An International Journal A publication of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
Guide for Authors
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their
articles within the scope of the journal. They are requested to submit their articles electronically by using the journal's online submission
and tracking tool at
http://ees.elsevier.com/sigpro/. An electronic (PDF) file is generated and the reviewing process is
carried out using that PDF. Authors and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail via the website and no paper correspondence
is performed.
Electronic articles submitted for the review process may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards.
For this an editable file format is necessary. See the section on "Electronic format requirements" below.
The manuscript
must be written in English and the text of the paper
should be preceded by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
The first page
should include the article title and the author's name and affiliation, as well as a name and mailing address to be used for correspondence
and transmission of proofs. The second page should include a list of unusual symbols used in the article and the number of pages, tables
and figures. It should also contain the keywords in English. For further instructions on how to prepare your article see the section
on the "Presentation of manuscripts" below.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published
previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis). The work must not be not under consideration
for publication elsewhere. Additionally, the work requires approval by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities
where the work was carried out. If accepted, it cannot be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a "Journal Publishing
Agreement" (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming
receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
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Type of contributions
The journal
welcomes the following types of contributions.
Original research articles Research articles should not exceed 30 pages
(single column, double spaced) in length and must contain novel research within the scope of the journal.
Review articles Review
articles are typically 30-60 pages (single column, double spaced) in length, and provide a comprehensive review on a scientific topic.
They may be relatively broad in scope, thereby serving a tutorial function, or be quite specialized, aimed at researchers in the chosen
field.
Fast Communications A Fast Communication is a short, self-contained article not exceeding 10 pages (single column,
double spaced) in length on ongoing research, or reporting interesting possibly tentative ideas, or comments on previously published
research. The editorial decision is typically binary to provide rapid dissemination of the results. The objective is to provide detailed,
constructive feedback on submitted papers and publish high quality papers within a very short period of time. The target for a first
reply is two months.
You may be requested by the Editor to submit a revision. Please assist us in achieving our ambitious goals for
short publication times by submitting a revision at your earliest convenience. One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail
to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited)
manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
The objective is to
provide detailed, constructive feedback on submitted papers and publish high quality papers within a very short period of time. The target
for a first reply is three months. You may be requested by the Editor to submit a revision. Please assist us in achieving our ambitious
goals for short publication times by submitting a revision at your earliest convenience.
One set of page proofs in
PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to,
the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
Elsevier
will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. In order to do this we
need your help. When you receive the (PDF) proof of your article for correction, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections
are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete.
Note that this does not mean you have any less time to make your corrections, just that only one set of corrections will be accepted.
The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated to the Publisher within the term
requested with the proofs (within 48 hours). Should there be no corrections, please confirm this.
We accept most wordprocessing formats,
but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Save your files
using the default extension of the program used.
Wordprocessor documents
It is important that the file be saved in the native
format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most
formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify
text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations
or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid
for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text
should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/howtosubmitpaper). Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic
text and on the manuscript. See also the section on Preparation of electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly
advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX documents
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs
will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsart", or alternatively
the standard document class "article".
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained
from the Quickguide: http://www.elsevier.com/latex or from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): see below, in
the directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier. It consists of the files: elsart.cls, guidelines for users of elsart,
a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".
Artwork
Submitting your
illustrations, pictures, tables and other artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards,
ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. For detailed guidelines on electronic figures, please refer to the artwork instructions
at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. This site shows how to prepare your artwork for electronic submission and
includes: common problems, suggestions on how to ensure the best results, and guidelines for popular applications. See the links under
"Application guidelines" for details about using specific artwork software.
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Title page.
The title page should
contain the article title, author(s) names and affiliations, related footnotes, the text of the abstract and a list of keywords.
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also
post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the correct e-mail address
and the complete postal address.
Keywords.
Immediately after the abstract, provide 3-5 keywords, avoiding general and plural
terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of").
Acknowledgements.
Place acknowledgements
before the references, in a separate section, and not as a footnote on the title page.
References.
See separate section below.
References
Citations in the text.
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference
list (and vice versa).
Citing and listing of web references.
As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information,
if known (author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given.
Text.
Indicate references
by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always
be given.
Example: "... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ..."
List.
Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples
Reference to a book:
[1] M. Kunt, Digital Signal Processing, Artech House, Norwood, MA, 1986, Chapter 6, pp. 319-338.
Reference
to a journal publication:
[2] F.J. Harris, On the use of windows for harmonic analysis with the discrete Fourier transform, Proc.
IEEE 66 (1) (1978) 53-83.
Reference to a conference paper:
[3] D. Coulon and D. Kayser, A supervised-learning technique to identify
short natural language sentence, Proc. 3rd Internat. Joint Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Coronado, CA, 8-11 November 1976, pp. 85-89.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[4] E.F. Moore, The firing squad synchronization problem, in: E.F. Moore (Ed.), Sequential
Machines, Selected Papers, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1964, pp. 213-214.
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and more.
Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided
after registration of an article for publication.
Free online reproduction of colour figures.
Online visibility within three weeks after acceptance through ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com). Your article is
immediately linkable and citeable by using the Digital Object Identifier.
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided
with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published
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