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Ieee Paper Format Spring2022

The document provides information about IEEE style and templates for writing academic papers. It discusses that IEEE is a large professional organization for engineers and scientists. Students in technical fields will likely need to use IEEE templates, which format documents differently than MLA or APA. The templates serve to correctly format papers and provide style guidelines. The document gives tips for downloading the right template based on paper size and type, and instructions for writing and formatting papers using IEEE templates in Microsoft Word.

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Ieee Paper Format Spring2022

The document provides information about IEEE style and templates for writing academic papers. It discusses that IEEE is a large professional organization for engineers and scientists. Students in technical fields will likely need to use IEEE templates, which format documents differently than MLA or APA. The templates serve to correctly format papers and provide style guidelines. The document gives tips for downloading the right template based on paper size and type, and instructions for writing and formatting papers using IEEE templates in Microsoft Word.

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WRITING CENTER

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


(IEEE) Style and Template Tip Sheet
What is IEEE?
IEEE, pronounced "Eye-triple-E," stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The organization was founded in 1884, when electricity began to be a significant force in human
society.

As the world's largest technical professional organization, with membership totaling over
400,000, IEEE has long been composed of engineers, scientists, and allied professionals. These
include computer scientists, software developers, information technology (IT) professionals,
physicists, medical doctors, and many others, in addition to IEEE's electrical and electronics
engineering core. For this reason, the organization no longer goes by its full name, except on
legal business documents, and is referred to simply as IEEE.

Writing your paper using an IEEE template


If you are a software, electronics, or electrical engineering student, your professor will likely
expect you to use an IEEE template in order to write your paper. This is quite different from
using MLA or APA style. Please check with your professor regarding the type of template they
want you to use.

Your template serves two purposes:


 To correctly format your document—after you have finished writing it and gathering and
creating all your graphic files.
 To provide advice regarding style and formatting.

For spelling reference, IEEE uses The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. For guidance on grammar
and usage not included in your template’s style guide, consult The Chicago Manual of Style,
published by University of Chicago Press.

What if I’m not using an IEEE template?


It is possible, however, that your professor might want you to use MLA, APA, or Chicago style in
writing your paper. If that is true, you can gain help in using any of these styles by (1) reading
UHCL’s tip sheets on these subjects, which can be accessed here: https://www.uhcl.edu/writing-
center/tip-sheets/, and (2) looking at PURDUE OWL’s online help—including sample papers for
MLA and APA style, which can be accessed here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html.
Make sure you download the correct IEEE template
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your paper size. This template has been
tailored for output on U.S.-letter paper size. Occasionally in the United States, you might use a
British-style paper size. This would be A4-size paper. If you are using A4-size paper, please close
the U.S. paper size file and download the file formatted for A4-size paper.

Second, confirm with your professor whether they want you to download a template appropriate
for a conference, a journal, or a magazine. You can find these templates here:
https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org.

Before you format your paper


Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save the content as a separate text file.
Complete all content and organizational editing before formatting using the template.

Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the text has been formatted and styled using
the template.

Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph.

Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper.

Do not number text heads—the template will do that for you.

When you format your paper


The template will format your paper and style the text after you have finished writing and
editing your paper and your graphics in another file. Keep a copy of your original file(s).

The Writing Center recommends that you use the IEEE template in MS Word. This will give you
flexibility should you need to edit your paper after you have flowed it into the template. Avoid
using LaTeX if you have not learned it well.

All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are prescribed in the template; please do
not alter them. You may note peculiarities. For example, the head margin in most IEEE templates
measures proportionately more than is customary. This measurement and others are deliberate,
using specifications that anticipate your paper as one part of an entire proceedings or
publication, and not as an independent document. It is important not to revise any of the current
designations. Remember to remove all the IEEE instruction wording in the template once you
have finished formatting your paper.

This tip sheet uses some wording taken directly from the IEEE website.

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