期刊名称：TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control is the learned and well-established journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Now in its 24th year, it 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.
Now in its 24th year 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
Instructions to Authors
All material submitted for publication is assumed to be exclusively for Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and not to have been submitted for publication elsewhere. All authors must assign copyright to The Institute of Measurement and Control (by completing the copyright assignment form).
Priority and time of publication are decided by the editors, who maintain the customary right to edit material accepted for publication if necessary.
The Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control is the Institute's premier publication. The technology covered by the Transactions is naturally inter- or cross-disciplinary and for this reason the field is very wide. The Transactions will tend to reflect the activities of its technical groupings. These are currently the Measurement, Science and Technology Panel; the Systems and Control Technology Panel; the Standards Policy Panel; the Management Systems Panel; the Safety Panel; the Education and Professional Development Activities Panel; and the Avionics Panel.
Contributions to Transactions are invited on all aspects of the research, development and application of measurement and control techniques. They may include results of theoretical (assuming there is a clear practical application) or experimental research, or may deal with practical developments related to specific plant or processes.
Contributions may include, research papers, technical briefs and reviews.
Research papers
Research papers are written to inform colleagues about the results of research, to establish priority of publication, and to provide an archival record. The peer review procedure exercised by the Transactions ensures a process of quality control for the research published. The research paper should contain original work not published elsewhere, should be based on work that has been completed to the point of yielding conclusions amply supported by firm evidence.
Technical briefs
Technical briefs are short research papers. They may describe partial results obtained from work in progress, provided the conclusions are amply supported by firm evidence. Again, the peer review procedure exercised by the Transactions ensures a process of quality control for the research published. However, the review process will normally be much faster than that for a full research paper.
Reviews
Review articles may be prepared at the invitation of the editor or initiated by the author. It is advisable for the author to discuss a proposed review with the editor before undertaking the project. A useful scientific review should provide an answer to an important question. The answer may not be definitive but it may indicate directions for future research. Useful reviews summarise, critically analyse, and integrate the topics under discussion. A review may be needed when the number and content of research reports on a scientific question are such as to permit the developing of a clear well supported answer to that question.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain written consent from the original publisher and author(s) to use any material published previously elsewhere. Please forward all correspondence to Arnold with your manuscript.
Proofs are normally sent to the corresponding author to check for typographical errors. Modifications cannot be incorporated at this stage without incurring heavy costs.
Offprints
The principal author only will be supplied with 25 offprints of his/her article. Additional offprints can be ordered at page proof stage.
Please take the time to read the following information carefully and share it with your typist if necessary. It will ensure that your paper is produced quickly and effectively.
Submission
Three copies of the manuscript should be submitted to the following address; one containing the original illustrations and two containing photocopied illustrations.
Editorial Office - Transactions
Dept of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Queen's University
Ashby Building
Stranmillis Road
Belfast
BT9 5AH
Your contact details
Authors should include their name and initials, their posts at the time they wrote the review, their current appointments, and their address for correspondence with telephone/fax/email contact information.
For papers with several contributors, the order of authorship should be made clear and the corresponding author (to whom proofs and offprints will be sent) named.
Article presentation
Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on one side of the sheet only, especially the references with margins of at least 1 inch on both sides.
Please ensure that your disk matches the final version of your paper - as approved by the Editor.
All figures and table should appear on separate pages at the end of the article and be saved separately on the disk. Do not paste these into the text.
An abstract of up to 200 words should precede the text. This should be readable without reference to the article and should indicate the scope of the contribution, including the main conclusions and essential original content.
Subheadings should be typed on separate lines and marked in the margin A, B, C etc to indicate their progressive order of importance. The use of more than three levels of heading should be avoided.<
A list of symbols should be provided at the beginning of the paper, following the summary.
Any acknowledgements will be printed at the end of the text.
The disk
Microsoft Word is the preferred word processor, but files can be accepted from any of the common Macintosh, Windows or MS-DOS word processing programs. LATEX, RTF or ASCII files can also be accepted. No artwork should be included in the text files. Any artwork provided on disk should be in either TIFF, or EPS format. Each piece of artwork should be saved as a separate file. When preparing your paper:
- Use the minimum formatting.
