Updated 6.20.25
About Dual Submission
-SFS journals partner with some conferences to offer an optional dual submission process, which allows authors to be considered by the journal, in addition to the conference, without paying the journal submission fee.
-To be considered for the dual submission process, you must indicate with your submission to the conference that you also want your paper to be considered by the journal under the dual submission process.
The Benefit of Dual Submission
If the journal decides to reject your paper from the dual submission process, that does not mean your paper is rejected from the journal under the regular submission process. If you choose to do so, you may submit your paper to any SFS journal under the regular submission process without penalty.
Dual Submission Process
- Submit your paper to the conference and indicate that you would like to be considered for dual submission. Do not upload your paper to the journal’s submission system at the same time.
- Papers will first be reviewed by the conference. The conference will send the dual submissions, along with the reviews and conference decisions, to the sponsoring journal for consideration at no charge.
- You will receive a decision email from the conference. If your paper is rejected by the conference, that does not necessarily mean it is rejected by the journal under dual submission. Please wait to receive an email from the journal, which may take a few weeks.
- The editor(s) will decide which papers to invite to proceed under dual submission. A decision email will be sent. You may not submit the paper to another journal until you receive the journal decision email.
- If your paper is invited to proceed, you will be asked to upload it to Editorial Express via the journal’s submission page. You will receive a waiver of the first submission fee. If the paper continues to additional rounds of review, there will be a resubmission fee to cover the cost of the referee.
- If your paper is rejected, you may submit to the journal as a regular submission, or you are free to proceed with submitting the paper elsewhere.
Dual Submission Rules
-You may not submit a paper for dual submission if it is under review at any journal.
-You may not submit a paper for dual submission with more than one conference or journal simultaneously.
-You may not submit the same paper to the same journal via dual submission more than once. If the journal rejects your paper during dual submission, you cannot submit it via dual submission again.
-You may not submit a paper for dual submission if the paper was previously rejected by the journal under the regular submission process, or if it nontrivially incorporates material from a paper that was previously rejected by the journal.
-You must wait for the dual submission decision email from the journal before submitting your paper to another journal.