About IEEE Software
IEEE Software’s mission is to be the best source of reliable, useful, peer-reviewed information for leading software practitioners—the developers and managers who want to keep up with rapid technology change. The authority on translating software theory into practice, this bimonthly magazine positions itself between pure research and pure practice, transferring ideas, methods, and experiences among researchers and engineers. Peer-reviewed articles and columns by real-world experts illuminate all aspects of the industry, including process improvement, project management, development tools, software maintenance, web applications and opportunities, testing, and usability.
IEEE Software welcomes articles describing how software is developed in specific companies, laboratories, and university environments as well as articles describing new tools, current trends, and past projects’ limitations and failures as well as successes.
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Articles should be no more than 4,200 words, including 250 words for each figure and table. A maximum of 15 references and author biographies are not included in the word count. The abstract should be no more than 150 words and should describe the overall focus of your manuscript. With your submission, provide three actionable insights in bullet-list format that software practitioners will get from your paper. Please include a photo of each author.
To gauge the suitability of an article that you are planning to submit to IEEE Software, you may send your abstract to the editor in chief at sigrid.eldh@ieee.org
Before submitting, please read our author guidelines. When you are ready to submit, please go to https://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/sw-cs.
In addition to submitting your paper to IEEE Software, you are also encouraged to upload the data related to your paper to IEEE DataPort. IEEE DataPort is IEEE's data platform that supports the storage and publishing of datasets while also providing access to thousands of research datasets. Uploading your dataset to IEEE DataPort will strengthen your paper and will support research reproducibility. Your paper and the dataset can be linked, providing a good opportunity for you to increase the number of citations you receive. Data can be uploaded to IEEE DataPort prior to submitting your paper or concurrent with the paper submission. Thank you!
For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, please visit IEEE Software Author Information page.
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