Guidelines for Expanding Conference Papers for Submission to the IEEE Sensors Journal

Ref:  http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/sensors/SJ/SJExpandedConfPapers.pdf

General Guidelines
 

Mandatory Actions:

• If changes are made, choose a new title for the paper.
• Use feedback obtained at the conference to update, revise, and rewrite the
  paper as appropriate to improve its overall quality.
• Reference your conference paper in the appropriate locations.
• Include a footnote in the submitted manuscript stating, e.g., "An earlier version
  of this paper was presented at the 20XX IEEE SENSORS Conference and was
  published in its proceedings."
• Indicate in a letter (upload as a supporting document during the submission
  process) whether the conference paper was peer-reviewed and clearly state
  what has been changed.
• Provide the original conference paper (upload a PDF file during the submission
  process).
• If IEEE does not hold the copyright for your conference paper, obtain
  permission to reprint figures and tables that are used in the expanded paper.

Recommended Actions:

• Expand the background section and include additional references.
• Include novel scientific content and expanded descriptions of procedures.
• Provide data that was not published at the conference.
• Revise and update figures and text to avoid exact duplication of the conference proceedings.