What is supplementary material

For optimal-quality videos please use a H. If your file sizes exceed these limits or if you cannot submit in these formats, please seek advice from the editor handling your manuscript. Should you require assistance with file formats or uploading of your SI, please contact us at Production. Help springernature. For initial submissions, SI can be submitted online with the rest of the paper via our online submission service.

When a paper with SI is accepted, SI in its final form should be uploaded to our server via our online submission service. Please see the MGED open letter specifying microarray standards. Authors submitting manuscripts containing microarray data must submit the data to the GEO or ArrayExpress databases, with accession numbers at or before acceptance for publication.

See Nature editorial of 26 September for further details and explanation. Advanced search. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature. Supplementary information. General information Supplementary Information SI is peer-reviewed material directly relevant to the conclusion of a paper that cannot be included in the printed version for reasons of space or medium for example, video clips or sound files. Content We recommend that SI in the following five 'flat' text or table categories is combined into a single PDF, laid out as you wish readers, editors and peer-reviewers to download it.

Supplementary Methods Supplementary Table s Supplementary Discussion Supplementary Equation s Supplementary Notes including notes clarifying statistical analyses, acknowledgements, grant or other numbers Some types of SI listed below are either best presented in editable format or cannot be presented as PDF for technical reasons.

Supplementary Data Supplementary Video s Supplementary Audio s Supplementary Video and Audio Legend s please provide legends in a separate editable document, or include in the SI Guide; see below Tips and hints for presentation of SI SI sections should be classified as one of the categories listed above.

This should contain: A title for each file. For example, for SI supplied as separate files: Supplementary Table A text summary for each file no more than 50 words that describes the contents of the file. Good metadata of this material are key to discoverability and usefulness.

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SAGE does not generally provide technical support for the creation of supplemental material. Please supply a title and description for all supplemental material items supplied. These can be included in a separate word document upon submission.

The title and description will appear on SAGE Journals and also on the record in Figshare and will aid discoverability of the supplemental material online. What file formats can be accepted? Zip files should be avoided wherever possible. There will simply be a link to the zip file on Figshare. All video clips must be created with commonly-used codecs, and the codec used should be noted in the supplemental material legend.

Video files should be tested for playback before submission, preferably on computers not used for its creation, to check for any compatibility issues. SAGE will not host codec files, or be responsible for supporting video supplemental material where the codec used is non-standard. A codec compression-decompression program called H. Like any codec, this one manages small file sizes through losses in compression and therefore potentially in image quality.

Therefore, if you choose to use the H. However, H.