Submitting a Paper to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

This journal is a hybrid publication, allowing either traditional manuscript submission or author-paid Open Access (OA) manuscript submission. Read about OA submissions here.

Detailed information on submitting your paper to an IEEE Computer Society publication can be found on the Author Guidelines page.

TKDE manuscript types and submission length guidelines are described below. All page limits include references and author biographies. For regular papers, pages in excess of these limits after final layout of the accepted manuscript is complete are subject to Mandatory Overlength Page Charges (MOPC). Note: All supplemental material must be submitted as separate files and must not be included within the same PDF file as the main paper submission. There is no page limit on supplemental files. 

• Regular paper – 12 double column pages (Submissions may be up to 14 pages in length, subject to MOPC. Longer submissions must be approved by the EIC, up to 18 pages maximum. All regular paper page limits include references and author biographies.)
• Concise paper – 6 double column pages
• Comments paper – 2 double column pages
• Survey paper – 20 double column pages (Note: All survey paper page limits include references and author biographies)

A double column page is defined as a 7.875″ x 10.75″ page with 9.5-point type and 11.5-point vertical spacing. These length limits are taking into account reasonably-sized figures and references.

Note:
1. A “revise and resubmit as new paper” paper can be resubmitted only after at least 3 months.
2. A rejected paper can be resubmitted only after at least 12 months.

Please use the IEEE Template Selector to find the correct template.