SUBMIT YOUR CONTENT
Guidelines For Content Submission
Authors may submit various types of content including images for use by The American Society of Post-Surgical Pain website, member education, newsletter, and promotional materials.
All materials must be available for public sale or be your own content with a consent form attached.
TECHNICAL GUIDELINES FOR IMAGES & VIDEOS
TYPES OF REMOVABLE MEDIA ACCEPTED
- USB Stick | Flash Drive
TYPES OF FIGURES
- Medical illustrations
- Charts and graphs (vector graphics)
- Photographic (halftone) images (raster graphics)
- Videos
- Interactive graphics
Acceptable but not preferred
- Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. Graphs must be placed into these programs as vector images, not as rasterized images.
- TIFF
- Adobe Photoshop (.psd)
- JPEG (use only the maximum quality compression setting)
FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
- GIF
- JPEG
- TIFF
- Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
- Microsoft PowerPoint FOR GRAPHS AND CHARTS (VECTOR GRAPHICS)
- Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
- Unlocked PDFs created from a vector program
FOR VIDEO
A video file submitted for consideration for publication on PostSurgicalPain.org should be in complete and final format and at as high a resolution as possible. Any editing of the video will be the responsibility of the author. ASPSP will review video files submitted in the following formats:
• MP4 (MPEG)
• AVI
FOR INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS
Interactive graphics may contain any of the graphic types previously mentioned: medical illustrations, charts and graphs, photographic (halftone) images, and video. Formats already specified for each of these types may be submitted for appropriate components of an interactive graphic. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files are also acceptable. DICOM is a standard for storing and transmitting medical images. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol. The communication protocol is an application protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems.