Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. Manuscripts should be typewritten on A4 (297210 mm) white paper, double spaced, including references, footnotes, and tables. Sufficient (2.5 cm) margins should be left at the top, bottom, and two sides of each page. All pages should be numbered consecutively beginning with a separate title page with the authors' names and their affiliations. The manuscript should be arranged as title page, abstract, introduction, main text and conclusions, followed by acknowledgements, references, tables, figures and figure legends. Accepted manuscripts become the permanent property of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society, and may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part without the written permission of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society. We reserve the right to put on Internet the edited accepted copy of the manuscripts.

An informative abstract of no more than 200 words should accompany each manuscript. Abstracts should not be divided into paragraphs, and should not be structured. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

It should be written mainly in three sections, entitled INTRODUCTION, MAIN TEXT, and CONCLUSIONS, followed by necessary figures and/ or tables.

Figures should be clear and simple. Figures should be cited in the text in a form of Fig. 1, Fig. 2… and the first word of the title and explanation in figure caption should be capitalized. Figures should be in .jpg, .tiff, .ppt(x), or .doc(x) format.

Tables should be written in form of Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3. The first word of the title and explanation in figure caption should be capitalized. Abbreviation in tables should be explained in its full name

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References in the text must be included in Reference section and vice versa. Sufficient descriptions should be given to enable the reader to locate all publications referred to in the text. For references to items in periodicals, include the author, title, journal, volume, number, and year. For references to reports or proceedings, use the author's name and title of report, report number, source, editor and/or publisher as appropriate, city and state/country of publisher or full name of conference as appropriate, including date and pages. For references to books, use the author's name, title, publisher, city, state/country, year, page, or chapter. It is preferable that your references comprise only of published materials accessible to the public

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter. The Korean Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society is the official Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society. Abbreviated title is “J. Microelectron. Packag. Soc.”.

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Manuscript should be submitted via the online Manuscript Central website (https://submission.kmeps.or.kr/html/).

All manuscripts are treated as confidential. They are peer-reviewed by at least 2 anonymous reviewers selected by the editor and associate editors. Letters to the editor are reviewed and published on the decision of the editor. The corresponding author is notified as soon as possible of the editor's decision Accept, Publish after minor revisions, Re-evaluate after mandatory revisions or reject ofmanuscript. When the final revised manuscript is completely acceptable according to the KMEPS format and criteria, it is scheduledfor publication in the next available issue. Rejected papers will not be peer-reviewed again with the same content.

All submitted manuscripts shall be reviewed according to the policy of the editorial board for publication by the KMEPS. After the review is complete and the editorial board decides to “accept” the manuscript for publication, the manuscript shall be published in the order in which it was received. The author of the paper shall pay the publication charge. The publication fee is 100,000 Korean Won up to 8 pages, and 30,000 Korean Won per additional page. Acknowledgement charge is 50,000 Korean Won. The publication cost is subjected to change according to the society's financial situation.