The backlog of manuscripts under review process has now reduced with
a couple of special issues having been wrapped up and publication
schedule for the rest of the year firmly in place. Europe folks
(potential authors as well as reviewers) will be getting back to work
soon as well. Accordingly, we are now in a position to process new
submissions expedetiously. It would therefore be a good time for
those planning on seeing their work published in Information Fusion
Journal to submit their manuscripts to get a speedy review.
With the new system, your papers are published electronically online
as soon as they pass the acceptance and proofs stage without having
to wait for the hardcopy publication schedule and the associated
backlogs caused by issue size/pagelimitations.
Also, if you have ideas for special issues for the Journal,please
feel free to contact me at belur@...

Here are some procedural aspects and policy notices regarding
manuscript submission for you information
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The general policy of the Journal requires that the m/s be original
previously unpublished work. Please include with the submission
letter a statement whether this m/s or its equivalent has been
previously published or presented in any forum/form or is currently
under such consideration elsewhere and if so provide full details.
IF AN EARLIER CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP VERSION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, IT IS
NECESSARY THAT THE MANUSCRIPT IS SUBSTANTIALLY REVISED, EXPANDED AND
DIFFERENT FROM ANY CONFERENCE VERSION AND THE CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
IS INCLUDED AS A REFERENCE. ALSO TO THE EXTENT FEASIBLE IT IS
NECESSARY TO ELIMINATE/MINIMIZE DUPLICATION BETWEEN THIS M/S AND
EARLIER CONFERENCE VERSION. THIS WILL AVOID COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS AS
WELL AS PRESERVE THE JOURNAL REPUTATION AS A VENUE FOR PUBLICATION OF
ORIGINAL WORK OF ARCHIVAL QUALITY. PLEASE SEND DIRECTLY TO THE
EDITOR AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE EARLIER RELATED PAPERS IF ANY TO
FACILITATE THE REVIEW PROCESS.
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Information Fusion Journal online Paper Submission Procedure

If you do not already have a profile/account at Elsevier, you should
set up a new profile/account before commencing the e-submission
process. You will need to register via Elsevier's Author Gateway

http://authors.elsevier.com
(When an author has registered once this profile should be used for
all future online submissions - Also, please do not change your user
name in the middle of processing of a submitted paper till it is
published - otherwise revisions etc cannot be made easily). When you
register, you create a username and password, which you will need to
fill in this information every time you want to access/logon to the
system.



In order to submit a manuscript to the journal Information Fusion you
should access the following link:

http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?
PubID=620862&Precis=DESC

Click on the "Online submission Link"

You will be asked to enter your UPC details (Username & Password)

Click on the "submit new paper" button



The submission process is made up of seven steps



Step 1 - Enter the title of the Article

Choose an editor or editorial office (Dr Belur
V. Dasarathy)

Indicate whether the paper will be submitted
in LaTex or as a standard Word processing format

Step 2 - Upload or type in a cover letter

You will need to upload the source file in the correct format
i.e. .doc or latex, that the source file will need to have the
figures/graphics embedded.
Step 3 - The system will generate a PDF file from the
source file.

The PDF file is used for reviewing purposes only and it is the source
file that is used by production for the typesetting of your paper.

Step 4 - You will also need to enter the quantity of
figures/graphics contained in his manuscript at step four of the
online submission and then upload these figure/graphic files
separately.

Step 5 - You will choose how the figures should appear in
the printed journal and the author can also check the colour prices
here

Step 6 - Here you will types in the total number of
supplementary files, please advise the author that it is not
mandatory to upload supplementary files.

Step 7- this is the confirmation page it gives an
overview of all the submission details. Then click once on
the "submit" button to submit the paper to the editor/editorial
office. After clicking this button automated emails are sent to the
author and Editor.



Please note that should you ever require any assistance please note
that our Author Support department at authorsupport@... will
be happy to help.