Instruction for reviewers

Regular magazine papers are thought as kind of 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. So, in case of the regular magazine papers, the novelty is not an issue on which decide to accept or reject the paper.

Alternatively, Regular magazine papers may also propose kind of novel topics or field or technologies but, in this case, the magazine papers need to take to topic at a general level, with basic concept understandable also by not-experts, and kind of explanation that are fully explained while high-level technical enough.

Technical Notes are instead thought to be the place where novel developments found an occasion for fast publication. They are 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 solo full printed-page, two-column, IEEE-style.
• Short intro of the field of use of the new proposed solution.
• A comparison with existing solutions with pros and cons, with respect to state-of-the-art.
• Highlighting the most important novelty presents in the new proposed solution.
• One mandatory single figure as graphical summary or significant detail of the proposed solution.
• The most important performance specification.
• One extremely short list of references, which points to more detailed information. In principle, one reference only.