i MEMS Publication Format and Rules

 

Reference format

 

“Paper Title in Title Case Format Case,” A. Author, B. Author and C. Author, Journal or Conference Name, Vol. X, No. Y, pp. 123-143, Jan. 1 2008. (For conference, Location of Conference, pp. 123-143, Jan. 1 2008.)

 

If there is space limitation, Journal Name can be abbreviated using common abbreviation such as:

JMEMS, Trans. of IEEE MTT, Proc. of IEEE.

 

Figure format

 

1. Data plot should be proportional: label should be proportional to the entire figure, font should be proportional and tick numbers should be proportional (on both x- and y-axis). Label frequency should be proportional to the tick numbers.

2. Remember not all journals or proceedings have color pages so the curves should also have different styles, besides different colors.

3. Data plot should have all four borders. X and Y axis’ are repeated without labels on the other two borders.

4. No grid lines.

5. Legends are inside the plot.

6. No title of the data plot is in the plot.

7. Font in the figure should be the same as the font in the text of the article.

 

 

                  

 

 Text format

 

General mistakes

1.      Double space between words.

2.      “–”and “-” are different.

3.      There is a space before the reference parenthesis [1].

4.      “x” and “times” are different.

5.      Be consistent with capitalization in titles or section titles.

 

 

 

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