Manuscript Preparation

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Manuscript Preparation

General Considerations:

Research manuscripts should comprise:
- Front matter: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
- Research manuscript sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRaD). Deviations from the standard IMRaD structure are allowed if they benefit the readability of the manuscript.
- Back matter: Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.
Review manuscripts should comprise the front matter, literature review sections and the back matter. The template file can also be used to prepare the front and back matter of your review manuscript. It is not necessary to follow the remaining structure of the research manuscript. Review manuscripts should conform to the PRISMA guidelines.
Graphical abstract: Authors are encouraged to provide a graphical abstract as a self-explanatory image to appear alongside the abstract text in the online version of the manuscript and in the online Table of Contents. Graphical abstract should be an image sized between 400 × 300 and 800 × 600 pixels.
Abbreviations should be defined in parentheses the first time they appear in the abstract, main text, and in figure or table captions and used consistently thereafter.
SI Units (International System of Units) should be used. Imperial, US customary and other units should be converted to SI units whenever possible
Equations: Please use either the Microsoft Equation Editor or the MathType add-on. Equations should be editable by the editorial office and not appear in a picture format.
Research Data and supplementary materials: Note that publication of your manuscript implies that you must make all materials, data, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers. Disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information. Read the information about Supplementary Materials and Data Deposit for additional guidelines.

Front Matter

These sections should appear in all manuscript types.

Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study. Avoid using abbrevations. Only common abbrevations can be used in titles.
Author List and Affiliations: Authors’ full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. Affiliations should be in the following format: division of the institution, institution name, city, state/province (if applicable), postal/zip code, country. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address should be included in the Corresponding Author line just before the introduction. Submissions without full first and last names can be rejected without notice.
Abstract: The abstract should be a total of about 200 to 250 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. 3) Results: Summarize the article’s main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
Keywords: Three (3) to five (5) pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

Manuscript Structure

Introduction: The purpose of the introduction is to provide background and place the study in a broader context. It has to describe the purpose of the work and its importance. The current state of the art should be reviewed carefully including all the key references. Controversial or diverging hypotheses must not be ignored. A short description of the aim of the presented work and main highlights should be presented. The introduction may be concluded with the outline of the paper. Keep the introduction understandable to a wide range of readers who may not be intimately familiar with the topic of the paper.
Materials and Methods: Materials and methods should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available.
Results: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
Discussion: Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
Conclusions: The conclusions should summarize the main findings and achievements of the presented work.
Patents: This section is not mandatory, but may be added if there are patents resulting from the work reported in this manuscript.

Back Matter

Supplementary Materials: List any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figures, tables, videos, spreadsheets, source code, etc.). A short description may also be added.
Acknowledgments: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper.
Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state “The authors declare no conflict of interest.” Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.
References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. We encourage citations to data, computer code and other citable research material.

Styles & References

Please use “Journal of Mircoelectronics, Electronic Components and Materials” reference style available at https://csl.mendeley.com/styles/18952761/MIDEM and on the journal web page (MIDEM.csl). The reference style is based on the IEEE reference style. The only difference is the addition of DOI or URL if doi is not available. A detailed description of the IEEE reference style is available at https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/style_references_manual.pdf. The most basic rules are repeated below.

In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1]–[3] or [1], [3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, add page information within the square brackets, separated by a coma; for example [2, p. 8] or [3, pp. 45–51].

List of references should have reference numbers enclosed in square brackets aligned to the left with a hanging indent to form one column with reference numbers and one column with bodies of references. Each reference should finish with either a DOI (preferable) or URL if available.

• Journal Articles:

[1] J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, https://doi.org/#doi_number#

• Books and Book Chapters:

[1] J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.

• Conference Proceedings:

[1] J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in Unabbreviated Name of Conf., City of Conf., Abbrev. St ate (if given), year, pp. xxx-xxx.

• Websites:

[1] J. K. Author. (year, month day). Title (edition) [Type of medium]. Available: https://www.example.org

Figures, Schemes & Tables

File for Figures and schemes must be provided during submission in a single zip archive and at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.
Informacije MIDEM can publish multimedia files as supplementary materials.
All Figures and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, etc.).
All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
Authors are encouraged to prepare figures in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel), but should verify the clarity of figures when printed in grayscale for the printed version of the journal. There is no additional cost for publishing full color graphics.

Supplementary Materials, Data Deposit  & Software Source Code

Data Availability

In order to maintain the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of research records, authors must make their experimental and research data openly available either by depositing into data repositories or by publishing the data and files as supplementary materials in this journal.

Code & Software

For work where novel computer code was developed, authors should release the code either by depositing in a recognized, public repository or uploading as supplementary material to the publication. The name and version of all software used should be clearly indicated.

Supplementary Materials

Additional data and files can be uploaded as "Supplementary Files" during the manuscript submission process. The supplementary files will also be available to the referees as part of the peer-review process. Any file format is acceptable, however we recommend that common, non-proprietary formats are used where possible.

Unpublished Data

Restrictions on data availability should be noted during submission and in the manuscript. "Data not shown" should be avoided: authors are encouraged to publish all observations related to the submitted manuscript as Supplementary Material. "Unpublished data" intended for publication in a manuscript that is either planned, "in preparation" or "submitted" but not yet accepted, should be cited in the text and a reference should be added in the References section. "Personal Communication" should also be cited in the text and reference added in the References section.

Remote Hosting and Large Datasets

Data may be deposited with specialized service providers or institutional/subject repositories, preferably those that use the DataCite mechanism. Large data sets and files greater than 80 MB must be deposited in this way. For a list of other repositories specialized in scientific and experimental data, please consult databib.org or re3data.org. The data repository name, link to the data set (URL) and accession number, doi or handle number of the data set must be provided in the paper.

Submission Process

Manuscripts for Informacije MIDEM should be submitted online at ojs.midem-drustvo.si. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list (read the criteria to qualify for authorship) and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. To submit your manuscript, register and log in to the submission website.

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To facilitate proper peer-reviewing of your manuscript, it is essential that it is submitted in grammatically correct English. If you are not a native English speaker, we recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission or read by a native English-speaking colleague. Professional editing will enable reviewers and future readers to more easily read and assess the content of submitted manuscripts.

Qualification for Authorship

Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; the creation of new software used in the work; and/or writing or substantively revising the manuscript. In addition, all authors must have approved the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even those in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature. Note that acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group do not, by themselves, justify authorship. Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgements.  

More detailed guidance on authorship is given by the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The journal also adheres to the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that “all authors should agree to be listed and should approve the submitted and accepted versions of the publication. Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors including any who have been removed from the list. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors and should keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication (e.g. answering reviewers’ comments).” [1]. We reserve the right to request confirmation that all authors meet the authorship conditions.

Wager, E.; Kleinert, S. Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. In Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment; Mayer, T., Steneck, N., eds.; Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing: Singapore; Chapter 50, pp. 309-16.