Summary of QC Error Messages for IEEE Composition

Comparing the Mean Life between Sn2.5Ag (TCB) and Sn2.5Ag (Reflow) Sn2.5Ag (TCB) and CuSn CuSn and Sn2.5Ag (Reflow)

MTTF (Mean Life) Ratio 4765/972 4765/3005 3005/972

Determined Confidence Level (P) 92% 51% 96%

General: * WARN * Synonym for "this paper" on line 45 Avoid terms in the present paper; should just be this paper Avoid terms such as this work or this study; should be this paper Page 1 of 20 Version 43

NOTE: Exception would be in the first footnote if supported by information is given, this work should be used. EXAMPLE: This work was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation * WARN * Space next to dash on line ## There will not be any spaces before or after an En and/or Em Dash. * WARN * Copyright with no space on line ## There will always be a space between the copyright and year. * WARN * No abstract section Every article must contain an Abstract section NOTE: If legitimately missing and queried to author, ignore error * WARN * No keywords section Every article must contain an index terms section NOTE: If legitimately missing and queried to author, ignore error * WARN * Citations with no commas between on line ## Between reference numbers there should always be a comma. EXAMPLE: [5], [7] * WARN * Page number on line ## Page numbers appearing in conjunction with references should be tagged as follows: page 97 of IEC 604791 of 2005 [17] should be [17, p.97] NOTE: If this is done correctly, the error message can be ignored * WARN * Punctuation following quote on line ## Punctuation always goes inside quotation marks, except for colons and semicolons * WARN * Uncapitalized word on line ## Subsection headings should be in initial caps * WARN * " " and " " are out of order in keywords Index terms should be alphabetical. This message will alert you to terms which are out of order. * WARN * Figure found in conclusions on line ## Figures and tables should not appear in the Conclusions section * WARN * Punctuation following footnote on line ## Sentence punctuation should appear before the footnote reference in body text. EXAMPLE: interface10, should be interface,10 * WARN * Plural Conclusions in section title on line ### Page 2 of 20 Version 43

Conclusions section title should always be singular Conclusion * WARN * "UK" without periods on line ## The correct abbreviation is U.K. * WARN * "US" without periods on line ## The correct abbreviation is U.S. * WARN * Taiwan, R.O.C. or Taiwan, China on line ## The correct format for this location in Taiwan should not be followed by R.O.C., China * WARN * IEEE membership without IEEE on line ## If member is in the byline, it should be followed by IEEE. EXAMPLE: Member, IEEE * WARN * Three dimensional on line ## Please change occurrences of 3 dimensional and three dimensional to 3-D * WARN * R&D on line ## Please change occurrences of R & D and R&D to Research and Development * WARN * "paper" found in body of Transactions Letter on line ## Any article with a Transaction Letter heading should not have references to the "paper" in the body of the article; references should be made to the "letter". However, references to the paper are okay in the first footnote and references. EXAMPLE: In this letter, * WARN * Extra s found in *ward word on line ## The following words should be changed as follows: towards --> toward onwards --> onward downwards --> downward upwards --> upward inwards --> inward * WARN * SPICE not in caps on line ## SPICE should always be in CAPS * WARN * MATLAB not in caps on line ## MATLAB should always be in CAPS * WARN * Uncapitalized video-sequence name on line ## * WARN * Video sequence not in italics on line ## * WARN * Video sequence in quotes on line ## and similar Page 3 of 20 Version 43

