A template for supplementary material in IEEEtran format

A template for supplementary material of the manuscripts in IEEE format (IEEEtran.cls) is not wrapped up for the IEEEtran. For my latest manuscript (which is still under review), I needed to put some graphs in the supplementary, so I could gather these hacks from the web. I gathered  all these HACKS couple of months ago, from different blogs, and sites for supplementary files of other journals. I could not find those blogs, so sorry for not providing reference.

I liked to change the section, figure, table, equation, citation numbering to include an additional S.  The following should be inserted into preamble.

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% Hack For section headers starting with S \renewcommand{\thesection}{S.\Roman{section}} \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\Alph{subsection}}

To change the format of citations in the bibliography and the main text, a combination of natbib and IEEEtranN is needed

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% Hack for citation command % use bibnumfmt to change style at the end of the document \usepackage[numbers]{natbib} \renewcommand{\bibnumfmt}[1]{[S#1]} % citenumfont command adds S to all numbers \renewcommand{\citenumfont}[1]{\textit{S#1}}

Numbering of the figures and table are done with

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% Hack for making figures Say \figurename S\thefigure, e.g. Figure S1: \makeatletter \makeatletter \renewcommand{\fnum@figure} {\figurename~S\thefigure} \makeatother % Hack for making figures Say \figurename S\thefigure, e.g. Figure S1: \makeatletter \makeatletter \renewcommand{\fnum@table} {\tablename~S\thetable} \makeatother

And for the equations, we need the following

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% Hack for making SOM Equations Conform to Science Format % e.g. (S1), (S2), etc \renewcommand{\theequation}{S\arabic{equation}}

A drawback of this method is that \eqref is not working, but \ref command still works pretty good. :)

I also find it handy to cross-reference labels between main and supplementary document. In the supplementary, we need to reference to the aux file of the main file, like:

1 2	\usepackage{xr} \externaldocument{Main}% Main.tex is the main file of the manuscript.

A sample output is shown below:

About the title: E cross H*

As you might guess  \(\mathbf{E}\) and \(\mathbf{H}\) are electric and magnetic field densities. Therefore, \( \mathbf{E}\times\mathbf{H}^*\) refers to the Poynting vector \(\mathbf{s}\), which shows the direction of the flow of the electromagnetic energy.

First post

Well, first post is always the most difficult one. 

I just decided to create this blog, because of a number of reasons. Maybe, the most important one is that not many blogs are around about my research. So, here I am. I try to write a post every few weeks (try to keep few down to one).

I'm a PhD candidate at Griffith University. I am at the final stage to write up my thesis. I focus on antennas, electromagnetic waves, ...