A collaborative project under Dr. Sarvendranath Rimalpudi to analyze and detect common errors in a Research Article written in LaTeX.
Analyze: Titles, authors,
Refer to guidelines in Writing Principles page 4
II. Writing Principles—4
A. Writing Parts of an Article
a. Title b. Byline and Membership Citation
\title{Transmit Antenna Selection for Interference-Outage Constrained Underlay CR} \author{Rimalapudi Sarvendranath, {\it Student Member, IEEE}, Neelesh B. Mehta, {\it Senior Member, IEEE}
Chong Zhang , Student Member, IEEE, Min Dong , Senior Member, IEEE, and Ben Liang , Fellow, IEEE
Or
Yuanwei Liu, Jiaqi Xu, Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu, Jianhua Zhang, and Ping Zhang
Or
Min Dong , Senior Member, IEEE, and Qiqi Wang A comma is missing after the first author name
- Count the number of words in the title and abstract.
- Create a list of acronyms used.
- Count the number of times each acronym occurred.
- Identify the acronyms that are not expanded at the first occurrence.
Abstract and main text should be treated separately
Acronym defined in abstract should be defined again
Define acronyms the first time they appear in the Abstract as well as the first time they appear in the body of the article, written out first as part of the sentence, followed by the acronym in parentheses.
Coined plurals or plurals of acronyms do not take the apostrophe as per Chicago Manual of Style. Example: FET (singular); FETs (plural).
Indefinite articles are assigned to abbreviations to fit the sound of the first letter: an FCC regulation; a BRI. Refer to IV. APPENDIX A. Some Common Acronyms and Abbreviations in page III. Grammar and Usage in Transactions—24
Analyze index terms: Similar to a sentence only first word should be capitalized
\begin{IEEEkeywords} Cognitive radio, underlay, antenna selection, interference outage constraint, SEP, imperfect CSI. \end{IEEEkeywords}
a. Standard names and capitalizations
i. Create a list of scientist's names used in research articles
a. Gaussian, Doppler,
Index Terms
All articles must contain Index Terms. These are keywords provided by the authors. Index Terms appear in alphabetical order, and as a final paragraph of the Abstract section. Capitalize the first word of the Index Terms list; lowercase the rest unless capitalized in text. Example: Index Terms—Abstraction, computer-aided system engineering (CASE), conceptual schema, data model, entity type hierarchy, ISO reference model, layered architecture meta model, reverse engineering.
Equations analyzer: Punctuation of equations: Identify different construct used to write equations
- Every equation should end with a punctuation. a. Comma or full-stop b. Check for comma if next letter is small letter c. Check for full stop if next letter is Capital
- Multiple equations using allign a. Comma for all intermediate the equations b. Last equation will have full stop if a new sentence starts after it
- One equation in multiple lines using Multline a. Math operator should be in the new line Refer to other cases in IEEE-Math-Typesetting-Guide-for-LaTeX-Users.pdf
Title case for the subsections and subsubsections
\subsection{Antenna Selection Options and Data Transmission} \subsubsection{Interference-Outage Probability}
All nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions (If, Because, That, Which) should be capitalized.
Capitalize abbreviations that are otherwise lowercase (i.e., use DC, not dc or Dc) except for unit abbreviations and acronyms.
Articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, or, nor), and most short prepositions are lowercase unless they are the first or last word.
Prepositions of more than three letters (Before, From, Through, With, Versus, Among, Under, Between, Without) are capitalized.
Refer to section on Math in page II. Writing Principles—21
- Always add a zero before decimals, but do not add after a. 0.25 and not .25 b. 0.5 and not 0.50 c. Start with text and then move to inside equations.
- Do not start a sentence with a numeral. a. 20 apples [Avoid writing 20 at the beginning of the sentence] b. Twenty apples [This is preferred]
- Inline math equations/expressions check for other inline math modes a. Fractions may be broken down (shilled) multiline (built-up) so they can be placed on one line. Sometimes parentheses may need to be added to distinguish between expressions, especially when a minus appears
- Conditions: In displayed equations, a comma or parentheses and a two-em space is inserted between the main expression and the condition following it.
Bibtex: separate file filename.bbl Inside main file itself
Task: Bibliography: Read References section in page number 11 from the style guide pdf
Process the text between \begin{thebibliography} and \end{thebibliography}
Check for the punctuation mistakes in each bib item
d. Task 1: Crate list of references and how many times cited
Journal
\bibitem{Zhao_2008_TSP}
Q.~Zhao, S.~Geirhofer, L.~Tong, and B.~M. Sadler, Opportunistic spectrum access via periodic channel sensing,'' \emph{IEEE Trans.\ Signal Process.}, vol.~56, no.~2, pp. 785--796, Feb. 2008. Conference \bibitem{RZhang_2008_DSAN} R.~Zhang and Y.~C. Liang, Exploiting hidden power-feedback loops for
cognitive radio,'' in \emph{Proc.\ DySPAN}, Oct. 2008, pp. 1--5.
Textbook
i. Format, Authors: captals and full stops
ii. Vol. ??,
iii. no. ??,
iv. pp. ??
v. month (Should be in short form with dot), Ex: Jan. Feb. Apr. May
vi. year.
vii. Missing acronym capitalization in bibliography and punctuation
List of standard acronyms should be in capitals and inside {}. Ex. {MIMO} and not MIMO
Create a list of technical acronyms typically used in Electrical engineering
Count the number of times a reference is cited
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