Video sequences should be capitalized and italic (not bold or in quotes, unless during the AA stage the author requests otherwise) EXAMPLES: Lena, Foreman, Coastguard, Container * WARN * Italics used instead of \IEEEmembership on line ## Please ensure that the IEEE membership information in the byline was done correctly. * WARN * Improper italics found in running head Only et al should be italics in the running header of each article * WARN * 'in.' abbreviation on line ## The correct abbreviation for inches should be in, without the period. EXAMPLE: .has a 14 in diameter. * WARN * Acronym followed by parenthesis on line ## Acronyms should be placed in parenthesis after the expansion the expansion should not be in parenthesis INCORRECT EXAMPLE: CF (crowding factor) CORRECT EXAMPLE: crowding factor (CF) * WARN * Issue or date information missing in running head Assigned articles should have the month/year and volume/issue in the running header NOTE: If an article is not assigned to a month, this error message can be ignored. * WARN * Uncapitalized 'flash' on line ## Anytime the word flash is used, it should be done as initial cap EXAMPLE: Flash * WARN * 'NOR' not in small-caps on line ## * WARN * 'NAND' not in small-caps on line ## The terms NOR and NAND should always be done in small caps * WARN * 'cf.' on line ### The term cf. should not be used in references; it should be see INCORRECT EXAMPLE: (cf. Appendix B) CORRECT EXAMPLE: (see Appendix B) * WARN * 'Urbana-Champaign' without hyphen on line ## The correct name of the college is: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * WARN * 'and' inside 'see' string on line ## It is not necessary to use and for two or more citations in parenthesis. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: (see [1], [3], [13], [15], and [18]) CORRECT EXAMPLE: (see [1], [3], [13], [15], [18]) * WARN * 'see' followed by 'e.g.' on line ## Page 4 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * 'e.g.' followed by 'see' on line ## The term should e.g. should not be used in conjunction with references INCORRECT EXAMPLE: (see e.g., Fig. 1) CORRECT EXAMPLE: (see Fig. 1) First Footnote: * WARN * Editor not mentioned Every article should contain This paper was recommended by Associate Editor in the first footnote NOTE: The exception to this rule is TEVC papers they will not contain an editor * WARN * Unknown journal in DOI Check that the journal code is correct in the DOI line * WARN * Corporation/Company abbreviated in affnote on line ## Spell out the words Company and Corporation in the first footnote do not use abbreviations * WARN * Inc./Ltd. not abbreviated in affnote on line ## Abbreviate Inc. and Ltd. In the first footnote do not use Incorporated or Limited * WARN * DOI not found in right place Check that the DOI is present and appears as the last line of the first footnote * WARN * Missing hyphen in e-mail address on line ## Proper formatting of e-mail is (e-mail:) EXAMPLE: (e-mail: mshashi@mit.edu). * WARN * Period before e-mail address on line ## There should not be a period before the start parenthesis of an e-mail address. EXAMPLE: Hong Kong, China (e-mail: mshashi@mit.edu). * WARN * Missing period after close parenthesis in e-mail address on line ## There should be a period after the end parenthesis of an e-mail address. EXAMPLE: Hong Kong, China (e-mail: mshashi@mit.edu). * WARN * Punctuation before close parenthesis in e-mail address on line ## There should not be any punctuation before the end parenthesis of an e-mail address. EXAMPLE: (e-mail: mshashi@mit.edu;). * WARN * Journal code and year followed by space in DOI on line ## The DOI line should not contain any spaces in the information string EXAMPLE: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TEVC.2009.2009459 Page 5 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * Year does not match DOI number If the DOI number exceeds "2104349", use 2011 as the DOI year. Otherwise, use 2010. The copyright should be changed to as 2011 for all new articles. * WARN * Comma separating e-mail addresses on line ## E-mail addresses should be separated by a semi-colon * WARN * Missing parenthesis after e-mail address on line ## Email addresses should be in parenthesis * WARN * Capitalized e-mail address on line ## E-mail should be e-mail (lowercase e) * WARN * DOI has period at end Check that the DOI does not have a period at the end of the line * WARN * File name does not match DOI number Check that the DOI in the filename matches the DOI in the PDF file * WARN * Color images line not found in right place If color images are found in the PDF, the following line should be added to both versions of the article in the composite PDF, and be located as the last paragraph of the first footnote, right before the DOI: Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. NOTE: If color figures are not found, this error message can be ignored. * WARN * Old $25.00 price in preamble on line ## The price in the copyright line should be changed to $26.00 * WARN * DOI in wrong format The correct format should be: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JOURNALCODE.YEAR.DOI EXAMPLE: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2026890 * WARN * Foreign zip code without comma on line ## Foreign zip codes should be followed by a comma, and should be in the following format: City ZipCode, Country Example: Hong Kong 10042, China * WARN * US zip code with comma on line ## US zip codes should NOT be followed by a comma, and should be in the following format: State ZipCode USA EXAMPLE: MA 02139 USA * WARN * Associate Editor line not in TCPMT format Page 6 of 20 Version 43

