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IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS REGULAR PAPER/LETTER/CORRESPONDENCE

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Submission


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First A. Author, Student Member, IEEE, Second B. Author, and Third C. Author, Jr., Fellow, IEEE

Abstract- These instructions give you basic guidelines for TABLE I


preparing Transactions-styled papers for IEEE Transactions on TYPE SIZES FOR PAPERS
Power Electronics. Abstracts are limited to 200 words and cannot
Type Appearance
contain equations, figures, or tables. Please do not cite any Size Regular Bold Italic
references in the abstract.1 (pts.)
6 Table captions,a table superscripts
I. INTRODUCTION 8 Section titles,a references, tables,
table names,a first letters in table
Your goal is to simulate, as closely as possible, the usual captions,a figure captions,
footnotes, text subscripts, and
appearance of papers in IEEE Transactions on Power superscripts
Electronics. 9 Abstract
10 Authors’ affiliations, main text, Subheading
A. Preparing your Electronic Paper equations
Prepare your paper in full-size format, on US letter paper 11 Authors’ names
24 Paper title
(8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, use the A4 settings. IEEE
TPEL has no page limit for regular papers, but accepted a
Uppercase
papers of 9 pages and above will be subject to overlength page
charges. Please note, however, IEEE Transactions on Power II. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Electronics Letters submissions do have a page limit. Letters
manuscripts with more than 4 pages will be rejected A. Figures and Tables
immediately. Please note, the focus of IEEE Power Position figures and tables at the tops and bottoms of
Electronics Letters is new ideas and specific contributions. columns. Avoid placing them in the middle of columns. Large
While a Letter is expected to include a literature review and to figures and tables may span across both columns. Figure
provide sufficient results to prove the validity of the proposed captions should be align left below the figures; table captions
concept, works that require extensive literature review, should be centered above. Avoid placing figures and tables
detailed and long analytical and theoretical steps, and/or before their first mention in the text. Use the abbreviation
extensive experimental verification and validation should be “Fig. 1,” even at the beginning of a sentence.
submitted as regular papers to IEEE Transactions. Figure axis labels are often a source of confusion. Use words
Type Sizes and Typefaces: Follow the type sizes specified rather than symbols. For example, write “Current,” or
in Table I. As an aid in gauging type size, 1 point is about 0.35 “Current (A)” not just “A”. Put units in parentheses. Do not
mm. Times New Roman is the preferred font. label axes only with units. In the example, write
1) In formatting your original (8.5 x 11 inch) page, set top “Magnetization (A/m)” or “Magnetization (A·m 1).” Do not
margin to 0.75 inch and bottom margin to 1 inch, and left and label axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example,
right margins to 0.625 inch. The column width is 3.5 inches. write “Current (A),” not “Current/A.”
The space between the two columns is 0.25 inch. Multipliers can be especially confusing. Write
2) A4 Margins: set top margin to 19mm and bottom margin “Magnetization (kA/m)” or “Magnetization (103 A/m).”
to 43mm, and left and right margins to 13mm. The column Figures labels should be legible, about 10-point type.
width is 88mm. The space between the two columns is 4mm. B. References
Paragraph indentation is 3.5 mm (0.14 in). Left- and right- Number reference citations consecutively in square
justify the columns. On the last page of the paper, adjust the brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
lengths of the columns to make them equal. Use automatic Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Use “Ref. [1]”
hyphenation and spell checking. Digitize or paste down or “Reference [1]” at the beginning of a sentence.
figures. Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it is cited.
1
Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for table
A footnote should indicate whether the paper is an extension of a
footnotes (see Table I). IEEE Transactions no longer use a
conference paper, the title of the conference paper, the conference the paper
was presented in, year, etc. journal prefix before the volume number. For example, use
A footnote may also indicate the sponsor and financial support “IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 25,” not “vol. MAG-25.”
acknowledgment.
IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS REGULAR PAPER/LETTER/CORRESPONDENCE
Yi Symbols in your equation should be defined before the
equation appears or immediately following. Use “(1),” DO
NOT use “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except at the beginning
of a sentence: “Equation (1) is …”

E. Other Recommendations
The Roman numerals used to number the section headings
1
Gi are optional. If you do use them do not number
[0, (lampCr  )]
2lamp Lr ACKNOWLEDGMENT and REFERENCES, and begin Subheadings
with letters. Use two spaces after periods (full stops).
Hyphenate complex modifiers: “zero-field-cooled
magnetization.” Avoid dangling participles, such as, “Using
Hard-switching
region for S1 and S2 (1), the potential was calculated.” Write instead, “The
potential was calculated using (1).”
[0,  lamp Cr ] Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25,” not “.25.” Use
“cm3,” not “cc.” Do not mix complete spellings and
abbreviations of units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter,”
not “webers/m2.” Spell units when they appear in the text: “…
a few henries,” not “…a few H.” If your native language is not
English, try to get a native English-speaking colleague to
proofread your paper.

Fig. 1 Hard-switching region. (align left). Captions should be placed in text III. UNITS
boxes. Note that “Fig.” is abbreviated and there is a period after the figure
number followed by two spaces. It is good practice to explain the significance Metric units are preferred for use in IEEE publications.
of the figure in the caption.
British units may be used as secondary units (in parentheses).
An exception would be the use of British units as identifiers
Give all authors’ names; use “et al.” if there are six authors in trade, such as “3.5-inch disk drive.”
or more. Papers that have not been published, even if they Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
have been submitted for publication, should be cited as amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads to
“unpublished.” Papers that have been accepted for publication confusion because equations do not balance dimensionally. If
should be cited as “in press.” In a paper title, capitalize the you must use mixed units, clearly state the units for each
first word and all other words except for conjunctions, quantity that you use in an equation.
prepositions less than seven letters, and prepositional phrases.
For papers published in translated journals, first give the APPENDIX
English citation, then the original foreign-language citation.
Appendixes, if needed, appear before the acknowledgment.
C. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
used in the text, even if they have been defined in the abstract. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, ac, dc, and rms The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in the title American English is without an “e” after the “g.” Use the
unless they are unavoidable. singular heading even if you have many acknowledgments.
Avoid expressions such as “One of us (S.B.A.) would like to
D. Equations thank . . . ” Instead, write “F. A. Author thanks . . . .” In most
Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in
cases, sponsor and financial support acknowledgments are
parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1). To make
placed in the unnumbered footnote on the first page, not here.
your equations more compact, you may use the solidus ( / ),
the exp function, or appropriate exponents. Italicize Roman
symbols for quantities and variables, but not Greek symbols.
Use an en dash (–) rather than a hyphen for a minus sign. Use REFERENCES
parentheses to avoid ambiguities in denominators. Punctuate [1] G. Dawson and I. N. Chan, “A modified zero-voltage-switching flyback
equations with commas or periods when they are part of a converter,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 129-135, Apr
sentence, as in 1994.
[2] Y. Zhi, T. Kaynak, and W. Zhang, “Modified maximum power point
. (1) tracking technique for wind energy application,” IEEE Trans. Power
Electron., vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 3023-3027, Jul 2012.
[3] F. Zhang, “A new high power factor AC-AC inverter,” IEEE Power
Electron. Lett., vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 10–13, Mar. 2000.

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