期刊名称：TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
About the Title
2012 Impact Factor: 0.656
2012 Ranking: 37/58 in Automation & Control Systems Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports ® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control is the fully peer-reviewed international journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control. The journal covers all areas of applications in instrumentation and control. Its scope encompasses cutting-edge research and development, education and industrial applications.
Providing a dynamic forum for the international measurement and control community, this distinguished journal publishes peer-reviewed papers designed to appeal to both researchers and practitioners. It presents up-to-date coverage of the latest developments, offering a unique interdisciplinary perspective.
This outstanding journal covers:
- Systems and Control Theory
- Sensors and Signal Processing
- Advanced Manufacturing Systems
- Management Systems
- Standards Policy
- Man/Machine Interface and Human Factors
- Computing for Measurement, Control and Automation
- Adaptive Control
- Advanced Robotics
- Dynamic Simulation
- Education and Training
- Safety Systems and Reliability Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Essential reading for researchers and practitioners involved in research and control.
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Instructions to Authors
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Quick Start Submission
1.1. Manuscript preparation (pre-writing stage)
1.2. General Requirements
1.3. Preparing your manuscript for review
1.4. Preparing your manuscript for re-review
1.5. The TIMC submission process
1.6. Word and LaTeX Submissions
- Detailed manuscript submission information here:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/TIM_Manuscript_Guidelines.pdf
1. Quick Start Submission
1.1 Manuscript preparation (pre-writing stage)
The most important thing to remember in preparing your manuscript is the requirements of the various parties involved. Fortunately, these requirements have much in common.
- The author(s) want the manuscript to be published and then to be cited by other authors.
- Reviewers want a well presented manuscript, in which the area of the work and its contribution to that area is clearly presented. This will include things like, a clear explanatory title describing the content, a very clear summary indicating the scope of the work and the main findings. A clearly written, easily understood and concise manuscript, in which the work is put in to context and the contributions clearly defined.
- The Editor and publishers want to produce a journal that will be read by a large number of subscribers.
- A subscriber wants to quickly identify manuscripts that are relevant to their areas of interest and then very quickly absorb the key points.
Given this list of requirements, it is evident that any published manuscript must have novelty, but in addition, it needs to be presented in such a way that it is easily found and easily understood by the majority of those people reading it.
For example, a researcher, looking for material in a particular area of research, is likely to base that search on 'commonly used key words'. If your manuscript uses 'non-standard key words' or obscure acronyms, it is unlikely that your manuscript will be picked up by a search engine. Next he (or she) will scan the title of the various articles produced by that search. To be selected at this stage, your article must have a clear explanatory title describing the content. A very clear summary indicating the scope of the work and the main findings now become the prerequisite to selecting the work for further study. If the work is selected for further study and the content is concise, easily understood and with the contributions clearly defined, then it is highly likely that this work will be referenced.
1.2 General Requirements
A manuscript which is published in TIMC is one that the editors believe satisfies all of the following:
- is well written and in the scope of the Journal,
- is one that the readership would want to read and
- is one that has sufficient novelty to be quoted in future works.
All papers accepted for publication in the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (TIMC) are copyedited and typeset. Copyediting will correct minor grammatical mistakes, and typesetting ensures all manuscripts conform to the same format. Hence, papers submitted to TIMC should be presented so that they are easy to review and conform to the publishers referencing style.
Hence the general requirements are:
- The presented standard of the written text should be of an acceptable standard. That is, the text should be easily understood.
- For ease of reading the manuscripts should be single column and contain all figures and tables within the text. Separate good quality figures will be required once the manuscript is accepted for publication.
- Harvard reference style is mandatory. That is, the references should be referred to in the text by author and date (Bloggs, 1997), and then listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article; for more details see:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/TIM_Manuscript_Guidelines.pdf#8.3
You should only include references that are relevant to your prospective publication. This should include recent relevant publications published in TIMC, since this assists the readers in seeing the development of the topic and generates themes within TIMC.
You can quickly find references to recent publications in TIMC from the following web pages:
http://tim.sagepub.com/search
1.3 Preparing your manuscript for review
When preparing your manuscript for review, you should ensure that you make it as easy as possible for a reviewer to read your manuscript and comment on its suitability for publication. The basic requirements are:
- A clear explanatory title describing the content.
