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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. Define all symbols used in the
abstract. Do not cite references in the abstract. Do not delete
the blank line immediately above the abstract; it sets the
footnote at the bottom of this column.
Index Terms—About four 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,
TRANS-JOUR.DOC, from the IEEE Web site at
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html
so you can use it to prepare your manuscript. If you would
prefer to use LATEX, download IEEE’s LATEX style and
sample files from the same Web page. Use these LATEX
files for formatting, but please follow the instructions in
TRANS-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.
When you open TRANS-JOUR.DOC, select “Page
Layout” from the “View” menu in the menu bar (View | Page
Layout),
which allows you to see the footnotes. Then, type over
sections of TRANS-JOUR.DOC or cut and paste from
another document and use markup styles. The pull-down
Manuscript received October 9, 2001. (Write the date on which you
submitted your paper for review.) This work was supported in part by the U.S.
Department of Commerce under Grant BS123456 (sponsor and financial
support acknowledgment goes here). Paper titles should be written in
uppercase and lowercase letters, not all uppercase. Avoid writing long
formulas with subscripts in the title; short formulas that identify the elements
are fine (e.g., "Nd–Fe–B"). Do not write “(Invited)” in the title. Full names of
authors are preferred in the author field, but are not required. Put a space
between authors’ initials.
F. A. Author is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Boulder, CO 80305 USA (corresponding author to provide phone: 303-555-
5555; fax: 303-555-5555; e-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).
style menu is at the left of the Formatting Toolbar at the top
of your Word window (for example, the style at this point in
the document is “Text”). Highlight a section that you want to
designate with a certain style, then select the appropriate
name on the style menu. The style will adjust your fonts 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.
II.PROCEDURE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
A. Review Stage
Please check with your editor on whether to submit your
manuscript as hard copy or electronically for review. If hard
copy, submit photocopies such that only one column appears
per page. This will give your referees plenty of room to write
comments. Send the number of copies specified by your
editor (typically four). If submitted electronically, find out if
your editor prefers submissions on disk or as e-mail
attachments.
If you want to submit your file with one column
electronically, please do the following:
--First, click on the View menu and choose Print
Layout.
--Second, place your cursor in the first paragraph. Go to
the Format menu, choose Columns, choose one column
Layout, and choose “apply to whole document” from the
dropdown menu.
--Third, click and drag the right margin bar to just over
4 inches in width.
The graphics will stay in the “second” column, but you can
drag them to the first column. Make the graphic wider to
push out any text that may try to fill in next to the graphic.
B. Final Stage
When you submit your final version (after your paper has
been accepted), print it in two-column format, including
figures and tables. You must also send your final manuscript
on a disk, via e-mail, or through a Web manuscript
submission system as directed by the society contact. You
may use Zip or CD-ROM disks for large files, or compress
files using Compress, Pkzip, Stuffit, or Gzip.
Also, send a sheet of paper or PDF with complete contact
information for all authors. Include full mailing addresses,