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www.signalprocessingsociety.org [36] MARCH 2015

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 reÀected 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 R egular papers (papers which pro-

vide a complete disclosure of a technical premise), or Comment Correspondences (brief

items that provide comment on a paper previously published in the T

RANSACTIONS).

Submissions/resubmissions must be previously un published and may not be under con-

sideration 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 indica-

tion as to how the current solution ¿ts into the history of the problem, including bib-

liographic 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 T

RANSACTIONS are published in English.

Papers th at have a large number of typographical and/or grammatical errors will also be

rejected without review.

By su bmission/resubmission of your manuscript to this T

RANSACTIONS, you are ac-

knowledging that you accept the rules established for publication of manuscripts, in-

cluding 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 Sub-

mission” 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.Ifnecessary,createanaccountintheon-line

submission system ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please check ¿rst if you already have

an existing account which is based on your e-mail address and m ay have been

created for you when you reviewed or authored a previous paper.

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 regular paper, the manuscript may not

exceed 13 double-column pages, including title; names of authors and their com-

plete 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 Schol-

arOneManuscripts site. You are encouraged to also submit a single-column, double-

spaced version (11 point font or larger), but page length restrictions will be deter-

mined 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 manusc ript, the manuscript cann ot 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 co mpleting 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 w ell. Reviewers will be able to view these ¿les only if they have

the a ppropriate 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 READ ME ¿le that appears on Xplore along with

Digital Object Identi¿er 10.1109/TSP.2014.2358875

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 T

RANSACTIONS encourages you to submit

all ¿les that can recreate the ¿gures in your paper. Files that are to be included

with the ¿na l paper must be uploade d for consideration in th e review process.

5. Submission. After uploading all ¿les and proofreading them, submit your manu-

script by clicking “Submit.” A con¿rmation of the successful submission w ill 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 au-

thors, and their employers; and to facilitate the appropriate reuse of this material

by others. To c omply with the IE E E 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 e ffective ele ctronic copyright form

(eCF) tool within the ScholarOne M anuscripts system. You will be redirected to

the “IEEE Electronic Copyright Form” wizard at the end of your original submis-

sion; 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 T

RANSACTIONS. A comment correspondence may

not exceed 2 pages in double-column, s ingle 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 appropria te number of illus-

trations and/or tables. Comment Correspondences are submitted in the same way as

regular manuscripts (see “Manuscript Submission” above fo r instructions).

Manuscript Length. Papers publishe d 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 disc ussed below. Since changes recommended as a result of

peer revie w may require additions to t he manuscript, i t is strongly recommended that

you pra ctice economy in preparing original submission s.

Exceptions to manuscript length requirements may, under extraordinary circum-

stances, be granted by the Edito r-in-Chief. However, such exc eption 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 re-

jected from any journal are allowed to resubmit their manuscripts only once. At the time

of submission, you will be asked whe ther your manuscript is a new submission or a re-

submission of an earlier rejected manuscript. If it is related to a manuscript previously

rejected by any journal, you are expected t o submit supporting documents identifying

the previous submission and detailing how issues raised in the previous reviews h ave

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 So-

ciety “Policy and Procedures Manual” at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/

about/governance/policy-procedure/.

Author Misconduct.

Author Misconduct Policy: Plagiarism inc lu des 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 th at also involves other au-

thors. Plagiarism is unacceptable.

Self-plagiarism involves the verbatim copying or reuse of an a uthors o wn prior work

without appropriate citation; it is also unacceptable. Self-plagiarism includes duplicate

submission of a single journal manuscript to two different journals, and submissio n of

two different journal manuscripts whic h ov erlap su bstantially in language or technical

contribution.

Authors may only submit orig inal work that has not appe ared 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 publish ed work as a

basis for a new submission, they are required to cite the previous work and very brieÀy

indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel contributions beyon d those

of the previously published work.

It is accepta ble for conference papers to be used a s the basis for a more fully devel-

oped 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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