Preparation of Papers for IEEE TRANSACTIONS and JOURNALS

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Abstract—These instructions give you guidelines for preparing

papers for IEEE Transactions and Journals. Use this document

as a template if you are using Microsoft Word 6.0 or later.

Otherwise, use this document as an instruction set. The electronic

file of your paper will be formatted further at IEEE. Paper titles

should be written in uppercase and lowercase letters, not all

the blank line immediately above the abstract; it sets the footnote

at the bottom of this column.

Index Terms—Enter key words or phrases in alphabetical

order, separated by commas. For a list of suggested keywords,

send a blank e-mail to keywords@ieee.org or visit

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/ani_prod/keywrd98.txt

I. INTRODUCTION

HIS document is a template for Microsoft Word versions

6.0 or later. If you are reading a paper or PDF version of

this document, please download the electronic file,

JOUR.DOC or TRANS-JOUR.PDF.

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If your paper is intended for a conference, please contact

your conference editor concerning acceptable word processor

formats for your particular conference.

II.GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

When you open TRANS-JOUR.DOC, select “Page Layout”

from the “View” menu in the menu bar (View | Page Layout),

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This paragraph of the first footnote will contain the date on which you

submitted your paper for review. It will also contain support information,

mail: author@ boulder.nist.gov).

S. B. Author, Jr., was with Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA. He

is now with the Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort

Collins, CO 80523 USA (e-mail: author@lamar.colostate.edu).

T. C. Author is with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of

Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from the National Research

Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan (e-mail: author@nrim.go.jp).

(these instructions assume MS 6.0. Some versions may have

alternate ways to access the same functionalities noted here).

Then, type over sections of TRANS-JOUR.DOC or cut and

line spacing. Do not change the font sizes or line spacing to

squeeze more text into a limited number of pages. Use italics

for emphasis; do not underline.

To insert images in Word, position the cursor at the

insertion point and either use Insert | Picture | From File or

copy the image to the Windows clipboard and then Edit | Paste

Special | Picture (with “float over text” unchecked).

IEEE will do the final formatting of your paper. If your

paper is intended for a conference, please observe the

conference page limits.

Do not use abbreviations in the title unless they are

unavoidable (for example, “IEEE” in the title of this article).

B. Other Recommendations

Use one space after periods and colons. Hyphenate complex

modifiers: “zero-field-cooled magnetization.” Avoid dangling

participles, such as, “Using (1), the potential was calculated.”

[It is not clear who or what used (1).] Write instead, “The

potential was calculated by using (1),” or “Using (1), we

calculated the potential.”

Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25,” not “.25.” Use

not “webers/m

2

.” When expressing a range of values, write “7

to 9” or “7-9,” not “7~9.”

A parenthetical statement at the end of a sentence is

punctuated outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A

parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the parentheses.)

In American English, periods and commas are within

quotation marks, like “this period.” Other punctuation is

“outside”! Avoid contractions; for example, write “do not”

instead of “don’t.” The serial comma is preferred: “A, B, and