IEEE Security & Privacy Special Issue Proposal Guidelines
S&P aims to stay abreast of this fast-changing field, and special (theme) issues on timely topics are an integral way we achieve that. We invite proposals for special issues that:
- focus on a topic of broad interest.
- Topics that will involve contributors from academia, industry, and government are particularly encouraged. We encourage consideration of research, practice, and policy-focused contributions as part of all special issues. Special issues focused on technical conferences are welcomed if they are focused on particular topic areas, with submissions that will be substantially different from published conference papers recognizing the different audience and length.
- propose a team of guest editors (GEs) who are known to be leaders in the theme’s field.
- We suggest at least one GE from industry and one from academia. We also encourage geographical diversity of the GEs. We encourage inclusion of one GE who has already been a GE for S&P, or an Associate Editor in Chief (AEIC) to support the subject-matter GEs.
- identify potential authors who are also leaders in the theme’s field.
To avoid any appearance of conflict of interest, GEs should not submit their own work for consideration in their special issue.
When drafting a special issue proposal, please use this template. Proposals for special issues should be emailed to S&P AEIC Terry Benzel.
The AEIC will perform the initial check of the proposal. If a proposal has potential, the AEIC will submit it to the S&P editorial board for evaluation. The evaluation will be based on technical accuracy, objectivity, balance, GE capability, proposal quality, and relationship to other recent and planned special issues. On the basis of the board members’ comments, the AEIC will decide whether the proposal should be accepted, revised, or rejected. Once a special issue proposal is accepted, the timeline is:
- week 0 – week 7: CFP advertised
- week 8: deadline for submitted articles
- week 12: reviews due
- week 14: recommendations by GEs due to EIC
- week 16: EIC decisions due
- week 19: revisions due
- week 21: final reviews due
- week 23: final decisions due
- week 25: all final materials (papers and guest editorial) due
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