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IEEE
MICROWAVE MAGAZINE
IEEE
Microwave Magazine made its debut as a quarterly publication provided
to all MTT Society members in 2000, with the first issue (vol. 1, no.
1) appearing in March of that year. IEEE
MTT-S members worldwide receive the magazine as part of their member
benefit, as well as nonmember subscribers. The
magazine is also distributed at many events during the year including
the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, the largest trade
show and symposium in the industry; IEEE Radio and Wireless Week,
European Microwave, and other worldwide events throughout the year.
Currently, a typical print run is approximately 15,000 issues. The
Magazine is intended to provide several services to MTT-S members,
including: the dissemination of timely
information from the various MTT Committees; the publication of regular
columns giving insight into a range of technical and non-technical
interests and the publication of technical features that provide
overviews and tutorials on the state-of-the-art in a given area.
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2000
Microwave Magazine debut issue A
typical
issue of the Magazine includes:
Departments
and Columns The
various departments and columns that appear regularly or occasionally
include the following:
In
addition, MTT Society news is carried in a number of columns such as
the following:
Articles
appearing in the Magazine are indexed in IEEE Xplore and in other
abstracting and indexing services. Readers can access an annual index
of the Magazine's articles in the December issue of each year. Subscription
Information A
subscription to IEEE
Microwave Magazine is included with
membership dues in the
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Individual copies are
available to IEEE members for US $10.00 (first copy only); non-members
pay US $20.00 per copy. Subscription rates are available upon request
from the IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway,
NJ 08855-1331 USA. Telephone: +1-732-981-0060, Fax: +1-800-678-4333,
Web: http://shop.ieee.org/store/HelpDesk/subscribe/pricelist.asp
Permissions Permission
for reproducing material published in the Magazine should be directed
to: Jacqueline
Hansson Advertising Inquiries
in this regard should be addressed to: Susan
E.
Schneiderman Contacts For
editorial matters: Email the
editor at microwave.editor@ieee.org Past Issues All past
issues are electronically accessible through IEEE Xplore. The table of
contents can be viewed free of charge; access to full text of articles
requires IEEE Explore availability. The Magazine invites contributions from potential authors, including feature articles, application notes, contributed columns, letters to the Editor and other items of potential interest to the readership. Articles prepared for IEEE Microwave Magazine should fall under the IEEE MTT-S field of interest. Authors please read the following guidelines. Guidelines
for Contributions to the Departments/Columns Ideas
for
new columns of interest to MTT-S members are always welcome! Please contact the Editor-in-Chief for any
discussion regarding a proposed or submitted column. Guidelines
for Authors of Feature Articles DEVELOPING
A MANUSCRIPT FOR IEEE MICROWAVE MAGAZINE IEEE
Microwave Magazine is a publication of the IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society that focuses on publication of general interest
overview, tutorial, and survey papers rather than new research.
Technical features include overviews and surveys should present a
balanced picture of the state-of-the art, rather than focusing on the
research from your lab or company only. The
primary goal of an Applications Note should be to describe how to
accomplish an engineering task. This task might involve hardware
implementation, characterization, use of CAD tools, modeling,
manufacturing, evaluation, etc. In order to explain how to
accomplish an engineering task, the article might need to explain some
of the theory behind the technique -- but theory should not be the
focus of the article. Good
magazine articles differ from technical journal articles in several
ways. Articles should be of interest to a broad audience and
understandable by non-experts in the field. Equations should be used
sparingly. Qualitative descriptions or graphs are preferred tools
for explaining relationships. When mathematical development is used, it
is often useful to include it in separate sidebars that will be
published with the article and can be referred to in the main text. The
use of diagrams or illustrations to explain qualitative concepts is
encouraged. Full color illustrations are also encouraged. The
language of the article can be less formal than that desired for our
journals. Liberal use of headings and subheadings that may include
"catchy" phrases or questions are appropriate. A reader should be able
to get a good impression of what the article contains by briefly
examining the figures and headings/subheadings of the article. While
the article should not be a commercial for your organization, it can
present results from your labs and photos & descriptions of your
products and strategies as long as it is in the context of the larger
body of work that exists.
Article
preparation guidelines What
is an overview or survey article? Overviews
and surveys provide a description of the state-of-the art, rather than
an overview or survey of the research from one research group or
company (for example, yours!). You may present your research in the
context of an overview of the topic area, but the article should
provide a general overview of the topic area. Is
it all right to use figures from prior publications? Previously
published figures can be used as long as they are referenced. If the
figures are from a non-IEEE source, written permission must be obtained
from the copyright holder allowing the IEEE to republish them. We can
help you with this. How
many pages for a feature article? Each
issue of the magazine consists of approximately 55 pages of technical
content. Issues with as many as 45 pages
of technical content are not a problem. Technical content includes all
feature articles as well as an occasional application
note. Application Notes tend to run two or three pages but can run
as high as 5. The number of feature articles varies from 3 to 5,
depending on the issue. Authors are encouraged to limit their
manuscript to 6 pages, including figures and graphs. What
is one magazine page? How
many figures/tables in a feature article? Feature
articles Tables and figures subtract from the word estimates discussed
above. Features typically include 1 or 2 figures/tables per printed
page. Authors of magazine features are encouraged to use full color
figures generously to explain concepts. Figure captions should be
detailed enough that a reader can understand the article - and
hopefully be drawn into reading it - just by looking at the figures. How
many words will a figure/table displace? Figures
and tables vary quite a bit in size. The smallest figure displaces
about 80 words, the largest displaces about 400 words. The size of the
figure/table on the final page will be chosen to make it most readable.
On average, the ratio of figures/text for a feature article is about
1-to-2 (that is, figures and tables comprise approximately 1/3 of the
final printed page. Some features have fewer figures (1:3 ratio of
figures to text) and some features have a figures to text ratio as high
as 3:2. Microwave
Magazine does not use a submission template. Authors
are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts using a single column
format with double spacing. This makes
reading and commenting easy for the reviewers. Summary Typical
feature article: 5 pages ~2500 words (vary
from ~2000 to ~3800) ~8 figures
or tables (vary from 7 to 15) |
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