How to > Submit Application/ Technical Papers /Product Specs
Thank you for your interest in submitting white papers, articles and product specifications. Below you will find the information you need to send us your contributions:
1. Guidelines
2. Signed publishing approval form (Attached is the author approval form in pdf format)
3. Submit information by email
1.Vendor
Product Specifications/Application/Technology Update GUIDELINES
Application Update:
Control Engineering's Application Update column looks at application
stories in the format of short, to-the-point, problem-solution pieces. We like
to emphasize the industrial environment and talk about things being made or
improved—whether by discrete, continuous process or batch-type manufacturing.
Other aspects of technology and innovative products, however, can also make
valid candidates, as long as controls are involved. The company and location
should be named, users quoted, and titles provided. Please quantify—specific
numbers or percentages should be cited to show improvements.
Technology Update:
Control Engineering's "Technology Update" department provides
an unbiased look at the next level of a specific technology used for industrial
automation, controls, and instrumentation: devices or systems. The technology
must touch the "control loop" in some way: sense (measure), decide
(logic), or actuate (control element), along with the communications, software,
and hardware that link those pieces.
The department page can mention one or multiple vendors, or be non-vendor-specific discussion of what's next for engineers that design, integrate/implement and use the technology. Advantages over present alternatives and under what situations the technology might best be used should be addressed.
Care should be taken to avoid a sales pitch of adjectives, providing instead quantified measurements or benefits and solid reasoning.
Word Length: A word document item will be 400-2,500 words long in its final form (no embedded images; submit images individually, see below).
Exclusivity: First use of a story is desirable, but not always realistic. Previous mention, excerpting, or some coverage in non-competing publications is acceptable.
Timeliness: Some application and technology stories are more time sensitive than others—the newer the better.
Image requirements
Digital images should be Photoshop compliant JPEG or GIF formats, at no larger
than 72 dpi resolution for grayscale and four-color images in RGB format. Format
no larger than 3 ½ and four.
Rights: Control Engineering, Reed Business Information, assumes the right to publish, perform, display, digitize, transmit, reproduce and, as reasonably required for layout purposes, modify and reformat, in all formats and media now known or hereafter developed throughout the universe in perpetuity for any submitted photography, illustrations, graphics, other images, and related text.
PDF Guidelines
- High-res (printable) PDF files must be version 1.3 or compatible.
All fonts must be embedded.
Images should be 300 dpi. - Low-res PDF file must also be 1.3 or compatible
All fonts must be embedded
Images should be 72dpi
*Note the quality of the low-res will result in a quicker file to open but a lower quality for printing.
Signed publishing approval form Click here for a printable form (pdf)
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DATE: __________________
CONTRIBUTOR NAME/ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________
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This letter confirms our agreement with respect to one or more written works (including all accompanying graphics, photographs and text, known as "[insert title of article here]" and, collectively, the “Works”) to be created by you and published by Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (“Reed”). This letter is effective from the date specified above until terminated by either of us by written notice to the other (the “Term”), and is applicable to all Works submitted by you to Reed during the Term whether or not described in writing. The terms of this letter with respect to rights granted during the Term will survive its termination.
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