The correct format for TCPMT should be: Recommended for publication by Associate Editor xxx upon evaluation of reviewers' comments. * WARN * Footnote symbol found in first footnote The first footnote will not be numbered; asterisks and/or daggers will not be used * WARN * 'Under Grant'/'under contract') without comma on line ## Please make sure the correct punctuation is used in the sentence. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan under Grants CORRECT EXAMPLE: This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan, under Grants * WARN * Comma after 'Associate Editor' on line ## INCORRECT EXAMPLE: This paper was recommended by Associate Editor, V. Bottreau. CORRECT EXAMPLE: This paper was recommended by Associate Editor V. Bottreau * WARN * Manuscript date in improper format on line ### The correct format for TSM should be: Manuscript received XXX; revised XXX; accepted XXX NOTE: XXX would be replaced with real dates; query DCL if dates are not available. * WARN * 'Grant/Contract No.' on line ## Do not use No. or Nos. after a grant or contract number. INCORRECT EXAMPLE 1: This paper was funder under Grant No. 123 INCORRECT EXAMPLE 2: This paper was funder under Grant Nos. 123 and 345 CORRECT EXAMPLE 1: This paper was funder under Grant 123 CORRECT EXAMPLE 2: This paper was funder under Grants 123 and 345 * WARN * 'accepted' not found in first footnote Please check metadata.xml for accepted date. If one is not present, please query for date. Spelling/Grammar: * WARN * Double parentheses in text on line ## Do not use double parenthesis in text expressions, but keep in math * WARN * Misspelled "Appendices" on line ## The plural of Appendix should be spelled: Appendixes * WARN * Comma with no space after it on line ## Check for missing spaces NOTE: This can be ignored in citations Page 7 of 20 Version 43

EXAMPLE: [a,b] * WARN * British spelling on line 1572 Check IEEE style guide and change British spellings to American spellings NOTE: This can be ignored when it appears in the reference section, as well in organizational names in the first footnotes and biographies. * WARN * Contraction on line 85 The words dont and cant should not appear they should be spelled out NOTE: Dont care is an acceptable variation and can be left as is. * WARN * Acronym or numerical plural with apostrophe on line ## All acronym and numerical plurals will not use apostrophes. EXAMPLE: FETs should be FETs NOTE: Acronym or numerical possessives can retain the apostrophe. (Example: "This is variable Sg3's responsibility.") * WARN * 3D without hyphen on line ## Should be 3-D * WARN * "gatestack" should be hyphenated on line ## Should be gate-stack * WARN * Words beginning with "ultra" should not be hyphenated on line ## Words beginning with ultra should not be hyphenated. EXAMPLE: ultraviolet and ultrathin. NOTE: Ultra frequency should have a space as per the IEEE style guide * WARN * "Ph.D." should not have spaces on line ## Should be Ph.D., without spaces *WARN * Abbreviated "Alg." on line ## Algorithm should be spelled out in all occurrences * WARN * Hyphenated multi-agent/parent/robot/objectivized/objective on line ## * WARN * 'Multi-layer' on line ### Words beginning with multi should not be hyphenated, as a general rule. EXAMPLES: multiagent, multiparent, multirobot, mutiobjective, multilayer * WARN * Isolated multi on line ## Words beginning with multi should not be split into two words. EXAMPLE: multi parent should be multiparent * WARN * vs. instead of versus on line ## Vs. should always be done as versus. It should be spelled out not abbreviated Page 8 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * 'SOC' in all-caps on line ### * WARN * 'NOC' in all-caps on line ### The correct acronyms are: systems-on-a-chip (SoC) and network-on-chip (NoC) Lists: * WARN * Uncapitalized list item in a list preceded by a period on line ## If list items are lowercase, the sentence before it should end in a colon NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for list rules *WARN * Uncapitalized list item with period but not at end of list on line ## If list items are lowercase, each item should end in a semi-colon, except for the last item in the list NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for list rules * WARN * List item with neither period nor semicolon on line 1297 Please see QC guidelines for list rules on whether a list item should end in a period or semi-colon * WARN * Capitalized list item with semicolon on line 1297 If list items are uppercase, each list item should end in a period NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for list rules * WARN * Capitalized list item in a list not preceded by a period on line 1297 If list items are uppercase, the sentence before it should end in a period NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for list rules Math/Equations: * WARN * Punctuation before equation on line ## There should not be any punctuation before an equation unless the text following or follows is used. NOTE: This text may be used anywhere in the sentence appearing before the equation. EXAMPLE: In the following equation, the ratio of a vs. b is noted: NOTE: If the punctuation is used correctly, this error message can be ignored * WARN * Isolated digit outside of math on line ## Numbers from 1 - 9 should be spelled out in text, unless they begin a sentence, are in a math expression, or are combined in a phrase. For example: gives 7 to 13 times more NOTE: If done correctly, this error message can be ignored * WARN * "Micron" on line ## Always change micron to micrometer NOTE: This can be ignored when it appears in the reference section Page 9 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * "Submicron" on line ## Always change submicron to submicronmeter NOTE: This can be ignored when it appears in the reference section * WARN * No leading zero in decimal on line ## A zero should always be included before decimals WARN * "Dollar" on line ## Use the $ symbol instead of the word dollars * WARN * Hyphenated voltage on line## Whenever a number is followed by the letter V, it should be NOT be hyphenated. For example: 15-V should be 15 V * WARN * 3D without hyphen on line ## 3-D should always be hyphenated * WARN * 2D without hyphen on line ## 2-D should always be hyphenated * WARN * 2.5D without hyphen on line ## 2.5-D should always be hyphenated * WARN * "Cycles per second" on line ## Always change cycle per second to hertz (Hz) * WARN * "Equation" does not belong on line ## Use the word Equation # at the start of a sentence, but not in the flow of text. EXAMPLE: as found in equation (1) would be ...as found in (1) * WARN * Improper x or y axis on line ## The correct format should be x-axis and y-axis NOTE: The x and y should be italic * WARN * "otherwise" with punctuation on line ## When found in an equation, otherwise should not have any punctuation after it * WARN * "otherwise" found in equation before start of sentence on line ## When otherwise, appears at the end of an equation, the first word of the following sentence should be lowercase. EXAMPLE: otherwise where the graph generated by * WARN * fps on line ## Page 10 of 20 Version 43