- Roman, bold and italic type can be used, but use only one typeface and size.
- Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.
- The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with hyphenation cancelled.
- Indents, underlining and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
- Headings and paragraphs should be separated by two carriage returns.
- There should be only one space between words and only one space after any punctuation.
Style
General:
Abbreviations should be spelled out when first used in the text. Full stops should be used in lower case abbreviations (e.g., i.e.,) but not for capitals (SAS, ANOVA). Spelling to follow the Oxford Dictionary.
Mathematical:
Authors should use SI units. Any special mathematical symbols, including greek characters should be identified in the margin.
All vectors and matrices should be shown in bold type.
It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish bold, roman and italic symbols. If there might be any confusion, the letter or symbol concerned should be circled in pencil and identified in the margin.
Particular attention should be paid to subscripts and superscripts (and especially sub-subscripts etc.) so that they are explicitly detailed.
Numbers below 10 should be written out in the text unless used in conjunction with units (e.g., three apples, 4 kg).
Full points (not commas) should be used for decimals. For numbers less than one, a nought should be inserted before the decimal point . (e.g., 0.125 275).
Use spaces (not commas) within numbers (e.g., 10 000, 0.125 275).
Tables and illustrations
These should be submitted separate from the text. Line drawings should be black and white. The figure titles should be supplied together on a separate sheet. All figures should be marked 'TOP' on the reverse with a soft pencil along with the author's name. Figures should ideally be drawn for a reduction of one third i.e., 3:2 or 150:100 mm.
References
The Harvard style of referencing should be used. The reference should be referred to in the text by the author and date (Bloggs, 1997) and then listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article applying the following style:
For a book
Olson, M.A. 1965: The logic of collective action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
For an edited book
Berry, P., editor, 1976: Language and communication in the mentally handicapped. London: Arnold.
For a chapter in an edited book
Feagin, J.R., Gilderbloom, J. and Rodriguez, N. 1989: Private-public partnerships: the Houston experience. In Squires, G., editor, Unequal partnerships. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 204-59.
For a book in a series
Lesser, R. 1979: Linguistic investigations of aphasia. Studies in Language Disability and Remediation 5. London: Arnold.
Gore, A.J.P., editor, 1983: Ecosystems of the World. Volume 1, Mires: swamp, bog, fen and moor; Volume 2, Mangroves and coastal systems. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
For a journal title
Hanson P. 1977: The activity patterns of elderly households. Geografiska Annaler 59, 109-24.
Electronic Graphic Files
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Editorial Board
Editors
John O Gray, University of Salford, UK
Steve Thompson, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Frank Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Editorial Board
R Briggs, City University, UK
GW Irwin, Queen's University, Belfast
JR Leigh, Brunel University, UK
J Maciejowski, University of Cambridge, UK
Mahdi Mahfouf, University of Sheffield, UK
JD Tallantire, Consultant, Hertfordshire, UK
G Taylor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
PM Taylor, University of Newcastle, UK
GS Virk, University of Leeds, UK
D Williams, Liverpool John Moore University, UK
Advisory Board
DP Atherton, University of Sussex, UK
HA Barker, University College of Swansea, UK
B Beck, University of Georgia, USA
RS Benson, Eutech, UK
J Bentley, University of Teeside, UK
D Clarke, University of Oxford, UK
JRP Clarke, UMIST, UK
AP Dorey, University of Lancaster, UK
L Finkelstein, City University, UK
PM Frank, Gehard-Mercator-Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
PH Hammond, Consultant, Cambridge, UK
R Isermann, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
JS Johnston, Consultant, Sussex, UK
K Kawai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
L Ljung, Linkoping University, Sweden
DA Linkens, University of Sheffield, UK
D McLean, University of Southampton, UK
F Mesch, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
R Nobel, DERA, UK
T Pfeifer, RWTH Werkzeugmaschinenlabor, Germany
HH Rosenbrock, Consultant, Herefordshire, UK
PH Sydenham, University of South Australia, Australia
TJ Williams, Purdue University, USA
G Zingales, Universit?degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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