Introduction

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE in short) publishes a large number of journals. Some of these these are

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Authors who have prepared their articles using L^ATEX can get them formatted in a style identical to that of a typical paper in one of those journals.

The aim of the style file IEEEtran.sty is to allow authors of papers to estimate the page count and facilitate input-processing of the compuscript. The style file IEEEtran.sty can be used together with the bibliography style file IEEE.bst.

IEEE has sophisticated software, in house and different to L^ATEX, which they use to typeset transaction papers. The single most important reason for this style file was due to the fact that many authors (using TEX and L^ATEX) were supplying their compuscripts using style files that were single column page wide. It was obvious from the coding that many had spent time inserting commands that made the displayed equations ``pretty'', spreading them right across the page. But of course, IEEE transactions are double column, with the column width being 21 pica. Thus, the IEEE publishing staff ended up deleting these typesetting `niceties' and breaking the page wide displayed equations so that they would fit inside the style-required 21 pica. By using this style file you'll find that the displayed equations, algorithms, nomenclature lists, etc. that you supply to us (on disk or via e-mail: ask the editor of your transactions) will undergo minimal change.