Digital Signal Processing illuminates and explores the path of creativity in the field of signal processing. The journal publishes a diverse content of original research articles and reviews, covering new technologies, significant new programs, and breakthroughs in the field. Each article is critically peer-reviewed, ensuring top-quality research and information.

The journal is a timesaving aid to electronic engineers and to researchers, scientists, and corporate managers who want to keep abreast of vital research and information that is typically scattered among a number of separate publications.

Digital signal processing, a discipline that spans electrical engineering, computing, mathematics and the physical sciences, includes applications such as

• Image processing
• Neural networks
• Pattern recognition
• Digital communications
• Biomedical applications
• Speech processing
• Underwater acoustics
• Radar signal processing
• Astronomy
• Geophysical data analysis

Authors should select their first and second choices for categorizing their manuscript according the following article classification scheme:

• Digital filtering
• Time-series analysis
• Multichannel signal processing
• Multidimensional signal processing
• Speech and audio processing
• Image and multimedia processing
• Communications
• Implementation, design, and hardware
• Statistical signal processing
• Pattern recognition
• Information fusion
• Emerging techniques
• Education

Submission of articles
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission available at http://ees.elsevier.com/dsp. This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors can upload their articles as LaTeX, Microsoft (MS) Word, or WordPerfect files. It is also possible to submit an article in PostScript or Adobe Acrobat PDF format, but if the article is accepted, the original source files will be needed. If you submit a word processing file, the system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used for the reviewing process. Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.

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), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that 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 material from other copyrighted works is 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 http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights. Please submit with the manuscript the names and addresses (including e-mail address) of four potential referees.

Electronic format requirements for accepted articles
General points

We accept most word-processing 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.

Word processor 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 Elsevier "Guide to Publishing with Elsevier" at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/guidepublication). Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text.

To avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the spell checking function of your word processor.

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. 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".

Note: Although Elsevier can process most word processor file formats, should your electronic file prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hard-copy printout.

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 "Creating Your Artwork" for details about using specific artwork software.

If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures, then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article.

Please note: Because of technical complications that can arise in converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print), please submit in addition usable black-and-white prints corresponding to all the color illustrations.

Presentation of manuscripts
Please write your text in clear, concise, and grammatical English.

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 , 4F Higashi-Azabu, 1 Chome Bldg., 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan; tel.: +81-3-5561-5032; fax: +81-3-5561-5045; e-mail: jp.info@elsevier.com.

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, as well as 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. Please provide 3-5 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and," "of").

Acknowledgments. Place acknowledgments before the references, in a separate section, and not as a footnote on the title page.

References. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

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. Use the most recent edition of the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index for abbreviations of journal titles.

Reference to a journal publication:
[1] O. Besson, P. Stoica, Training sequence selection for frequency offset estimation in frequency selective channels, Digital Signal Process. 13 (2003) 106-127.

Reference to a book:
[2] Schowengerdt, R.A., Techniques for Image Processing and Classification in Remote Sensing. Academic Press, New York, 1981.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] Haralick, R.M., Edge and region analysis for digital image data, in: A. Rosenfeld (Ed.), Image Modeling, Academic Press, New York, 1981, pp. 171-184.

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.

Biographies
Include in the manuscript a short (maximum 100 words) biography of each author, consisting of where and when the author's degrees were received, where and in what position the author is currently, what the author's research interests are, and whatever other information about the author's professional career the author wishes to include.

Preparation of supplementary material
Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer additional possibilities for publishing supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips, and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com). To ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Please note, however, that supplementary material will not appear in the printed journal. Files can be stored on 3?-inch diskette, ZIP disk, or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh). For more detailed instructions, please contact the Editorial Office (e-mail: dsp@elsevier.com; telephone; (619) 699-6337; fax: (619) 699-6700).

Proofs
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 have 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.

Author inquiries
For inquiries relating to manuscript preparation and submission, please refer to http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/dsp. This site will also provide status information during review and, after acceptance, production of your article. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those related to proofs, will be provided when your article is accepted for publication.

Author benefits
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF article via e-mail. 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.

Page charges are not applicable.

Accepted articles will be available on average four weeks after acceptance at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/10512004