[Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication Systems Journal

Joe Touch touch
Fri May 11 17:05:17 EDT 2012



On 5/11/2012 7:56 AM, Francesco Potort? wrote:
> Olivier Bonaventure:
>>> I recently decided to submit to the Telecommunication Systems Journal a
>>> paper that we considered in scope for the journal. Shortly after our
>>> submission, we received the following email :
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Please make sure that your modified paper meets this new policy.  When
>>> you send your modified paper, please list the new references in your
>>> e-mail listing their reference numbers in the modified paper and make a
>>> statement in the e-mail stating that the paper is in compliance with the
>>> new policy.
>
> I think I would find this unacceptable.
>
> James P.G. Sterbenz:
>> I had a similar requirement imposed on me for a paper in IEEE
>> Transactions on Aerospace Systems and Electronics.
>
> That is a surprise to me.  I would never expect such a requirement from
> IEEE journals.

That is a clear violation of the IEEE Code of Ethics. I encourage you to 
forward the details to the IEEE to have this corrected.

If you need assistance with this, please let me know.

Joe



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