Authors should confirm that their manuscript falls within the aims and scope of the International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP) before submission.
Manuscripts must be original, must not have been published previously, and must not be under consideration by another journal or conference. Submitting the same or substantially similar manuscript to more than one publication at the same time is prohibited.
Authors should submit a manuscript to only one MECS journal at a time. If a submission is outside the scope of IJIGSP but may be suitable for another MECS journal, the editorial office may suggest a transfer. A transfer occurs only with the authors' agreement and does not guarantee peer review or acceptance.
IJIGSP uses the Manuscript Tracking System (MTS).
Authors must Login or Register to submit a manuscript and monitor its status.
All manuscripts, title pages, supplementary files, revisions, and responses to reviewers must be uploaded through MTS unless the editorial office provides different instructions for a documented technical reason.
Manuscript Template and Length
Manuscripts should be written in clear English and prepared using the IJIGSP Microsoft Word or LaTeX template. The normal manuscript length is 10 to 26 pages. A shorter or longer manuscript may be considered when its scholarly content justifies the length.
Authors should consult the current manuscript template and formatting instructions available on the journal website. Compliance with formatting requirements does not influence the academic evaluation, but substantial formatting deficiencies may delay processing.
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The anonymized manuscript should normally contain:
- Title;
- Abstract;
- Keywords;
- Introduction;
- Related work or theoretical background, where appropriate;
- Methods or methodology;
- Results;
- Discussion;
- Conclusions;
- Data-availability statement that does not reveal identity;
- Ethics and consent statements that do not reveal identity, where applicable;
- References; and
- Appendices or supplementary-material references, where applicable.
The structure may be adapted to the research method and article type, provided that the manuscript reports its aims, methods, evidence, limitations, and conclusions transparently.
Before submission, the corresponding author must confirm that:
(1) The manuscript is within the scope of IJIGSP.
(2) The work is original and is not under consideration elsewhere.
(3) All authors satisfy the journal's authorship criteria, have approved the submitted version, and consent to submission.
(4) The manuscript and supplementary files have been anonymized for double-blind review.
(5) The title page contains complete author, affiliation, funding, contribution, conflict-of-interest, ethics, consent, data, and AI-use declarations, as applicable.
(6) The manuscript follows the journal's formatting and reference requirements.
(7) All third-party material is properly cited and any necessary permission has been obtained.
(8) Data, images, and results have not been fabricated, falsified, selectively manipulated, or misleadingly presented.
(9) Human, animal, privacy, biosafety, and other required approvals have been obtained and documented.
(10) The authors have read and agree to the journal's Peer Review Process, Publishing Policies, and Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
Ethical and Reporting Declarations
(1) Human Research
Research involving human participants must identify the approving ethics committee or institutional review board, the approval number where available, and the ethical standard followed. Authors must state that informed consent was obtained, or explain why a waiver was granted by the responsible ethics body.
Research involving identifiable personal information, images, or case details requires consent for publication where applicable. Particular care is required for children, vulnerable participants, and populations with limited capacity to consent.
(2) Animal Research
Research involving animals must identify the approving authority, approval number where available, and applicable institutional or national animal-welfare standards.
(3) Conflicts of Interest and Funding
All authors must disclose financial and non-financial interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence the work. All funding sources and the funders' roles in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, writing, and publication decisions must be stated.
(4) Data Availability
Authors should provide a data-availability statement explaining where supporting data can be accessed or why access is restricted. Restrictions based on privacy, consent, security, law, or third-party rights should be described clearly.
(5) Authorship and Contributions
Authorship is limited to persons who made substantial scholarly contributions, approved the submitted version, and accept accountability for the work. Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged with their permission.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the author list and order are accurate and that all authors approve submission. Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must include a written explanation and the written agreement of all authors. Requests made after acceptance are considered only in exceptional circumstances and may delay publication.
Peer Review and Editorial Workflow
IJIGSP operates a double-blind external peer-review process.
(1) Technical and Integrity Screening
The editorial office checks file completeness, anonymity, formatting, plagiarism-screening results, required declarations, and other technical or integrity requirements.
(2) Academic Screening
The Editor-in-Chief or an authorized Associate Editor assesses scope, originality, scholarly relevance, methodological adequacy, presentation, and ethical compliance. A manuscript may be rejected without external review if it does not meet the minimum requirements for review.
