TIE - Initial Submission

Submission of a new manuscript for review

Contributions to the Transactions, Journals, and Letters may be submitted electronically on IEEE's on-line manuscript submission and peer-review system, ScholarOne® Manuscripts (former Manuscript Central).

Visit the information for authors page and download the instructions document and the manuscript template.

Before submitting, carefully read the TIE checklist below "TIE checklist for new manuscript submissions" and modify your manuscript accordingly. Once your paper is completely suitable to TIE rules, follow this procedure:

1. Open ScholarOne® Manuscripts web http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tie-ieee. If you haven't an existing account, please create it.
2. Go to your Author Center and click "Submit First Draft of a New Manuscript".
3. Along with other information, you will be asked to select the subject from a pull-down list. There are various steps to the submission process; you must complete all steps for a complete submission. At the end of each step you must click "Save and Continue".
4. Just uploading the paper is not sufficient. After the last step, you should see a confirmation that the submission is complete. You should also receive an e-mail confirmation.
5. More detailed instructions can be found at S1M Training Area.

Please notice that in your Author Center you may check the current status of your manuscript such as: In EIC office, Assigned to AE, AE invites reviewers, AE assigns reviewers, Under review, Awaiting AE decision, and Awaiting EIC decision. If you find that your manuscript is not moving in the process for a month or more please contact the Editor-in-Chief.

TIE checklist for manuscript submissions

Authors should consider the following points before submitting a new paper. Otherwise the submission would be automatically rejected.

1. New manuscripts cannot exceed 8 pages (3 for letters). Only a very limited overlength (1/2 page at most) is tolerated. Note that usually in the review process the reviewers tend to ask for more explanations, also note that the maximum allowed length is 8 pages on initial/first submission, including authors' bios and photos.
2. In order to follow the single-blind review process, we ask that all the authors be identifiable within the manuscript (DO include authors’ names, their biographies, affiliation, etc.).
3. If a significant portion of your manuscript was already published at a conference you must use our Post Conference Papers template (Word-LATEX). The manuscript must include the previous work in the references section.
4. TIE policy doesn't consider surveys, state of the art papers or project reports. Only Guest Editors of a Special Section (or submissions allowed by the Editorial Board) are invited to submit such kind of manuscript. Our typical papers propose new methods and demonstrate their effectiveness through experimental results in combination with simulation results.
5. Multiple-part papers are subject to an 'Immediate reject’ decision unless the authors ask for a consent from the EiC prior to the submission.
6. The only file which has to be submitted (uploaded) is the manuscript in PDF format (WORD files are also possible but please be sure that the file was properly converted by the submission system). In order to make it portable you must embed the not standard fonts or avoid them in the PDF file. This is not an easy process, but often all problems are solved when you are printing PDF file from WORD and you will select in printer properties "Press Quality" instead of "Standard".
7. Manuscripts must be in IEEE double column format and all other IEEE guidelines described in this document, so the length of the paper and readability of figures can be evaluated.
8. The file maximum size cannot exceed 40MB to make it accessible to our tools. Usually you will get that by adjusting the size of the figures. Note that "EPS" figures format only is required on the Final Stage.
9. IEEE T IE is an application oriented engineering journal. It is therefore expected that all submissions will contain experimental verification of the novel theoretical concepts, given in the paper. Papers not containing experimental results should therefore not be submitted since they will be subject to an 'Immediate reject' decision. An experimental rig, which must be used by the authors for verification, must contain hardware components other than a PC/laptop.
10. It is a mandatory requirement that the primary e-mail address of all authors is an institutional e-mail. This applies to all authors of each new and revised paper. Papers where this is not satisfied will not enter the review process.
11. Your manuscript must be within the scope of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics. If not, we will not be able to provide adequate review. Out-of-Scope topics.
12. All cited papers must be referenced within the text of the manuscript. Be sure that the manuscript is up to date. It is expected that a significant portion of references are to recently published papers.
13. Your manuscript must have abstract correctly written. In the age of electronic publications it is not easy to be noticed (Industrial Electronics Society alone receives over 15,000 conference and journal papers per year). Authors have to do everything possible so the paper will be noticed and read. Therefore, very careful wording should be used in the title and in the abstract. Without a proper title and abstract a great paper might never be found and read from IEEE Xplore.
14. Your paper should describe very clearly your accomplishments so other people can understand what is your original contribution and use it. Notice that usually your technical accomplishments will be evaluated based on the number of citations but not based on the number of papers published.
15. Write clearly your manuscript. Try to keep your manuscript on the proper level from one section to another. It should be easy to understand by well-qualified professionals, but at the same time please avoid describing well-known facts (use proper references instead). Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript and this is authors' (not reviewers') fault. Notice, that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.