Submission Template for IET Research Journal Papers

Title

First Author 1, Second Author 2*, Third Author 3

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First Department, First University, Address, City, Country Name
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Second Company Department, Company Address, City, Country Name
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Third Department, Third University, Address, Country Name
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Current affiliation: Fourth Department, Fourth University, Address, Country Name
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Abstract: This should be informative and suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services as a self-
contained article. It should not exceed 200 words. It should summarise the general scope and also state the
main results obtained, methods used, the value of the work and the conclusions drawn. No figure numbers,
table numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. The abstract should
be included in both the Manuscript Central submission step (Step 1) and the submitted paper.

1. Introduction Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any

This document is a template, an electronic membership of any professional organisation. ).
copy of which can be downloaded from the Research For multiple-authored articles, list the full
Journals Author Guide page on the IET’s Digital names of all the authors, using identifiers to link an
Library. For questions on paper guidelines, please author with an affiliation where necessary (eg. John
contact the relevant journal inbox as indicated on AK Smith1, Edward Jones2).
each journal’s website. The full affiliations of all authors should then
Before submitting your final paper, check that be listed. Affiliations should include: the department
the format conforms to this template and the Author name; the name of the university or company; the
Guide [1]. Specifically, check to make sure that the name of the city; and the name of the country (e.g.
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correct referencing style has been used and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
citations are in numerical order throughout the text. Sydney, Sydney, Australia).
If your paper does not meet all of the requirements, If an author's present address is different from
your paper will be unsubmitted and you will be the address at which the work was carried out, this
asked to correct it. should be given as a secondary affiliation (see
affiliation 4).
2. Language, spelling and grammar Only the email address of the corresponding
author is required and should be indicated with a *.
All papers must be written in UK English. If
All co-authors must be listed on ScholarOne
English is not your first language, you should ask an
Manuscript Central as part of the submission
English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper.
process. There is also the opportunity to include
Papers that fail to meet basic standards of literacy are
ORCID IDs for all authors in step 3 of the
likely to be unsubmitted by the Editorial Office.
submission steps [3]. If you do not know a co-
author’s ORCID ID there is a look-up option
3. Length included in Manuscript Central.
Original research papers submitted to the IET
Research Journals should conform to the IET 5. Page Formatting
Research Journals Length Policy [2]. The length
An easy way to comply with the requirements
guidelines include the abstract, references and
stated in the Author Guide [1] is to use this
appendices but do not include figure captions,
document as a template and simply type your text
equations, or table content.
into it. PDF files are also accepted, so long as they
follow the same style.
4. Author names and affiliations
Names and affiliations should immediately 5.1. Page Layout
follow the title. To avoid confusion, the family name
must be written as the last part of each author name Our papers are double column format; one
and the first name should be spelt out rather than column width is 8.6cm. All paragraphs must be
abbreviated (e.g. John A.K. Smith). Author details justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified.
must not show any professional title (e.g. Managing

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 5.2. Text Font of Entire Document 6. Figures
Figures will be reproduced exactly as
It is recommended that standardised fonts supplied, with no redrawing or relabelling. It is
such as Times New Roman and Arial are used with a therefore imperative that the supplied figures are of
font size no smaller than 10pt. the highest possible quality. The preferred format is
encapsulated postscript (.eps) for line figures and .tif
5.3. Section Headings for halftone figures with a minimum resolution of
300 dpi (dots per inch). With larger figures, please
All section heading should be numbered and note that the editorial office may contact you to
no more than 3 levels of headings should be used. revise them to ensure they do not exceed half of a
page, or so that they fill the entire page. This is
5.3.1 First Level Headings: The first level section because figures between these two lengths may
headings should be in bold font (e.g. “1. negatively impact production later.

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line. sure that they are appropriate for print (black and
white) and online (colour) publication. For example
5.3.2 Second Level Headings: The second level lines graphs should be colour and use dotted or
section headings should be in italic font (i.e. “2.3 dashed lines, or shapes to distinguish them apart in
Section Headings”. The paragraph should start on a print (see Fig.1). Each figure should be explicitly
new line. referred to in numerical order. A maximum of four
subfigures will be allowed per figure.
5.3.3 Third Level Headings: The third level Please note that IET typeset format is to float
section headings should also be in italic font but figures to the top or bottom of a page, they cannot
should end with a colon (:). The text for that section appear within the main body, interrupting the text.
should run on and not start as a new paragraph.

