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The regular issue process


Submission
TECS can only accept papers in electronic form. When submitting a paper, before submission please check your document to following:

Otherwise your paper cannot be downloaded by the reviewers from manuscriptcentral and therefore your paper cannot be reviewed.

To submit, use the TECS Web site. To aviod problems, PDF-Documents are preferred (main paper)

Since the pagelimit is set to 25 pages, it is recommended to format your submission in paper in the style of ACM publications. You`ll find the template and formatting instructions here.

If you want to write a cover letter, we reccomend to write it in the field "Author's Cover Letter:" instead of uploading a seperate file.
 

Reviewprocess
We strive to return a review result within six months of submission. We believe that this interval is long enough to ensure quality reviews but short enough to be fair to authors. Authors should direct their questions about the review process to the Assistant to Editor-in-chief.

A revised submission should include responses to the reviewers' comments after the body of the revised paper. A good format is to list for each reviewer a summary of each comment followed by your response. The responses should be included at the end of the paper in the same file as the revised paper; this helps the editors and reviewers organize their evaluation

Submitting a revision
The reviewers appreciate it, when you put the Comments To Reviewers in the field "Author's Response". Only there the reviewers were able to read your response to the reviewers comments.
 

Acceptance
After your paper is accepted, you will submit a publication packet to ACM Publications. The packet will include:

  1. Name and address of contact author, including email address and phone number; paper number and title.
  2. PDF or PostScript file of final version.
  3. Formatted source file (see MS-Word-Style or LaTeX-Style. Since there is no TECS in \documemtclass in the LaTeX-style, use TOCL instead)
  4. Figures in EPS or TIFF format.
  5. a copy/scan of the filled out and signed copyright form
  6. Computing Classification Systems terms.
  7. General terms.
  8. Additional keywords and phrases (www.acm.org/class/1998).

Items 1 and 6 -8 can be included as a seperate file (plain text or PDF preferred) in the publication packet. The electronic files sholuld be included in a zip file. We appreciate it, if you name your packet with your submission number including revision. Please also mention the name of the Special Issue, if your contribution is ment for a special issue. Send the publication packet to the Assistant to Editor-in-Chief

Following would be helpful for the Assistant and producer:

  1. include the electronic files in a compressed file (Zip files only)
  2. name your packet with your submission number including revision (eg. TECS-802701-9999.R4.zip)
  3. it is also helpful, you mention the title of the special issue, if your paper is accepted for a special issue.

The Assistant/Editor in Chief sends your publication packet to ACM. Beside to the publication packet a copyright form is necessary. Download the form here and send it to ACM and include a copy/scan in the publication packet

A paper publication depends on following:

After that the publication date depends on ACM/TECS publishers' total publication flow and is not a guaranteed date.
Since each issue has a 320 page limit, the publication of your paper also depends on the amount of pages of the destined papers in the next issue.


Postacceptance Production Process
Questions regarding the postacceptance production process (e.g. publication date) should be addressed to the Managing Editor Joanne Pello

Please check out our FAQ.

For further questions, feel free to ask. We will answer within 48 hours.