Preparing Your Proceedings Paper
Conference Proceedings uses author-prepared PDFs for all published content and will not send out author proofs prior to publication.
Therefore, it is important to ensure that all manuscripts are submitted in their final form and that all fonts are embedded.
Author template packages contain comprehensive advice and guidelines for authors-including a DO's and Don'ts checklist-all papers must be prepared to abide by these guidelines.
Well-prepared manuscripts enable rapid publication and reduce unnecessary work for editors. When preparing your manuscript for Conference Proceedings, please abide by the following requests:
- Download your template package for Word or LaTex.
- Do not add page numbers or headers/footers.
- Do not alter the margins of our templates.
- Paper size is 8.5 x 11.
- The paper must include the author name and full affiliation address including country.
- Use clear, legible graphics and diagrams contained within the margins.
- Do not use copyrighted material without permission and proper crediting.
- All pages are to be in portrait.
- Embed all fonts into your manuscript PDF.
What to send to your conference organizer
- A final PDF file of your paper with fonts embedded.
- Copies of permissions to re-use copyrighted material.
For paper submission: Please send manuscript word/PDF file to
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.