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Templates

These templates are meant to aid you in preparing a draft of your manuscript for peer-review as well as to prepare final publication materials that will closely translate into the final publication format. This does not mean that the published paper will appear in this format. The published paper will appear as formatted by IEEE Computer Society publication staff.

Submitting a paper to TAC

Detailed information regarding submitting your paper to TAC can be found in the author center in the peer review for journals community.

The full scope of TAC can be found on TAC’s about page

Manuscript Types accepted by TAC

TAC manuscript types and submission length guidelines are as follows:

  • Regular paper – 14 double column or 30 single column pages
  • Brief contribution – 8 double column or 15 single column pages
  • Comments paper – 2 double column or 4 single column pages
  • Survey paper – 20 double column or 40 single column pages

Please note that double column will translate more readily into the final publication format. A double column page is defined as a 7.875" x 10.75" page with 10-point type, 12-point vertical spacing, and 1/2 inch margins. A single column page is defined as an 8.5" x 11" page with 12-point type and 24-point vertical spacing, containing approximately 250 words. All margins should be one inch (top, bottom, right and left). These length limits are taking into account reasonably-sized figures and references.