Content Gazette - January 2015 - 30

Information for Authors
(Updated/Effective September 2014)
The IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS is a monthly, archival publication designed to provide rapid dissemination of original, cutting-edge ideas and timely,
signicant contributions in signal, image, speech, language and audio processing.
The scope of the journal is reected in the EDICS, listed in the
page: http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/letters/
letters-edics/. These EDICS are used as the Editor's Information and
Classication Scheme. Please consider the journal with the most appropriate
scope for your submission.
Every manuscript must (a) provide a clearly dened statement of the problem
being addressed, (b) state why it is important to solve the problem, and (c) give
an indication as to how the current solution ts into the history of the problem,
including bibliographic references to related work rather than restating established algorithms and scientic principles.
All submissions are prescreened prior to the peer review process to verify if
they meet the publication criteria explained next. The Editor in Chief determines
if the paper will be assigned to an Associate Editor, who will handle the peer
review process and make a nal decision, or if it becomes a candidate for an Immediate Rejection (IR), which is the case if the paper is: (a) out of scope for the
journal (a paper with few or no citations to recent signal processing publications
is a good suspect); (b) limited in novelty (i.e. there is no new theory, algorithms,
or experimental data); (c) incomplete, and based on insufcient numerical (simulation/experiment) data and comparisons, inadequate bibliography, or poor description of the context of the work; (d) incomprehensible, poorly written (e.g.
has a large number of grammatical errors, illegible gures, etc.).
Furthermore, a paper that is a resubmission (revised version) of a previously
rejected manuscript from any journal must include a supporting document indicating the previous submission and summarizing substantial changes made to
address reviewer comments in order to be considered for publication. Otherwise,
it is a candidate for an Immediate Reject exclusively on the basis of this omission.
The Editor in Chief decisions regarding the paper are supported by recommendations by the Senior Area Editor who prescreens the paper, or by recommendations coming from the Associate Editor selected to handle the peer review. By
submission/resubmission of your manuscript to the LETTERS, you are acknowledging that you accept the rules established for publication of manuscripts.
New and revised manuscripts should be prepared following the New
Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and submitted to the online submission system ScholarOne Manuscripts. Submissions/resubmissions must
be previously unpublished and may not be under consideration elsewhere.
After acceptance, nalized manuscripts should be prepared following the Final
Manuscript Submission Guidelines below. Do not send original submissions
or revisions directly to the Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editors; they will only
access your manuscript electronically via the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.
Manuscript Submission. Please follow the next steps.
1. Account in ScholarOne Manuscripts: If necessary, create an account in the
on-line submission system ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please check rst if
you already have an existing account which is based on your e-mail address and may have been created for you when you reviewed or authored
a previous paper. All co-authors must have valid private ScholarOne accounts, and manuscripts lacking this will be summarily rejected.
2. Electronic Manuscript: Prepare a PDF le containing your manuscript in
double-column single-spaced format using a font size of 10 points or larger,
having a margin of at least 1 inch on all sides. For a LETTERS submission,
the main body of the manuscript may not exceed 4 double-column singlespaced pages, including title; names of authors and their complete contact
information; abstract; text; all images, gures and tables, appendices and
proofs. A fth page containing references is permitted. Upload this version
of the manuscript as a PDF le "double.pdf" to the ScholarOneManuscripts
site. You are encouraged to also submit a single-column, double-spaced
version (11 point font or larger), but page length restrictions will be determined by the double-column version. The section below entitled "Submission Format" provides further details and support for generating a paper in
the correct format.
Proofread your submission, conrming that all gures and equations
are visible in your document before you SUBMIT your manuscript.
Proofreading is critical; once you submit your manuscript, the manuscript
cannot be changed in any way. You may also submit your manuscript as a
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Post-Script or MS Word le. The system has the capability of converting
your les to PDF, however it is your responsibility to conrm that the conversion is correct and there are no font or graphics issues prior to completing
the submission process.
Additional Documents for Review: Please upload pdf versions of all items
in the reference list which are not publicly available, such as unpublished
(submitted) papers. Other materials for review such as supplementary tables
and gures may be uploaded as well. Reviewers will be able to view these
les only if they have the appropriate software on their computers. Use short
lenames without spaces or special characters. When the upload of each
le is completed, you will be asked to provide a description of that le.
Multimedia Materials: IEEE Xplore can publish multimedia les (audio,
images, video) and Matlab code along with your paper. Alternatively, you
can provide the links to such les in a README le that appears on
Xplore along with your paper. For details, please see IEEE Author Digital
Toolbox under "Multimedia." To make your work reproducible by others,
the TRANSACTIONS encourages you to submit all les that can recreate
the gures in your paper. Files that are to be included with the nal paper
must be uploaded for consideration in the review process.
Submission: After uploading all les and proofreading them, submit your
manuscript by clicking "Submit." A conrmation of the successful submission will open on screen containing the manuscript tracking number and
will be followed with an e-mail conrmation to the corresponding and all
contributing authors. Once you click "Submit," your manuscript cannot be
changed in any way.
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its authors, and their employers; and to facilitate the appropriate reuse of
this material by others. To comply with the IEEE copyright policies, authors are required to sign and submit a completed IEEE Copyright and
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The IEEE recommends authors to use an effective electronic copyright
form (eCF) tool within the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. You will be
redirected to the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form wizard at the end of your
original submission; please simply sign the eCF by typing your name at the
proper location and click on the "Submit" button.

Manuscript Length. No manuscript can be more than 5 double-column
single-spaced published pages, 10 point type, with the fth page containing no
material save references. We will immediately request that longer submissions
be shortened and they will not be given an ofcial reception date; this applies
even to papers that have been accepted as part of the review process but whose
length turns out to be excessive for publication.
Resubmission of Previously Rejected Manuscripts.
Authors of rejected manuscripts are allowed to resubmit their manuscripts
only once. The Signal Processing Society strongly discourages resubmission
of rejected manuscripts more than once. At the time of submission, you will
be asked whether you consider your manuscript to be a new submission or a
resubmission of an earlier rejected manuscript. If you choose to submit a new
version of your manuscript, you will be asked to submit supporting documents
identifying the previous submission number and detailing how your new version
addresses all of the reviewers' comments.
Full details of the resubmission process can be found in the Signal Processing
Society "Policy and Procedures Manual".
Author Misconduct.
Author Misconduct Policy: Plagiarism includes copying someone else's work
without appropriate credit, using someone elses work without clear delineation
of citation, and the uncited reuse of an authors previously published work that
also involves other authors. Plagiarism is unacceptable.
Self-plagiarism involves the verbatim copying or reuse of an author own prior
work without appropriate citation; it is also unacceptable. Self-plagiarism includes duplicate submission of a single journal manuscript to two different journals, and submission of two different journal manuscripts which overlap substantially in language or technical contribution.
Authors may only submit original work that has not appeared elsewhere in a
journal publication, nor is under review for another journal publication. Limited
overlap with prior journal publications with a common author is allowed only if
it is necessary for the readability of the paper. If authors have used their own previously published work as a basis for a new submission, they are required to cite

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