Specific Journal Justification
BME 402
Biofeedback and Stress Management
Team Members:
Eric Miller, Erik Birkeneder, Christopher Valley, Kevin Kinney
Advisor:
Mitchell Tyler
Client:
Dr. Dan Muller
Proposed Journal: Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MBEC)
Justification for Journal Decision:
The reasons our design team picked this journal is due to the fact that our project fit the
Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MBEC) topic scope. As compared
to other journals, MBEC seemed to print articles similar to our design project. As shown
below, the journal includes articles on instrumentation, electrodes, activity monitoring,
patient monitoring, and sleep. All of these topics encompass the majority of aspects of
our meditation device. Therefore, we concluded this journal is appropriate for our
journal submission.
Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing Journal Scope
http://www.iee.org/Publish/Journals/ProfJourn/MBEC/index.cfm
The journal covers all aspects of the important fields of biomedical and clinical
engineering, with technical papers on a wise range of topics such as activity monitoring,
audiology, baroreflex techniques, bioacoustics, bioimpedance, biomagnetism,
biomechanics, biomedical optics, blood flow, cardiovascular engineering, cellular
engineering, dentistry, electrical stimulation, electrodes, functional electrical stimulation,
gastric measurement, imaging, incubators, instrumentation, Laser Doppler techniques,
modelling, neurology, ophthalmology, patient monitoring, rehabilitation engineering,
respiratory techniques, sleep and sleep apnoea, and ultrasound.
Intended Article Audience:
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Colleagues within the University of Wisconsin Madison
Neurologists
Mind-Body Medical Rehabilitation Experts and Practitioners
Meditation Practitioners
MBEC Format Guidelines (http://www.iee.org/Publish/Support/Auth/authmbec.cfm)
Language, Spelling and Grammar
All papers must be written in UK English. If English is not your first language, you
should ask an English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper. Papers containing
English that is so unclear as to obscure the meaning will be rejected by the editors
without being sent out for review. All manuscripts should be spellchecked using a UK
English spellchecker before they are submitted.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Specialist or uncommon acronyms and abbreviations should be clearly defined on their
first occurrence in the text by writing the term out in full and following it with the
abbreviation in round brackets.
Title
This should be concise but informative and should not include a subtitle. Avoid starting
your title with the words "a", "novel", "new" or "the", since these make your article
difficult to find in journal databases.
Author Affiliations
These should immediately follow the title. For multiple-authored articles list the names of
all the authors first, followed by the full postal and email addresses, using identifiers to
link an author with an address, where necessary. If an author's present address is different
from the address at which the work was carried out, this should be given as a footnote.
Abstract
This should be informative and not only indicate the general scope of the article but also
state the main results obtained, methods used, the value of the work and the conclusions
drawn. No table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical
expressions should be included. It should be suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting
services as a self-contained article and should not exceed 250 words.
Headings
Papers and should be divided into numbered sections, subsections and, if necessary, subsub-sections (e.g. 3, 3.1, 3.1.1, etc.).
Font and Text Layout
Use a TrueType font and normal face, allow generous margins and set your manuscript in
single-column format.
Figure and Figure Captions
All figures should be submitted electronically and are preferred in the following formats:
EPS; JPEG; TIFF. The resolutions on these formats should be high, i.e. colour: minimum
400 dpi, line: 1000dpi minimum, halftone: 300dpi minimum and combination 500dpi
minimum.
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Photographs and screenshots will be used as submitted and should therefore be of
the highest resolution possible.
You should insert figures and figure captions at the end of your document.
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Each figure should be explicitly referred to in the text. Figures should be referred
to in numerical order.
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Color should be used sparingly and only where absolutely necessary for an
understanding of the paper. Color should not be used for distinguishing data in
line diagrams; instead use lettering, numbering or different types of line (full,
dashed, dotted) or data point (square, triangle, cross). Note that light colors do not
reproduce well when printed in black and white and could therefore make your
data indistinguishable.
Tables
Each table should be referred to explicitly in the text in numerical order.
Avoid the use of unusual mathematical characters or graphical material in tables, since
the markup language may not be able to reproduce this. If your table contains such
material, it will be set as a figure.
Algorithms
Algorithms should not be boxed and should be set as normal text and not as figures or
tables.
Computer code
Computer code will be set in two columns. This means that a long line of computer code
that fits onto one single-column page may have to be separated into two lines when
typeset. Please take this into account when writing any code. Code may be printed as a
figure to enable full-page-width code.
Mathematics and equations
When writing mathematics, be sure to avoid confusion between characters that could be
mistaken for one another, e.g. the letter 'l' and the figure one.
If your paper contains superscripts or subscripts to superscripts or subscripts, take special
care to ensure that the positioning of the characters is unambiguous.
Ensure that superscripts and subscripts are used consistently in the body text, figures and
tables.
Exponential expressions should be written using superscript notation, i.e. 5x103 not 5E03.
A multiplication sign should be used, not a dot.
Symbols representing vectors and matrices should be in bold font.
Refer to equations using round brackets, e.g. (1)
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments, if any, should appear at the end of your article, immediately before
the References section, and not as footnotes.
References
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing uses the Harvard system for references.
Please ensure that references in the reference list at the end of the paper are referred to in
the text and vice versa. (This is important so that readers of your paper can click on the
in-text reference and be taken to the full reference.) If you do not we will have to ask you
do so at proof stage and this will delay production of your article.
Please also ensure that you provide as much information as possible to allow the reader to
locate the article concerned. This is particularly important for articles appearing in
conferences, workshops and books that may not appear in journal databases. Please
provide all author name(s) and initials, date published, title of journal or book, volume
number, editors (if any) and, for books and conferences, the publisher and town of
publication (in parentheses), and finally the page range.
Use the following style for references in a journal, following the order of author names
(surname and then initial), the use of bold for volume and italics for the publication
name, and the conventional method of abbreviation: SMITH, J.. and SMITH, P.: 'This is
a test journal paper', Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 2004, 1, pp. 1-7
Use the following style for references in a conference, following the order of author
names (surname and then initial), the use of bold for volume and italics for the
publication name, and the conventional method of abbreviation: GOVAN, S. and
GOVAN, S.: 'This is a test conference paper'. Proc. Int. Conf. Syst. Biol., 2002,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1, pp. 1-7
Use the following style for references in a book, following the order of author and editor
names (surname and then initial): "SMITH, J. and SMITH, P..: 'This is a test book paper',
in SMITH, J. and SMITH, P. (Eds.) 'Handbook of Systems Biology' (IEE Press,
Stevenage, UK), pp. 1-7
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