Types of Contributions
Peer Review
Submissions
Electronic Publication Information
Copyright Information
Further Information for Authors

Readers are encouraged to submit papers and correspondence to the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

Types of Contributions: Contributions may be papers or correspondence. The distinction is not one of quality, but rather of nature.

A paper is a presentation of significant research, development, or application of broadcast technology. Papers include contributions from authors that describe useful new results, ideas, or innovations that advance the state-of-the-art of broadcast technology engineering, systems, and applications. Alternatively, papers may present tutorial expositions on topics of current interest.

A correspondence is a concise description of a contribution to a specific aspect of design, realization, or operation of a broadcast technology. Correspondence can include preliminary results and short reports on completed work that is of current interest to workers in the field of broadcast technology. Correspondence serves also as a means to comment on previously published papers, suggestions for new work, and errata. A short, well-written correspondence could be published more rapidly than a paper. Correspondence contributions are subjected to the same peer review process used for papers.

Peer Review

This Transactions employs the peer-review system in the processing of manuscripts, to ensure that this publication retains its position as the premier source of archival literature used worldwide for the development of broadcast technology and the profession. Three reviewers, or at least two reviewers, and an Associate Editor who actively work in the field, shall review each manuscript. The Associate Editor forwards the reviewer comments for the revision of the manuscript to the author. The final decision on the publication of the manuscript is based on the opinions expressed by the reviewers plus the judgement of the Associate Editor who is managing the peer review process.

Submission - You may submit your paper via mail or email.

Submission of a manuscript amounts to assurance that it has received proper clearance from the author's company or institution, that it has not been copyrighted, published, or accepted for publication elsewhere, that it is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration.

For submission of a paper via mail please include:

• References, which must include full titles and first and last page numbers, and all authors' names.
• The completed IEEE Copyright Form
• A CD containing the text portion of the paper and the figures.
• A short list of indexing terms (available by emailing keywords@ieee.org)

All papers must be sent to the BTS Editorial Office at:
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
c/o BT Editorial Office
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
USA

E-MAIL SUBMISSION OPTION
The BTS Editorial Office also accepts e-mailed submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment in either MS Word using the MS DOS operating system or as a PDF document. Authors should indicate in the e-mail that the paper is submitted for possible publication in the Transactions. Authors' full address information, including fax and phone numbers, must accompany the e-mail. Please adhere to normal formatting. IEEE indexing keywords are mandatory. An IEEE Copyright Form should be submitted to the BTS Publications at the time of submission. Please do not also mail hardcopies of the manuscript.

Email your submission to: bt-pubs@ieee.org.

Electronic Publication

Electronic Publication/Disk Submission Instructions: Include Information for Figures on CD. The IEEE requires that you submit a CD containing the text portion of your paper and the figures as seperate files, together with your hard copies for publication.

Copyright

IEEE Copyright Form
It is the policy of the IEEE to own the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes on behalf of the interest of the IEEE, its authors, and their employers, and to facilitate the appropriate reuse of this material by others. To comply with IEEE policy under the U.S. Copyright Law, authors are required to sign an IEEE copyright transfer form before publication. This form, a copy of which appears in each January issue of this journal, returns to authors and their employers full right to reuse their material for their own purposes. Authors must submit a signed copy of this form with manuscripts.

Futher Information for Authors

For further information on the preparation and formatting of your manuscript before submission, please refer to the IEEE Tools for Authors.

BTS accepts manuscripts which have not been formatted to the IEEE template, however all papers will formatted to this template if accepted. Authors are encouraged to apply the IEEE format template to their paper before submission for a preview of what the final paper will look like. Follow this link to the Word template.