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IEEE Papers: Overview of the Requirements for Beginners
IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and thus IEEE papers are papers which comply with the standards and the format requirements of the aforementioned organization.
The purpose of IEEE as well as the standards of IEEE papers can be found in detail on the website of the organization, while this paper will try to list the essential elements IEEE papers should contain.
Basic Elements
There are basic elements in the IEEE papers that can be found in any other scholar and academic works, such as the title, abstract, and references. The existence of these elements can be seen as obligatory, and which are not connected to IEEE papers in particular. Nevertheless, there are some minor differences specific to IEEE papers.
One of the differences can be seen in including an Index term in the paper, which is provided by the author. Such requirement can be seen as a final paragraph of the abstract, in which the terms are alphabetically ordered, and defined if they are acronyms. The list of the keywords can be obtained from the website of IEEE organization.
Another essential requirement of IEEE papers is nomenclature lists, i.e. a list of all the symbols and the definitions used in the paper. Such list should appear after the Index terms in the paper, and before the introduction of the paper. Other requirements, in that regard, might be differentiated based on the referencing style, the detail of which can be examined on the website.
References
The main distinction of IEEE papers can be seen in that references are numbered, where each number is a separate entry in the references. Additionally, it should be stated that the references in IEEE papers are preceded by acknowledgement, which should be written in the third person perspective.