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
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. 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 Do not cite references in the abstract.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—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,
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.
If your paper is intended for a conference, please contact
your conference editor concerning acceptable word processor
formats for your particular conference.
This paragraph of the first footnote will contain the date on which you
submitted your paper for review. It will also contain support information,
including sponsor and financial support acknowledgment. For example, “This
work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce under Grant
BS123456”.
The next few paragraphs should contain the authors’ current affiliations,
including current address and e-mail. For example, F. A. Author is with the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305 USA (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).
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),
(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
paste from another document and use markup styles. The pull-
down 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.
A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
used in the text, even after they have already been defined in
the abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, ac, and dc do not
have to be defined. Abbreviations that incorporate periods
should not have spaces: write “C.N.R.S.,” not “C. N. R. S.”
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
“cm
3
,” not “cc.” Indicate sample dimensions as “0.1 cm × 0.2
cm,” not “0.1 × 0.2 cm
2
.” The abbreviation for “seconds” is
“s,” not “sec.” Use “Wb/m
2
” or “webers per square meter,”
not “webers/m
2
.” When expressing a range of values, write “7
to 9” or “7-9,” not “7~9.”