IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Electronic Publishing Procedures


Welcome!  Thank you for choosing to submit your manuscript to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B electronically. You can expect faster, high quality reviews.  You can include attachments. In addition, our goal is that your paper will appear on the IEEE XPLORE  web site in four to five weeks after we receive the final accepted version with copyright, and later will appear in the printed journal. The following set of pages enables you to submit an electronic version of  your journal article for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B.  Please note that as of January 1, 2002 all papers to Part B must be submitted electronically. The submission process and the advantages are described below. General information on the SMC society  and the Transactions  is available by following the highlighted links. Reviewer guidelines are within Manuscript Central with some additional ones  here.

You can find papers accepted for future publication in IEEE Explore by clicking here.

 Why submit electronically?

 What is the format? What kinds of attachments?

 How do I submit my paper now that it is written?

Why?

Electronic submission is expected to significantly reduce the review cycle.  More importantly, it allows you to include attachments  (e.g. images, video, animations) to help explain the research represented in the paper.  You can include code and data that allows others to build on your research.  In addition, an accepted paper that was submitted electronically will appear on the IEEE XPLORE web site within 3 weeks of receipt of the corrected page proofs of an accepted, formatted paper , so you get your work disseminated faster.  The paper will appear in print  in the usual way at a later time in the IEEE Transactions on SMC, Part B for archival purposes.

What?

Your paper must be submitted in Portable Document Format (pdf) or PostScript.  It must print correctly on 8.5 X 11 inch paper.  For Unix and Windows systems there are postscript to pdf converters, notably ps2pdf which is a part of ghostscript.  A text version of your abstract is required.
You will find that PDF  files are usually smaller and  therefore faster to upload than PostScript files.

The following are allowable attachments at this time:

There are publicly available viewers for most platforms for each of the first 3 types of attachments. Details of acceptable attachments are provided here.

Formatting instructions are available here:  Author guidelines

How?

When you are ready to submit, please follow this link to our ManuscriptCentral site:
  http://smcb-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/
You will have to create an account, if you do not yet have one.  Then you will log in and be asked for contact information, keywords and an abstract.   You will then upload either your paper or a file  indicating the paper and attachment files that you will be uploading.  Then a paper number will be generated and returned to you. The site has instructions and/or help buttons on each page.
 

Caveats

We have seen a large increase in submissions and are getting papers posted that will not appear until 2004.

If you have problems or questions please send email to:

Diane J. Cook,
Editor-In-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Box 19015
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
Phone (817) 272-3606
Fax (817) 272-3784
cook@cse.uta.edu