The journal does not evaluate authors' status, nationality, institutional prestige, commercial relationships, or ability to pay when making academic decisions. Author identity is not disclosed to external reviewers.
(3) External Peer Review
Every primary research article and review article that passes screening is evaluated by at least two independent external reviewers. External reviewers are not members of the IJIGSP Editorial Board or employees of MECS Press and must have no conflict of interest with the authors or manuscript.
Editorial Board members manage and oversee the editorial process but do not replace either of the two required external reviewers.
(4) Reviewer Reports
Reviewers evaluate originality, research design, methodology, data, analysis, conclusions, reporting quality, relevance, and ethical compliance. Recommendations are:
- Accept;
- Minor revision;
- Major revision; or
- Reject.
Reviewers make recommendations; they do not make final publication decisions.
(5) Editorial Decision
The handling editor evaluates the external reports and authors' responses and submits a recommendation. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief or an authorized Associate Editor who has no conflict of interest with the manuscript.
MECS Press supports administrative, technical, production, and research-integrity operations but does not interfere with academic editorial decisions. Fees and other commercial considerations do not influence reviewer selection or decisions.
Authors invited to revise must provide:
(1) a revised anonymized manuscript;
(2) a clean version and, where requested, a version showing changes; and
(3) a point-by-point response to every reviewer and editor comment.
Authors should explain all changes and provide a reasoned scholarly response where they do not adopt a suggestion. Major revisions are normally returned to the original external reviewers. Minor revisions may be assessed by the handling editor when appropriate.
If external reports materially conflict, the handling editor may invite a third independent external reviewer. A research or review article cannot be accepted without at least two substantive external reports.
The time required from submission to decision and publication varies according to reviewer availability, the number and extent of revisions, integrity or ethics checks, and production scheduling. Any processing-time statistics displayed by the journal should identify the period measured and the calculation method.
After formal acceptance, the manuscript undergoes technical editing, typesetting, metadata preparation, and author proofing. Authors must review proofs promptly and should limit proof-stage changes to corrections of production errors or essential factual errors. Substantive changes may require further editorial approval or review.
Published articles are made available in HTML and PDF where supported by the journal platform and are assigned a DOI. Authors retain copyright and publish under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, subject to the journal's publishing agreement.
Article Processing Charge and Waivers
IJIGSP does not charge submission or peer-review fees.
For manuscripts originally submitted on or after 1 April 2026, an Article Processing Charge applies only after the manuscript has completed peer review and has been formally accepted for publication.
The charge supports editorial administration, manuscript production, DOI registration, digital preservation, platform maintenance, and the permanent open accessibility of published articles.
Full or partial waivers may be requested by authors who lack sufficient institutional or research funding. Waiver requests and payment are handled separately from the editorial process and have no influence on reviewer selection, peer review, editorial decisions, or publication priority.
Manuscripts originally submitted before 1 April 2026 remain subject to the previous no-fee policy, regardless of their acceptance or publication date. The applicable charge is determined by the policy in effect on the original submission date.
Journal subscriptions are voluntary and are not a condition of acceptance or publication.
Authors may request withdrawal by sending a reasoned written request signed or approved by all authors. A request should identify the manuscript title and reference number.
The journal will consider the stage of processing, the reason for withdrawal, authorship agreement, and any ethical or legal concerns. The journal does not impose a punitive withdrawal charge. Where a separately agreed optional service has already been completed, any applicable cost must have been disclosed and accepted in advance.
A published article cannot be withdrawn merely because an author no longer wishes it to remain available. Published records are corrected, retracted, or otherwise updated under the journal's post-publication policies.
Generative-AI and AI-assisted tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work, approve the final version, disclose conflicts, or be accountable for research integrity.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, confidentiality, permissions, and integrity of all submitted content. Generative AI may not be used to fabricate or manipulate data, images, citations, results, or conclusions.
Material use of generative AI in manuscript preparation must be disclosed in a dedicated statement naming the tool and explaining how it was used. Routine spelling or grammar checking that does not generate substantive content need not normally be declared.
Authors must not upload confidential, personal, copyrighted, proprietary, or otherwise restricted material to a third-party AI service without appropriate authorization and safeguards.
Potential violations are assessed according to their seriousness and may result in clarification, correction, rejection, an expression of concern, or retraction. Use of AI does not automatically result in removal of an article.
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