Note the title would not normally contain acronyms.
- A very clear summary indicating the scope of the work and the main findings.
The summary should put the work in context, clearly define the contribution and indicate the main findings.
These should be generic; that is all the key words should relate to established subject areas. Do not define new 'key words' in an attempt to specify your area of research.
- An introduction that puts the work into context by stating the importance and significance of previous work in the area.
The Introduction should then clearly define the contribution(s) made by the current article and indicate how these are demonstrated in the remainder of the manuscript.
- The body of the article must be concise, easily understood and with the contributions clearly explained. It would be normal to compare your results with the best of those available. Implicit is the assumption that the introduction has already indicated how your contribution may be judged in relation to other works.
- For ease of reading the manuscripts should be single column and contain all figures and tables within the text.
- The conclusions must be clear and concise and indicate the contribution(s) that have been made and their relative importance.
1.4 Preparing your manuscript for re-review
The letter asking you to revise and resubmit your manuscript will request that you provide a separate statement of the corrections that you have made. You would do this by first indicating (for example) that the comments for reviewer 1 are all highlighted in yellow in the manuscript, those for reviewer 2 are highlighted in red, those for reviewer 3 in green and those for reviewer 4 in blue. Then follow this up with a statement of each specific change made.
Hence, if reviewer 1 has made the following comments:
- More comparison with current results found in literature are required ...
- The presentation of equations 5 and 8 should be improved
- Equation 9 seems to be incorrect.
Etc.
You would produce the following response:
I wish to thank the reviewers for their useful comments. In the manuscript the comments for reviewer 1 are all highlighted in yellow, those for reviewer 2 are highlighted in red, those for reviewer 3 in green and those for reviewer 4 in blue.
Reviewer 1
Comment 1: More comparison with current results found in literature are required ...
Response: The literature has been updated with the inclusion of ... etc
Comment 2: The presentation of equations 5 and 8 should be improved.
Response: The required changes have been made.
Comment 3: Equation 9 seems to be incorrect.
Response: Equation 9 is correct. This may be demonstrated as follows: ... To make equation 9 clearer in the manuscript the following comments have been added ...
Etc.
All changes for reviewer 1 are highlighted in yellow in the main text.
Reviewer 2
Comment:
Comment:
All changes for reviewer 2 are highlighted in red in the main text.
Etc. Etc.
Such a document makes everything clear and will help the reviewers quickly assess the manuscript.
References these must conform to the required journal format. In addition you should only include references that are relevant to your prospective publication. This should include recent relevant publications published in TIMC, since this assists the readers in seeing the development of the topic and generates themes within TIMC.
You can quickly find references to recent publications in TIMC from the following web pages:
http://tim.sagepub.com/search
1.5 The TIMC submission process
First you need to create an account on Scholar One. You do this by going to the web page:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/timc
To create an account, look for the button shown below; if you click the button it will take you through the various steps.
 Create Account: New users click here
Once you have created your account, you can submit a paper through your author centre.
On the main menu page (which appears when you have logged in to Scholar One) or on the log in page, you will find links to User Tutorials (see below) and these give you all the information you need.
| Resources |
| Instructions & Forms |
| User Tutorials |
| System Requirements |
| Home Page |
If you click user tutorials and then look under authors you will find the quick start guide describing the submission process; the link given below will take you directly to the tutorial.
- Author Quick Start Guide PDF
When you submit your manuscript using Scholar One please include all authors and ensure that the contact details, particularly the e-mail addresses, are correct. It is useful to send each co-author an e-mail informing them of the submission, since this will ensure the email address you have for your co-author is correct.
1.6 Word and LaTeX Submissions
You should prepare your manuscript using WORD or LaTeX. To downloads the required LaTeX files click here.
If you have used LaTex please produce a pdf copy and download this onto the Scholar One submission system.
For a more detailed view of submission guidelines please click here.
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Editorial Board
Advisory Editorial Board:
| Jie Huang |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Associate Editors:
| Wenjian Cai |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Kang Li |
Queen's University of Belfast, UK |
| Liu Lu |
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Anton Vitko |
Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic |
| Shengyuan Xu |
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China |
| Deming Yuan |
Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China |
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