Do not use this abbreviation ft/s should be used for foot per second; frames/s should be used for frames per second * WARN * ips on line ## Do not use check IEEE style guide for proper abbreviation * WARN * Mbps on line ## Do not use should be Mb/s * WARN * Gbps on line ## Do not use should be Gb/s * WARN * bpp on line ## Do not use should be b/pixel * WARN * Kbps on line ## Do not use should be Kb/s * WARN * Lack of space before degree sign on line ## There will be a space between the number and the degree symbol when the symbol is used to measure temperatures. EXAMPLE: 75 F * WARN * Space before degree sign on line ## Spaces will be omitted between a number and degree symbol in all cases, unless measuring temperature. EXAMPLE: 0 * WARN * Circle used instead of degree sign ## Please make sure the correct degree symbol is used * WARN * \mu with no m on line ## Microns or micrometers are abbreviated by \mu{\rm m} instead by just plain \mu. Tables: * WARN * Period at end of table caption on line ## The descriptive text of the caption will not contain a period at the end of the caption * WARN * Lowercase word in table caption on line ## ALL words in table captions should be initially large capped, unless they are one of the following: a an and as at but by for from in near nor of off on or out per than the through til to up via with - this list of words don't have to be capitalized Page 11 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * Extra "Table" on line ## References to multiple tables in the same sentence should be done as Tables # and #, INCORRECT: Table I and Table III CORRECT: Tables I and III Figures: WARN * First word of figure caption not capitalized on line ## The first word of the caption should always be capitalized NOTE: If captions with parts start with (a), this error message can be ignored * WARN * First word of figure caption is article on line ## Do not use A, An, or The at the beginning of a figure caption * WARN * Singular "Fig." before plural reference on line ## If there is a figure reference to a range of references, please make sure Fig. is pluralized EXAMPLE: Figs. 1 and 2 * WARN * Figure reference with no "Fig." on line ## Check to make sure that all figure references are preceded by the text Fig. or Figs. * WARN * "Through" used for figure range on line ## If you're referring to a range of figures or parts of figures, dashes should be used. If you're referring to several parts of the same figure, it is treated as 1 figure EXAMPLES: Figs. 9(b) through (e) should be Fig. 9(b)-(e) Figs. 1 through 4 should be Figs. 1-4 NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for figure citation rules * WARN * Dash used for parts of different figures on line ## If you're referring to a mix of figures, and should be used. EXAMPLE: Figs. 1(a)-3(a) should be Figs. 1(a) and 3(a) NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for figure citation rules * WARN * Dash used for adjacent figures on line ## If you're referring to consecutive figures, and should be used. EXAMPLE: Figs. 1 and 2 NOTE: Please see QC guidelines for figure citation rules * WARN * Dash used for adjacent parts of same figure on line ## If you're referring to adjacent parts of the same image, and should be used. EXAMPLE: Fig. 1(a)-(b) should be Fig. 1(a) and (b) Acknowledgments Section: Page 12 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * Misspelled acknowledgment on line ## The correct spelling of the Acknowledgement section is Acknowledgment (no e between the g and m) * WARN * "Mr." etc. found in acknowledgment on line ## Drop Mr., Mrs., or Miss * WARN * Possible full name found in acknowledgment on line ## When citing names in this section, only use first initials and last name do not use full names * WARN * "Drs." or "Profs." found in acknowledgment on line ### For doctor or professor titles, use the title with each name separately; dont use plurals Drs. or Profs. with the list of names. EXAMPLE: Dr. J. Smith * WARN * Subfigure letter followed by 'the' on line ### Omit the word the after subfigure letters. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: (a) The red line shows CORRECT EXAMPLE: (a) Red line shows References: * WARN * Url not at end of reference in reference starting on line ## If an URL is included, it should be placed at the end of the reference. This error may also indicate a space in the middle of the URL * WARN * "Proc." with no "in" in conference title in reference starting on line ## The text "in" should always be added before the name of a conference title if it is followed by the word Proc. EXAMPLE: in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Comput. Vision Syst. NOTE: An exception would be a journal with the word Proc. in the title, for example: in ACM Proc. Conf. Graph. Interface WARN * ISBN in reference in reference starting on line ## ISBN numbers should not be included in references * WARN * Unabbreviated Conference in reference starting on line ## * WARN * Unabbreviated National in reference starting on line ## * WARN * Unabbreviated Standard in reference starting on line ## (And similar error messages) The following words should be abbreviated in conference proceedings and papers published at conference references: Annals, Annual, Colloquium, Conference, Congress, Convention, Digest, Exposition,
International, National, Proceedings, Record, Symposium, Technical Digest, and Technical Paper

