Instructions for Authors — IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

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Transactions & Journals

Other Information for Authors:

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 SPS Transactions and Journals).

Authors who would like to read the Information for Authors for the Signal Processing Letters, the Signal Processing Magazine, or the Open Journal of Signal Processing can click on their respective publications’ buttons above.

IEEE JSTSP only publishes papers that are submitted in response to a specific Call-for-Papers. You can find open calls and their deadlines here.

Submissions cannot be under consideration elsewhere nor be previously published.

Every manuscript must:

• provide a clear statement of the problem that is addressed, and what the contribution of the work is to the relevant research community;
• state why this contribution is significant (what impact it will have);
• provide citation of the published literature most closely related to the manuscript; and
• state what is distinctive and new about the current manuscript relative to these previously published works.

At the time of manuscript submission, all listed authors must agree and/or confirm the following:

• Who are the contributing authors?
• What is the order of authorship?
• Confirm that all related and relevant material of the research work is original, and that figures, tables, and other reported results accurately reflect the experimental work.
• Acknowledge that all authors accept these rules established for publication of manuscripts, including agreements to accept all Article Processing Charges, overlength page charges, open access fees, and any other charges associated with the publication of the manuscript. Such charges are non-negotiable and cannot be waived. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining consent from all co-authors and, if necessary, from sponsors, prior to submission.

To be considered for review, a manuscript must be within the scope of the journal and represent a novel contribution. A manuscript is a candidate for an Immediate Rejection if it lacks novelty, e.g., a straightforward combination of well-established, repeatable theories and algorithms within a known field of interest. Contributions will be rejected without review based on the following.

• If there is insufficient experimental data.
• If the manuscript is not written in proper English. (If this is the case, English writing assistance is available at “Refining the use of English in Your Article”.)
• If the manuscript has too many typographical and/or grammatical errors.
• If the manuscript is lacking sufficient citations. The manuscript must describe and cite related work in the field to place the contribution in context. Theoretical derivations or algorithm descriptions should be cited instead of repeated in the manuscript.

All manuscript submissions should be prepared following the "Manuscript Submission" guidelines below, and submitted to the online manuscript system, ScholarOne Manuscripts. Original submissions or revisions should not be sent directly to the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Board Members; all manuscripts are accessed electronically via the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.

Manuscript Submission

• Account in ScholarOne Manuscripts If necessary, create an account in the online submission system- ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please check first if you already have an existing account; this is based on your email address and may have been created when you reviewed a manuscript or authored a previous one.

• All IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCID is a persistent unique identifier for researchers and functions similarly to an article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a manuscript or review a proof in this journal.

• Please make sure you are providing complete and accurate name and affiliation information for ALL authors on ScholarOne Manuscripts under the “Authors and Institutions” section during the submission process. If any information is incorrect, please contact the author or the journal administrator to update the information in the author’s ScholarOne account. The authors listed on the manuscript must match the authors listed under “Authors and Institutions” on ScholarOne.

• If your “contact author” and “submitted author” are two different people, please make sure the “contact author” is able to communicate with the “submitted author” regarding any changes or updates that need to be made to the manuscript files at submission or during peer review.

• Electronic Manuscript Prepare a PDF file containing your manuscript in double-column, single-spaced format using a 10-point font size and having a margin of at least 1 inch on all sides. LaTeX and MSWord templates can be found through the- IEEE Template Selector. (Click “IEEE Template Selector” and follow the instructions for the template you need.)

• EDICS All manuscripts must be classified with an EDICS (Editors’ Information Classification Scheme) selected from the list of EDICS published online from the- EDICS webpage. Upon submission of a new manuscript, please choose the EDICS categories that are most appropriate for your manuscript. Failure to do so may delay the peer review process. (NOTE: This does not apply to the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, which does not use EDICS.)
• Additional Documents for Review Please upload PDF versions of all items in the reference list that are not publicly available, such as unpublished (submitted) manuscripts. Graphical abstracts and supplemental materials intended to appear with the final manuscript (see below) must also be uploaded for review at the time of the initial submission for consideration in the review process. Use short filenames without spaces or special characters. When the upload of each file is completed, authors will be asked to provide a description of that file.
• Supplemental Materials IEEE Xplore can publish multimedia files such as audio, images, video, datasets, codes, and software (e.g., Matlab code) along with your paper. Alternatively, authors can provide the links to such files in a README file that appears on IEEE Xplore along with your manuscript. For details, please see- IEEE Author Center." To make your work reproducible by others, authors are encouraged to submit all files that can recreate the figures in your manuscript. The supplemental material may also include additional text related to appendices containing proofs of results, descriptions of additional simulations, etc. When such supplemental material is present, the equations, theorems, tables, and figures, etc., should all be numbered consecutively to those in the manuscript, so that a reference to, say, "Fig. 10" is unambiguous. Whereas the main body of the manuscript should contain the core ideas and should suffice for most readers, such supplemental material should be targeted at specialists who need more detail than what the manuscript page limits allow. However, the proofs in the supplemental material should focus on the algebraic manipulations and not contain new theorems, lemmas, etc., which are not referred to in the manuscript. It is recommended that the supplemental material should not exceed six double-column pages (10-point font), which can be included without explicit EiC approval. For additional pages, EiC approval is required.- For Transactions on Multimedia only: it is required that the supplemental material should not exceed four double-column pages (10-point font).
• Manuscript Submission After uploading and proofreading all files, submit your manuscript by clicking "Submit." A successful submission confirmation acknowledgment screen containing the manuscript tracking number will be provided. This will be followed by an e-mail confirmation to the corresponding author and all contributing authors; answers will be provided by the submitting author. Please ensure the accuracy of the manuscript prior to submission. Once you click "Submit," your manuscript cannot be changed in any way. If errors are discovered post-submission, please contact the SPS journal administrator.
• Copyright 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 requires authors to use the electronic copyright form (eCF) tool within the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. Authors will be redirected to the "IEEE Electronic Copyright Form" wizard upon submission of final files should the paper be accepted; please simply sign the eCF by typing the author’s 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 or Journal. These items may not exceed two pages in double-column, single-spaced format, using a 9-point font, with margins of 1 inch minimum on all sides, and including the following: 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 Papers (see section "Manuscript Submission" above for instructions).

Overview Articles: Authors may also submit manuscripts of Overview Articles, but note that these include an additional white paper approval process (NOTE: This does not apply to the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing). Authors planning to submit an Overview Article should first contact the Journal Editor-in-Chief.

Manuscript Length:

• For the initial submission of a Regular Paper, the manuscript may not exceed 13 double-column pages (using a 10-point font), including title; names of authors and their complete contact information; abstract; text; all images, figures and tables, appendices and proofs; and all references. Supplemental materials and graphical abstracts are not included in the page count. (NOTE: For the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the initial submission of a Regular Paper may not exceed 10 pages).
• For Regular Papers, the revised manuscript may not exceed 16 double-column pages (using a 10-point font), including title, names of authors and their complete contact information, abstract, text, all images, figures and tables, and all references; appendices and proofs are considered Supplemental Materials and are not part of the manuscript page count. (NOTE: For the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, revised manuscript may not exceed 14 pages).
• For Overview Articles, the maximum length is double that for Regular Papers at each stage (please reference Overview Article pagefor more information).

Resubmission of Previously Rejected Manuscripts. Authors of a manuscript that has been rejected, from any journal, except for reasons of scope, are allowed to resubmit their manuscript only once. A resubmission to the same journal after a ‘Reject with Invitation to Resubmit’ (RRQ) decision, or to the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ-SP) after a ‘Reject with Invitation to Resubmit as a Short Paper to OJ-SP’ (RRS) decision, does not count towards this limit.

At the time of submission, the author(s) will be asked whether their manuscript is a new submission or a resubmission of an earlier rejected manuscript. If it is a resubmission of a manuscript previously rejected from any journal or conference for any reason, the author(s) is (are) required to submit a supporting document providing verbatim quotations of all relevant parts of all previous review reports and outlining how they have been addressed in the revised version. If the manuscript has previously been rejected for reasons of scope, then the author(s) is (are) required to provide motivation for why the resubmission is considered to be in scope.

NOTE: Resubmissions are treated as new submissions; therefore, the manuscript cannot exceed 13 pages.

(NOTE: For the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, manuscripts may not exceed 10 pages).

Preprints. Authors may post preprints of the submitted manuscript (i.e., preprints that are identical to the submitted manuscript, except for minor differences) on their personal website, on their employer’s website, and/or on approved third-party preprint servers (such as arXiv). Please refer to the IEEE Author Center for complete information, i.e., IEEE Post-Publication Policies and IEEE Post-Publication Policies Infographic. Upon submission, authors are requested to provide a complete list (including URLs) of all posted preprints of the submitted manuscript. These preprints should not be included in the submitted manuscript’s reference list.

All other posted preprints (i.e., preprints by the authors that are not identical to the submitted manuscript, and all other preprints by the authors and/or by other authors) are considered prior work. Therefore, for the purpose of evaluating novelty as well as potential plagiarism and self-plagiarism, these other preprints should be included in the submitted manuscript’s reference list whenever relevant, following common practice.

If the submitted manuscript is based on one or more other posted preprints, which are not identical to the submitted manuscript, authors should explain in detail how these preprints relate to the manuscript and why these preprints should not be considered prior work. Preprints related to the manuscript should be properly cited in the manuscript.

Author Misconduct. Author misconduct includes plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and research misconduct, including falsification or misrepresentation of results. All forms of misconduct are unacceptable and may result in sanctions and/or other corrective actions. 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 author’s previously published work that also involves other authors. Self-plagiarism involves the verbatim copying or reuse of an author’s own prior work without appropriate citation, including duplicate submission of a manuscript elsewhere (journal or conference), and submission of two different manuscripts which overlap substantially in language or technical contribution. The mentioned forms of author misconduct also cover materials from third-party preprint servers (such as arXiv). Also, papers including inappropriate or abusive language are subject to Immediate Rejection.

For more information on the definitions, investigation process, and corrective actions related to author misconduct, see the SPS PDF on Policies and Procedures, Section 6.1. Author misconduct may also be actionable by the IEEE Code of Ethics.

Conference to Journal Papers. It is acceptable for short, up to six (double-column) pages, conference papers to be used as the basis for a more fully developed journal paper. However, authors are required to cite their related prior work, either in the introduction or in a footnote. The papers cannot be identical, and the journal paper should be justified by a clearly identifiable benefit that its publication offers to the research community beyond the already published conference paper. For example, the journal paper may include additional analysis, novel algorithmic enhancements, added theoretical work, completeness of exposition, extensive experimental validation, etc. The added benefits of a journal publication must either be apparent from the introduction or abstract in the submitted manuscript or should be clearly and concisely explained in a separate document that accompanies the submitted manuscript.

Journal Paper Presentation at SPS Conference and Workshops. SPS conferences and workshops offer opportunities for authors to present papers accepted for publication in an SPS Journal to conference attendees. Authors are encouraged to visit the conference or workshop website for specific information on how and when to submit a Journal Paper Presentation Request to a conference or workshop. No further review is required since only manuscripts that have been accepted for publication are eligible. However, it is at the discretion of the conference organizers whether to accept the manuscript for presentation at the conference. Accepted manuscripts will be given to conference attendees, but will not be published in the conference proceedings that appear on IEEE Xplore.

Submissions must meet the following criteria to be eligible:

• The manuscript must have been published or accepted for publication in an SPS Transactions or Journal, within the 12-month period preceding the conference paper notification of acceptance date.
• The manuscript addresses a topic that is aligned with the conference’s technical program.
• Accepted authors must meet the same conference registration requirements as all conference authors and attendees.

Submission Format. Authors are required to prepare manuscripts employing the on-line style files developed by IEEE, which include guidelines for abbreviations, mathematics, and graphics. All manuscripts accepted for publication will require the authors to make final submission employing these style files. The style files are available on the web through the IEEE Template Selector (LaTeX and MS Word). Please note the following requirements about the abstract:

• The abstract must be a concise yet comprehensive reflection of what is in the manuscript.
• The abstract must be self-contained, without abbreviations, footnotes, displayed equations, or references.
• The abstract must be between 150-250 words.
• The abstract should include a few keywords or phrases, as this will help readers to find it.

In addition to written abstracts, submissions may include a graphical abstract, see ”Preparing Supplementary Materials” for options and format requirements.

IEEE supports the publication of author names in the native language alongside the English versions of the names in the author list of a manuscript. For more information, see "Structure Your Article" under the “Authors” section.

English Language Editing Services

English language editing services can help refine the language of your article and reduce the risk of rejection without review.  IEEE authors are eligible for discounts at several language editing services; visit the IEEE Author Center to learn more. Please note these services are fee-based and do not guarantee acceptance.

Single-Anonymized Review Process. Manuscripts submitted to the SPS Transactions and Journals are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (IEEE PSPB) (sections 8.2.1.C & 8.2.2.A). Each published manuscript has to be  reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a single-anonymized peer review process, where the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. Manuscripts are also screened for plagiarism before acceptance.

Communication. While most communication will occur between the editorial board members and authors during the peer review process, authors are encouraged to reach out to the Journal Administrator if they have any questions about their submission or the peer review process. When communicating with the Journal Administrator about a submission, authors should always include the ScholarOne Manuscripts ID number and the title of the manuscript.

Accepted Papers. As of 01-Feb-2018, the Signal Processing Society does not permit changes to a manuscript after it has been accepted for publication. During each stage of the submission/revision process, authors are required to upload a "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" version of their manuscript. If the manuscript is accepted in this round of review, the "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" file will be posted to the Early Access section of the publication in IEEE Xplore. For this reason, the "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" should be publication ready.

During the revision process, authors should remove any colored text or annotations and add any acknowledgments that they would like included in the "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only." Additionally, an annotated version of the manuscript for reviewers may be uploaded as a supporting document.

Open Access. The SPS Transactions and Journals (except for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, which is a fully Open Access journal) adopt a hybrid publication model, allowing either traditional manuscript publication or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript publication. With traditional manuscript publication, the manuscript will be available to qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. Authors choosing the OA publication model, commit to pay the OA fee to enable unrestricted public access. The OA fee depends on the publication type; please visit IEEE Open Article Processing Charges. Any other application charges will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete, but prior to the publication. Corresponding authors from low-income countries are eligible for a waived or reduced OA fee at the IEEE Open Discount Program.

Page Charges

Voluntary Page Charges. Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication, the author(s) or their company or institution will be asked to pay a charge of $110 per page to cover part of the cost of publication of the first ten pages that comprise the standard length of a Regular Paper versus the first two pages for a Comment Correspondence.

• Mandatory Page Charges.- (NOTE: Regular Papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia more than 8 pages will be subject to mandatory page charges.)

• Color Graphics. *All SPS Transactions and Journals are online-only, so color graphics are always free of charge.

Signal Processing Society publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts in seven wholly owned and several co-owned publications.

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Information for Authors

• Journals & Transactions: For detailed instructions on submitting, please read the- Information for Authors for Journals & Transactions
• Signal Processing Letters: For detailed instructions on submitting to Signal Processing Letters, please read the- SPL Information for Authors
• Signal Processing Magazine: For detailed instructions on submitting to Signal Processing Magazine, please read the- SPM Information for Authors

The Signal Processing Society has structured guidelines and review procedures for potential contributors. If you have an interest in contributing to the Society’s publications, please refer to the documents below.

Resources for EICs

Resources for AES, GEs & SAEs

• Guidelines for Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue Guest Editors
• Guidelines for Associate Editors
• Guidelines for Senior Area Editors
• Guidelines for OJ-SP Senior Area Editors
• Guidelines for Special Issue Proposals
• Guest Editor Responsibilities

Resources for Authors

• Information for Authors
• Guidelines for Deep Learning Submissions (T-IFS)
• Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Graphics
• IEEE Copyright Form
• IEEE Author Education
• IEEE Author Information
• IEEE Author Newsletter
• Ethics for Authors and Volunteers
• Policy on Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

Resources for Reviewers

Policy on Using Large Language Models (LLMs) in Manuscripts Submitted for Publication in Conferences and Journals.

The following rules complement the IEEE rules listed in:

Author Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text

When submitting a manuscript, the authors implicitly confirm that they have read, understood, and followed the rules for acceptable use of LLMs. In particular, the authors confirm that any output of these tools used in the manuscript has been thoroughly checked, including careful text editing, verification of audio/visual content, and testing of any code to ensure correctness.

