Information for Authors
Submission Instructions for IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma
Medical Sciences (TRPMS)
Scope
IEEE T RANSACTIONS ON R ADIATION AND P LASMA M EDICAL S CIENCES
is published bimonthly. The scope of TRPMS encompasses technology and
application areas related to radiation and plasma based medical sciences.
These areas include radiation detectors for medical and biological applica-
tions; imaging system design/optimization/performance; therapy-related system
design/optimization/performance; radiation-application-based image reconstruc-
tion, data analysis and image processing; medical radiation therapy applica-
tions; clinical/preclinical evaluation of imaging and therapy systems, plasma
applications in medicine and biology; and simulations for imaging and therapy
applications.
Required Manuscript Content
O RIGINAL M ANUSCRIPTS
For manuscripts to be considered for publication, they should report original
contributions to the theories, experimental results, or applications of the fields
listed above. The work should report new results, new applications, or new
developments of interest and of general applicability. The manuscript must
provide introductory material and context for the work. It must be clear what
is new in the work, how it relates to other work in the field, and how it advances
the state of the art. Related work must be referenced appropriately. A complete
description of the work performed must be provided. Models should be verified
by data or some other means. There must be an analysis of data which provides
conclusions that are general beyond the specific devices or system studied. The
information provided must be sufficient for others to make use of the approach,
results, etc. so that the impact is not limited to the particular system or application
used in the manuscript. Overall the work needs to be of an archival nature (e.g.,
not only test results on a part that will be obsolete in a couple of years, or analysis
of a particular design without illustration of generally applicable principles, or
description of the characteristics of a particular test facility, etc.)
R EVIEW ARTICLES
Educational material such as technical/clinical review papers covering the
subjects of interest as outlined in the journal scope above will be considered.
Potential authors should contact the Editor in Chief prior to submission in order
to discuss the relevance and interest of the subject. Review articles will undergo
a standard review process.
F ORMAT
General information for authors on manuscript preparation is given
at http://www.ieee.org/publications standards/publications/authors/authors
journals.html. Note that manuscripts submitted for review should be in the
2-column journal format, according to the standard IEEE template for all
Transactions available at this web site. The authors should submit the complete
paper that includes the text, figures and tables to the ScholarOne Manuscripts in
one PDF file.
Providing multimedia files or other documents as supporting material is
optional and will be considered in the review process. Any such addi-
tional information should be uploaded as supporting documents on Schol-
arOne and will appear for the reviewers in the supplementary files tab.
Any such supplementary material should be mentioned in the paper. If the
paper is accepted, such supplementary material will be made available in
IEEE Explore Digital Library. More details on such files can be found on
http://www.ieee.org/documents/MMdocumentation.pdf.
S UBMISSION OF A PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPER
The policy of TRPMS allows in principle the submission of manuscripts
describing work previously presented at a conference only if the submitted
paper is a substantially extended version of the originally published conference
paper. This should be clearly noted in a cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief.
The conference paper must be properly referenced in the text of the submitted
manuscript and the inclusion of any material (figure, table), appearing in the
published conference paper, should be accompanied by a permission from the
appropriate publisher (if the conference is not an IEEE one). The confer-
ence paper must be uploaded as a supporting document when submitting the
manuscript.
W HAT WILL R EVIEWERS EVALUATE
Reviewers of TRPMS manuscripts are requested to evaluate, at a minimum,
the following items:
1. Background and Context
Is the introductory and background material sufficient for some-
one not an expert in this area to understand the context and
significance of this work?
Has related work been appropriately and adequately referenced?
Is it clear what is new in this work?
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2. Technical Quality
Is the relationship between this work and other work in the field
adequately described?
Is it described how this work advances the state-of-the art?
Is the work relevant and accurate, free from errors, misconcep-
tions, ambiguities?
Are interpretations/models supported by data?
Is the data analysis complete?
Does the work contain new results, new applications, or new
developments of interest?
Is the work of general applicability, i.e., not limited to the
particular system or application used in the manuscript?
3. Clarity and Completeness
Are the conclusions significant and well-supported?
Is the work logically developed?
Is the presentation of data and/or modeling clear and easy to
follow?
Is the discussion clear and unambiguous?
Is sufficient information provided for an expert reader to under-
stand fully what was done, to repeat the experiment, or to
duplicate the results presented?
Is enough detail presented to support the conclusions drawn?
Is the manuscript “complete”, i.e., not requiring extensive refer-
ence to other work to permit understanding?
4. Presentation
Are the English grammar and usage satisfactory?
Is the manuscript loosely written or repetitious?
Does the manuscript restate established scientific or engineering
principles instead of merely providing the appropriate reference
to such principles?
5. Figures and Tables
Are the figures and tables clearly labeled, legible, and with
appropriate captions? Are the figures and tables relevant, and
referred to in the text?
Do the tables and figures show reduced rather than raw data?
Is the number of figures and tables appropriate?
6. Symbols, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Are all non-standard abbreviations and acronyms identified at first
use?
Does the manuscript use proper and consistent symbols and
abbreviations?
7. Length
Is the length of the manuscript appropriate for the amount and
type of material presented?
(Eight (8) pages is the maximum length of a “standard”
manuscript. If the manuscript is longer than this, is that additional
length necessary to develop and explain the material? If it is not,
please suggest areas where material could be eliminated.)
8. Appropriateness
Is the work of an archival nature (e.g., not just test results on
a part that will be obsolete in a couple of years, or analysis of
a particular design without illustration of generally applicable
principles, or description of the characteristics of a particular test
facility, or an account of the existence and characteristics of a
specific commercial product, etc.)
Is the work a good “fit” for the TRPMS, and of interest to its
readership?
Is this work overall appropriate for publication in the TRPMS?
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submit a manuscript or review a proof in TNS.
OPEN ACCESS: This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Tra-
ditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript
submission. Upon submission, if you choose to have your manuscript be
an OA article, you commit to pay the discounted $1,950 OA fee if your
manuscript is accepted for publication in order to enable unrestricted public
access. Any other application charges (such as 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. If you would like your manuscript to be
a Traditional submission, your article will be available to qualified subscribers
and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required for Traditional
submission