Preparing your manuscript

Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering publishes the following article types:

Regular papers:

- Original research papers: present innovative solutions, novel concepts, or creative ideas that can help to address existing or emerging technical challenges.

- Review: summarize the most up-to-date achievements on a particular topic, and provide foresight concerning future trends.

Letters: reporting the latest findings or advances which are deemed to be of significant importance.

The lower limitations of your paper are 10 pages (for Review), 6 pages (for Original research papers) and 4 pages (for Letters)

The style and formatting information for the article you are going to submit.

Title page

The title page should:

present a title that includes, if appropriate, the research design

list the full names, institutional addresses

indicate the corresponding authors and their email addresses

Abstract

The abstract should briefly summarize the aim, findings or purpose of the article. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.

Keywords

Three to ten keywords representing the main content of the article.

Introduction

The Introduction section should explain the background to the study, its aims, a summary of the existing literature and why this study was necessary.

Results (Optional)

This should include the findings of the study including, if appropriate, results of statistical analysis which must be included either in the text or as tables and figures.

Discussion (Optional or can be combined in ‘Results and Discussion’ section)

For research articles this section should discuss the implications of the findings in context of existing research and highlight limitations of the study. For methodology manuscripts this section should include a discussion of any practical or operational issues involved in performing the study and any issues not covered in other sections.

Conclusions

This should state clearly the main conclusions and provide an explanation of the importance and relevance of the study to the field.

Biographies

All authors may include biographies. The author’s educational background is listed. The degrees should be listed with the type of degree in what field, which institution, city, state, and country, and the year the degree was earned.  The current job must have a location; previous positions may be listed without one. Current and previous research interests end the paragraph. Each author's photograph should be provided, it should be of good quality, and professional-looking. 

General formatting information

Manuscripts must be written in concise English.

Quick points:

Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text

Do not use page breaks in your manuscript

File formats

The following word processor file format is acceptable for the main manuscript document:

Microsoft word (DOC, DOCX)

Please note: editable files are required for processing in production. If your manuscript contains any non-editable files (such as PDFs) you will be required to re-submit an editable file if your manuscript is accepted.

Preparing figures

When preparing figures, please follow the formatting instructions below.

• Figure titles and legends should be provided in the main manuscript.
• Tables should NOT be submitted as figures but should be included in the main manuscript file.
• Figures should be numbered in the order they are first mentioned in the text.
• Individual figure files should not exceed 10 MB. If a suitable format is chosen, this file size is adequate for extremely high quality figures.
• Please note that if the figures that have previously been published elsewhere, it is the responsibility of the author(s) to indicated the original source in the reference list.

Figure file types

We accept the following file formats for figures:

• EPS (suitable for diagrams and/or images)
• PDF (suitable for diagrams and/or images)
• Microsoft Word (suitable for diagrams and/or images, figures must be a single page)
• PowerPoint (suitable for diagrams and/or images, figures must be a single page)
• TIFF (suitable for images)
• JPEG (suitable for photographic images, less suitable for graphical images)
• PNG (suitable for images)
• BMP (suitable for images)
• CDX (ChemDraw-suitable for molecular structures)
• Figure size and resolution

Figures on the web:

• width of 600 pixels (standard), 1200 pixels (high resolution).

Figures in the final PDF version:

• width of 81 mm for half page width figure
• width of 170 mm for full page width figure
• maximum height of 250 mm for figure and legend
• image resolution of approximately 300 dpi (dots per inch) at the final size

Figures should be designed such that all information, including text, is legible at these dimensions. All lines should be wider than 0.25 pt when constrained to standard figure widths. All fonts must be embedded.

Figure file compression

Vector figures should if possible be submitted as PDF files, which are usually more compact than EPS files.

• TIFF files should be saved with LZW compression, which is lossless (decreases file size without decreasing quality) in order to minimize upload time.
• JPEG files should be saved at maximum quality.
• Conversion of images between file types (especially lossy formats such as JPEG) should be kept to a minimum to avoid degradation of quality.

If you have any questions or are experiencing a problem with figures, please contact the editorial office at cjee@cjeecmp.com.

Preparing tables

When preparing tables, please follow the formatting instructions below.

• Tables should be numbered and cited in the text in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Tab. 1, Tab. 2 etc.).
• Table titles should be included above the table.
• Tables should not be embedded as figures or spreadsheet files, but should be formatted using ‘Table object’ function in your word processing program.
• Color and shading may not be used. Parts of the table can be highlighted using superscript, numbering, lettering, symbols or bold text, the meaning of which should be explained in a table legend.
• If you have any questions or are experiencing a problem with tables, please contact the customer service team at cjee@cjeecmp.com.