The basic principle informing the following acceptable use rules is that authors should take full responsibility and ownership for their research and the content of their submitted manuscript. In particular, it is unacceptable for any section of a manuscript to be entirely produced using an LLM.

• Acceptable uses:- For improving language and clarity during the editing process.
• For accelerating code development and visualization.

• Research and ideation (identifying related work, feedback on ideas, etc.).

• Unacceptable uses:- Use an LLM to generatemost (or significant components) of a manuscript (as opposed to improving the clarity ofauthor-composedtext).

• Direct use of LLM-generated code without subsequent thorough verification of correctness.

• Direct use of LLM-generated text without subsequent thorough verification of correctness and accuracy for any section of the manuscript, including an introduction, a related work section, and a summary of prior work (distinct from a related work section).

• Use an LLM to

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For Authors

Q. How do I submit a manuscript?

You may submit a manuscript for one of our publications using the manuscript submission system, ScholarOne Manuscripts™. For more information, visit the Submit a Manuscript page or submit directly, via the ScholarOne system. To submit to Transactions on Multimedia, please go to S1M Transactions on Multimedia.

Q. What is the difference between the 10-page limit and the 13-page limit for submitted manuscripts?

• The 10-page limit refers to the number of pages in double-column format that are published with no expense to the author; any manuscript that is published in excess of 10 pages will incur overlength charges, which are charged at $220/page. For example: if your manuscript is accepted with a final manuscript of 12 double-column pages, you will be charged for 2 overlength pages, or $440 total. This is stated at the submission stage as a point of reference, not a page-length limitation.
• The 13-page limit refers to the maximum length we allow for new or resubmitted regular manuscript in double-column format when first going into review. Your manuscript is allowed to grow up to 16 pages (double-column) in the revision stages of review, but when it is first submitted, we will not send it to review if it exceeds 13 pages in length.

Please Note:

• Overlength charges will only be applied once a manuscript is accepted for publication, and will be based on the final version after IEEE editing (which, due to formatting edits, is not always the exact length of the author’s final submitted version).
• Manuscripts that are resubmitted after receiving a rejection decision must follow the same submission standards as a new manuscript.
• For Transactions on Multimedia, overlength charges will be applied starting at the 9th published page
• For Signal Processing Letters, we do not publish overlength manuscripts. For more information regarding Signal Processing Letters, please see the Signal Processing Letters Information for Authors.
• Overlength page charges DO NOT apply to Fully Open Access (Topical) manuscripts, such as those that appear in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
• Overlength page charges DO apply to Open Access manuscripts published in hybrid journals. Exceeding a journal's page limit will incur an overlength page charge of $220 USD per additional published page
• Overview articles are not subject to overlength charges.

Q. What if my manuscript does not fall under any of the provided EDICS categories?

Your manuscript must be assigned an appropriate EDICS (Editors Information Classification Scheme) category in order to go to peer review. The editor-in-chief (EiC) uses EDICS categories in order to assign your manuscript to a qualified associate editor. If your manuscript does not fall appropriately with any of the provided EDICS categories, please make sure that your manuscript fits within the scope of the journal, or research the scopes of the other SPS journals to find the best fit.

Q. Do I have to submit a copyright form when I first submit my manuscript for review?

No, you will not transfer the copyright until the manuscript has been accepted. Should your manuscript be accepted for publication, you will be given the opportunity to sign and submit the copyright form after the submission of your final files. Further, if you do not submit the copyright form immediately after submission of final files, a link to "transfer copyright" will remain open in the submitting author's Author Center under the copyright is submitted. Your manuscript will not publish until the copyright form is signed and submitted.

Q. I noticed that there was a mistake I forgot to fix before I submitted my manuscript. What should I do?

Please contact the journal’s administrator for assistance. If your manuscript has not yet gone to reviewers, it can be sent back to your author center for edits. If the manuscript has gone to reviewers, your corrections will have to be made in the revision phase, after a decision is posted. Please note that you are given the opportunity to carefully proofread all your materials before submission and therefore should only contact the journal’s administrator if the modifications are crucial and would significantly affect the content of your manuscript.

Q. How do I submit an overview article?

Authors interested in submitting overview articles are required to consult first with the editor-in-chief of their Transactions of choice before submitting a white paper proposal. White papers are limited to 2-pages and should motivate the topic, justify the proposal, and include a list of relevant bibliography materials including any available tutorial or overview articles related to the subject matter. The authors should also attach IEEE-style bios. White paper proposals should be submitted directly to the editor-in-chief. From there, the proposal will go through several approval stages (at the Editorial Board and Publication Board levels) before the author is informed whether or not the overview article proposal was accepted.

• Overview articles can be up to double the length of a regular manuscript and are not subject to overlength charges.
• Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing overview articlesare invite-only and do not follow the process outlined above.

Q. My manuscript received an AQ decision, but the status for my revision says "In Peer Review." Doesn’t AQ mean it didn’t need to go through another round of reviews?

Yes, but as soon as a manuscript (either new or in any stage of revision) is assigned to the associate editor, the status changes from "Submitted" to "In Peer Review." The status simply means that your manuscript is now with the associate editor for processing, regardless of what the next steps may be.

