Dennis S Bernstein Editor-in-Chief - Control Systems Magazine Contact

• Please number your pages
• You may use Word or LATEX. LATEX is preferred.
• Submit manuscripts electronically to the Editor-in-Chief Dennis S. Bernstein (address above) as PDF attachments.
• The maximum length for manuscripts is 30 pages in 12 point font, double-spaced excluding figures.
• Submitted manuscripts must be typeset in a single column format.
• CSM articles are intended to inform the control engineering community of developments in specialized areas of control. Therefore, submissions should strive for high-quality exposition to explain the principal issues and challenges of their applications area. At least some of the introduction should be of a tutorial nature.
• Do not include an abstract.
• Do not number sections.
• Center and boldface all major section headings, and left-align and boldface subheadings.
• Use punctuation after equations where appropriate.
• Do not number equations that are not referenced.
• List references in the order of citation in the text.
• Please format references in the Magazine's style (see next page).
• Do not use footnotes for any purpose, including authors' addresses.
• Be sure that your figure captions are consistent with CSM style. Please refer to the material below concerning figure captions.
• Unless your paper is a survey, please limit your reference list to essential items. A good rule of thumb is about 1 reference per manuscript page.
• The Magazine encourages color illustrations, figures, and photos. Although your PDF submission may be in black and white to minimize file size, you may wish to generate figures and images in color, which can be used when the paper is published.
• It is the responsibility of the author to obtain copyright permission for all materials that are subject to copyright protection. You must provide an explicit acknowledgment of permission within your article.
• Digital images must be at least 300 dpi to be publishable. Be sure to scan your photos at adequate resolution. Photographs are also acceptable.
• Author affiliation(s), address(es), and acknowledgments should appear on a separate page.
• Before final acceptance, you will be sent a copy-edited version of your original manuscript. Please make the corrections indicated in the interests of improving the readability and appearance of your article as well as to ensure uniformity with the Magazine’s style.
• Figure captions: Be sure that each figure is well-motivated and transmits an important point. In addition, CSM uses a style for figure captions that enhances the impact of figures. Please see the material later in this document. For copyrighted images, figure captions must include an explicit statement that permission has been given. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain this permission prior to final acceptance of the manuscript.

Conforming to the following style rules for references will ensure timely production and publication.

• References must be listed in order of citation in the text.
• Reference citations in the text should be bracketed numbers; e.g., [23], [3]-[5]. For multiple nonsequential citations, separately bracket each number in numerical order; e.g., [3], [5], [7] (not [3,5,7]).
• Do not include full first names for authors, only initials (without spaces); initials come first; e.g., I.M. Anauthor.
• Article title is in sentence case (only first word is initial capital) and in quotes.
• Journal or proceedings name is italicized.
• Location is included for conferences.
• For journal articles, include vol. and no., lowercase and abbreviated in each case, and set off with commas.
• Page numbers appear after the year of publication for conference proceedings and books but before the year of publication for journals.
• For technical reports, provide complete address information.

Once a final acceptance decision is communicated, electronic submission of all materials to the Editor-in-Chief will be required. Paper copies are not required.

Required electronic materials include the following five items to be sent to D. S. Bernstein:

1. A double-spaced PDF version of your entire paper, including biographies (see below), with each figure and its caption (see below for caption style) on a separate page at the end of the paper.
2. A source file containing the text, bios, and list of figure captions only, in LATEX or Word. Be sure that your figure captions include a statement of permission for all copyrighted material. Remember: It is your responsibility to obtain permission to use copyrighted images. Include a short bio (less than 100 words) for each author. Designate which author is the corresponding author, and include the complete mailing and email address for the corresponding author only.
3. A separate file for each figure. Acceptable file formats are tiff, eps, ps, and jpg, but NOT pdf. Label these files “CSM03122Fig9”. Figures embedded in Word documents are not acceptable. Digital images must be at least 300 dpi
4. A signed IEEE Copyright Form. You may scan the signed form and email it with the above items (this method is preferred), or you may fax it to Ms. Geri Krolin-Taylor with an email message to her and the Editor-in-Chief notifying that a fax was sent. The copyright form is attached to this document. Copyright forms are due at the time that a revised draft is submitted.
5. An author information form, which can be filled out electronically and returned with your paper. This file will be sent to you in Word by the Editor in Chief.

Please verify that your figure captions are consistent with CSM style. Please see the following pages.

Be sure that your paper has no footnotes.

In preparing your article for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, please download and follow the CSM Style Guidelines (style guide in PDF).