INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS TO THE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
***IMPORTANT*** Manuscript submission process overview:Manuscripts are considered as
regular papers or letters. Letters are limited to errata and comments on
previously published material. Short papers of three pages or less should be
sent to the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters. Theory and
numerical results require independent validation with experimental validation
strongly preferred. The author must notify the editor at the time of
submission if the manuscript contains material that has been previously
submitted for publication. We will consider papers that are related to material
published in conference digests only if the paper is substantially expanded.
Please attach pdf files of the previous papers.
PAGE CHARGES
Papers will be reviewed for their
technical merit, and decisions to publish will be made independently of an
author's ability to pay page charges. Page charges of $110 (U.S.) per printed
page will be requested on papers of six printed pages or less. Overlength page charges of $200 per page are
mandatory for each page in excess of six pages. If the author's
organization agrees to honor the total page charge, which includes the page
charges on the first five pages plus the mandatory over length charge, the
author will receive 100 reprints. If the supporting organization honors only
the mandatory charge, no free preprints will be sent. Transactions
has now moved to the electronic version (cf. the print version)
being the primary publication of record. What this mostly means is that we will
now publish in color. Color figures will
be directly converted to grayscale for the
print edition. As such pastel colors (lime, yellow etc.) should be avoided. Note that a review
will be undertaken independent of your ability to pay. However the publication
of your manuscript is dependent on your payment of mandatory page charges if
your paper is above 6 printed pages.
COPYRIGHT AND
CLEARANCE
It is the policy of the IEEE to own
the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes. To comply with the
IEEE copyright policy, authors are required to sign an IEEE Copyright Form
before publication. The IEEE must assume that material submitted to its
publications is available for general dissemination. It is the responsibility
of the author, not the IEEE, to determine whether disclosure of the material
requires prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it. Do not repeat
figures that were published in non-IEEE publications including conferences
unless you obtain and forward a copyright release.
WEBSITE
The website for the transactions is http://www.mtt.org/publications/Transactions/transactions.htm.
This site has information about future Special Issues, advance Tables of
Content, and other information about the Transactions.
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2006)
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1. Please select the topic area below that best fits the topic
of your submission. Please select only
one!
a) Linear and
Nonlinear Device Modeling
b) Smart Antennas,
Phased Arrays, and Radars
c) Active
circuits, Semi-conductor Devices, and ICs
d) Signal
Generation, Frequency Conversion and Control (Oscillators, Mixers and
Multipliers)
e) Millimeterwave and Terahertz Technologies
f)
Ferroelectric and Ferrite Components
g) Wireless
Communication Systems
h) Field
Analysis and Guided Waves
i) CAD Algorithms and Numerical Techniques
j) Filters
and Multiplexers
k) Packaging,
Interconnects, MCMs, Hybrids and Passive Circuit
Elements
l)
Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques
m) Microwave
Photonics
n) MEMS and
Acoustic Wave Components
o)
Biological, Imaging, and Medical Applications
The best fit for my paper is (insert
here):
2. PLEASE CHECK THAT YOUR REFERENCES ARE COMPLETE. In
particular, you must include the page numbers and month of publication of
journal and conference articles; include the issue number of journal articles;
do not use abbreviations of conferences. IEEE standards for references can be
found at http://www.mtt.org/publications/Transactions/standards_references.htm.
3. Please expand the names of authors on the first page and
limit all biographies to 100 words or less.
4. Submissions must use the IEEE template for submissions and
be in single-spaced double column format. This template may be found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm.
5. Figures must not include screen dumps of instrument output.
All plots must be drawn and use the captured data used in it. You should
include essential information in the caption. If the figure is repeated or
similar to figures that have appeared elsewhere, please add "From
[X].", "After [X].", or "Data from [X]." to figure
captions, as appropriate, where X refers to the prior publication. The fonts in
figures should be comparable in size to those in the main text (10 pt.) Here
are examples of acceptable and unacceptable figures: <http://www.mtt.org/publications/Transactions/unacceptable_figs.pdf>.
The Transactions has now moved to the electronic version being
the primary publication of record. What this mostly means is that we will now
publish in color. Color figures will be directly converted to grayscale for the
print edition. As such, pastel colors (lime, yellow etc.) should be avoided.
Also, we will no longer publish color in the print version of the Transactions.
6. Have you read the MTT-S Publication Policy? Note that this policy does
not allow simultaneous submission of similar material to the Transactions and
another journal or conference. If there are
any issues with the policy please inform the editor below.
7. The Transactions generally requires that theory, measurements,
and simulations be supported by careful comparisons.
8. You must reference your own work, especially recent
journal/conference publications. Please
discuss your related publications in the introduction and distinguish the new results
you present in your current manuscript from those found in your previous
publications.
9. Significant extension is required over a previous
publication, conference or otherwise. Please do not repeat results presented
elsewhere (conference or journal). Is
this paper a significant expansion beyond anything that you have published in
the past or has been submitted for publication?
10. Have you appropriately referenced the work of others?
11. Have you obtained any necessary government and company
clearances? (This must be done before this work will be reviewed.)
12. If you have sent a similar paper to the MTT Transactions
(including special issues) previously you must inform us even if it is
currently in review or was rejected. You must attach a pdf
copy of that paper(s) and the Manuscript numbers. Does this apply to your
submission?
13. Please send your manuscript in the file {paper number}_{name}.pdf and the references to your prior publications in
the files {paper number}_ref{reference_number}_{name}.pdf, where {name} is the last name of the first author
(please abbreviate your name if it is longer than 6 characters) and {paper
number} is your paper number. For example, if you are sending your paper and
its reference 5, you would send your paper as 4056_Wang.pdf and reference 5 as
4056_ref5_Wang.pdf, where "Wang" is your name and 4056 is your paper
number. If you have not yet been assigned a paper number, simply put "MTT"
in its place.
14. Please check your paper for
grammatical errors. Ask a native English speaker for assistance if necessary.
Never use acronyms in the title or abstract of your paper, and use acronyms
sparingly. Do not invent new acronyms or use newly invented acronyms. Please do
not use the same title for your conference and MTT submission. Papers with poor
grammar will not be accepted until appropriate corrections are made.
15. Authors may include software with submissions. Software
submitted with papers will be accessible from IEEExplore, and appropriate documentation
and upgrade paths should be included with the software. Authors are required to
transfer the copyright for both the manuscript and the software to the IEEE.
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