Q. What’s the difference between a revision and a resubmission? Why does this matter?

• In ScholarOne, a manuscript is referred to as a revision or a revised manuscript when the previous version has received an RQ or AQ decision, and has been submitted under the same manuscript ID with an .R1 or .R2 added to the end of it (e.g. if your manuscript T-IFS-99999-2014 has been given an RQ decision, the next version is considered a revision and the ID would be T-IFS-99999-2014.R1).
• In ScholarOne, a manuscript is considered a resubmission when the previous version has received an R (Reject) decision. A resubmission is treated by submission standards as a new manuscript (i.e. it must adhere to the 13-page limit), but must still be identified as a resubmission by the authors when it is submitted with both a cover letter and a response-to-reviewers letter.

Q. My manuscript got rejected twice from the same journal. Can I submit it again to the same journal? Can I submit it again to another Signal Processing Society journal?

Authors of a manuscript that has been rejected, from any journal, except for reasons of scope, are allowed to resubmit their manuscript only once. At the time of submission, authors will be asked whether they consider their manuscript to be a new submission or a resubmission of an earlier rejected manuscript. Authors are required to disclose all previous rejection decisions regardless of journal.

Q. How long can my final manuscript be?

The maximum manuscript length we will publish is 16 pages in double-column, single-spaced format, including all references, figures, and author bios. If you submit your final manuscript at greater than 16 pages, we will not publish it until it has been reduced in length (exceptions are granted only by the editor-in-chief and on a case-to-case basis).

Please Note: overview articles can be up to double the length of a regular manuscript and are not subject to overlength charges.

Q. If I decide to publish open access and pay the fee, does it mean that I do not have to pay overlength pages charges (OPCs)?

Overlength page charges (OPCs) are only applied to our hybrid publications and not to our fully open access publication: The Open Journal of Signal Processing. You will only need to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC) for our fully open access publication. However, open access articles published in our hybrid journals will carry APCs and OPCs if the article exceeds the maximum page limit.

Q. How do I pay my overlength charges?

The IEEE Reprints Department is responsible for issuing invoices to authors who incur overlength page charges. If you have yet to receive an invoice, please request one by emailing IEEE Reprints. Detailed payment instructions will appear on your invoice.

Overlength charges can be paid by credit card via fax to +1 732-981-8062, by check or money order via mail, or by wire transfer. For security reasons, IEEE does not accept credit card payments via e-mail.

• For all Signal Processing Society journals (excluding Transaction on Multimedia ), overlength charges will be applied starting at the 11th published page, at a rate of $220/page. For example, if your manuscript is accepted and published at 14 pages, you will incur 4 pages worth of overlength charges and your payment due will be $880.
• For Transactions on Multimedia , overlength charges will be applied starting at the 9th published page, at a rate of $220/page.
• For Signal Processing Letters, we do not publish overlength manuscripts. For more information regarding Signal Processing Letters, please see the Signal Processing Letters Information for Authors.
• Overlength page charges DO NOT apply to Fully Open Access (Topical) manuscripts, such as those that appear in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
• Overlength page charges DO apply to Open Access manuscripts published in hybrid journals. Exceeding a journal's page limit will incur an overlength page charge of $220 USD per additional published page.
• Overview articles are not subject to overlength charges.

Q. How many times a year do SPS journals publish?

All Signal Processing Society publications are volume-only on Xplore now except for Signal Processing Magazine (which publishes 6 times per year) and the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (which also publishes 6 times per year).

Q. When can I expect to see my manuscript on Xplore? When can I expect to see it in print?

• Once we get the files they are processed in 24 hours and appear in Early Access in the next 1-2 business days usually.
• Once your final files have been sent to production, you will receive a confirmation letter that will notify you of your targeted month of publication. You may also contact either the journal’s administrator, or the production editor handling your proofs, for this information.
• Signal Processing Society publications publish online-only except for Signal Processing Magazine.

Q. Where can I find the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for my manuscript?

You will have access to the DOI once you receive your galley proofs. It will be in the email you receive, as well as on the Author Gateway. You can also locate your DOI on the bottom left-hand corner of the first page of the proof.

Q. I was looking at my manuscript on Xplore and I found a mistake. What do I do?

For Xplore questions, please contact the Journals Production Manager for the publication.

Q. If I submit a manuscript to a conference, but then I expand upon it, may I submit it to a journal?

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 manuscript and the manuscript is cited. It is acceptable for conference manuscripts to be used as the basis for a more fully developed journal submission. Still, authors are required to cite related prior work; the manuscripts cannot be identical; and the journal publication must include novel aspects. The question of whether there is sufficient novelty should be determined by the review process and not by a simple measurement of overlap determined by word count. Overlap with an unreviewed technical report or student thesis with the same authors is allowed if the original work is cited. Please visit the journal’s Information for Authors for more information.^ Top

For Reviewers

Q. What if I’ve forgotten my password, or am having trouble logging in?

This can happen due to editors creating on-the-fly accounts for reviewers to add them to manuscripts, not knowing that a reviewer may already have an account in the system. Please contact the journal’s administrator for account/password help.

Q. Why can’t I see the manuscript I agreed to review in my Reviewer Center?

• First, please check to make sure that you are looking in your Reviewer Center, not your Author Center, as all accounts created in ScholarOne are granted both a Reviewer and Author Center.
• If you still cannot see the manuscript, it is possible that the manuscript you agreed to review is in the Reviewer Center of another account under your name. Associate editors can create accounts for reviewers “on the fly” using your name and email address, which can cause users to have multiple accounts of which they are not aware. You can contact the journal’s administrator at any time to combine multiple accounts and consolidate all manuscripts that have been assigned to you.

