# PubMed Central New Journal Setup Requirements

We require an image file for use as a banner at the top of each page of
the journal in PMC. We also would like to know your preferences for
certain display elements. The banner image and display preferences may
be mailed to PMC at: pmc@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

## Journal Banner Image

The journal banner must be a GIF image, exactly 75 pixels high and up to
500 pixels wide.

It may be a simple image, similar to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
(<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=1>) banner, in
which case it links back to the home page for the journal's own web
site. Or, as with PNAS
(<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=2>) and JMLA
(<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=93>), it may be a
client-side image map. If the latter, please also provide the HTML for
the image map links. Links may be static, or dynamically created by PMC
from information available in the SGML/XML for an article, e.g., ISSN,
volume and page number.

For an illustration of how the dynamic links work, look at the journal
banner for the article at
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=29092>. Most of
the links in this journal banner are static. The \'this article\' link
is dynamically created using an HTML template provided by the publisher
which is common to all BMC journals. The static base
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/) of the URLs for this link comes from the
HTML template. PMC then dynamically completes the URL by adding an
issn/vol/page. These variable elements are taken directly from the XML
for the article. The variable elements can be anything that is
explicitly tagged in the source SGML/XML that would result in a valid
URL at your site.

## Presentation Options

If you do not have a preference in a particular area, we will make an
appropriate choice.

### Color Scheme

The journal color scheme consists of the colored vertical stripe with
the journal name abbreviation that runs on every page, the background
colors for subject categories on the TOC page, and the background color
for top-level section heads (Methods, Results, etc.) on a full-text
page. The following journals represent the available color schemes.
Please choose one:

-   Arthritis Research,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=8>

-   bmj.com, <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=3>

-   CMAJ, <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=77>

-   Genome Biology,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=7>

-   Journal of Athletic Training,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=131>

-   Journal of Clinical Investigation,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=120>

-   Journal of the MLA,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=93>

-   Malaria Journal,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=98>

-   NeuroRx, <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=246>

-   Plant Physiology,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=69>

-   Texas Heart Institute Journal,
    <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=92>

### Section heads at levels 2, 3, 4 (and lower levels if the journal has them)

For each level, indicate whether the section head must be displayed on a
separate line or run-in with subsequent section text. Also specify
whether a roman or sans serif font is to be used for section heads, and
any combination of bold and italic emphasis to be applied to heads at a
particular level.

### Front matter

All front matter prior to the abstract (title, authors, affiliations,
etc.) may be displayed in a roman font (the default font in a user's web
browser), as for PNAS, or in a sans serif font as for Molecular Biology
of the Cell.

### Reference links

Reference links within the body (to figures, tables, citations) may be
blue or black text, and underlined or not. If necessary, figure and
table references may have a different style from citation references.

### Citation Font Style

Specify any emphasis style (bold, italic) to be applied to specific
elements of a citation (e.g. authors, journal title, volume, etc.) in
the references section.