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IEEE also continues to accept PS, EPS, and TIFF for author photos.</li><li>Other file formats such as VSD, GIF, or BMP cannot be processed by IEEE.</li></ul> <a id="file-name" href="#maincontent">Back to Top</a> <h3>File Naming Conventions</h3><h4>Graphic files</h4><p>Identify your graphics with the first five letters of the primary author’s surname, followed by a number signifying its sequential position within the article. For example, an author with the surname of Gonzalez may have:</p><ul><li>gonza1.tif</li><li>gonza2.pdf</li><li>gonza3.png</li></ul> <h4>Table files</h4><p>Tables should follow a similar naming convention. The only difference is that after the first five letters of the author’s surname, you should insert “.t” before the table’s sequential location in the article. 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