EE Times-Asia is a 24/7 publication that reaches an online registered community of over 32,000 electronics engineers (as of Q1 2010) and a qualified
subscriber base of more than 76,000 through its China, Korea and Taiwan editions.
You can contribute technical articles and/or technical viewpoints for publication. We do not pay for submitted articles, but we give you and your company full credit
in the by-line.
Here are the general guidelines for submitting articles.
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Editorial, not advertisement
Your article should focus on providing technical solutions or viewpoints without presenting a promotional pitch for your company or products.
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Submit an outline
If you feel you can contribute an article to fit the editorial calendar, send us an outline of the content. Start by stating your objectives. You would normally have one or two objectives, such as:
a) To show how to design... or
b) Emphasize the importance of...
Follow these objectives with an abstract of what you plan to write. Also, explain why your article will be suitable for an Asian audience. Express yourself within
200 words.
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Write the article
Technical papers should be no more than 2,500 words long with up to four figures. If you feel you will exceed this limit or can contribute less than 1,800 words, let
the editor know during the abstract approval stage.
For technology viewpoints, consult the editor on the word length for each topic.
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Translations
If your article is used in the China, Korea and Taiwan editions, we will translate your article to the respective language. If however you already have a
translation, please send them along with your original submission. It helps speed up our regional-language editing processes.
We are unable to support translation of articles to English. If your original submission is in a language other than English, please send us the English translation.
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Be timely
Plan your submissions with the editors well ahead of publication schedule. For pan-Asia publication, including print editions for China, Korea and Taiwan, send the
abstract at least 100 days before the issue date you are targeting. The deadline for submitting final copies of technical papers is 75 days before issue date.
For online exclusive publications at eetasia.com and eetindia.com, you can send the abstract 45 days before the target date. Generally, the deadline for submitting
final material is 20 days before publication.
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Presentation tips
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Not all readers may be familiar with the standards, acronyms, or jargon you use. Explain these in a separate box/table.
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Sometimes, you may require a product-specific application to explain a concept. Highlight this as a real-world example (or reference design) in a sidebar (separate
block of text) of a few hundred words.
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Use short sentences—they are easier read.
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An active voice with a conversational tone will take your article further: use "you", like one engineer talking to another.
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Illustrate your presentation to attract reader attention. The figures must have descriptive captions.
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Help readers contact you. Include your full name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address for interested readers to contact.
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Copyright issues
Please submit your article to only one publication at a time. If your article has been recently been published and the publisher holds the copyright, ensure you have
permission to publish the paper on EE Times-Asia. Copyrights to content published on EE Times-Asia are held by eMedia Asia Ltd.
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Your checklist
Make sure you have all the material ready to go at one time:
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An electronic copy of your article in rich-text (*.rtf) or MS Word (*.doc) format. Include references to figures, captions, and sidebars in this file. E-mail this
file to our editors.
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Electronic copies of figures and photographs saved as high-resolution (minimum 300dpi) *.JPG or *.TIF files. We prefer these files e-mailed to us, but if the file
size restricts convenient e-mailing, please send them on a CD-R.
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If, for some reason, you are unable to provide illustrations in any of the above-mentioned formats, send hard copies of photographs and consult our editors for the
other figures (such as block diagrams).
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Send your article ideas to:
Vivek Nanda
Executive Editor
vnanda [at ] eetasia.com
We often receive more articles than we can publish. We select articles based on the informational value to readers. If, for some reason, your article does not fit
the editorial focus or the guidelines, we will promptly inform you.
Editorial integrity
Like other professional publications, EE Times-Asia's editorial is strictly unrelated to advertising. The primary purpose of the editorial material is to
satisfy our readers' need for information.
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Editorial Calendar
EE Times-Asia works on a six-month editorial calendar. Consult
our editors to discuss the topics and relevant timelines. Our editors will help you plan your schedule based on the calendar.
The calendar topics are categorized as:
Spotlight: A regular section that shines the spotlight on an industry or application segment of importance to the Asian engineering community.
Participate in this section by submitting your viewpoint on emerging technologies and trends in the industry segment scheduled for coverage. Your article should not
be more than 800 words with up to two figures.
Design Corner: This section carries technical papers as well as design tips for the electronics design engineer. Readers can learn about IC design, subsystems
and systems design, as well as design tools that aid design, verification or test.
Participate in this section by submitting technical papers no more than 2,500 words long with up to four figures (see guidelines left).
Online Exclusives: Online exclusives provide coverage of technical papers for electronics design, test as well as production engineers. We keep the topics for
this section open in order to provide faster response times to market conditions. General guidelines (left) apply.
EE Times-Asia's editorial calendars are available for download:
1H2012 Editorial Calendar
2H2012 Editorial Calendar
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