Information for Authors

 

‘ELECTROMOTION’ is published quarterly. It contains original papers and review articles that fit within the scope of the journal.

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in correct English, complete in their descriptions and not currently under consideration by another journal. Papers that have appeared previously in conference proceedings should be submitted with respective notification.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-refereed, and may undergo modifications to attain the quality expected in an international scientific journal. They will be published within three months after acceptance by the Editors. Papers requiring major revision will be rejected.

Manuscripts should be submitted to one of the Editors as electronic files on 3.5" floppy disks, which must be clearly marked  with operating system, disk format (e.g. DS/DD), word processor used, including version number, and short title of article. Two printed copies of the manuscript should be also submitted with the disk. In the event of differences between disk and hard-copy, the later will be considered as the definitive version.

When using a word processor to prepare a manuscript the following should be noted:

• There is no need to use formatting commands such as centring, justifying, indenting etc., because page design will be handled by the Publisher.
• The word processor's facilities must be used to indicate the text attributes: bold, italic, subscript, superscript, strikeout.
• The hyphenation facilities of the word processor must not be used.
• When preparing tables, tabs not spaces must be used to align columns.
• When using symbols to denote special characters, a list of all codes used must be supplied.

Manuscripts usually consist of seven parts: (i) title; (ii) full names and institutional affiliations of all authors as well as corresponding author’s address, including phone, fax and e-mail; (iii) abstract; (iv) introduction; (v) body; (vi) conclusions; (vii) references. A list of symbols and some appendices may be additionally recommended in certain cases.

• The title should clearly and briefly cover the subject of the paper.
• An abstract (of about 200 words) should be self-explanatory and summarize the essential qualities of the paper.
• The introduction should spell out the problem, shortly review previous works and state the purpose of the paper.
• The body, which gives the primary message of the paper in detail, may be divided into several sections. The contributions made by the author(s) should be clearly stated.
• The conclusions should point out the result of the paper and its significance, emphasizing limitations and advantages as well as recommendations for possible further works.
• References should be numbered consecutively in order of the citation in the text and listed at the end of the text as follows:
  1. Arefeen, M.S., Ehsani, M. and Lipo, T.A., An analysis of the accuracy of indirect shaft sensor for synchronous reluctance motor. IEEE Trans. Ind. Applic., 30 (1994), 1202-1209.
  2. Koseki, T. et al., A new control scheme of a linear induction motor to reduce the end effect. Proc. Int. Conf. Electr. Mach., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1990, Pt. 2, pp. 568-573.
  3. Miller, T.J.E., Brushless permanent-magnet and reluctance motor drives. Clarendon   Press, Oxford, 1989, ch. 7.
• Formulae must be clearly written, each on its own line, well separated from the text. Their consecutive numbers should be marked between round parentheses.
• Appendices must be typed on separate sheets and should be labelled with capital letters A, B, C, etc.
• Footnotes should be avoided, their contents being integrated into the text.
• For symbols, units and graphical signs, the recommendations of IEC and ISO should be followed.
• Illustrations (drawings and glossy photographs) should be progressively numbered and produced in any of the popular drawing programs for the Macintosh and PC. Artwork should be drawn for finished using a Times or Helvetica typeface at a final size of 9 pt type with appropriate lineweights. Scanned artwork should be saved to Tiff format for both line and  half-tone, and scanned at a suggested setting of 400 dpi for half-tones and 1000 dpi for linework. If it is necessary to compress the scans, please indicate the software used. It is essential that a hard-copy print of the scans be included. Illustrations should be logically named and saved as individual files to 3.5" disks.