Q. Where can I find the response-to-reviewers letter that I need to process this revision?

If the authors did not upload the response-to-reviewers file in the Manuscript Files section of their submission, it can be accessed by clicking the “Author’s Response” button at the top of the submission page under the “Manuscript Information” tab. This “Author’s Response” button is located at the far right of the toolbar that also contains the buttons for "HTML," "PDF," "Supplementary Files," "Original Files," "Abstract," "Cover Letter," and "External Searches."

Q. How long do I have to complete the review? Is there a deadline? What if I’m running late?

Deadlines for reviews vary per journal. The editors will provide information on deadline expectations with the review request. If you feel the review will take you longer to complete than the timeline given, please contact the associate editor with the journal’s administrator in copy to arrange an extension. The associate editor may ask you to recommend an alternate reviewer instead.

As a general guideline, if you know you will not be able to complete a review within the timeframe requested, you should decline to review the manuscript.

Q. Can I request the input of my colleagues?

Manuscripts sent to you for review are confidential. However, requesting the opinion of a single colleague may be appropriate in some circumstances. Please consult your associate editor if you’d like to the input of outside help for the review.^ Top

For Associate Editors

Q. How do I know if a manuscript is a revision?

Manuscripts that are submitted as revisions will always have a purple stripe running down the left side of the submission page. They will also have a .R1, .R2, et al added to the end of the manuscript ID, followed by a number that indicates how many rounds of review the manuscript has gone through. Often, the reviewers from the previous version will be auto-populated into the “Awaiting Reviewer Scores” tab of the revised version.

Q. How do I know if a manuscript is a resubmission?

If a manuscript is a resubmission, the coordinator for the journal will have linked the original version to resubmitted manuscript, under the section labeled “Companion Papers ” on the “Manuscript Information” tab. The authors will have also included a cover letter indicating that their manuscript is a resubmission, as well as provided a response letter giving the reasons for resubmission (this may be a response-to-reviewers letter, or something more succinct if the previous version received an Immediate Reject decision).

Q. How do I find the previous version of a revised or resubmitted manuscript?

• For revised manuscripts, the previous version(s) of the manuscript will be located under the "Version History" section on the Manuscript Information tab.
• For resubmitted manuscripts, the previous version of the manuscript will be located under the "Companion Manuscripts" section on the Manuscript Information tab. You can access the previous version by clicking the link that says "View Details."

Q. Why does the system say “No invitation sent” while also saying “Invited” next to the reviewer’s name for this revision? How do I invite the reviewers?

When a revised manuscript is assigned back to the original associated editor the system pulls the reviewers from the first version and says that they are invited, but no email invitations have actually been sent.

Q. How do I invite the reviewers for a revision?

If you want to invite reviewers, please:

• Click "agree" from the drop down menu
• Click "save"
• An email will populate
• Click "send" (Hitting send triggers the system to "invite")
• Repeat steps for each reviewer you want to invite

Q. If a reviewer sends me his/her comments through email, what should I do?

You should ask the reviewer to log into ScholarOne and upload the comments. If the review has already been posted, please ask the admin to rescind the review back to the reviewer so that he/she can upload the comments.

Q. I retired from my AE duties 2 months ago. Why is this revision or resubmission assigned to me?

Signal Processing Society policy dictates that all associate editors are responsible for the full review of the manuscripts assigned to them, including the revision and resubmission phases, regardless of when their terms end. If there is a problem with your availability that will affect handling the last stages of the manuscripts for which you are responsible, you may contact your editor-in-chief to work out a solution.

Q. How do I gain access to my assigned manuscripts while I am traveling?

You may request emailed copies of your assigned manuscripts from the journal coordinator if you have problems accessing them through ScholarOne. However, please be aware that all actions and recommendations must be made through the system in order to maintain accurate records and to move the review process along.

Q. How do I nominate an individual for an Associate Editor position on a publication?

If you are interested in nominating an individual for an associate editor position on a publication associated with your Technical Committee, please contact the publications' editor-in-chief. Information on the Society’s publications can be found on the Society’s Publications page.

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From the bi-monthly IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and “Inside Signal Processing” e-newsletter to the periodicals, special issues, and guides, you have access to a rich library of in-depth resources designed to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

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Information for Authors

Find submission options for Regular Papers and Comment Correspondences, links to author guidelines for SPS journals, and important policies. Learn more.

Publication Guidelines

Explore a comprehensive set of structured guidelines and peer review procedures tailored for contributors - organized by role to ensure clarity, consistency, and excellence in submissions. Learn more.

IEEE Author Center

The IEEE Author Center provides comprehensive resources and guidance for authors preparing, submitting, and publishing their work across IEEE journals and conferences. Learn more.

Special Issue Deadlines

Pagination

The purpose of the publication of articles is to advance the theory, a new novel that will be of both interest and value.

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts of LETTERS. Letters are four page articles designed to provide rapid dissemination of original, cutting-edge ideas and timely, significant contributions in signal, image, speech, language and audio processing.

Submissions/resubmissions must be previously unpublished and may not be under consideration elsewhere.

• provide a clear statement of the problem and what the contribution of the work is to the relevant research community;
• state why this contribution is significant (what impact it will have);
• provide citation of the published literature most closely related to the manuscript; and
• state what is distinctive and new about the current manuscript relative to these previously published works.

By submission of your manuscript to this Letters, all listed authors have agreed to the authorship list and all the contents and confirm that the work is original and that figures, tables and other reported results accurately reflect the experimental work. In addition, the authors all acknowledge that they accept the rules established for publication of manuscripts, including agreement to pay color charges, and any other charges and fees associated with publication of the manuscript. Such charges are not negotiable and cannot be suspended. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining consent from all co-authors and, if needed, from sponsors before submission.

