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Author guidelines

Please note that an author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the Conference, and present the paper for it to be published in the proceedings.

The deadline for the registration and fee payment for one of the authors of an accepted paper  is July 9, 2018 - 23:59 CET.

Regular (not student) author’s registration assures the inclusion in the proceedings of only one paper. An extra charge of € 100 fee is due for each additional paper covered by the same registration. Papers that do not meet these requirements will not be published. No exceptions.

The new hard deadline for the draft paper is May 7, 2018 - 23:59 CET.

Full Paper Preparation

Submit your paper through EDAS

  • Prospective Authors of papers are invited to submit a draft paper (typically 4-6 pages in standard IEEE two-column format) via the EDAS site suggesting the related Technical Session.
  • In addition, papers on other research topics and application areas within the scope of the RTSI 2018 are welcome. The paper should contain a complete description of the proposed technical contribution along with some results, suitably framed in the related state of the art. Each paper will be reviewed in terms of relevance with respect to the scope of the event, originality and quality of the technical content, overall organization and writing style.

  • The paper must be prepared according to the Preparation of Papers for IEEE template (Download here)
  • Submission of papers implies intention to register and present the related content at the conference. Proceedings papers presented at the Conference will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library

  • The length for final papers is 4-6 pages without exceptions.
  • Papers that are accepted and presented will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library and indexed by SCOPUS.

 

Generate an IEEE Xplore compatible manuscript using PDF Xpress

Note: Review version of the submitted manuscripts do not require PDF Xpress tool for generating pdf file: please follow EDAS instructions.
Only all final accepted manuscripts must be generated using the PDF Xpress tool.

To generate the IEEE Xplore compatible PDF file of your paper, follow these steps:
  • Create your IEEE PDF eXpress account: http://www.pdf-express.org
  • Conference ID: 44885X and 44885XP for the Plus version
  • The first time you access the system, please follow the link to new user. Please note that in order to access the service, you need to allow the use of cookies from the PDF eXpress web site.

    • Once you have registered as a new user:
  • Upload the source file (containing your paper) for conversion.
  • Receive by e-mail the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF of your paper.

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    Extended versions of presented paper can be submitted for publication to the IEEE journal listed below:

     IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transaction on Magnetics
    Agreement with other prospective Journals is on the way.

    Submitting the extended version for publication, the Authors are required to satisfy the following guidelines:

  • The paper must be technically extended beyond the scope of the paper appeared in the conference proceedings. If this constraint has not been satisfactorily fulfilled, the paper cannot be accepted for publication.
  • At the time of submission, the Authors must provide detailed information (in a separate file to be uploaded as part of the submission process) regarding how the paper is a technically extended version of the proceedings paper.
  • The proceedings paper must be clearly referred to in the text and listed as one of the references of the new submitted paper.
  • The paper must be within the scope of IEEE journal selected by the Authors and must be properly framed in the state-of-the-art of the considered subject, also by including a meaningful reference list of papers recently published in qualified literature in the same or strictly related subjects. Moreover, the contribution of the submitted paper in terms of novelty of technical content must be clearly highlighted.

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    The RTSI Call for Papers is available for download: PDF of the Call for Papers