For Authors

The Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics), published by SOBRAEP, is an Gold Open Access journal with single-blinded peer review process to publish original and unpublished articles. Since january of 2024 is published continuously.

By sending the article to the journal, the author agrees not to forward it to other publication vehicles for a period of six months, counting from the submission date, which is the time allotted for the article's evaluation.

The time for evaluating submissions will be a maximum of up to 6 (six) months. This interval will vary depending on the availability and agility of the referees.

1. Authors Responsibilities and Potential Conflicts

The authors responsibilities and potential competing, or conflicting, interests are descibed in the Editorial Policy section. 

2. Types of Publications

Full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) requires that authors publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.

Manuscripts submitted to Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) should not be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are listed below and a comprehensive list of article types can be found here—please note that not all article types are available for all disciplines.

Orinal paper: These are original research manuscripts. The work should report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. The article should include the most recent and relevant references in the field.

Review paper: Reviews offer a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature within a field of study, identifying current gaps or problems. They should be critical and constructive and provide recommendations for future research. No new, unpublished data should be presented.

Special section: Researchs can propose for the Editorial Board Special Sections in topics that are in the vanguard of the knolegment. It is necessary at least two Guest Editors to submitt a propose for the Editor-in-Chief (editor@sobraep.org.br) describing the Title of the Special Issue, the main topics that will accepted and the deadlines to submission. Contributions to the Special Section are subject to peer review and benefit from comments and editorial guidance from the guest editors. 

Papers already presented at conferences will be accepted if they are extended with additional results or new findings. These articles will be subject to the peer review process.

Letters: Should be concise, focusing on a specific, noteworthy aspect of power electronics. They can discuss recent advancements, and introduce new ideas briefly. Letters are shorter than full papers, limited to 4 pages (including the final version).

3. Submission System

The manuscripts are submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system, using the link SUBMIT A MANUSCRIPT. It is not necessary to be a SOBRAEP member to submit a manuscript to the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics).

Manuscripts submitted to the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) must present unpublished contribution, including research results demonstrating its technical and scientific quality. In case the paper, or part of it, has been presented or published in any national or international journal or conference, authors must declare to the Editor the new contribution of the manuscript to the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) and the name of conference or journal of the previous publication. Before submitting a manuscript, verify the Editorial Policy and Guidelines for Publication.

 

4. Topics

 The following list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to indicate topics that fall within the journal purview:

1. Power converter topologies and design
2. Electrical machines, motor drives and motion control
3. Modeling, simulation and control in power electronics
4. Power quality, harmonics and reactive power compensation
5. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electromagnetic interference (EMI)
6. Power electronics in renewable energy systems
7. Power electronics in smart grid and utility applications
8. Power semiconductor devices, packaging and magnetic materials
9. Power electronics in lighting applications
10. Automotive, aerospace and transportation applications of power electronics
11. Industrial, commercial and residential applications of power electronics
12. Education and special topics

 

5. Guidelines for Publication

Guidelines for Publication are important and authors must use these guidelines for preparing both the initial and final versions of their papers. It should be noted that manuscripts must be submitted as a PDF document. Quality of figures and type sizes specified in the guidelines must be verified by authors. Moreover, verify if the manuscript is related to the Topics of Interest of the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics).

a. Templates

Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare the manuscripts using the templates, access the Journal Templates, besides can check additional instructions provided in https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/revistaep - Instructions & Forms. For consistency, we recommend using units, symbols, and abbreviations in accordance with the IEEE Standard.

b. Language

 The manuscript must be submitted electronically in either English or Portuguese. If written in Portuguese, authors are required to provide an additional section containing the title, abstract, and keywords in English.

 

c. ORCID

As a way of standardizing authorship, the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) requires to include the ORCID iD of all authors at the time of submission.

The ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register

d. Reviewer Suggestions
During the submission process, the authors can suggest potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. The editors will not necessarily approach these referees. Please provide detailed contact information (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address). The proposed referees should neither be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last three years. Proposed reviewers should be from different institutions to the authors. You may identify appropriate Editorial Board members of the journal as potential reviewers. You may suggest reviewers from among the authors that you frequently cite in your paper.

e. English Editing
It is the authors’ responsibility to submit their work in correct English. The APC includes only minor English editing, conducted by native English speakers.

f. Keywords

Include 3-5 keywords or phrases that describe the research, with any abbreviations clearly defined, to help readers find your article. Using the right keywords in your article can make your article more easily and reliably discoverable.

g. Author affiliation

Authors’ affiliations includes university or corporation, department, city, state, (province or prefecture, if provided) and country. All authors may include their e-mail addresses which would be separated by semicolons

h. Financial support

All financial support for the work in the article is listed in the section Acknowledgment. Examples of financial support are:
1) This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 90210 and Grant ECS-12345.
2) This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under Contract 12345 and Contract 702589 and in part by the National Science Foundation.
3) This work was supported by grants from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America and the Swedish Medical Research Council.
4) If an author/organization requests specific wording, e.g., by National Institutes of Health (NIH), use
language provided.

