This document contains instructions to authors of papers accepted to ACM sponsored conferences and workshops. It covers the formatting guidelines for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.
Any questions regarding this document should be directed to Chris Shaw.
Questions regarding specific conferences or workshops should be directed to the chair of the technical program committee for the workshop.
These deadline for submission of camera-ready copy is Thursday, November
30, 2000.
Please send your camera-ready manuscript to:
Chris Shaw
GVU Center, College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
801 Atlantic Drive,
Atlanta, GA,
30332-0280
USA
Phone 404-894-6328
Fax 404-894-2970
Each paper accepted to a ACM sponsored conference or workshop must be
accompanied by a signed copyright form. Please fill out and sign the ACM
copyright form that can be found at http://info.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html
.
All material used by the author in their accepted paper must have proper
copyright clearance.
(The guidelines which follow are representative of most ACM conferences and workshops.
Templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed
Authors are now required to submit an electronic version of their paper
for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. Electronic versions should be
submitted as PostScript.
Papers accepted to this workshop where ACM holds the copyright must have a 1.5 in (3.81 cm) space left blank at the bottom of the left column on the first page of the paper for the ACM copyright statement.
The majority of SIGGRAPH conferences and workshops accept papers which are a maximum of eight (8) pages in length, with color illustrations within the body of the paper. Some conference or workshop proceedings gather all color illustrations in a color plate section at the back of the proceedings volume.
Do not use page numbers on the paper -- the papers will be collected as part of the conference or workshop proceedings and will be numbered at press time. It is important that the author write their name and the ordering -- "Smith, page 1 of 8" for example -- on the reverse of each page of the camera-ready copy sent in. This will help ensure the proper pagination and printing of the paper.
The title of the paper should be formatted with initial caps: for example, "Weaving Threads For The Web."
Section headings should be numbered for ease of internal referencing.
Body text should be set in a serif typeface such as Times, and should be 9-point text on 10-point leading (space between lines). Heading text should be set in a sans serif typeface such as Helvetica, with the following specifications:
Title and author information should be centered above the two columns on the first page of the document, with brief author and affiliation information. Detailed information about the author(s) -- postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, etc. -- should be placed at the bottom of the left-hand column of the first page of the paper.
Those who use TeX or LaTeX to prepare their documents may feel free to use the standard TeX typefaces for their camera-ready copy. Care must be taken with the electronic version of their paper, should the conference or workshop request an electronic version. Details on this matter can be found in the "Electronic Documents" section in this document.
A sample paper, formatted to the specifications outlined in this document, can be found online at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/prep/paper-prep.html.
Authors who use TeX or LaTeX to prepare their documents may wish to use Dan Kartch's "siggraph" LaTeX2e class (Download -- 13KB) or the "acmconf.sty" (for LaTeX 2.09) (Download -- 23KB).
Information on proper formatting of citations and bibliographic references can be found in the document "How To Format References In A SIGGRAPH Paper", which is online at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/prep/sigrefs.html
The paper should have a short -- one to several paragraphs -- abstract as the first section of the paper, which may be excerpted for reference or promotional purposes.
A list of relevant descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System, located at http://www.acm.org/class, should be included at the conclusion of the paper's abstract.
All images and figures should be affixed to the camera-ready copy if they are not printed as part of the paper itself. Whenever possible, use a waxer or glue stick to affix images and figures. Use of rubber cement, two-sided tape or one-sided tape is strongly discouraged.
It is very important that you provide us with the highest possible quality illustrations. This will ensure that the illustrations will reproduce as well as possible. Photographic prints are highly recommended, especially for color illustrations. Prints from dye-sublimation are also recommended, but photographic prints are preferred over dye-sublimation prints. Color PostScript prints, thermal wax prints, and ink-jet prints are other accepted formats, though these will suffer image degradation in the production process, and are not recommended. Similarly, low-resolution images and figures (below 300 dpi) will not reproduce well, and are not recommended. Polaroid prints are not recommended. Glossy prints are recommended over matte-finish prints.
The captions for all illustrations should be printed on a black and white laser printer. Captions printed on a dye-sublimation device with images or figures will degrade significantly in the production process.
Citations in the body of the paper should be bracketed numbers ("[1]") and all references gathered in a section at the end of document titled "References". The references should be alphabetized by the surname of the primary author, and titles of documents should be formatted with initial caps; for example, "Weaving Threads For The Web."
Specific information about reference formatting in SIGGRAPH papers can be found in the document "How To Format References In A SIGGRAPH Paper" which is online at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/prep/sigrefs.html
For questions, or further information, please contact David Ebert (ebert@cs.umbc.edu)