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. Experimental contributions will be rejected without review if there is insufficient experimental data. The Letters are published in English. Papers that have a large number of typographical and/or grammatical errors will also be rejected without review.

In addition to presenting a novel contribution, acceptable manuscripts must describe and cite related work in the field to put the contribution in context. Do not give theoretical derivations or algorithm descriptions that are easily found in the literature; merely cite the reference.

New and revised manuscripts should be prepared following the "Manuscript Submission" guidelines below, and submitted to the online manuscript system, ScholarOne Manuscripts. Do not send original submissions or revisions directly to the Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editors; they will access your manuscript electronically via the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.

Manuscript Submission. Please follow the next steps.

• Account in ScholarOne Manuscripts. If necessary, create an account in the on-line submission system ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please check first 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 IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCID is a persistent unique identifier for researchers and functions similarly to an article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a manuscript or review a proof in this journal.
• Please make sure you are providing complete and accurate name and affiliation information for ALL authors on ScholarOne Manuscripts under the "Authors and Institutions" section during the submission process. If any information is incorrect, please contact the author or the journal administrator to update the information in the author's ScholarOne account. The authors listed on the manuscript __must__match the authors listed under "Authors and Institutions" on ScholarOne.

• If your "contact author” and "submitted author" are two different people, please make sure the “contact author” is able to communicate with the "submitted author" regarding any changes or updates that need to be made to the manuscript files at submission or during peer review.

• Electronic Manuscript. Prepare a PDF file 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. Upload this version of the manuscript as a PDF file "double.pdf" to the ScholarOneManuscripts site. Templates can be found through the- IEEE Template Selector. (LaTeX and MS Word). You will need to click "IEEE Template Selector" and follow the instructions for the template you need.

• EDICS. All submissions must be classified by the author with an EDICS (Editors’ Information Classification Scheme) selected from the list of EDICS published online at the- SPL EDICS page. Upon submission of a new manuscript, please choose the EDICS categories that best suit your manuscript. Failure to do so will likely result in a delay of the peer review process.
• Additional Documents for Review. Please upload pdf versions of all items in the reference list that are not publicly available, such as unpublished (submitted) papers. Graphical abstracts and supplemental materials intended to appear with the final paper (see below) must also be uploaded for review at the time of the initial submission for consideration in the review process. Use short filenames without spaces or special characters. When the upload of each file is completed, you will be asked to provide a description of that file.
• Supplemental Materials. IEEE Xplore can publish multimedia files (audio, images, video, pseudocode and detailed algebraic manipulations of proofs), datasets, and software (e.g. Matlab code) along with your paper. Alternatively, you can provide the links to such files in a README file that appears on Xplore along with your paper. For details, please see- IEEE Author Center: Prepare Supplementary Materials. To make your work reproducible by others, the TRANSACTIONS encourages you to submit all files that can recreate the figures in your paper. The supplemental material may also include additional text related to appendices containing proofs of results, descriptions of additional simulations, etc. When supplemental material is present, the equations, theorems, tables, and figures, etc., should all be numbered consecutively to those in the article, so that a reference to, say, "Fig. 10" is unambiguous. The main body of the article should contain the core ideas and should suffice for most readers, whereas the material in the supplement material should be targeted at specialists who need more detail than what the article page limits allow.
• Submission. After uploading all files and proofreading them, submit your manuscript by clicking "Submit." A confirmation of the successful submission will open on screen containing the manuscript tracking number and will be followed with an e-mail confirmation to the corresponding and all contributing authors. Once you click "Submit," your manuscript cannot be changed in any way.
• 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 requires authors to use the 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.

• Must not exceed four pages of technical information including title; names of authors and their complete contact information; abstract; text; all images, figures and tables, appendices and proofs; overlapping text and/or figures is prohibited. A fifth page is available for references only.
• There will be no exceptions per the EIC in regard to the 5 page maximum page limitation and paying overlength page charges is not an option for a Letters submission per the EIC.
• The DOUBLE-COLUMN version must be a single-spaced (2-column) PDF of 5 pages or less, using a font size of 10 points or larger, having a margin of at least 1 inch on all side.

Resubmission of Previously Rejected Manuscripts. Authors of a manuscript that has been rejected, from any journal, except for reasons of scope, are allowed to resubmit their manuscript 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 a resubmission of a manuscript previously rejected from any journal, except for reasons of scope, you are required to submit a supporting document detailing how the resubmission has addressed the concerns raised during the previous review.

Preprints. Authors may post preprints of the submitted manuscript (i.e., preprints that are identical to the submitted manuscript, except for minor differences) on their personal website, on their employer’s website, and/or on approved third-party preprint servers. Please refer to the IEEE Author Center for complete information, i.e., IEEE Post-Publication Policies and IEEE Post-Publication Policies Infographic. Upon submission, authors are requested to provide a complete list (including URLs) of all posted preprints of the submitted manuscript. These preprints should not be included in the submitted manuscript’s reference list.

All other posted preprints (i.e., preprints by the authors that are not identical to the submitted manuscript, and all other preprints by the authors and/or by other authors) are considered to be prior work. Therefore, for the purpose of evaluating novelty as well as potential plagiarism and self-plagiarism, these other preprints should be included in the submitted manuscript’s reference list whenever relevant, following common practice.

However, if the submitted manuscript is based on one or more other posted preprints, which are not identical to the submitted manuscript but which the authors nevertheless wish to exclude as prior art for the purpose of evaluating novelty, potential plagiarism, and self-plagiarism, authors should explain in detail how these preprints relate to the manuscript, and why these preprints should not be considered prior work. The explanation of how these preprints relate to the manuscript should also be included in a footnote in the manuscript, with the preprints included in the submitted manuscript’s reference list.

