Manuscript Preparation: Use of either MS Word or LaTeX is acceptable for manuscript preparation. Please use the following templates and tools to help you prepare your manuscript:

• MS Word Template and Instructions on How to Create Your Paper (DOC, 92KB)
• WIN and MAC Bibliography File (ZIP, 208 KB)
• Unix LaTeX2e Transactions Style File (TAR.GZ, 204 KB)
• WIN OR MAC LaTeX2e Transactions Style File (ZIP, 348 KB)
• Unix Bibliography File (TAR.GZ, 204 KB)

Please note that the MS Word and LaTeX templates also serve as a style guide for JOCN. You should try to follow the style in these templates, particularly in regard to the numbering of section and subsection headings, table preparation, and references. There are, however, several differences between JOCN style and this style guide. Most notably, they include

• If your paper was invited for publication in a feature or focus issue, you should put [Invited] at the end of the title.
• IEEE membership information should NOT be included in the byline.
• Index terms should be separated by semicolons instead of commas.
• Acknowledgment of sponsorship and financial support should be included in a separate acknowledgment paragraph between the end of the text and the references, not in the footnote on the first page.
• In the text, equations should be written as Eq. (1) or Equation (1) (the latter only at the beginning of a sentence).
• For more accurate page-length estimate, please use New Century Schoolbook font if your LaTeX system supports it: \usepackage{newcent}.

A Note About Author Bios: You have the option of supplying a biography with or without a picture of each author of your paper. You may supply the bios along with pictures in the MS Word or LaTeX file at the time of submission, but please note that you will be asked to supply eps or tif files of the author pictures during the final preproduction review. You will receive further instructions about the image files at that time, but you can review the guidelines for the bios and pictures in the Instructions for Supplying Author Bios and Photos.

Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted to OSA through the OSA JOCN author page. OSA will manage the peer-review and production processes for JOCN. Questions about print copies should be directed to IEEE Customer Service.

• JOCN authors can log in to OSA's peer-review system to submit a manuscript or check manuscript status (see login link below).
• General information for authors is available on the Optics InfoBase author page. (Please note, however, that the style guide and templates found there do not apply to JOCN. Please use the templates found here on this page for JOCN.)
• At the time of submission please identify your paper as either (1) Architectural and theoretic system designs or (2) Experimental systems. Also, please select 2 to 6 OCIS codes for your paper. (These will not appear in the paper, but will be used to aid reviewer search and for cataloging and searching in Optics InfoBase.)

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