Illustrations, charts, and diagrams help to communicate research findings. Infographics are also an increasingly popular way of presenting them. It help to understand the research process, allow a large amount of content to be summarised and illustrated, clearly summarise conclusions, and facilitate sharing using traditional and electronic media. However, sometimes it can be difficult or too time-consuming for an author to prepare the proper graphic design of scientific texts on their own. In these situations, the Biorender platform can be helpful.

We encourage you to take a look at the free trial version of the software. Information on purchasing a paid licence is available on the Extranet.

Attention is drawn to the correct use of graphics available in the BioRender platform library and those generated using the platform. Since, according to the terms of use, these materials belong to BioRender, they should be properly cited in the publication. When exporting graphics generated with the software, the licence for the publication should be generated at the same time, using the ‘Publication Permissions’ option, and the description of the graphic and bibliographic data of the publication should be added. The resulting description can be copied directly from the tool, it should be placed in the caption of the table, in the bibliography or in the acknowledgements section, it will contain a link to our graphic on the BioRender website and the term ‘Created with/in BioRender.com’. When generating the licence, we can grant full or restricted access – if we want to dedicate our graphic for publication in the Open Access model, we need to ensure accessibility and select ‘Yes’ at the Open Access question, while for closed journals we select ‘No’ here.

If we use pre-made graphics from the BioRender Library, we must add a caption in the text with the bibliographic description of the source, which can be found next to each graphic.

If we are using graphics from BioRender for purposes other than publication in a journal or book (e.g. for a thesis, social media, website), it is sufficient to use the wording: ‘Created with BioRender.com’.

More on how to cite BioRender material correctly.