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NOTE: Please see IEEE style guide for correct abbreviations *WARN * Incorrect form for IEEE in reference starting on line ## IEEE cited references need to have the following components: Volume, Issue, Page(s), Month, Year (in that order) If a component is missing, this message will appear NOTE: If legitimately missing and queried to author, ignore error * WARN * Nonstandard author name in reference starting on line ## The author name(s) will be abbreviated to first initial and surname. Check to make sure the first initial is present and the first name is not spelled out. NOTE: If author names have a first and middle initial, this can be ignored. EXAMPLE: D. Fogel and H.-G. Beyer * WARN * Lack of comma near junior in reference starting on line ## Use commas around Jr., Sr., and III WARN * "USA" in reference starting on line ## Do not use USA inside references * WARN * "Online" should be capitalized Online should be initial caps in reference sections when it is being used on brackets in a web reference, otherwise, it can remain lowercase EXAMPLE: [Online] * WARN * Abbreviated editor on line ## This check flags cases of Ed. and Eds. in references. Editors names should only be mentioned in book references if they were provided in the input file. They should never appear in conference or journal references. NOTE 1: This should not be confused with book editions which are legitimate. EXAMPLE: 2nd ed. NOTE 2: If this error message pertains to a book reference, it can be ignored. * WARN * Four-digit volume number on line ## Volume numbers with 4 digits are suspicious and should be corrected and/or queried. NOTE: If an occurrence is queried, this error message can be ignored. * WARN * Repeated page number in references on line ## Page ranges with the same start and least page number should be corrected and/or queried. EXAMPLE: pp. 629-629 NOTE: If an occurrence is queried, this error message can be ignored. * WARN * Italic lowercase word in references on line ## Conference references should have each word in the conference title done as initial caps. EXAMPLE: in Proc. Artificial Life V: Proc. 5th Int. workshop synthesis Page 14 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * Em dash in references on line ## Avoid the use of em dash in references, since it should be used in ordinary writing to mark a suspension of the sense, which is not normally the case in references. The en dash represents the words to, through, or and, and will be used between page numbers, reference numbers, figure citations, academic years, names, a range of values, or for opposites. EXAMPLE: M. Dorigo, V. Maniezzo, and A. Colorni, ``Ant system: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents,'' IEEE Trans. Syst., Man & Cybern.---Part B: Cybern.}, vol. 26, no. 1, pp.29--41, Feb. 1996. * WARN * Lack of comma before 'and' in reference starting on line ## If more than 2 authors are cited, a comma should be inserted before the second to last name and the word and INCORECT EXAMPLE: M. Dorigo, V. Maniezzo and A. Colorni CORRECT EXAMPLE: M. Dorigo, V. Maniezzo, and A. Colorni NOTE: 2 names would be done without a comma: V. Maniezzo and A. Colorni * WARN * 'and' in conference reference starting on line ## Omit the word and and the symbol & in conference references * WARN * 'IEEE Trans. Circuits & Syst. Video Technol.' in reference starting on line ## Change to IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. * WARN * 'of' in conference reference starting on line ## Omit the word of in conference references * WARN * 'on' in conference reference starting on line ## Omit the word on in conference references * WARN * Mathematics in reference title starting on line ## This should be abbreviated to Math. * WARN * Computation in reference title starting on line ## This should be abbreviated to Comput. * WARN * Networks in reference title starting on line ## This should be abbreviated to Netw. * WARN * "New York, NY" in references on line ## This should be changed to New York in book references * WARN * 'the' in conference reference starting on line ## Omit the word the in conference references Page 15 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * "John Wiley & Sons" on line ## This should be changed to Wiley EXAMPLE: New York: Wiley, 2007 * WARN * "ACM Press" on line ## This should be changed to ACM * WARN * Washington DC on line ## This should be changed to Washington D.C. * WARN * 'Report' found in reference starting on line ## If the word Report is found in a reference, please check to see if it is a Report reference. If so, please tag as per the IEEE style guide Report number should be abbreviated as Rep. * WARN * pp. followed by one page number in reference starting on line ## This should be checked and corrected with the proper page range. If only one page number is required, it should be changed to p. * WARN * Two matching years found in reference starting on line ## If two matching years are found in a reference, it should be corrected. For conference references, the conference year does not need to be repeated if it is present in the conference title. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: in Proc. ITherm 2006, 10th Intersoc. Conf. Therm., San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 804--816. CORRECT EXAMPLE: in Proc. ITherm 2006, 10th Intersoc. Conf. Therm., San Diego, CA, pp. 804--816. (NOTE: If the month and/or dates are provided, the year would be repeated and this error message would be ignored) EXAMPLE: in Proc. ITherm 2006, 10th Intersoc. Conf. Therm., San Diego, CA, May 30--Jun. 2, 2006, pp. 804--816. * WARN * US state found in reference starting on line ## State names in references should be abbreviated. * WARN * Please check ITU-T found in reference starting on line ## This should be checked to ensure that it is formatted as follows: Title, document ##, organization name, date. NOTE: If this is formatted correctly, this error message can be ignored. * WARN * Please check JVT found in reference starting on line ## This should be checked to ensure that it is formatted as follows: Title, document ##, organization name, date. NOTE: If this is formatted correctly, this error message can be ignored. Page 16 of 20 Version 43

