IET Research Journals

Submission Template for IET Research Journal Papers

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First Author1 , Second Author2∗ , Third Author3
1
First Department, First University, Address, City, Country Name
2
Second Company Department, Company Address, City, Country Name
3
Third Department, Third University, Address, Country Name
4
Current affiliation: Fourth Department, Fourth University, Address, Country Name
* E-mail: [email protected]

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 If an author’s present address is different from the address at

which the work was carried out, this should be given as a secondary
This document is a template, an electronic copy of which can be affiliation (see affiliation4 ).
downloaded from the Research Journals Author Guide page on the Only the email address of the corresponding author is required
IET’s Digital Library. For questions on paper guidelines, please and should be indicated with a *.
contact the relevant journal inbox as indicated on each journal’s All co-authors must be listed on ScholarOne Manuscript Central
website. as part of the submission process. There is also the opportunity to
Before submitting your final paper, check that the format con- include ORCID IDs for all authors in step 3 of the submission steps
forms to this template and the Author Guide [1]. Specifically, check [3]. If you do not know a co-author’s ORCID ID there is a look-up
to make sure that the correct referencing style has been used and the option included in Manuscript Central.
citations are in numerical order throughout the text. If your paper
does not meet all of the requirements, your paper will be unsubmitted
and you will be asked to correct it. 5 Page Formatting

An easy way to comply with the requirements stated in the Author

2 Language, spelling and grammar Guide [1] is to use this document as a template and simply type your
text into it. PDF files are also accepted, so long as they follow the
All papers must be written in UK English. If English is not your first same style.
language, you should ask an English-speaking colleague to proof-
read your paper. Papers that fail to meet basic standards of literacy
are likely to be unsubmitted by the Editorial Office. 5.1 Page Layout

Our papers are double column format; one column width is 8.6cm.
All paragraphs must be justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-
3 Length justified.
Original research papers submitted to the IET Research Journals
should conform to the IET Research Journals Length Policy [2]. The 5.2 Text Font of Entire Document
length guidelines include the abstract, references and appendices but
do not include figure captions, equations, or table content. It is recommended that standardised fonts such as Times New
Roman and Arial are used with a font size no smaller than 10pt.

4 Author names and affiliations 5.3 Section Headings

Names and affiliations should immediately follow the title. To avoid All section heading should be numbered and no more than 3 levels
confusion, the family name must be written as the last part of each of headings should be used.
author name and the first name should be spelt out rather than abbre-
viated (e.g. John A.K. Smith). Author details must not show any 5.3.1 First Level Headings: The first level section headings
professional title (e.g. Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. should be in bold font (e.g. “1. Introduction”), with the paragraph
Dr.) or any membership of any professional organisation. starting on a new line.
For multiple-authored articles, list the full names of all the
authors, using identifiers to link an author with an affiliation where 5.3.2 Second Level Headings: The second level section head-
necessary (eg. John AK Smith1 , Edward Jones2 ). ings should be in italic font (i.e. “2.3 Section Headings”. The
The full affiliations of all authors should then be listed. Affilia- paragraph should start on a new line.
tions should include: the department name; the name of the univer-
sity or company; the name of the city; and the name of the country 5.3.3 Third Level Headings: The third level section headings
(e.g. 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, should also be in italic font but should end with a colon (:). The text
Sydney, Australia). for that section should run on and not start as a new paragraph.

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 6.1 Figure Captions

Figure captions must be below the figure, in 10 pt italic font and

should ideally consist of one sentence. If a figure has subfigures, all
subfigures should also have a caption and should be identified by
letters, e.g. a, b, c, as shown above.

7 Tables

Tables should be formatted as shown in Table 1 with no column

lines unless needed to clarify the content of the table. Row lines
a
can be used to distinguish the column headings from the content of
the table. Any tables larger than half a page should be placed in an
appendix and the appendix cited within the main body of text eg.
“see Appendix 1 for table of results”.
If the table has four or five columns it should span the whole width
of the page. These should also float to the top or bottom of the page
instead of breaking up the main text.

7.1 Table Captions

Tables must be numbered and cited within the text in strict numerical
order. Table captions must be above the table and in 10 pt font

8 Mathematics and equations

b When writing mathematics, avoid confusion between characters that
could be mistaken for one another, e.g. the letter ’l’ and the number
Fig. 1: Sample graph with blue (dotted), green (solid) and red
one.
(dashed) lines
a Subfigure 1
Refer to equations using round brackets, e.g. (1) followed by (2).
b Subfigure 2
A = πr2 (1)
  
Δy 1 1 dy
6 Figures cos α + cos β = 2 cos (α + β) cos α −β
Δx 2 2 dx
(2)
Figures will be reproduced exactly as supplied, with no redrawing
or relabelling. It is therefore imperative that the supplied figures are
of the highest possible quality. The preferred format is encapsulated Equations should be capable of fitting into a two-column print for-
postscript (.eps) for line figures and .tif for halftone figures with a mat. If they do not fit into one column they should be floated to the
minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch). With larger figures, bottom of the page or top of the next and cited in the text by "(see
please note that the editorial office may contact you to revise them (3))". All large equations must be numbered in order to avoid con-
to ensure they do not exceed half of a page, or so that they fill the fusion between floated equations and they cannot exceed a width of
entire page. This is because figures between these two lengths may 17.5cm.
negatively impact production later.
Graphics may be full colour but please make sure that they are
Table 1 Example table
appropriate for print (black and white) and online (colour) publica-
tion. For example lines graphs should be colour and use dotted or Column Column Column heading
dashed lines, or shapes to distinguish them apart in print (see Fig. 1). heading heading two three
Each figure should be explicitly referred to in numerical order. A
Row 1a Row 1b Row 1c
maximum of four subfigures will be allowed per figure. Row 2a Row 2b Row 2c
Please note that IET typeset format is to float figures to the top Row 3a Row 3b Row 3c
or bottom of a page, they cannot appear within the main body, Row 4a Row 4b Row 4c
interrupting the text. Row 5a Row 5b Row 5c
Row 6a Row 6b Row 6c
Figures can span two columns but cannot exceed 17.5 cm in width
(see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2: Sample graph spaning two columns