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 Figures can span two columns but cannot exceed Equations should be capable of fitting into a
17.5cm in width (see Fig. 2). two-column print format. If they do not fit into one
column they should be floated to the bottom of the
6.1. Figure Captions page or top of the next and cited in the text by “(see
Figure captions must be below the figure, in 10 pt (3))”. All large equations must be numbered in order
italic font and should ideally consist of one sentence. to avoid confusion between floated equations and
If a figure has subfigures, all subfigures should also they cannot exceed a width of 17.5cm.
have a caption and should be identified by letters, Vectors and matrices should be in bold italic
e.g. a, b, c, as shown above. and variables in italic.
If your paper contains superscripts or
7. Tables subscripts, take special care to ensure that the
Tables should be formatted as shown in Table positioning of the characters is unambiguous.
1 with no column lines unless needed to clarify the Exponential expressions should be written
content of the table. Row lines can be used to using superscript notation, i.e. 5x103 not 5E03. A
distinguish the column headings from the content of multiplication sign should be used, not a dot.
the table. Any tables larger than half a page should Inline equations can be used but if the
be placed in an appendix and the appendix cited equation is longer than a line it will need to be
within the main body of text eg. “see Appendix 1 for broken up in a suitable location to ensure the line
table of results”. spacing is not too largea 2+ b2=c 2.
If the table has four or five columns it should
span the whole width of the page. These should also 9. Page Numbers and Footers
float to the top or bottom of the page instead of Page numbers should be used on all pages.
breaking up the main text. Footers are not in IET’s house style so must not be
used. If they are used they will be moved to within
7.1. Table Captions the text at the typesetting stage.
Tables must be numbered and cited within the
text in strict numerical order. Table captions must be 10. Conclusion
above the table and in 10 pt font
Submissions should always include the
following sections: an abstract; an introduction; a
8. Mathematics and equations
conclusion and a references section. If any of the
When writing mathematics, avoid confusion above sections are not included the paper will be
between characters that could be mistaken for one unsubmitted and you will be asked to add the
another, e.g. the letter 'l' and the number one. relevant section.
Refer to equations using round brackets, e.g.
(1) followed by (2).

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on Manuscript Central which collects Fundref [1] ‘Author Guide - IET Research Journals’,
information [4]. [Link]
Please note that the IET does not include accessed 27 November 2014
author biographies in published papers.
[2] ‘Research journal length policy’, [Link]
[Link]/files/research_journals_length_poli
12. References [Link], accessed 27 November 2014
An average research paper should reference
between 20 and 30 works, the bulk of which should 12.3. Patent
Tab
be recently published (i.e. within the last five years)
leading-edge articles in the field, preferably from top [3] ‘ORCID: Connecting research and researchers’,
[Link] accessed 3 December 2014 Colu
journals or conferences. You should compare your
Hea
own findings to this recent research and demonstrate
how your work improves on it in order to [4] ‘Fundref’, [Link]
accessed 4 December 2014 Res
demonstrate that your work shows a significant
advance over the state of the art – a pre-requisite for 12.4. Journal articles
Res
publication in IET Research Journals.
Please note that tables, figures and equations [5] Smith, T., Jones, M.: 'The title of the paper', IET
Syst. Biol., 2007, 1, (2), pp. 1–7 Res
should not appear in the middle of the references. If
this happens white space will be introduced to avoid
[6] Borwn, L., Thomas, H., James, C., et al.:'The title Res
items appearing in the references.
of the paper, IET Communications, 2012, 6, (5), pp
125-138 Res
12.1. Referencing Style
12.5. Conference Paper Res
You should number your references sequentially
throughout the text, and each reference should be
[7] Jones, L., Brown, D.: 'The title of the conference Res
individually numbered and enclosed in square
brackets (e.g. [1]). paper'. Proc. Int. Conf. Systems Biology, Stockholm,
Sweden, May 2006, pp. 1–7 Res
Please ensure that all references in the
Reference list are cited in the text and vice versa.
Failure to do so may cause delays in the production 12.6. Book, book chapter and manual
of your article. [8] Hodges, A., Smith, N.: 'The title of the book
Please also ensure that you provide as much chapter', in Brown, S. (Ed.): 'Handbook of Systems
information as possible to allow the reader to locate Biology' (IEE Press, 2004, 1st edn.), pp. 1–7
the article concerned. This is particularly important
for articles appearing in conferences, workshops and [9] Harrison, E.A., and Abbott, C.: 'The title of the
books that may not appear in journal databases. book' (XYZ Press, 2005, 2nd edn. 2006)
Do not include references for papers that have
been submitted and not accepted for publication.
Papers that have been accepted for publication are 12.7. Report
allowed as long as all information is provided.
Please provide all author name(s) and initials, [10] IET., 'Report Title' (Publisher, 2013), pp. 1-5
title of the paper, date published, title of the journal
or book, volume number, editors (if any), and finally [11] Brown, F.: 'The title of the patent (if available)'.
the page range. For books and conferences, the town British Patent 123456, July 2004
of publication and publisher (in parentheses) should
also be given. [12] Smith, D., Hodges, J.: British Patent
If the number of authors on a reference is Application 98765, 1925
greater than three please list the first three authors
followed by et al. The reference list should be
uninterrupted by figures, tables or equations. 12.8. Thesis

[13] Abbott, N.L.: 'The title of the thesis'. PhD thesis,

XYZ University, 2005

12.9. Standard
Example References
[14] BS1234: 'The title of the standard', 2006
12.2. Websites

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13. Appendices
Additional material, e.g. mathematical
derivations, tables and figures larger than half a page
that may interrupt the flow of your paper's argument
should form a separate Appendix section (see Table
2). Do not, however, use appendices to lengthen your
article unnecessarily as this section is included in the
word count. If the material can be found in another
work, cite this work rather than reproduce it. The
appendix section should be in double column format,
and come after the references.