Submitting a Paper to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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.
When a TPAMI submission is based on a previous conference paper, IEEE requires that the journal paper be a “substantial revision” of the previous publication (30 percent is generally considered “substantial”). TPAMI interprets and applies this requirement on a case-by-case basis with appropriate deference to the author’s viewpoint. Examples of the improvements we expect to see over the conference paper include the following: additional technical details, a clearer explanation of the contribution, more experiments if appropriate, or an updated state-of-the-art. Of course, the authors are also encouraged to make the journal version a significant improvement on the conference paper (for example, by taking the opportunity to integrate their previous work or performing additional substantive work to answer questions that their conference paper raised). Since the journal version is intended to be the definitive, archival version of the research, TPAMI expects that the authors will take this opportunity to further improve their conference paper.
Manuscript Types Accepted by TPAMI
TPAMI 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 18 pages in length, subject to MOPC. All regular paper page limits include references and author biographies.)
- Short paper – 8 double column pages
- Comments paper – 2½ double column pages
- Survey paper – 20 double column pages
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.
Please use the IEEE Template Selector to find the correct template.