IEEE
Transactions on
Circuits and Systems I


General Information for Authors

The IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) is published monthly with a circulation of over 11,000 copies. The field of interest covers the area of pertinence of the Circuits and Systems Society (CAS), namely the theory, analysis, (computer aided) design, and practical implementation of circuits, and the application of circuit theoretic techniques to systems and to signal processing. Consequently, the specific technical content of submitted papers is expected to have a clear connection to the general theme of Circuits and Systems. For example, papers submitted in the circuits or systems area which are discernibly aligned with other IEEE journals showing no relation to previous work developed in, or to emerging systems related to the area of CAS, shall not be submitted to TCAS-I. Furthermore, papers submitted in the circuits area need to demonstrate a performance advantage over prior work (those accompanied by measured results are particularly encouraged), or to substantiate meaningful impact in practical existing applications or in emerging systems that are quickly gaining momentum. Failure to do so, will result in the manuscript sent back without a full review process.
Topics to be covered are specified by means of Editors' Information Classification Scheme (EDICS) system for TCAS-I reported at http://tcas1.polito.it/Forms/kwlist.html.
Only regular papers should be submitted to this Transactions. Short contributions (less or equal 5 pages if formatted according to the 2-colums IEEE style file) should be submitted to the IEEE TCAS-II. For areas which may contain subjects at the borderline with the domain of competence of other IEEE Societies, such as

it is expected that the authors submit to TCAS-I papers which focus also on the impact that a particular signal processing or communication algorithm, and/or control theoretical result may have on the design/implementation/performance of the corresponding circuit or system. In a similar way, for papers which belong to the EDICS category

we expect to receive papers which clearly exploit circuit theoretic methodologies in their analysis/design or present significant results in the integrated circuit implementation.
Papers which will not follow this recommendation may be immediately returned to the authors.
Submission of a contribution is taken to manifest the fact that the same paper has not been submitted, accepted, published or copyrighted elsewhere. Expanded versions of manuscript presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) or other IEEE and non-IEEE Conferences may be submitted to this Transactions; as a rule of thumb 50% additional technical material is expected to be present in the TCAS-I submission with respect to the corresponding conference version. If part of the manuscript has been presented, published or submitted elsewhere, this should be noted in the text and major differences between the prior paper(s) and the manuscript submitted to this Transactions must be explained.
Contributions that are of general interest and value to the other IEEE membership should be submitted for publication to the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE.

Only regular papers should be submitted to this TRANSACTIONS. Express Briefs should be submitted to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS-II: TRANSACTIONS BRIEFS.

Electronic Submission of a Manuscript

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically by using the web site: http://tcas1.polito.it. Please be informed that hard copies of submissions will NOT be accepted. To submit your paper electronically the following steps shall be followed:

  1. Go to http://tcas1.polito.it
  2. You need to register by entering your information if you are not already registered in the database (even as a reviewer). In this case, you will be asked to fill out a form with your name, address, e-mail address, etc. You will also be asked to provide a password.
  3. Fill out the submission form and submit. This will add a record to the submission database and begin the submission process.
  4. You will receive a submission feedback page and a chance to upload your manuscript. You may upload a postscript or pdf (preferred) file by using the browse button to search your hard drive.
  5. If you get the "Thank you" page, your file has been submitted along with the information which describes it. Once the editorial staff has checked your submission for style compliances and printability you will receive an acknowledgment via e-mail informing that the review process has began or asking to resubmit your paper in case of problems.

Style for Submission of Manuscript

  1. Each manuscript must be formatted in must be formatted using the IEEE two-column format since their initial submissions. Style templates can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html
  2. The maximum length of each manuscript is 14 pages including references, figures,tables, equations and biographies.
    Submitted papers that are not compliant with either the allowed page lengths or the style format will be returned to the authors.
  3. Each manuscript should be complete with illustrations (if any), abstract of 100-250 words, keywords and EDICS at the head of a manuscript.
  4. Each manuscript should contain in the first page the full names and (typically as footnotes) affiliation of all authors, as well as their email addresses. Acknowledgement of financial support is often placed at the end of the footnote.
  5. References should appear in a separate bibliography section at the end of the paper, with items referred to by numerals in square brackets, e.g., [12]. In either case, references should be complete and in IEEE style.
    • Style for papers: Author, first initials followed by least name, title, volume, inclusive page numbers, month, and year.
    • Style for books: Author, title, location and publisher, year, chapter or page numbers (if desired).

Important: If part of the manuscript has been presented, published or submitted elsewhere, this should be noted in the submission form that the author will access before uploading their manuscript at http://tcas1.polito.it. In particular, authors must explain major differences between the prior paper(s) and the manuscript submitted to this Transactions.

Detailed instructions for preparation of the final manuscript will be provided upon acceptance of the manuscript for publication. For further information consult:

Review Process

The IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I publishes only peer-reviewed papers. The Editor-in-Chief will assign each submitted manuscript to an Associate Editor, who will rely on anonymous reviews to decide on the acceptance of the paper, on mandatory modifications, and on the publication. The Author is responsible for checking the galley proofs prior to publication. Targeted (electronic) publication time is ten months from the end of the month in which the manuscript is received, provided that the author responds immediately to all communications. In order to accomplish this, the outcome of the review process will be allowed to be a major revision only once, that is, the result of the review process for a revised paper will be binary: an accept (possibly after minor modification requiring an additional, short review round), or a reject decision.

Open Access

This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission. By selection "YES" to the Open Access question in the Author submission webpage, you commit to pay the discounted $1,750 OA fee if your manuscript is accepted for publication in order to enable unrestricted public access.
Any other applicable charges (such as the over-length page charge and/or charge for the use of color in the print format) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete but prior to the publication (See below the section Page Charges).
If you select Traditional submission, your article will be available to qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required for Tradition submission.

Page Charges

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the Author's institution will be approached with a request to pay a voluntary charge of $110 per page (incl. references and biographies) to cover part of the cost of publication. If the voluntary page charge is not honored, IEEE will charge a mandatory page charge of $175 per page for each page in excess of 9 pages (incl. references and biographies) . If the page charge is honored, the author will receive 100 free reprints (without covers). Color photos judged to be essential to demonstrate the results of a paper may be printed in color, but will incur extra cost on the author. Detailed instructions will accompany the page proofs.

Copyright

It is the policy of the IEEE to own the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes. To comply with IEEE copyright policy, authors are required to sign an IEEE Copyright Form before publication. The form is provided upon approval of the manuscript. Authors must submit a signed copy of this form with their approved manuscript. The copyright form is also available online:
If you don't agree to Open Access terms and conditions (Form appears in January issues)
If you agree to Open Access terms and conditions (See the above Open Access section and here)

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