The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (TBCAS) is a new quarterly publication. TBCAS is a joint effort between the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The journal is also sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).
The TBCAS journal is addressing areas at the crossroads of Circuits and Systems and Life Sciences. The main emphasis is on microelectronic issues in a wide range of applications found in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering. The primary goal of the journal is to bridge the unique scientific and technical activities of the Circuits and Systems Society to a wide variety of related areas such as:
· Bioelectronics
· Wearable electronics
· Implantable electronics
· Biotechnology sensor circuits
· Smart sensors
· Micropower imaging technology
· BioMEMS
· Lab-on-chip Bio-nanotechnology
· Organic Semiconductors
· Biomedical Engineering technology
· Genomics and Proteomics
· Neuromorphic Engineering
· Low power micro- and nanoelectronics
· Mixed-mode system-on-chip
· Wireless technology in medicine
· Gene circuits and molecular circuits
· System biology
· Electronics for brain science
· Healthcare: Information technology
· Bioinspired Circuits and Systems
· Circuit models of biology
General, theoretical, and application-oriented papers in the above-mentioned technical areas with a Circuits and Systems perspective are encouraged to publish in TBCAS. Of special interest are biomedical-oriented papers with a Circuits and Systems angle.
The papers are expected to contain new results, ideas, or innovations that advance significantly the state-of-the-art. Submission of a contribution is taken to manifest the fact that the submission has not been submitted, accepted, published, or copyrighted elsewhere.
Manuscript Length: Papers submitted to TBCAS are meant to be no more than 9 pages in length in the two-column TRANSACTIONS format. An additional charge of $150 is charged for each additional page. See the webpage:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm
for preparation of the manuscript.
A. Submission of a Paper: All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format:
1) Go to http: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tbcas
2) You need to register if you are not already registered in the author’s database. 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) Follow the paper submission instructions on the web-page and submit your manuscript as PDF file (preferred format although other formats may be used).
4) An acknowledgement e-mail will automatically be issued upon successful submission.
B. Style for Submission of Manuscript:
1) Provide an informative 100 to 250 word abstract, at the head of the manuscript.
2) Provide a separate double-spaced sheet listing all footnotes, beginning with “Manuscript received _______” and “Affiliation of author including e-mail address” and continuing with numbered footnotes. Acknowledgment of financial support is often placed at the end of the footnote.
3) References may appear in a separate bibliography at the end of the paper, with items referred to by numerals in square brackets, e.g., [12]. References should be complete in IEEE style.
4) For further information, consult “Information for IEEE Transactions and Journal Authors,” available online at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/information.htm, or by e-mail to trans@ieee.org. The submission website will also provide instruction about final submission details.
C. Guidelines for Submission of Graphics: All charts, graphs, tables, or photographs may be submitted electronically, in TIFF, PS, or EPS formats; graphics submitted in other formats may be rejected and will need to be scanned. Therefore, it is important to follow our electronic guidelines. Further details may be obtained at:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transjour/graphguide/
Graphics should be in black and white, unless color is specifically requested for an additional charge. Authors must supply good clean sharp proofs of all figures and photographs, in the event the electronic files are not acceptable and need to be scanned. Laser prints are not acceptable in place of original photographs or where grayscale images are involved, as the print quality will be substandard. Font sizes for supplied graphics must be legible when the drawing is reduced to one column (3-7/16 inches or 36.612 mm) or two-column width (7-1/4 inches or 184.15 mm) or as much as a 4:1 reduction from the original. All original material should not be larger than 8-1/2X11 inches. Avoid sizing figures less than one column wide, as extreme enlargements may distort your images.
D. Relationship to conference and prior publications. TBCAS requires that if the manuscript has previously been published as an IEEE conference publication, the manuscript is expected to be expanded and must contain at least 30% new material in the submitted manuscript. This policy includes special issues associated with particular conferences that highlight 'best papers.' This policy applies to non-IEEE-published conference publications as well, with the additional requirement that all copyright permissions must be secured for duplicate figures. Any figures which have previously appeared identically or similarly in another publication must attribute that publication. If the figure is not modified, copyright permission must be secured. If modified, the original publication should be cited in the caption as "modified from ..."
E. Disclosure of financial support and author and project-related conflicts of interest. We require the full disclosure of financial support for the project as well as any financial and personal relationships of the author that could even create the appearance of bias in the published work. The following must appear In the acknowledgments section of the paper.
1. The acknowledgments must disclose any agency or individual that provided financial support for the work, regardless of source. Examples include but are not limited to universities, governmental funding agencies, private foundations, and public and private companies.
2. The acknowledgments must disclose any personal or financial or employment relationship between any author and the sources of financial support for the work. These requirements include financial interests of the author in any company that may be licensing, patenting, or using results from the published work at the time of or prior to the date of manuscript acceptance.
3. The editors reserve the right to ask the authors of a study funded by an agency with a proprietary or financial interest in the outcome to include in the acknowledgments a statement regarding the integrity of the work. An example statement would be “The authors I had full access to all of the data, devices, and materials used in this study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis and interpretation of outcomes.”
F. Protection of human and animal subjects. Internationally recognized conventions exist for the protection of human subjects and standards for animal research.
1. If the published work utilizes human subjects, authors must indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that an appropriate institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
2. If the published work utilizes animal subjects (including animal sources for in vitro research), authors must indicate whether the institutional and national guides for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. The institutional committees that provide such oversight and/or the published guidelines must be acknowledged.
G. Page Charges: After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author’s institution will be approached with a request to pay a charge of $110 per page to cover part of the cost of publication. 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 to the author. Detailed instructions will accompany the page proofs.
H. 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 at: http://www.ieee/org/copyright/cfrmlink.htm.
I. Electronic Form of Final Manuscript: For the final printed production of the manuscript, the author will need to submit source files of the manuscript as explained on the submission webpage. Make sure your files are complete including: abstract, text, references, footnotes, biographies, photos and figure captions. The preferred main formats are
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm
For other relevant information, please refer to the TBCAS submission website: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/cas/tbcas/