This is an example of how to customize a plot to make them publication quality in MATLAB®.
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% Load data load data xfit yfit xdata_m ydata_m ydata_s xVdata yVdata xmodel ymodel ... ymodelL ymodelU c cint % Create basic plot figure; hold on; hFit = line(xfit , yfit ); hE = errorbar(xdata_m, ydata_m, ydata_s); hData = line(xVdata, yVdata ); hModel = line(xmodel, ymodel ); hCI(1) = line(xmodel, ymodelL); hCI(2) = line(xmodel, ymodelU); % Adjust line properties (functional) set(hFit , ... 'Color' , [0 0 .5] ); set(hE , ... 'LineStyle' , 'none' , ... 'Marker' , '.' , ... 'Color' , [.3 .3 .3] ); set(hData , ... 'LineStyle' , 'none' , ... 'Marker' , '.' ); set(hModel , ... 'LineStyle' , '--' , ... 'Color' , 'r' ); set(hCI(1) , ... 'LineStyle' , '-.' , ... 'Color' , [0 .5 0] ); set(hCI(2) , ... 'LineStyle' , '-.' , ... 'Color' , [0 .5 0] ); % Adjust line properties (aesthetics) set(hFit , ... 'LineWidth' , 2 ); set(hE , ... 'LineWidth' , 1 , ... 'Marker' , 'o' , ... 'MarkerSize' , 6 , ... 'MarkerEdgeColor' , [.2 .2 .2] , ... 'MarkerFaceColor' , [.7 .7 .7] ); set(hData , ... 'Marker' , 'o' , ... 'MarkerSize' , 5 , ... 'MarkerEdgeColor' , 'none' , ... 'MarkerFaceColor' , [.75 .75 1] ); set(hModel , ... 'LineWidth' , 1.5 ); set(hCI(1) , ... 'LineWidth' , 1.5 ); set(hCI(2) , ... 'LineWidth' , 1.5 ); % Adjust error bar width hE_c = get(hE , 'Children' ); errorbarXData = get(hE_c(2), 'XData' ); errorbarXData(4:9:end) = errorbarXData(1:9:end) - 0.2; errorbarXData(7:9:end) = errorbarXData(1:9:end) - 0.2; errorbarXData(5:9:end) = errorbarXData(1:9:end) + 0.2; errorbarXData(8:9:end) = errorbarXData(1:9:end) + 0.2; set(hE_c(2), 'XData', errorbarXData); % Add labels hTitle = title ('My Publication-Quality Graphics'); hXLabel = xlabel('Length (m)' ); hYLabel = ylabel('Mass (kg)' ); % Add text hText = text(10, 800, ... sprintf('{\\itC = %0.1g \\pm %0.1g (CI)}', c, cint(2)-c)); % Add legend hLegend = legend([hE, hFit, hData, hModel, hCI(1)], ... 'Data ({\it\mu} \pm {\it\sigma})' , ... 'Fit (C{\itx}^3)' , ... 'Validation Data' , ... 'Model (C{\itx}^3)' , ... '95% CI' , ... 'location', 'NorthWest' ); % Adjust font set( gca , 'FontName' , 'Helvetica' ); set([hTitle, hXLabel, hYLabel, hText], 'FontName' , 'AvantGarde'); set([hLegend, gca] , 'FontSize' , 8 ); set([hXLabel, hYLabel, hText] , 'FontSize' , 10 ); set( hTitle , 'FontSize' , 12 , ... 'FontWeight' , 'bold' ); % Adjust axes properties set(gca, ... 'Box' , 'off' , ... 'TickDir' , 'out' , ... 'TickLength' , [.02 .02] , ... 'XMinorTick' , 'on' , ... 'YMinorTick' , 'on' , ... 'YGrid' , 'on' , ... 'XColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ... 'YColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ... 'YTick' , 0:500:2500, ... 'LineWidth' , 1 );
