Overview:
The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory will now be
supporting
electronic submission of manuscripts. The electronic submission
is
optional, and is intended to expedite the review process.
Submission Procedure:
The author(s) should submit two e-mails to the Editor-in-Chief,
one containing a cover letter and the other containing the
postscript file of the paper. Alternatively, postscript files
may be submitted via FTP (see below). All e-mails should be
addressed to:
submit@it.csl.uiuc.edu
The cover letter must be submitted by e-mail. It should
be phrased
in the same way as it would be normally phrased for conventional
hard copy submission. In addition, this letter must contain
the
following information items:
* Title and abstract of the paper. The abstract may be
appended at the end of the cover letter, as plain text.
Do *not* send the abstract as an attachment. In case the
abstract contains mathematical expressions, LaTeX notation
may be used.
* Information about the postscript file of the paper
indicating
whether it is submitted by e-mail or via FTP, including
the
file name (for FTP submission) or the subject line of
the
corresponding e-mail (for e-mail submission).
* Name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail
address
of all the authors.
* Manuscript type designation (regular paper or correspondence).
* Associate Editorial area suggested by the author(s).
Author submitting e-mail that contains the cover letter
will be
automatically assigned as the corresponding author for the
paper.
The postscript file of the manuscript should be submitted
in one
of the following two ways. It may be sent by e-mail as plain
unencoded ASCII text. The postscript file should be included
in
the body of the e-mail. Do *not* send it as an "attached"
document.
The subject line of the e-mail should be composed of the last
name
of the corresponding author, followed by the "ps"
suffix. (For
example, a subject line consisting of shannon.ps would be a
valid
one.) Alternatively, the postscript file may be submitted via
FTP
(Internet File Transfer Protocol). To do so, authors should
access
the following FTP site:
ftp.it.csl.uiuc.edu
login as "anonymous" using e-mail address as password,
and put the
postscript file in the it_submit directory. The file name should
be
composed of the last name of the corresponding author followed
by
the "ps" suffix (e.g., shannon.ps). More detailed
instructions for
the FTP submission procedure may be obtained by sending e-mail
to
the following address: help@it.csl.uiuc.edu.
Copyright:
Electronic submission implies a transfer of copyright to
the IEEE
in accordance with IEEE copyright agreement. If a submission
is
accepted for publication, a written and signed copyright form
would
have to be provided by the corresponding author.
Review Procedures:
Manuscripts submitted in electronic form will be reviewed
according
to the usual editorial procedures and standards of the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory. However, the intent is
to have
all communication between authors, editors, and referees by
e-mail,
thereby expediting the review process.
Hard copies:
Hard copies of papers submitted in electronic form ordinarily
will
not be required. However, the authors should be ready to provide
such hard copies at all stages of the editorial review process,
upon request from the Editor-in-Chief or from the Associate
Editor
assigned to the paper. In addition, if and when a paper is
accepted
for publication, two hard copies of the final version of the
paper
will be requested from the authors.