期刊名称：IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine is ranked as the number three most-cited journal in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2004, according to the annual Journal Citation Report (2004 edition) published by the Institute for Scientific Information. Read more at http://www.ieee.org/products/citations.html.
This publication features tutorial style papers on signal processing research and applications. The primary means of communication of the society leadership with the entire membership. |
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Instructions to Authors
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Electronic Submission Guidelines |
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Requirements for submitting
Electronic Text and Graphic Files
IEEE Magazines and Newsletters can accept text in the formats listed below. Microsoft Word is the preferred file format. If your text processor is not listed below, Rich Text Format is the preferred alternative; if not available you may save your file as ASCII. (ASCII files need two paragraph returns between paragraphs.) In all cases you must submit hard copy. In cases where an electronic file and the printed copy differ, the printed version will prevail.
When preparing your paper the fewer layout specifications (such as multiple columns, font changes, type size, page parameters, etc.) the better. Please use italic, sub- and superscript, and special characters as needed. You should not mimic the pages of publication your paper will be published, nor need you include graphics within the document file. Guidelines for graphics files are also available at this site.
Do not provide your paper in the format of desktop publishing software, such as QuarkXpress, Ventura or Framemaker. Do not provide your paper in PostScript form.
If possible avoid automatic numbering for heads, references, or numbered lists.
Acceptable Text Formats
ANSI text
ASCII text
Microsoft Word (for Windows or Macintosh)
Rich Text Format
WordPerfect
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Requirements for submitting Electronic Graphic Files
There are two types of graphic files, bitmaps and vectors. A bitmap image is defined in terms of (colored or black) dots, it follows that such an image is fixed with respect to both size and resolution. Since a bitmap¡¯s resolution is fixed, printing a bitmap at a larger size results in a loss of resolution. It is therefore important that bitmap images be created in the right size, and at the highest resolution possible (see below). Vector graphic files define an image as lines and curves and can be scaled up or down with little or no loss of definition.
Scanned images are always bitmaps. Drawing programs, such as Illustrator, Corel Draw, usually produce vector files. Presentation programs, such as PowerPoint produce vector files.
In all cases, legible hard copy of images must be submitted along with the electronic version. This hard copy should be of the highest possible quality; in the event that an electronic file is unusable IEEE may scan the hard copy to create an electronic image. Thus printer resolution, toner quantity, and even paper quality can affect the final result.
Photo images may be supplied as photographs, slides, or transparencies. Laser proofs or magazine cutouts are unacceptable.
Graphics files should not be provided from within a word processing program such as MS Word or WordPerfect. Graphics files are ideally supplied in the format that is produced by your graphics software, as listed below.
Identify what graphic program produced the file as well as what format the file is in. Figures should be numbered as they will appear in the article and contain the appropriate 3- or 4-character extension to identify the format.
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Bitmap Format
(including all scans)
Included in this format are TIFF (*.TIF), PCX,
JPEG (*.JPG), Kodak Photo-CD (*.PCD),
and GIF files.
Bitmaps are measured in dots per inch (dpi). They should be at least 300 dpi at the final printed size (600 dpi is preferred). In other words, if your image is to be printed 3.5 inches wide it should contain at least 1050 (300 dots x 3.5 inches) dots horizontally and preferrably 2100 (600 dots x 3.5 inches) dots horizontally. When in doubt as to proper size, it is best to error on the larger size rather than making a graphic too small. Check the settings of your graphics software. Do not try to use the file size to guess the resolution, since compression and color and other information encoded in the file makes this unreliable.
Most home and office scanners are set on 72 dpi as a default. Images scanned at this setting will be unacceptable for publication. Please make sure your scanner is set to at least 600 dpi.
Since magazines are printed at a resolution that is much greater than that of a computer screen, images of lesser resolution will appear to be out of focus, or show evidence of "bitmapping." For example, diagonal lines will look like a flight of stairs. Files created for the web are optimized for viewing on a computer monitor which can show images at 72 dpi thus are too small by a factor of at least 4 and therefore images created for or captured from the web are generally unacceptable for publication. GIF images are generally automatically optimized for use on the web and are therefore rarely acceptable for publication and should be avoided. Screen captures will also be low resolution and should be avoided.
Photographs, images with tints (use tints only when necessary, never just for appearance), and other grayscale images should be of good quality with proper contrast. Too high contrast will cause your image to appear "washed out" when printed; too low contrast will appear to be a blob of black and/or gray. If text must be placed in the image make sure that it is of sufficient contrast with the surrounding area that it will be legible. Text should be 8 point Helvetica (or Swiss) when the image is at the final printed size. (If you are adding text in Adobe PhotoShop, please add text on a separate layer and send the file in native PhotoShop (*.PSD) format.)
Color images should meet all the requirements of grayscale images and should be saved in CMYK format
Bitmaps should be saved in TIFF (TIF) format.
Saving a low resolution file with a higher resolution setting in a program such as PhotoShop DOES NOT increase the resolution of the image. All it does is create a larger filesize for the same low resolution image.
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Vector Format
Included in this format are
Adobe Illustrator (*.AI, *.EPS)
CorelDRAW (*.CDR),
and other DRAW type programs (*.EPS)
Unlike bitmapped images, vector graphics are resolution-independent and can be sized without any loss of resolution. However, if there is are labels or other text in the image, the image should be sized appropriately to the publication and text should be 8 point Helvetica (or Swiss). Other fonts should be avoided as they will have to be changed to match the publication style. If other fonts are absolutely required (such as for advertising or trademarked material) they should be converted to curves before being saved.
All line weights and outlines should be .5 point in weight. All colors should be defined as CMYK, avoiding Pantone or spot colors. White boxes may not be used to "break" lines (or cover any unwanted aspect of your drawing) as this makes tinting a graphic impossible. Use two separate lines to draw a broken line. Avoiding putting in your own tints if for appearance only, such decisions are better made by the design staff associated with the magazine.
Where possible, files should be saved and sent in native format, but where that is impossible, graphics may be saved in Encapsulated PostScript format.
CorelDRAW files must be converted to an EPS format.
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Digital Cameras
Photographs taken with Digital Cameras are acceptable as long as they meet all the above requirements. In general you should always set the camera to its highest resolution and size settings and the compression set to "off". Once again, files that are larger than necessary are perfectly acceptable, while files that are smaller than required are not. (Note that many older consumer level Digital Cameras are not capable of producing an acceptable resolution even at their highest setting.)
In most cases, the minimum image size should be 1050 pixels in width for a single column image, and 2100 pixels in width for a two (or three if three column format) column wide image. Double those figures is optimal.
Digital Camera Images are usually stored as JPEG files and should be submitted as such. If another format is used, please make sure that it matches one of the acceptable file formats listed above.
As always, hard copy of the image must accompany the electronic version.
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Instructions to Authors
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Editorial Board
Editor: K. J. Ray Liu
University of Maryland
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: +1 301 405 6619
Fax: +1 301 314 9920
Email: kjrliu@eng.umd.edu
Senior Managing Editor: Geri Krolin-Taylor
Telephone: (732) 562-6879
Fax: (732) 981-1855
E-mail: g.krolin-taylor@ieee.org
Editor-in-Chief
Shih-Fu Chang
Columbia University
1312 S.W. Mudd
500 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
Phone: +1 212 854 6894
Fax: +1 212 932 9421
Email: sfchang@ee.columbia.edu |
Business Development Manager
Susan Schneiderman
Phone: +1 732 562 3946
Fax: +1 732 981 1855
Email: ss.ieeemedia@ieee.org |
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