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IEEE Transactions on <br>Electronics Packaging Manufacturing IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing

Editor: Prof. Wayne Johnson, Auburn University

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Instructions for Authors

INDEX:
  • Selecting the Correct Transactions
  • Information for Authors
  • How to log onto the Manuscript Central website
  • Submitting your Manuscript Electronically
  • Checking status of my paper
  • Responding to Reviewer Comments
  • Uploading the Revised Manuscript
  • Sending in the final files, copyright form, etc
  • Improving our Instructions or Process


    As a potential author for the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, you want to be sure your manuscript is placed in the correct journal. We have four journals with similar fields, and your paper may best be reviewed by one or the other depending not on the specific topical areas, but on which aspects you choose to address in detail. Our editors often cannot make a judgment based on your title, or even your abstract.

    Therefore, we briefly profile our four journals, and ask you to submit your manuscript to the one which bests brings your paper to our readership.

    The IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing has its focus on processing, manufacturing, and field use of electronics devices and assemblies (packages, sub-systems, and systems), including EOS/ESD, SPC and design-for-environment. A more complete listing of topical areas is on the page below. The focus of our sister journals, for you to consider:
    IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies (T-CPT):
    Manuscripts dealing with the underlying technologies -- electrical, mechanical, chemical, or thermal -- for packaging would best find readers here. These papers cover developments in passives, materials, reliability, thermal design/analysis, and other areas that underlie the specific instantiations of the technology appearing in specific packages. See a more complete listing.

    IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging (T-AdvP):
    Manuscripts dealing with specific implementations of packages would best find readers here. Typical papers cover analysis/characterization/test of an entire module or packaging system, and also may cover types of packages (QFP, BGA, Flip-Chip, COB, VCSEL, and others) and specific packages that use new technologies, as well as electrical performance issues. See a more complete listing.

    IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (T-SM):
    Manuscripts covering process, yield, and other aspects specific to semiconductor manufacturing and factory control are best placed in T-SM. See a more complete listing.

    The Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing solicits original manuscripts in the following areas:

    Information for Authors

    It is anticipated that submitted papers will deal with qaulity, process, manufacturing, "green" electronics, and other topics as outlined above. Material must be of archival quality and represent new developments and/or directions in packaging technology, or clear advances in existing technology. In recognition of the large "practitioner" audience for these TRANSACTIONS, authors of submitted manuscripts should take pains to make very clear how the manuscript subject extends the knowledge base in the field of technologies underlying components and packaging.

    In some cases, a manuscript submitted to our Editor may have been previously presented at a conference. This does not disqualify the paper, and we would be pleased to consider it; please advise us the name and dates of the conference when you submit your manuscript. Papers that have been previously published in another archival journal should not be submitted to us for review and inclusion in this archival journal.

    Please see our Style guide regarding creating a double-spaced version in 10-point type, then converting it to Postscript or PDF, for our review process.

    How to log onto the Manuscript Central (MC) Website

    We have a useful Powerpoint presentation (.ppt, 3MB) to guide you through your first time on our System. Printing this presentation (as Handouts, 2 slides per page) can provide a useful guide as you begin using MC.

    Please avoid creating multiple User accounts. If you have forgotten your UserName and/or Password, select the "Check for an Existing Account" icon, then enter the email address that would have been used in your account; if there is a match, your UserName and Password will be emailed to you. You can also contact Marsha Tickman, who can check for an existing account and email you the needed information.

    Log on by entering your UserName and Password. (A hint: after entering your Password, hit "TAB" then "ENTER" to log on without using your mouse.) See also our additional step-by-step directions.

    Manuscript Central has extensive "help" facilities. You can quickly assess MC's abilities by clicking on the "? - Get Help Now" icon, to bring up a second Browser window. The "Get Answers" choice brings you to an extensive FAQ listing; The default listing is descending by "solved", but you can click on the arrows to sort alphabetically, etc. You can select answers for only a certain "Category", or you can search for certain text; this facility is quite helpful. Once you are on the FAQ page, the other choices ("Ask a Question", "My Cases") are shown as Tabs at the top, and can be quickly accessed. Just reading some of the entries ("Training", for example) can give you a tutorial on MC operation.

    Submitting your Manuscript Electronically
    We accept manuscripts as electronic files (PostScript or PDF) on our website. As an author, you will select a UserName and Password; then you can log onto our site's tracking system to see which Associate Editor is coordinating review of your paper and check the paper's status. Please visit our Transactions website to begin the process.

    There may be occasions when you must submit your manuscript on paper. This may be sent to our Transactions Administrator:

      Marsha Tickman
      IEEE
      PO Box 1331 / 455 Hoes Lane
      Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
    If you need help with a Manuscript Central submission, contact Marsha at:

    Checking status of my paper

    you will get an email advising you that your paper has been assigned to an Associate Editor, who will coordinate the reviews. You can log onto MC to see the record for your paper, and your Associate Editor's email address is shown. You can check the status of the reviews by sending an email to your AE.

    Responding to Reviewer Comments

    When reviews are complete, you will receive an email from the Transactions Editor. We may decline to publish your paper, or we may indicate that it can be published after you address issues and suggestions raised during the reviews. If the reviews have been done electronically, the comments will be attached to the email you receive; if they have been marked up on paper copies, these will be mailed to you by the Associate Editor. We would appreciate your early action on revisions to your manuscript, so it can be published in an expeditious manner.

    Uploading the Revised Manuscript

    When you have completed the updates in response to reviewer comments, you are asked to again create a PostScript or PDF file, and upload it from your Author Center. Once the Associate Editor and Editor approve of the revisions and authorize publication, we will ask you to send a number of items to our Transactions Office.

    Sending in the final files, copyright form, etc

    We will ask you to send the following items to our Transactions Office (Ms. Marsha Tickman at IEEE):
    • IEEE Copyright form, signed
    • Page charge authorization form
    • Certificate of no prior publication
    • Abstract, followed by index terms (keywords)
    • Revised manuscript (2 paper copies that match disk)
    • Floppy/ZIP/CD labeled with Manuscript #, title and word processor, or email the file
    • Originals of figures and tables
    • Figure and table captions
    • Biographies of author(s)
    • Author photos

    Improving our Instructions or Process

    These instructions can probably be improved and corrected. I welcome your suggestions! Please describe your experiences either with MC or with my instructions, and give alternatives, or new ways that worked for you. Clarify any misconceptions we've created, and let me know if you're stuck somewhere in the process.

    Send comments to Paul Wesling, vice president of Publications.

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