authors know the subject best and are responsible for providing useable photos for their publications. The development and selection of the photos is ideally done before or while a manuscript is being written—not afterwards. Lack of photographs can and has delayed ANR peer review and publication production at Communication Services.

How to take publication-quality digital photographs

If authors cannot take photographs for their publication, they may have to do a little more digging in the ANR Repository or other ANR books that may have photos that can be used. ANR Publishing designers can “pick up” images from ANR publications published in the last 5 years. Photos from non-UC books can also be used, but their use requires advance permission from those publishers, which is also the author’s responsibility.

How to obtain permission to use a photo from another source

Photographer Evett Kilmartin and Director of Publishing Rachel Lee can provide guidance on photography.

Do photos need to be peer reviewed?
When an author's manuscript is ready to be submitted for ANR peer review, all photographs that provide important technical content are considered part of the text and must be peer reviewed with the manuscript. (Aesthetic or seasonal photographs not yet available do not have to be reviewed; authors should describe the missing photographs or provide caption information.)

How to submit photos for peer review
Authors can attach their photos as separate files to their manuscript in the online system. However, it is easiest for reviewers to see photos right in the manuscript they are reviewing, next to the text reference. Because there are limits to the size of the file that can be submitted to the online peer review system, it is best for authors to place low-resolution versions of their photos in their manuscript's Word file. If authors have print-quality, high-resolution photos, they should copy and downsize the copies for review. See these instructions on how to downsize photos.

Preparing photos for  production
Once peer review is complete, and author are preparing their final manuscript, they need to return to those high resolution photos they had copied for review. High-resolution images hold more pixels—image data—and are only used in printed publications. In many cases low-resolution images can be used in online publications.

The ANR Publishing design team will be in touch during the early stages of production to assess your images.