IEEE T-MTT Special Issue

The purpose for the presentation of a paper at a conference or symposium is to present new, often preliminary results, while the purpose of a paper published in a journal or transactions is to present complete results that are properly compared to the existing state of the art. Sometimes, the results in a journal paper are different than those in the conference paper, often the interpretation of the results is different to account for questions or discussions between the author and the audience at the conference, but a journal paper based on a conference paper must always present substantially new technical content. New technical content can be more in depth derivation of techniques or design procedures, more analysis of results or the techniques, more measured data, or further simulations. During the review process, reviewers will be instructed to determine if the journal paper submission presents substantially new results that are not obvious from the conference paper, that the conference paper and past work are properly referenced, and that the new results are properly compared to prior papers.

To submit a paper for the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques for the APMC and RFIT, please email a pdf version of the paper to TransactionsAssistant@oai.org, with a copy of the conference paper and the IEEE copyright release form. All submissions must use the templates provided under http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html (Template for all Transactions (except IEEE Transactions on Magnetics), two-column template and be received before February 15, 2010