LaTeX Paper Writing Guidelines

General Requirements

Edit the official templates, or use the official templates as the instruction set.

Title, Abstract, and Keywords

Paper Title

• Paper titles should be written with uppercase and lowercase letters, and must not be all uppercase
• Avoid formulas with subscripts in the title

Authors

• Prefer writing authors’ full names
• Leave one space between an author’s initials

Abstract

• It is a brief, comprehensive summary of the article’s content
• The abstract must not contain abbreviations, footnotes, references, mathematical equations, or tables
• Keep the word count to 150-250, and write it as a single paragraph

Keywords

• Three to four distinct keywords
• For keywords, refer to: IEEE - IEEE Thesaurus and IEEE Taxonomy Access

Body

Abbreviations

• Define abbreviations the first time they are used
• Try not to use abbreviations in titles

Text Conventions

• Use one space after periods and colons
• Use hyphens for compound modifiers, for example zero-field-cooled magnetization
• For a continuous series of values, use 7 to 9 or 7-9; do not use 7~9
• For a parenthetical remark at the end of a sentence, place the punctuation outside the closing parenthesis (like this).
• Avoid contractions; for example, use do not instead of don't
• Prefer the serial comma; for example, A, B, and C is better than A, B and C.

Equations

Basic conventions

• Number the equations
• If an equation is part of a sentence, remember to add a period, whether it is a display equation or an inline equation.
• Before or after an equation appears, define the symbols in the equation.
• Cite equations as (1); do not use Eq. (1) or equation (1), unless at the start of a sentence you say Equation (1) is ...

LaTeX recommendations

• Use soft cross-references such as \eqref{Eq} rather than hard references such as (1), so that references update automatically when equation order changes.
• Do not use the {eqnarray} equation environment; use {align} or {IEEEeqnarray}
• Note that {subequations} also increments the equation counter, even though it does not display equation numbers
• When using \label for cross-references, do not place it before figures and tables

Units

• Use a leading 0 before the decimal point, that is 0.25 rather than .25
• Write units as 0.1 cm × 0.2 cm rather than 0.1 × 0.2 cm2
• Use the SI International System of Units as the primary units

Common Grammar Issues

• An illustration within a figure is called an inset, not an insert
• Use which rather than while, unless two things truly happen at the same time
• Do not use essentially to mean approximately or effectively
• Do not use issue to mean problem
• Watch homophones: affect and effect, complement and compliment, discreet and discrete, principal and principle
• Do not confuse imply (to suggest) with infer (to conclude)
• Prefixes such as non, sub, micro, multi, and ultra are not independent words; they should be joined to the word they modify and usually take no hyphen
• The abbreviation i.e. means that is, and the abbreviation e.g. means for example

Figures and Tables

• A figure composed of multiple subfigures should be arranged side by side or stacked
• Supported image formats: .ps, eps, .tiff, .pdf, .png, .mps; images should be submitted together with the manuscript
• Most figures and tables are one column wide (3.5 inches /88mm), or one page wide (8.5 inches /216mm)
• Author photos, color figures, and grayscale figures need a resolution of at least 300dpi; lines, tables, and similar content need at least 600dpi
• Fonts in figures should be one of Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, Cambria, or Symbol
• Subfigures should be labeled in the (a)(b)(c) format
• Image filenames should begin with the first five letters of the author’s surname, followed by the figure number, for example ma1.png
• Image files for tables use a similar naming method, for example ma.t1.png
• Author photos are named with the first five characters of the surname, for example ma.png, wang.png
• If two authors share the same surname, replace the final letter(s) of the surname with the first initial(s) of the given name; for example, for San Zhang and Si Zhang, name the images zhasa.png and zhasi.png
• When citing figures and tables, use Fig. and Table. even at the start of a sentence; do not abbreviate as Tab.
• IEEE will format the paper, so there is no need to deliberately place figures and tables at the top and bottom of each column

Conclusions

• Do not reuse the abstract as the conclusion; the conclusion should explain the importance of the work in detail, or propose applications and suggestions for improvement

References

• Cite references in the text with square brackets [1]
• Number multiple references with separate bracketed numbers
• Do not use words such as Ref. or reference in the body text
• In the reference list, reference numbers are left-aligned and form their own column, outside the body of each reference entry
• In all references, author or editor names are abbreviated to initials and placed before the surname; when names are not given, use et al.
• Use , to separate personal names
• Abbreviate conference titles
• When citing an IEEE transaction, provide the issue number, page range, volume number, year, and month (if available)
• Except for books, only the first word of a paper title is capitalized, except for proper nouns and element symbols

Common formats are as follows:

期刊
J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical,  
vol. x, no. x,pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, DOI.  
10.1109.XXX.123456.  

参考如下：
[3] J. U. Duncombe, “Infrared navigation—Part I: An assessment of fea-  
sibility,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-11, no. 1, pp. 34–39,  
Jan. 1959, 10.1109/TED.2016.2628402.  
[4] E. P. Wigner, “Theory of traveling-wave optical laser,” Phys. Rev., vol. 134, pp. A635–A646, Dec. 1965.  
[5] E. H. Miller, “A note on reflector arrays,” IEEE Trans. Antennas  
Propagat., to be published

期刊（可以在线获取）
J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical,  
vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month, year. Accessed  
on: Month, Day, year, DOI: 10.1109.XXX.123456, [On-  
line].

参考如下：
[14] J. S. Turner, “New directions in communications,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 11-23, Jan. 1995.  
[15] W. P. Risk, G. S. Kino, and H. J. Shaw, “Fiber-optic frequency shifter using a surface acoustic wave incident at an oblique angle,” Opt. Lett., vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 115–117, Feb. 1986.  
[16] P. Kopyt et al., “Electric properties of graphene-based conductive layers from DC up to terahertz range,” IEEE THz Sci. Technol., to be published. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2016.25441

Manuscript Submission

• Send the manuscript files in zip format
• Send a paper or PDF that contains complete contact information for all authors, including full mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. This is used to send journal copies of the paper to each author.
• Designate one author as the corresponding author; page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author
• After completing all submission steps, you will receive a confirmation email
• In addition, you need to submit the electronic Copyright Form eCF (in the manuscript submission system)