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The International Journal for the Computer and Telecommunications Industry
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Guide for Authors
 http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom/
Computer Communications is an international journal
catering for all those involved in managing, designing or operating data communications and networking activities. It provides engineers,
researchers, and consultants and systems managers in academia and industry with key papers on practical developments in computer and
telecommunications technology.
Computer Communications invites research, review and application papers and case studies
on a wide range of data communication topics, including: broadband communications, communications systems performance, cscw/group work,
data security, digital communications, distributed systems, electronic data interchange, high-speed networks, industrial communications,
LANs/WANs/MANs, network management, operating systems and optimization, office automation, OSI implementation and issues, packet switching,
performance issues, protocols, standardization.
Types of Contributions
Ideal research papers on significant developments
will describe the relevant theoretical and practical background, and give workable examples in real applications, stressing the practicality
of the work presented.
Review papers are encouraged where these give genuine reviews of specific areas of data communications
and networking research and development.
Application papers will show the results of using a technique critically, in a
way that will influence the direction of research. Some of the applications covered in the journal are: networking, electronic mail,
distributed systems, EFTS networks and protocol use.
Case studies describe the practical application of a communications
technique in a particular case, giving details of the problems encountered and how they were overcome.
Submission of Articles
Electronic submissions only
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal's online
submission and peer-review systems at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. Please follow the instructions given on this site.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
In case you submit a special section paper that will be handled by a designated Special Section
Guest Editor, please follow the instructions below:
1. Author registers in EES (follow the instructions on the site)
2. Select:
Submit Manuscript from Main Menu
3. When choosing Article Type please select the title of the special issue you are submitting
to
From then on follow the steps as laid out in EES.
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), it is not under consideration for
publication elsewhere, its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the
work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not 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 transfer copyright. This transfer
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of
the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included,
the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted
forms for use by authors in these cases, which can be obtained from the Author Gateway's Guide to Publishing with Elsevier at http://authors.elsevier.com.
NB: Papers submitted to Computer Communications may also be posted on The Computer Science Preprint Server at http://www.compscipreprints.com.
Such posting on The Computer Science Preprint Server is in conformity with Elsevier copyright policy and in no way conflicts with submission
to Computer Communications.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage
is accepted, but not a mixture of these. Use decimal points (not commas); use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).
Authors in Japan
kindly note that, upon request, Elsevier Japan will provide a list of people who can check and improve the English of an article before
submission. Contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier K.K., Editorial Service, 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan; tel.:
+81-3-5561-5032; fax: +81-3- 5561-5045; e-mail: info@elsevier.co.jp
Provide the following data on the title page (in
the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations
and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name),
please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all
affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide
the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
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 e-mail address and the complete
postal address.
Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done,
or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address
at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for
such footnotes.
Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the
research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to
stand alone. References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the reference
list.
Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the
abstract itself.
Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide 3-5 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple
concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be
eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations. Define abbreviations that are not standard in
this field at their first occurrence in the article: in the abstract but also in the main text after it. Ensure consistency of abbreviations
throughout the article.
N.B. Acknowledgements. Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article
and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.
Subdivision of the article.
After the abstract, divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2),
1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer
to 'the text.' Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Appendices.
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate
numbering: (Eq. A.1), (Eq. A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, (Eq. B.1) and so forth.
Acknowledgements. Place acknowledgements
before the references, in a separate section, and not as a footnote on the title page.
References
Responsibility for the
accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the authors.
Citations in the text: Please ensure that every reference
cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full.
Unpublished results and personal communications should not be in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a
reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
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. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired,
or can be included in the reference list.
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 journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J.
Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51-59.
Reference to a book:
[2] W.
Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3]
G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z.
Smith (Eds.), Introduction to
the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304.
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://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
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 Creating your Artwork for details about using specific artwork
software.
General points
We accept most word-processing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX, and if supplying
latex, please accompany by PDF. An electronic word processor version of the text must be submitted for the final accepted version of
a manuscript. We recommend that authors always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety and that they label
storage media with your name, journal title, and software used.
Word-processed documents
It is important that
the file be saved in the native format of the word processor 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
word processor'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 word processor'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 Author Gateway's Quick guide: http://authors.elsevier.com/). 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 'spell checker' function of your word processor.
LaTeX
documents
LaTeX templates and detailed documentation for their use are available for downloading from the Elsevier LaTeX
Support page. Note that the use of other specialized versions of TeX or extensive use of custom macros may necessitate conventional
typesetting from the hard-copy manuscript. The use of templates is optional.
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
Author Gateway's Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: http://authors.elsevier.com. It consists of the files: elsart.cls (use
this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart12.sty (use these two files if you are using
LaTeX2.09, the previous version of LaTeX), guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet
"Preparing articles with LaTeX".
Note: Although Elsevier can process most wordprocessor file formats, should your electronic file
prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hardcopy printout.
Reviewing policy
Computer Communications
review policy is based on the following principles:
- All manuscripts will be subject to a well established, fair, unbiased
peer review and refereeing procedure.
- Authors may be asked to revise parts of a paper.
- The reviewing structure will
always ensure the anonymity of the referees.
- The Editor reserves the right to reject a paper if it does not meet the aims and
scope of the
journal, it is not technically sound, it is not revised satisfactorily, or if it is inadequate in presentation.
- Should
authors be requested by the editor to revise the text, the revised version should be submitted within 6 weeks. Authors who need more
time are kindly requested to contact the editor. If the Editor has not heard from the author within 6 weeks after a request for revision,
a revised version will be regarded as a new submission.
Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be
sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Only typesetting or editing errors may be corrected; no changes in, or additions to the accepted
manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Corrections are to be returned by the author in one communication. Subsequent/late corrections
will not be possible.
The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated to the Publisher
within the term requested with the proofs. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this.
Author benefits
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 article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining
the terms and conditions of use.
Authors are entitled to a 30% discount on Elsevier books.
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