Submissions

Before Submission

Authors should submit manuscripts that fit the journal scope and are not under consideration by another journal. The title page should include all author names and affiliations, corresponding author contact details, funding information, competing interests, data availability, ethics approval details where relevant, and author contributions.

Article Types and Length

Journal of Visual Computing may consider research articles, graphics systems papers, visual analytics studies, dataset notes, user-study reports, and review articles. The journal does not set a rigid launch-stage word limit, but authors should match article length to evidence. Short reports must still contain enough method detail for evaluation; reviews must state their search or selection logic.

Manuscript Structure

Research articles should normally include:

  • title, abstract, keywords, and a concise statement of the research gap
  • methods or study design with enough detail for assessment
  • results presented without selective reporting
  • discussion that separates evidence from interpretation
  • limitations, data availability, author contributions, competing interests, funding, and references

For this journal, authors should additionally address visual result quality, comparison with relevant methods, and dataset or scene description. Manuscripts that use specialised reporting standards should include the relevant checklist as supplementary material.

Required Statements

Each submission should include:

  • media and dataset availability
  • third-party image permissions
  • ethics approval for user studies
  • funding
  • conflicts of interest

Data, Code, Materials, and Supplementary Files

Images, videos, 3D assets, annotations, user-study instruments, and source code should be deposited or described with access restrictions and licence terms. Suitable supplementary material may include videos, image sets, interaction logs, scene files, and reproducible rendering scripts. Files should be named clearly, cited from the manuscript, and versioned where possible.

Formatting and References

The launch office may accept Word, LaTeX, or OJS-compatible source files. References may be submitted in a consistent style; accepted articles should include complete media and software citations. Figures should be readable at single-column width, tables should be editable where possible, and abbreviations should be defined at first use.

Research Integrity and AI Use

Authors must identify prior dissemination, preprints, related submissions, reused figures, and any third-party material. Use of generative AI tools must be disclosed when they materially assisted drafting, coding, image generation, translation, data extraction, or analysis. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Editorial Screening

Submissions may be returned before review if they are outside scope, lack required statements, contain excessive overlap, use unverifiable data, or do not meet minimal scholarly standards for visual computing. In particular, submissions may be returned if images are low resolution, permissions are unclear, visual comparisons are cherry-picked, or usability claims have no study design.