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 ∞ 
nπx 
∞ 
 nπx  nπx nπx 
f (x) = a0 + an cos + bn sin + f (x) = a0 + an cos + bn sin (3)
L L L L
n=1 n=1

Vectors and matrices should be in bold italic and variables in Do not include references for papers that have been submitted
italic. and not accepted for publication. Papers that have been accepted for
If your paper contains superscripts or subscripts, take special care publication are allowed as long as all information is provided.
to ensure that the positioning of the characters is unambiguous. Please provide all author name(s) and initials, title of the paper,
Exponential expressions should be written using superscript nota- date published, title of the journal or book, volume number, editors
tion, i.e. 5 × 103 not 5E03. A multiplication sign should be used, not (if any), and finally the page range. For books and conferences, the
a dot. town of publication and publisher (in parentheses) should also be
Inline equations can be used but if the equation is longer than a given.
line it will need to be broken up in a suitable location to ensure the If the number of authors on a reference is greater than three please
line spacing is not too large a2 + b2 = c2 . list the first three authors followed by et al. The reference list should
be uninterrupted by figures, tables or equations.

9 Page Numbers and Footers

Page numbers should be used on all pages. Footers are not in IET’s Example References
house style so must not be used. If they are used they will be moved
to within the text at the typesetting stage. 12.2 Websites

[1] ‘Author Guide - IET Research Journals’, http://digital-

library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide, accessed 27 November 2014
10 Conclusion
[2] ‘Research journal length policy’, http://digital-library.theiet.org/
Submissions should always include the following sections: an files/research_journals_length_policy.pdf, accessed 27 November
abstract; an introduction; a conclusion and a references section. 2014
If any of the above sections are not included the paper will be
unsubmitted and you will be asked to add the relevant section.
12.3 Patent

11 Acknowledgments [3] ‘ORCID: Connecting research and researchers’, http://orcid.org/,

accessed 3 December 2014
Acknowledgements should be placed after the conclusion and before
[4] ‘Fundref’, http://www.crossref.org/fundref/, accessed 4 Decem-
the references section. This is where reference to any grant numbers
ber 2014
or supporting bodies should be included. The funding information
should also be entered into the first submission step on Manuscript
Central which collects Fundref information [4].
Please note that the IET does not include author biographies in 12.4 Journal articles
published papers.
[5] Smith, T., Jones, M.: ’The title of the paper’, IET Syst. Biol.,
2007, 1, (2), pp. 1–7
12 References [6] Borwn, L., Thomas, H., James, C., et al.:’The title of the paper,
IET Communications, 2012, 6, (5), pp 125-138
An average research paper should reference between 20 and 30
works, the bulk of which should be recently published (i.e. within
the last five years) leading-edge articles in the field, preferably from
top journals or conferences. You should compare your own findings 12.5 Conference Paper
to this recent research and demonstrate how your work improves
on it in order to demonstrate that your work shows a significant [7] Jones, L., Brown, D.: ’The title of the conference paper’. Proc.
advance over the state of the art – a pre-requisite for publication Int. Conf. Systems Biology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2006, pp. 1–7
in IET Research Journals.
Please note that tables, figures and equations should not appear
in the middle of the references. If this happens white space will be 12.6 Book, book chapter and manual
introduced to avoid items appearing in the references.
[8] Hodges, A., Smith, N.: ’The title of the book chapter’, in Brown,
S. (Ed.): ’Handbook of Systems Biology’ (IEE Press, 2004, 1st edn.),
12.1 Referencing Style pp. 1–7
You should number your references sequentially throughout the text, [9] Harrison, E.A., and Abbott, C.: ’The title of the book’ (XYZ
and each reference should be individually numbered and enclosed in Press, 2005, 2nd edn. 2006)
square brackets (e.g. [1]).
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
12.7 Report
production of your article.
Please also ensure that you provide as much information as pos- [10] IET., ’Report Title’ (Publisher, 2013), pp. 1-5
sible to allow the reader to locate the article concerned. This is par-
ticularly important for articles appearing in conferences, workshops [11] Brown, F.: ’The title of the patent (if available)’. British Patent
and books that may not appear in journal databases. 123456, July 2004

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[12] Smith, D., Hodges, J.: British Patent Application 98765, 1925 13 Appendices

12.8 Thesis Additional material, e.g. mathematical derivations, tables and figures
larger than half a page that may interrupt the flow of your paper’s
[13] Abbott, N.L.: ’The title of the thesis’. PhD thesis, XYZ argument should form a separate Appendix section (see Table 2). Do
University, 2005 not, however, use appendices to lengthen your article unnecessarily
as this section is included in the word count. If the material can be
12.9 Standard found in another work, cite this work rather than reproduce it. The
appendix section should be in double column format, and come after
[14] BS1234: ’The title of the standard’, 2006 the references.

Table 2 Example of large table

Column heading 1 Column heading 2 Column heading 3 Column heading 4

Result 1 123 123 123

Result 2 123 123 123
Result 3 123 123 123
Result 4 123 123 123
Result 5 123 123 123
Result 6 123 123 123
Result 7 123 123 123
Result 8 123 123 123

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