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Application-specific files should be provided in one of the formats listed in
the table below. Elsevier recommendS the submission of material in the
specified 'preferred' formats, if possible.
Supply of material in one of the formats outlined below will ensure that the
majority of potential users have the best chance of being able to access, view
or play the data, both now and in the future.
If the software used for creation of your application-specific data does not
support this, please save in one of the 'accepted' formats outlined.
Any alternative format supplied may be subject to conversion (if technically
possible) prior to online publication.
Recommended upper limit
For ease of download, the recommended upper limit for the size of a single MMC
file is 10 Mb. When the size of a single file is bigger than this, some users
may experience problems when downloading. Whenever possible, this limit should
be adhered to.
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Extension
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Details
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Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format
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.pdf
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Preferred format for texts, notes, documents
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Any fonts used should be embedded
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Comma Separated Values
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.csv
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Preferred format for tabular material
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Text/ASCII
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.txt
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Preferred for plain text material, such as program listings
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Microsoft Word
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.doc
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Allowed format for texts, notes, documents
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Rich Text Format
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.rtf
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Allowed format for texts, notes, documents
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Generic word processing format
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Microsoft Excel
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.xls
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Allowed format for spreadsheet-based data
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Microsoft Powerpoint
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.ppt
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Allowed format for presentation data
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