The Journal of Communication and Information Systems publishes papers containing original research and/or development results, representing an effective and novel contribution for knowledge in the area of Telecommunications. Contributions are accepted in the form of Regular papers or Correspondence. Regular papers are the ones with a well-rounded treatment of a problem area, whereas Correspondence focus on a point of a defined problem area. At the Editor's discretion, other kinds of papers may be published if they are found to be relevant or of interest to the readers. Responsibility for the content of the papers rests upon the Authors only.

The Journal is aimed at an international audience. For this reason, Authors are supposed to write in English. Authors are asked to submit a PDF (Portable Document Format) or a PS (PostScript) electronic version of the paper sending it by e-mail to the address of the Editors-in-Chief. Additional information can be obtained from:

Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar
Journal of Communication and Information Systems
Institute of Advanced Studies in Communications
Av. Aprigio Veloso, nº 882 - Bodocongó
58.109-970 Campina Grande PB, BRAZIL
E-mail: malencar@iecom.org.br

Procedures for the analysis of submitted papers: Upon receiving the paper, the Editors-in-Chief catalog the relevant informations such as paper assigned code, title, Authors names, Area Editor, paper received date and paper forwarded date to Area Editor. Most of the information is forwarded to two corresponding Area Editors and also to Authors. Each Area Editor assigns three to five referees to each submitted paper and establishes ten weeks as the length for the revision process. Upon receiving the revisions the Area Editor forwards them together with its decision to the Editors-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the notification of acceptance and for the necessary information regarding the paper publication.

Paper format information: Text of manuscripts should be printed in one column format, double-spaced (one full blank line between lines) and using font size 11 point or larger. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages in Letter size, including figures, tables and images. Margins of at least 1.5 cm must be granted at all pages sides. Exceptions may be granted by the Editors-in-Chief in special circumstances.

The first page of the manuscript must include title, Authors' names, institutional affiliations and e-mail addresses. The corresponding Author should be clearly indicated and his/her complete postal address with fax and telephone numbers must be informed. The first page should include the statements “Permission to publish the abstract separately is granted” and “Permission to publish electronic version of whole paper on SBrT’s homepage is granted”. These statements are mandatory.

The second page should consists of an abstract in English, followed by 3 to 6 keywords in English. Abstracts of no more than 200 words are required. Authors should indicate whether the manuscript is to be reviewed as a Regular paper or a Correspondence. Also, an Editorial Area should be suggested by Authors (see Area Editors).

Figures, tables and images should be placed after the text at the end of the manuscript. Each figure, table or image should have a caption that should be intelligible to the reader without reference to the text.

References format should follow closely the examples as shown below:

[1] A. Papoulis, Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, McGraw-Hill,
3rd edition, 1991.

[2] G. Bianchi, “Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function,”
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol.18, No. 3, pp.535-547, March 2000.

[3] A.C.A. de Almeida, Concatenated Quantum Convolutional Codes, Doctoral Dissertation,
FEEC-UNICAMP, 2004.

After acceptance, Authors will be asked to supply an electronic version of the manuscript in the Journal’s final format (IEEE Style). Style files are available at the JCIS webage, one for text editors using Latex2e and one for MSWord. LaTex users are encouraged to prepare the initial version of the paper in one-column format using the available style file.

Copyright information: Provided the source of the material is clearly indicated, the Brazilian Telecommunications Society authorizes reproduction of printed material extracted verbatim from the Journal as long as copies are not offered for sale and are not used in any way that implies endorsement of a product or service.