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JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION
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Guide for Authors
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Editorial Office
525 B Street, Suite 1900
San Diego, CA
92101-4495, USA
Telephone: (619) 699-64844
Fax: (619) 699-6211
E-mail: jvis@elsevier.com
The Journal
of Visual Communication and Image Representation publishes papers on the state-of-the-art of visual communication and image representation
with emphasis on novel technologies and theoretical work in this multidisciplinary area of pure and applied research. The field of visual
communication and image representation is considered in its broadest sense and covers both digital and analog aspects as well as processing
and communication in biological visual systems.
Regular papers, research reports, and short communications describing either original
research results or novel technologies are welcome. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, all aspects of:
- Image scanning, sampling, and tessellation
- Image representation by partial information
- Local and global
schemes of image representation
- Information aspects of image recovery
- Analog and digital image processing
- Fractals and mathematical morphology
- Image understanding and scene analysis
- Deterministic and stochastic
image modeling
- Visual data reduction and compression
- Image coding and video communication
- Biological
and medical imaging
- Early processing in biological visual systems
- Psychophysical analysis of visual perception
- Astronomical and geophysical imaging
- Visualization of nonlinear natural phenomena
Submission of
manuscripts. Manuscripts must be written in English. Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines
to prepare your article. Please visit  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cviu/ where you will be guided stepwise through the
creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of
the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission
for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification
of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy
paper trail.
There are no submission fees or page charges. Each manuscript should be accompanied by a letter outlining the basic
findings of the paper and their significance.
Peer reviewers evaluate the quality of the manuscript and its suitability for the journal.
The structure of the refereeing process ensures the anonymity of the reviewers.
Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding
that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission
for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. It is further understood
that any person cited as a source of personal communications has approved such citation; written authorization may be required at an
Editor-in-Chief's discretion. Articles and any other material published in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
represent the opinions of the authors and should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the Editors-in-Chief, the Editorial Board,
or the Publisher. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in the Journal of Visual Communication
and Image Representation will be immediately returned to the authors without detailed review.
Copyright and permissions.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright, see http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights). 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 after acceptance.
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: contact Elsevier's Rights Department,
Oxford, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com.
Language polishing.
Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit www.elsevier.com/locate/languagepolishing or contact authorsupport@elsevier.com for more information. Please note Elsevier
neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods, or services offered by outside vendors through our services or in
any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms and Conditions at http://www.elsevier.com/termsandconditions.
Manuscript preparation. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX template available at http://www.elsevier.com/latex
for manuscript preparation. The Elsevier LaTeX package (which includes detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) consists of the
files elsart.cls (use this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart13.sty (use these two files
if you are using LaTeX3.09, the previous version of LaTeX), guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start, and the
instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX."
Figures may be inserted in the usual way using an \includegraphics command,
at the position in the article where they are cited.
Your LaTeX file will be most useful as input for the printed article if you obey
the following rules of thumb:
1. Be consistent. If you use a macro for a phrase, use it throughout.
2. Use standard LaTeX mark-up.
Do not hardcode your own layout, e.g., section headings, but use the usual LaTeX macro for this purpose.
3. Keep it simple. Do not
define macros that accomplish complicated layout. They will also make the input process complicated.
Number all pages consecutively
and organize the paper as follows.
Title page (page 1). This page should contain the article title, authors' names and complete
affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and fax number).
Abstract (page 2). The abstract must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150
words. After the abstract a list of up to 10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
References.
Cite references in the text by an Arabic numeral between brackets as [1], [1,2], [1, Theorem 5.4], etc. It is suggested that text references
be given in the form "As Jones [31] showed. . .," rather than "As [31] showed. . . ." References should be listed in the order cited
in the text and typed double-spaced throughout. Follow the styles shown in the following examples:
[1] V. Di Lecce, A. Gurriero,
An evaluation of the effectiveness of image features for image retrieval, J. Visual Commun. Image Rep. 10 (1999) 351-362.
[2]
R. A. Schowengerdt, Techniques for Image Processing and Classification in Remote Sensing, Academic Press, New York, 1981.
[3]
M. Tuceryan, A. K. Jain, Y. Lee, Texture segmentation using Voronoi polygons, in: J. Joyce, A. Walker, G. Sands (Eds.), Proceedings,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988, pp. 94-99.
For unpublished lectures or symposia,
include the title of the paper, name of the sponsoring society in full, and the date. For journal names, follow "Abbreviations of Names
of Serials, reviewed in Mathematical Reviews" (American Mathematical Society, 1995). When in doubt about employing certain abbreviations,
use clarity as a guide.
Footnotes. In text, footnotes should be avoided. If absolutely necessary, identify them by superscript
Arabic numerals in order of their appearance and type them together on a separate page, double-spaced.
Tables. Number tables
consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short
descriptive title directly above and essential footnotes below.
Figures. Number figures with Arabic numerals. Type all legends
consecutively on a separate sheet. Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS, or MS Office files) and
at the correct resolution. For information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Color figures. 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. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please
see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
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 files corresponding to all the color illustrations.
Equations. The numbers for displayed equations should
be placed in parentheses at the right margin. References to equations should use the form "Eq. (3)" or simply "(3)."
Biographies.
The manuscript should include a small photograph and a brief professional biography of approximately 100 words for each author. The biography
should consist 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. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish 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 submitted material is directly usable, please provide data in one of our recommended file formats. Data should be supplied
together with the article, with a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Proofs. Article proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author.
Author inquiries. For inquiries relating
to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
This site provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed,
as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions, 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.
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