The following tools and resources are available to help you prepare your article for a successful submission:
Please note, when you are ready to submit your article, you will do so through the IEEE Author Portal.
The criteria for an article to be accepted for publication in IEEE Access include:
The article must be submitted (i) using one of the following IEEE Access templates, submitted as a Word or LaTex file and (ii) as a PDF file.
For the IEEE Access Templates, find them here:
*Note, if Overleaf is being used to prepare your manuscript, please be sure unzip the file from inside Overleaf.
Video may be simulations, demonstrations, or interviews with other experts, for example, and can be a great tool to enhance and promote your article. The video file should not exceed 100 MB and must be included in the peer review with the article. Any video published with an article will automatically be published as a graphical abstract (GA). For more information and resources, please visit the Video Integration page.
A cloud-based computational reproducibility platform, integrated with IEEE Xplore that enables IEEE authors to publish their executable code associated with research articles. Code may be uploaded at submission, revision or after acceptance of the article. For more information on Code Ocean, please click here. To learn more about the IEEE Access Reproducibility Initiative, as well as earning a reproducibility badge, please click here.
A repository of datasets and data analysis tools. The repository is designed to accept all types of datasets, including Big Data datasets up to 2TB, and it provides both downloading capabilities and access to Cloud services to enable data analysis in the Cloud. For standard dataset uploads, there is no cost to the author. For more information on IEEE DataPort, please click here.
Video may be simulations, demonstrations, or interviews with other experts, for example, and can be a great tool to enhance and promote your article. The video file should not exceed 100 MB and must be included in the peer review with the article. Any video published with an article will automatically be published as a graphical abstract (GA).
A cloud-based computational reproducibility platform, integrated with IEEE Xplore that enables IEEE authors to publish their executable code associated with research articles. Code may be uploaded at submission, revision or after acceptance of the article.
A repository of datasets and data analysis tools. The repository is designed to accept all types of datasets, including Big Data datasets up to 2TB, and it provides both downloading capabilities and access to Cloud services to enable data analysis in the Cloud. For standard dataset uploads, there is no cost to the author.
Each article submitted to IEEE Access is scanned for plagiarism, including similarity to an author’s own work.
Article submissions that plagiarize another author’s work will be rejected from IEEE Access, and cases will be reported to the IEEE Publishing Ethics Team. For more information on the appropriate way to cite other authors’ work, please click here.
IEEE Access accepts expanded versions of an author’s own referenced conference articles, as long as the similarity is less than 35%. In such cases, authors are expected to describe the connection in the manuscript and disclose it in the cover letter, as well as answer the corresponding question during the submission process accordingly. If the overlap is higher (effectively duplicate publication) or the source article is not referenced, the article will be rejected.
Reuse of an author’s own thesis or dissertation is allowed, as long as it is cited and has not been published elsewhere.
For reuse of an illustration from a copyrighted material in your review article, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder and cite and properly credit the source references, especially in the caption of the illustration.
Preprints of authors’ articles to their own web site, their employer’s site, or to another server that invites constructive comment from colleagues and provides a publication time stamp are allowed. Upon publication of an article by the IEEE, the author must replace any previously posted electronic versions of the article with either (1) the full citation to the IEEE work with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), or (2) the accepted version only with the DOI (not the IEEE-published version). For more information, visit the IEEE Author Center by clicking here.
Articles submitted to IEEE Access should not be under consideration for peer review at any other journal (duplicate submission).
Proper grammar is a requirement for publication in IEEE Access. Any articles submitted with poor grammar will be immediately rejected.
If needed, IEEE Access offers Paperpal Preflight to assist authors with checking their manuscript for any grammar issues prior to submission. Check your manuscript on Paperpal Preflight by clicking here.
Additionally, IEEE Access authors are eligible for discounts at the following language editing services:
The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.
The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is recommended.
Author lists should be carefully considered before submission. For more information on what constitutes an author, please click here. Contributors who do not meet IEEE’s definition of authorship should be included in the Acknowledgment section of the article. Omitting an author who contributed to your article or including a person who did not fulfill authorship requirements is considered a breach of publishing ethics. Once the list and order of authors has been established, the list and order of authors should not be altered without permission of all living authors of that article. Change in the author list is considered rare and exceptional, and the decision to allow such changes rests with the Editor.
Illustrates how mathematical equations should be rendered in a technical article.
Contains a formal set of editorial style guidelines for IEEE publications
Find other tools available – check your references and validate your pdf or LaTeX files, for example
Resources for enriching your journal article with multimedia elements, like video, audio, images, etc.