Southern Power System Technology is a scientific and technological journal in power grid system, indexed by CSCD, Chinese Core Journals, and Key Magazine of China Technology. It is publicly distributed domestically and internationally, mainly publishing achievements, experiences, and dynamics in scientific research, planning, design, engineering, production operation, equipment and system maintenance in the field of power system, focusing on papers with scientific innovation. Columns included Invited Contributions, AC/DC parallel power grid, high-voltage DC transmission, power grid simulation, environmental protection and energy conservation, research and analysis, practice and experience, etc. We warmly welcome domestic and foreign researchers, engineering technicians, teachers and students from colleges and universities to submit their papers. In accordance with relevant national standards and to ensure the editorial quality, authors should follow the requirement of format below.

Section 1 General Requirement

(1)The manuscript should not have been published in other journals, and the translated manuscript must be accompanied by written permission from the original authors. The content should be scientific, innovative, and practical with clear arguments, reliable data, rigorous reasoning, concise mathematical deductions, coherent and concise writing, clear hierarchy, and prominent points. 

(2)Academic papers should be written in accordance with the standard of GB7713-1987. The length should not exceed 6000 Chinese characters (including figures and tables), but commissioned manuscripts are not subject to this restriction. For academic papers, please include the following information:

a)Authors’ affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, emails, and postal codes;

b)The title of the paper and the English translation of authors’ affiliations, and author names in Pinyin;

c)Author’s introduction, including name, year of birth, gender, professional title, degree, current research work, etc.;

d)A Chinese abstract of around 250 characters, with 3 to 8 keywords, with English translation

An abstract should be written in the third person perspective and should be an independent short article, including four parts: objective, methods, results, and conclusion.

If the paper is supported by a national fund project or a major scientific research and development project at the ministerial or provincial level, please provide the project name and fund number.

Section 2 Format 

(1)The required font size for main body text is number 5, with Chinese characters in Songti, English characters in Times New Roman, and Greek characters in Symbol. Manuscripts must be editable electronic documents, preferably in Microsoft Word format or WPS format.

(2)The units of measurement shall adopt national legal units and symbols. Abolished units such as "atmospheric pressure", "kg/cm2", "calorie", "ppm", etc., shall be avoided. 

(3)Please indicate the language (Greek, English, Roman, etc.), capitalization, subscripts, and meanings of the letters that are easily confused in the text and formulas. Special attention should be paid to letters representing vectors and matrices.

(4)Abbreviations should not be used in title (except for chemical symbols and commonly used terms). Abbreviations in abstracts and main body text must be indicated with their full terms in parentheses when they first appear.

Section 3 Figure, Tables and References

(1)"Three-line table style" is recommended. Numbers and headings should be written above tables. Table headings should be self-explanatory and both in Chinese and English. Annotations are placed at the bottom of the tables.

(2)Numbers and headings should be written below figures. Figure headings should be self-explanatory and have both in Chinese and English. Engineering drawings, electrical diagrams, and function diagrams shall be drawn using VISIO, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, or Corel DRAW. Engineering drawings and electrical diagrams shall comply with national standards, and function diagrams shall be marked with curve numbers and their annotations. There shall be markings on coordinate axes, indicating physical quantities and units. Photo image should have clear hierarchy. Digital photo images should have at least 2 million pixels.

(3)The text, variables, units, and numbers in figures and tables should be presented clearly. 

(4)References should be selected from publicly available materials, listed in order and numbered with [1], [2], etc., which are consistent with the indicated numbering in main body text. The format should comply with standards of GB/T 7714-2015 and CAJ-CD B/T 1-2006. Chinese references should be accompanied by English translations.

Section 4 Paper Template

Southern Power System Technology - Paper Template 2023.doc

Section 5 Submission Website

https://nfdwjs.csg.cn