IEEE EDITORIAL STYLE MANUAL C
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. EDITING PRINCIPLES
- A. Editing the Parts of a Paper
- Paper Title
- Byline and Membership Citation
- IEEE Membership Grades
- NOTE: Affiliate Members are not considered members for the purposes of the byline and biography. An affiliate of an IEEE Society is not an IEEE member, but rather an individual who has been admitted by a Society with the special rights and privileges ...
- Invited Paper
- Running Heads
- Note: A lower case acronym, e.g., “DC,” is capped in the running head and title, even though it is lower case in text.
- Copyright Lines
- First Footnote
- C. Editing the Body of the Paper
- Abstract
- Index Terms
- Note to Practitioners
- This is formatted in the same style as Abstracts. It follows the Abstract and is separated by a line space. There may be more than one paragraph. The text appears in boldface and in 8-point type. Example:
- Nomenclature
- Text Section Headings
- Introduction
- Text Equations
- Appendix
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Text Citation of Figures and Tables
- Obtaining permission to reuse copyrighted material
- 1) Reusing IEEE graphics previously published in IEEE publications. Author should email IEEE Intellectual property department at: copyrights@ieee.org. In mose cases, the only requirements will be to give full credit to the original source and to obtai...
- 2) Reusing graphics previously published in non-IEEE publications. Author must have obtained permission to republish from copyright holder (in most cases, this is the publishing house (not the author of the paper). The wording is provided by the auth...
- Biographies
- Squibs
- James A. Author, (S’87–A’89–SM’90–F’93) photograph and biography not available at the time of publication.
- D. Other Text to Edit
- E. Other Types of Papers
- Editorials
- Brief Papers
- Brief papers are set up like full length papers, except that the paper title is set in 16-pt. TR, centered on 43 picas. These papers do contain Abstracts and also take the initial cap. The byline includes the membership grade. See Section I-B. They do...
- Short Papers, Correspondence, and Communications
- Comments and Replies
- Corrections/Errata
- Book Reviews
- Obituaries/In Memoriam
- F. Editing Style for Transactions
- Acronyms
- Spelling
- Trademarks
- Plurals
- Hyphenation Rules
- The plan was well prepared. The man was little known. The woman was better qualified. His boat was 42 feet long. He has a 42-feet-long boat. T was the data period of the 40-Gb/s data signal. The 160-GHz MLLD was a diode in which a 40-nm-long saturabl...
- The En, Em, or Two-Em Dash
- Grammar
- Contractions
- Capitalization
- Math
- Equation Numbers
- Displayed Equations
- Typical Problems
- G. General Layout Rules
- A. Editing the Parts of a Paper
- III. GRAMMAR AND USAGE IN TRANSACTIONS
- IV. EDITING MATHEMATICS
- A. The Language of Math
- B. In-Line Equations and Expressions
- C. Break/Alignment Rules
- D. Exceptions and Oddities
- E. Headings for Theorems, Proofs, and Postulates
- F. Text Equations
- G. Reminders
- H. Short Reference List of Italics, Roman, and Small Capitals
- I. Functions and Operators Always Set in Roman Font
- K. The Greek Alphabet
- V. EDITING REFERENCES
- A. Citing References
- B. Style
- C. On-Line Sources
- V. Meligna. (1993, June 11). Periodic table of elements [Online]. Available Telnet: Library.CMU.edu Directory: Libraries/Reference Works File: Periodic Table of Elements
- Full Text Databases—Periodicals
- Magazine Articles
- Full Text Databases—Other Sources
- D. Common Abbreviations of Words in References
- E. IEEE Abbreviations for Transactions, Journals, Letters
- G. Some Common Acronyms and Abbreviations