* WARN * "pp" without period in reference starting on line ## This should be checked and corrected by inserting a period after the pp. * WARN * Page number without space in reference starting on line ## This should be checked and corrected by inserting a space after the pp. * WARN * "in" without "Proc." in reference starting on line ## This should be checked and corrected only conference proceedings should have the word in appearing after the title. * WARN * "Techn." in reference starting on line ## Correct abbreviation for Technical Reports is Tech. * WARN * Evolt. found in reference starting on line ## Correct abbreviation is Evol. * WARN * "Publisher" found in reference starting on line ## Text Publisher should be removed from book references * WARN * Washington DC with no comma on line ## INCORRCET: Washington, D.C., CORRECT: Washington D.C., * WARN * Colon followed by lowercase letter found in reference starting on line ## In book references, titles with colons should be followed by uppercase letters. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: Handbook: selection, Application and Design CORRECT EXAMPLE: Handbook: Selection, Application and Design * WARN * 'in' with no chapter title in reference starting on line ## In book references, the word in should only precede the book title when there is a chapter referenced. INCORRECT: S. B. Carroll, in Endless Forms Most Beautiful. New York: Norton, 2005, p. 371. CORRECT 1: S. B. Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful. New York: Norton, 2005, p. 371. CORRECT 2: S. B. Carroll, Color and size, in Endless Forms Most Beautiful. New York: Norton, 2005, p. 371. * WARN * Period before [Online] found in reference starting on line ## For online references, the correct format is Title [Online]. INCORRECT: Science Journal. [Online]. CORRECT: Science Journal [Online]. "J. Lightwave Technol." in reference starting on line ## This should be abbreviated as "J. Light. Technol." Page 17 of 20 Version 43