 

i. Fees

Papers submitted for publication to the Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) should have, preferably, eight pages. Papers with a higher number of pages (more than eigth) must pay an overlength page charge before its publication.  Publication and overlength page charges are shown in the following table:

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR PUBLICATION FEE EXTRA PAGE
SOBRAEP effective member (no late payment) Free R$ 250,00
SOBRAEP student member (no late paymente) Free R$ 250,00
Non-member / SOBRAEP member (late payment) R$ 300,00 R$ 250,00

 

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j. Open access license: 

 Since December, 2023, all articles published by Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) are available and protected under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY). This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.

k. Copyright: 

Authors who publish in this Journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY), allowing the work to be shared with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this Journal.

Authors are authorized to take on additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this Journal (e.g. publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this Journal.

If your manuscript contains content such as photos, images, clipart, tables, audio files, videos, proprietary protocols, code, etc., that you or your co-authors do not own or did not create, we will require you to provide us with proof that either:
1. the material is in the public domain or available under an open access license compatible with CC BY 4.0, or
2. the owner of that content has given you written permission to use and publish the content under an open access CC BY 4.0 license.

l. Authors' Contribution

 Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics) endorses the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and asks the authors to provide detailed information about individual contributions to the work. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that all authors' contributions are correct, and it is expected that all authors will have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their contributions as shared by the submitting author. Regardless of the contribution and the registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article content.

 The authors’ contribution statement will be published and should accurately reflect only the contributions selected from the following roles: Conceptualization [Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims];  Data Curation [Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse]; Formal Analysis [Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data]; Funding Acquisition [Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication]; Investigation [Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection]; Methodology [Development or design of methodology; creation of models]; Project Administration [Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution]; Resources [Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools]; Software [Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components]; Supervision [Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team]; Validation [Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs]; Visualization [Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation]; Writing – Original Draft Preparation [Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)]; Writing – Review & Editing [Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages]. Regardless of the contribution and the registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article content.

Example: ALMEIDA, A.O.: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. PAULO, M.S.: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation. TEIXEIRA, D.P.: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Visualization. VALLE, R.L.: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Visualization. ALMEIDA, P.M.: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision. BARBOSA, P.G.: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing.

 

m. Funding

The financial support received for the elaboration of the manuscript must be declared in this item. The funding agency should be written out in full, followed by the ROR (Research Organization Registry) and the grant number. Multiple grant numbers of same agency or multiple agencies should also be informed. If a specific project grant does not fund the research, include this information: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, whether public, commercial, or not-for-profit.

n. Funding

The financial support received for the elaboration of the manuscript must be declared in this item. The funding agency should be written out in full, followed by the ROR (Research Organization Registry) and the grant number. Multiple grant numbers of same agency or multiple agencies should also be informed.

o. Citations and References

Number citations consecutively in square brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the brackets [2]. Multiple references [2], [3] are each numbered with separate brackets [1]–[3]. When citing a section in a book, please give the relevant page numbers [2]. In sentences, refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence: “Reference [3] shows ... .” 

Give all authors’ names; do not use “et al.” unless there are six authors or more. Use a space after authors’ initials. Papers that have not been published should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for publication, but not yet specified for an issue should be cited as “to be published” [5]. Papers that have been submitted for publication should be cited as “submitted for publication” [6]. Papers published should be cited as [7] or ´[8]. For all papers that present a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), this information must be included in the reference.

[1] G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics (Book style with paper title and editor),”in Plastics, 2nd ed. vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64.

[2] W.-K. Chen, Linear Networks and Systems (Book style). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993, pp. 123–135.

[3] H. Poor, An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985, ch. 4.

[4] B. Smith, “An approach to graphs of linear forms (Unpublished work style),” unpublished.

[5] E. H. Miller, “A note on reflector arrays (Periodical style—Accepted for publication),” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., to be published.

[6] J. Wang, “Fundamentals of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers arrays (Periodical style—Submitted for publication),” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., submitted for publication.

[7] R. O. d. Sousa, A. F. Cupertino, L. M. F. Morais, H. A. Pereira e R. Teodorescu, ““Experimental Validation and Reliability Analyses of Minimum Voltage Control in Modular Multilevel Converter-Based STATCOM,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1-10, 2023. doi: 10.1109/TIE.2023.3303634  

[8] R. C. de Barros, W. C. S. Amorim, W. do C. Boaventura, A. F. Cupertino, V. F. Mendes, and H. A. Pereira, “Methodology for BESS Design Assisted by Choice Matrix Approach”, Eletrônica de Potência, vol. 29, p. e202412, Jun. 2024. doi: 10.18618/REP.2005.1.019027

 

6. Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • The submission file is in PDF format. Only in the accepted papers will be required the word or latex files.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in template.
  • The author must inform if it is a preprint and if so, the Name of the Preprint server, and Preprint DOI;  whether the contents underlying the manuscript text are already available in their entirety and without restrictions or will they be so at the time of publication.
  • The author agrees to interact directly with reviewers responsible for evaluating the manuscript.
  • The author formally specified whether there are possible conflicts of interest in conducting and communicating research.
  • The authors are aware of Article Processing Charge for accepted manuscripts.