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The IEEE Sensors Magazine publishes tutorial-style articles on research and applications, as well as technical notes on issues of interest in the field of scope of the IEEE Sensors Council, i.e., the theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing and application of devices for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and biological phenomena, with the emphasis on electronics, physics and reliability aspects of sensors and integrated sensor-actuators. The magazine also publishes news, such as information about market issues and industrial developments.
IEEE Sensors Magazine aims to reach out to a wide readership pool that includes academics, practitioners, executives, and policy makers. The magazine presents technical contents requiring technical rigor and, correct and sound investigations.
Any manuscript submit to the IEEE Sensors Magazine is intended be as a Tutorial-Style Articles. This is definitely not a Review Paper. To make it clear, the following definitions are strictly followed in evalating the submissions to the IEEE Sensors Magazine:
a Tutorial-Style Articles suitable to be published in the IEEE Sensors Magazine is thought to be as being built on more teaching content meanwhile covering basic review on well-established state-of-the-art (e.g., referring to papers published more than 15 years ago), explaining basic principles beyond the proposed topic, providing content that might be accessible to starting students, or creating opportunity to advance from other fields of interest. In other words, we plan here to publish tutorial papers that might be interesting to people that do not know the topic already, but that would like to move on in future. Therefore, we plan here to publish tutorial papers for readers that are interested while not specialists of the field. So, we plan here to publish tutorial papers with a limited number of equations or a limited number of pages.
To make it more clear by a contrary, a review papers, e.g., those published in the IEEE Sensors Reviews, are papers being built instead on content that is related to definitely more recent advancements in state-of-the-art at the frontier of recent developments (e.g., referring to papers published recently, papers not older than 10 or 15 years). In other words, these kind of review papers are mostly accessible to advanced people, e.g. PhD students or scientists already in the field of Sensors, who may be interested to make stronger their deep knowledge in an emerging field.
Any manuscript submitted to IEEE Sensors Magazine needs to be structured well to achieve these objectives. It is recommended that authors adhere to the following guidelines when organizing their manuscript.
The title should be concise and reflect the scope, contribution(s) and significance of the work. The title needs to be less than 15 words, maximum length of running head is 25 characters, maximum length of abstract is 250 words, minimum number of keywords is 3, and maximum number of keywords is 6.
By default, papers in IEEE Sensors Magazine does not necessarily offer novel contributions that are significant. One purpose of the paper is to offer the reader contribution that scientifically sound, technically is correct and significant, and that may fill their gap in our field of scope.
The “Abstract”, “Introduction” and “Conclusion and Future Work” sections must be accessible to the wide readership of IEEE Sensors Magazine. A non-specialist needs to be able to understand the problem the manuscript is attempting to solve, the motivation and significance of the problem, the novelty of the proposed solution and how it advances the field, the significance of the findings, and the remaining research questions that other researchers could use to continue with a similar line of work.
The “Abstract” should not exceed 250 words. Authors are encouraged to attempt to use the following guideline in writing their abstract:
The introduction should motivate the work, expand on the problem definition, and discuss an initial summary of the state of the art with the absolute minimum use of technical jargon.
In any case, any over-use of mathematics should be avoided. The purpose of mathematics is only to be concise, formalize the problem, and support the technical soundness of the contribution. Mathematical proofs should be complemented with explanations sufficient for a graduate student to follow the logic of the proof. Obvious steps in a proof that get skipped by an expert should be included in the supplementary materials for a graduate student to follow the proofs.
For experimental manuscripts, authors should adhere to the scientific method. A clear hypothesis needs to be established. Experimental validity should guide the experimental design. Appropriate statistical tests of significance should be used before making any claim on the superior performance of one algorithm over another. Claims should be scientifically sound, driven from the analysis, and should not exaggerate the findings. When comparing a proposed algorithm to others from the literature, the paper should avoid excessive comparisons. It is sufficient to compare against the top two or three most recent and competitive algorithms in the field of the paper. The choice of these algorithms should be justified.
For survey manuscripts, there should be a clear and systematic survey methodology. Previous survey papers in the area should be acknowledged and summarized before updating the survey with new advances in the field. A survey paper needs to synthesize the literature into a new form such as a conceptual model and/or open research questions.
Each paper should have a conclusion. The conclusion should summarize the key finding of the paper and position it in the wider research area. The typical ¨future work section¨, a section that summarize the future research directions, doesn’t need to be necessarily present. Only if the authors has/have already ideas about future development of the topic of the paper. Anyway, authors are encouraged to avoid superficial and very generic future research statements.
References should cover well-established papers in the field. Unless the manuscript is mentioning a significantly important recent results related to a solid and well-established topic, it is expected that the majority of references will be dedicated to not-so-recent publications. Self-reference should be kept to the absolute minimum strictly necessary to the completeness of the discussed topic.
Technical Notes are here mainly thought for, while not limited to, industrial contributions as opposed to the more academic style of papers that are usually expected to be submitted to IEEE journals and transactions. In opposite to the regular Tutorial-Style Articles, Technical Notes are aimed to report any technical new information, including novel design, developments, applications, or experiments, which are in scope with the Magazine. On the other hand, the format for Technical Notes is very limited. In particular, any contribution to the IEEE Sensors Magazine in the form of a Technical Note needs to strictly follow the following features:
One extremely short list of references. In principle, one reference only, which points to more detailed information to be find in more extended research papers published in other journals or transactions.
Industrial or Startup News are aimed, while not limited to, industrial news. They are here thought to just report the latest news about a certain company or startup, with information that may be of interest of the reader of the IEEE Sensors Magazine. As opposed to either regular Tutorial-Style Articles and Technical Notes, these News are now thought to report any detailed technical information, nor novel design, nor developments. Of course, the need to be in scope with the Magazine, while, on the other hand, they need to report novelty about move of that particular industry or startup such us, while not limited to, entering new market, proposing new technologies and/or product, announcing the starting of new actions or program, including while not limited to development programs, etc. The format for Industrial and Startup news is also very limited. In particular, any contribution to the IEEE Sensors Magazine in the form of an Industrial News or a Startup News needs to strictly follow the following features:
Any other contribution, e.g., an interview, is thought to be submitted in free format, both in term of length, style, and accompanying illustrations, if any. In this case, the contribution may be submitted traying to identify the best options offered by the web submission pages, and it will be evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief, in case in collaboration with other editors with experience, before providing any feedback to the authors or to the reviewers.
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