"J. Quant. Electron." in reference starting on line ## This should be expanded as J. Quantum Electron." * WARN * Improper date format in reference starting on line ## When a date appears in a reference, it should be in the following format: Abbreviated Month Day, Year (Note: Day is optional) INCORRECT EXAMPLES: 2002-08-28, 08/28/2002, and 08-28-2002 CORRECT EXAMPLE: Aug. 28, 2002 * WARN * 'Int. Electron Devices Meeting' on line ## When IEDM Tech. Dig. is used in a conference reference, it is not necessary to spell it out, since it is a very common conference. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: Int. Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Tech. Dig. CORRECT EXAMPLE: IEDM Tech. Dig * WARN * "in" in non-proceedings reference starting on line ## SPIE references should be tagged as journal references, not as conference proceeding references Biographies: WARN * Repeated name in biography on line ## Do not repeat the authors name in the second paragraph use he or she If a 3rd paragraph is present, the authors name should be used * WARN * Parentheses around years in biographies on line ### Do not use parenthesis with the years * WARN * "USA" in biographies on line ## USA should not be used in the biographies * WARN * Abbreviation in biographies on line ## Do not abbreviate Company, Laboratory, or Department * WARN * "Worked with" in biographies on line ## Please use the term was with rather than worked * WARN * personal pronoun with "degree" on line ## Use the terminology the degree rather than his degree WARN * Zip code in biography on line ## Zip codes should be omitted from biographies * WARN * Lowercase "diploma" in biography on line ## Page 18 of 20 Version 43

The correct format is Diploma * WARN * Italics in biography on line ## Do not italicize IEEE journal/book names in bios. They should be small caps. Other journal names are allowed to be italicized. * WARN * Missing comma after year on line ## Occurrences of Since #### and From #### to #### should have a comma appearing after the year. EXAMPLE 1: From 1995 to 1998, he. EXAMPLE 2: Since 1998, he. * WARN * indefinite article with "degree" on line ## Use the terminology the B.S. degree, the Ph.D degree, etc. * WARN * US State found in biography on line ## State names in biographies should be abbreviated. * WARN * Season found in biography on line ## Seasons such as winter, spring, summer, fall, or autumn should not be included in bio dates. INCORRECT EXAMPLE: In the spring of 2006 CORRECT EXAMPLE: In 2006 * WARN * 'Current research focuses' found in biography on line ## The correct terminology for research interests is His/her current research interests include INCORRECT EXAMPLE: His current research focuses on fuser of laser beam printer. CORRECT EXAMPLE: His current research interests include fuser of laser beam printer. * WARN * 'the head of' found in biography on line ## When an author is listed as the head of a department, organization, etc., it should be capitalized. EXAMPLE: Since 1999, she has been the Head of research * WARN * Inconsistent capitalization in 'post-doctoral' on line ## Please use Post-Doctoral or post-doctoral INCORRECT: Post-doctoral, post-Doctoral, or postdoctoral * WARN * 'Co-chair' on line ## * WARN * 'Co-author on line ## Please use Co-Chair and Co-Author * WARN * 'Hsinchu' found more than once in biography on line ## Page 19 of 20 Version 43

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