Author Misconduct. Author misconduct includes plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and research misconduct, including falsification or misrepresentation of results. All forms of misconduct are unacceptable and may result in sanctions and/or other corrective actions. 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 author’s previously published work that also involves other authors. Self-plagiarism involves the verbatim copying or reuse of an authors own prior work without appropriate citation, including duplicate submission of a manuscript elsewhere (journal or conference), and submission of two different manuscripts which overlap substantially in language or technical contribution. The aforementioned forms of author misconduct also cover materials from third party servers (such as Arxiv). Also, papers including inappropriate or abusive language are subject to Immediate Rejection.

For more information on the definitions, investigation process, and corrective actions related to author misconduct, see the Signal Processing Society Policies and Procedures Manual, Section 6.1. Author misconduct may also be actionable by the IEEE under the rules of Member Conduct.

conference to Journal Papers. It is acceptable for short, up to six (double-column) pages, conference papers to be used as the basis for a more fully developed journal publication. However, authors are required to cite their related prior work, either in the introduction or in a footnote. The papers cannot be identical, and the journal paper should be justified by a clearly identifiable benefit that its publication offers to the research community beyond the already published conference paper. For example, the journal paper may include additional analysis, novel algorithmic enhancements, added theoretical work, completeness of exposition, extensive experimental validation, etc. The added benefits of the journal paper must either be apparent from a reading of the introduction or abstract, or should be clearly and concisely explained in a separate document that accompanies the submission.

Present your journal paper at an upcoming conference. SPS conferences and workshops can offer opportunities for accepted authors of SPS journals to present their results to conference attendees. Authors are encouraged to visit the conference or workshop website for specific information and deadlines on how and when to submit your journal paper to a conference or workshop. Since the paper has been accepted and published by IEEE, no further review of the paper is required. However, it is at discretion of the conference organizers on whether to accept the paper for presentation at the conference. Accepted journal papers will be included in the conference proceedings given to conference attendees, but will not be published in the proceedings that appear on IEEE Xplore.

• Journal paper must have been published by SPS prior to the conference paper submission deadline, and are valid for the next appropriate eligible conference/workshop within a year of initial publication date;
• Paper topic should be aligned with the conference’s technical program;
• Paper can only be submitted to one eligible conference and not to multiple events;
• Copyright to the original paper has already been transferred to IEEE;
• Accepted authors must meet the same registration requirements as all authors.

Submission Format. Authors are required to prepare manuscripts employing the on-line style files developed by IEEE, which include guidelines for abbreviations, mathematics, and graphics. All manuscripts accepted for publication will require the authors to make final submission employing these style files. The style files are available on the web through the IEEE Template Selector. (LaTeX and MS Word).  You will need to click "IEEE Template Selector" and follow the instructions for the template you need.

Please note the following requirements about the abstract:

• The abstract must be a concise yet comprehensive reflection of what is in your article.
• The abstract must be self-contained, without abbreviations, footnotes, displayed equations, or references.
• The abstract must be between 100-175 words.
• The abstract should include a few keywords or phrases, as this will help readers to find it. Avoid over-repetition of such phrases as this can result in a page being rejected by search engines.

In addition to written abstracts, papers may include a graphical abstract; see "Preparing Supplementary Materials" for options and format requirements.

IEEE supports the publication of author names in the native language alongside the English versions of the names in the author list of an article. For more information, see "Structure Your Article" webpage, section titled “Authors.

Refining the Use of English Language in Your Manuscript:

Single-anonymous review process. The articles in this journal are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (IEEE PSPB) (sections 8.2.1.C & 8.2.2.A). Each published article was reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a single-anonymous peer review process, where the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. Articles will be screened for plagiarism before acceptance.

Communication regarding your submission. While most communication will occur between the AE and authors during the peer review process, there may be times when authors have general questions about the process.  Authors are encouraged to reach out to the Publications Coordinator of the publication to which they have submitted if they have any questions about their submission or the peer review process. When communicating with an administrator about a submission, please always include the submissions’ ScholarOne Manuscripts ID number and the title of your submission.

Accepted papers. As of 01-Feb-2018, the Signal Processing Society does not permit changes to a manuscript after it has been accepted for publication. During each stage of the submission/revision process, authors are required to upload a "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" version of their manuscript. If your manuscript is accepted in this round of review, the "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" file will be posted to IEEE Xplore as an early access article. For this reason, we ask that the "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only" be publication ready.

During the revision process, please be sure to remove any colored text or annotations and add any acknowledgments that you would like included in your "Formatted (Double Column) Main File - PDF Document Only." Additionally, if you would like to include an annotated manuscript for reviewers, please upload it as a supporting document.

Open Access. The publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission. Upon submission of your final files, if you choose to have your manuscript be an Open Access article, you commit to pay the discounted OA fee if your manuscript is accepted for publication in order to enable unrestricted public access. The OA fee is $2,495. Any other application charges (such as charge for the use of color in the print format) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete but prior to the publication. If you would like your manuscript to be a Traditional submission, your article will be available to qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required for Traditional submission. Corresponding authors from low-income countries are eligible for waived or reduced open access APCs.

Note: If you would like to submit to a fully Open Access journal, please see the Information for Authors for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing

Page Charges

Color Graphics. All SPS publications are online-only, so color graphics are always free of charge.

EDICS Pages of Journals

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks