Content Gazette - February 2015 - 34

Information for Authors
(Updated/Effective September 17, 2014)

The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING is published online twice per month
(semimonthly) covering advances in the theory and application of signal processing. The
scope is reected in the EDICS: the Editor's Information and Classication Scheme.
Please consider the journal with the most appropriate scope for your submission.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts of Regular papers (papers which provide a complete disclosure of a technical premise), or Comment Correspondences (brief
items that provide comment on a paper previously published in the TRANSACTIONS).
Submissions/resubmissions must be previously unpublished and may not be under consideration elsewhere.
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.
In order to be considered for review, a paper must be within the scope of the journal
and represent a novel contribution. A paper is a candidate for an Immediate Rejection
if it is of limited novelty, e.g. a straightforward combination of theories and algorithms
that are well established and are repeated on a known scenario, no new experimental
data or new application. Experimental contributions will be rejected without review if
there is insufcient experimental data. The TRANSACTIONS are published in English.
Papers that have a large number of typographical and/or grammatical errors will also be
rejected without review.
By submission/resubmission of your manuscript to this TRANSACTIONS, you are acknowledging that you accept the rules established for publication of manuscripts, including agreement to pay all overlength page charges, color charges, and any other
charges and fees associated with publication of the manuscript. Such charges are not
negotiable and cannot be suspended.
New and revised manuscripts should be prepared following the "Manuscript Submission" guidelines below, and submitted to the online manuscript system ScholarOne
Manuscripts. 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.
2. Electronic Manuscript. Prepare a PDF le containing your manuscript in doublecolumn, 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 regular paper, the manuscript may not
exceed 13 double-column pages, including title; names of authors and their complete contact information; abstract; text; all images, gures and tables, appendices
and proofs; and all references.
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, doublespaced version (11 point font or larger), but page length restrictions will be determined by the double-column version.
For regular papers, the revised manuscript may not exceed 16 double-column
pages (10 point font), including title; names of authors and their complete contact
information; abstract; text; all images, gures and tables, appendices and proofs;
and all references.
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 PostScript 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

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your paper. For details, please see http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/
publications/authors/authors_journals.html#sect6 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.
5. 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.
6. Copyright Form and Consent Form. By policy, IEEE owns the copyright to the
technical contributions it publishes on behalf of the interests of the IEEE, 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 Consent Form" prior to publication
by the IEEE.
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.
Comment Correspondence. Comment Correspondences provide brief comments on
material previously published in the TRANSACTIONS. A comment correspondence may
not exceed 2 pages in double-column, single double-spaced format, using 9 point type,
with margins of 1 inch minimum on all sides, and including: title, names and contact
information for authors, abstract, text, references, and an appropriate number of illustrations and/or tables. Comment Correspondences are submitted in the same way as
regular manuscripts (see "Manuscript Submission" above for instructions).
Manuscript Length. Papers published on or after 1 January 2007 can now be up to 10
pages, and any paper in excess of 10 pages will be subject to over length page charges.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society has determined that the standard manuscript length
shall be no more than 10 published pages (double-column format, 10 point type) for
a regular submission. Manuscripts that exceed these limits will incur mandatory over
length page charges, as discussed below. Since changes recommended as a result of
peer review may require additions to the manuscript, it is strongly recommended that
you practice economy in preparing original submissions.
Exceptions to manuscript length requirements may, under extraordinary circumstances, be granted by the Editor-in-Chief. However, such exception does not obviate
your requirement to pay any and all over length or additional charges that attach to the
manuscript.
Resubmission of Previously Rejected Manuscripts. Authors of manuscripts rejected from any journal are allowed to resubmit their manuscripts only once. At the time
of submission, you will be asked whether your manuscript is a new submission or a resubmission of an earlier rejected manuscript. If it is related to a manuscript previously
rejected by any journal, you are expected to submit supporting documents identifying
the previous submission and detailing how issues raised in the previous reviews have
been addressed. Papers that do not disclose connection to a previously rejected paper or
that do not provide documentation as to changes made may be immediately rejected.
Full details of the resubmission process can be found in the Signal Processing Society "Policy and Procedures Manual" at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/
about/governance/policy-procedure/.
Author Misconduct.
Author Misconduct Policy: Plagiarism includes copying someone else's work without
appropriate credit, using someone else's 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 authors 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 the previous work and very briey
indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel contributions beyond those
of the previously published work.
It is acceptable for conference papers to be used as the basis for a more fully developed journal submission. Still, authors are required to cite related prior work; the papers
cannot be identical; and the journal publication must include novel aspects.

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