Submission Guidelines

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING (TNSRE) focuses on the rehabilitative and neural aspects of biomedical engineering, including functional electrical stimulation, acoustic dynamics, human performance measurement and analysis, nerve stimulation, electromyography, motor control and stimulation, and hardware and software applications for rehabilitation engineering and assistive devices.

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts as regular full-length papers reporting substantially novel methodology, technology, experimentation and high-quality original results. To qualify for publication, these must be previously unpublished and not be under consideration elsewhere. The Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor in charge will perform a quick review of the manuscript to determine the suitability of the paper for consideration by TNSRE based on its topical relevance, quality, and availability of expertise on the editorial board, and papers that are determined to be unsuitable will be returned without further review. Manuscripts will ONLY be accepted in electronic format through the IEEE Author Portal.

Manuscripts

For purposes of qualifying for peer review and consideration for publication, authors must submit a properly executed copyright form in favor of IEEE, sign an author consent form, and prepare their manuscript according to the following guidelines. Submitted manuscripts must be:

  • Formatted in the transactions template: either Word or LaTeX 
  • 10 pages or less, not counting references. Manuscripts that exceed 10 pages in the template will not be admitted for review.
  • Review articles can be up to 12 pages, not counting references. Review articles must have the editor-in-chief’s permission before they are submitted. Authors interested in submitting a review paper should send an email proposal to the editor-in-chief.
  • Manuscript text must to be 10pt or larger for the main text, and 8pt or larger for tables and figures.
  • Since January 1, 2018 EMBS journals no longer publish author bios or photos.
  • Abstract can be no more than 250 words for regular papers.
  • Figures and tables should be interspersed within the paper, numbered sequentially, with features clearly marked and detailed legends. High-resolution figures may be uploaded separately if needed.
  • References should appear in a separate reference section at the end of the text body with items referred to by numerals in square brackets (IEEE format). See the template for details.
  • Research involving human or animal subjects must include a statement in the Methods Section that the research was performed under the oversight of an institutional review board or ethics committee, including the official name of the IRB/ethics committee and also including the number of the protocol. Research involving human subjects must include a statement that informed consent was received from all human subjects. If the paper reports a clinical trial, the paper needs to state the registered clinical trial number.
  • All photos of people must be either anonymized or a statement must be included with the submission that the person depicted agreed to the use of their image.
  • The Editorial Board encourages authors who have published work in peer-reviewed conference proceedings to consider expanding their work and submitting a manuscript for consideration to TNSRE. The Editorial Board would seek evidence that the original idea or concept has been substantially expanded (further experiments, a greater number of subjects tested, more in-depth analysis, in-clinic testing, etc.). Upon submission to TNSRE, the authors should inform the Editor-in-Chief about all related submissions that may be regarded as significantly overlapping or duplicate publications. The author should explain the overlap, as well as the novelty of the journal submission. The conference article should be correctly cited in the author’s Cover Letter and a copy should be uploaded with the submission so that it can be inspected alongside the journal submission.

Page Charges

Gold Open Access

IEEE TNSRE is a gold, fully open-access journal, which means that authors retain ownership of the copyright to their papers, and readers can access the full text and pdf on IEEE Xplore for free, but also that authors pay article processing charges, upon acceptance and before publication. IEEE’s explanation of OA and APCs.

Article Processing Charge (APC):

US$1995 for articles submitted in 2024. APC US$2075 for articles submitted in 2025.

For papers submitted in 2024, the APC is US$1995 plus applicable local taxes.
For papers submitted in 2025, the APC is US$2075 plus applicable local taxes.

Discounts

Some institutions offer assistance for open access funding. Check our institutional partners list to see if yours is one.

Research on Human or Animal Subjects

EMBS’ ethics policy.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s revised research ethics policies.

Research involving human or animal subjects must include a statement in the Methods Section that the research was performed under the oversight of an institutional review board or ethics committee, including the official name of the IRB/ethics committee and also including the number of the protocol. Research involving human subjects must include a statement that informed consent was received from all human subjects. If the paper reports a clinical trial, the paper needs to state the registered clinical trial number.

Title and Abstract

During the login of an electronic submission in ScholarOne Manuscripts, the corresponding author will be asked to enter: the title, names and contact information for all authors (full mailing address, institutional affiliations, phone, and e-mail), and the abstract. The name of the Corresponding Author who will serve as the main point of contact for the manuscript during the review and publication processes is entered separately. The Abstract should be no longer than 250 words, indicate the scope of the paper, and summarize the authors’ conclusions. This will make the abstract, by itself, a useful tool for information retrieval.

Illustrations and Tables

For review, illustrations/tables should be interspersed within the manuscript. However, due to production requirements, for the final submission, illustrations/tables will be submitted separately as well. Each figure and table should have a caption that is intelligible without requiring reference to the text.

Electronic Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit finalized manuscripts using the style files established by IEEE. Authors should follow the instructions and read the information in the IEEE Author Center.

Copyrights and Author Responsibilities

All open access articles will be published under either the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) or the Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, No Derivatives License (CCBY-NC-ND).

CC BY and CCBY-NC-ND allow authors to retain copyright of their article and permit a very broad range of reuse. Under CC BY, reuse for commercial purposes or to create derivative works is permitted, whereas under CCBY-NC-ND, reuse cannot be for commercial purposes or change the work in any way. Under the CC BY licenses, authors are responsible for protecting their content from possible abuses such as infringement and plagiarism.

Note that publishing open access requires payment of an open access article processing charge.

More information can be found here. Questions can be directed to .

Tweets

To help us promote your work, we request that authors of accepted papers write 2 tweets for EMBS to disseminate. Instructions and help writing the tweets are included in the acceptance letter to authors.

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