Authors are required to prepare and submit their manuscripts electronically. This facilitates both a quicker editorial review process as well as facilitating electronic publication of accepted papers.
TOS authors should prepare manuscripts according to the ACM accepted manuscript preparation guidelines. Since these guidelines are in a state of transition with regard to electronic publication, the guidelines here take precedence whenever there is a conflict. We will soon have our own style guides which addresses more of the specific needs for electronic publishing.
Please see Formatting Documents For Electronic Publication below.
To ensure proper indexing, classification, retrieval and dissemination, authors must include the following in the manuscript.
Select a title that accurately and clearly tells what the paper is about. Choose title terms as highly specific as content and emphasis of the paper permit. Avoid special symbols and formulas in titles unless essential to indicate content. Avoid cute or clever titles.
Authors' names should be given without titles or degrees along with the name and address of the organization for which the work was carried out. A footnote on the first page should acknowledge funding sources and presentations, if any, of the material at technical meetings (give dates and sponsoring societies). The author's current address should be given in a footnote on the first page.
The abstract should be from 150 to 200 words long and consist of short, direct, and complete sentences. It should be informative enough to serve in some cases as a substitute for reading the paper itself. It should state the objectives of the work, summarize the results, and give the principal conclusions. The title need not be repeated. Work planned but not done should not be described in the abstract. Because abstracts are extracted and used separately, do not use the first person, do not display mathematics, and do not use citation reference numbers. Try to avoid starting with the words "This paper ..."
Three types of content indicators must be assigned: (1) categories and subject descriptors, (2) general terms, (3) keywords and phrases. The first two items are selected from the Computing Reviews Classification Scheme published in the January 1991 issue of Computing Reviews. Select as many of these as may be applicable.
The keywords and phrases are additional English language words that indicate the content of the submission. They should not be synonymous with those already in the classification system : they can be more specific in relation to the paper than the subject descriptors, or they may not be covered by the existing system at all. The following guidelines may be helpful.
3. Jenkins, M. A., and Traub, J. F. Principles for testing zerofinding programs. ACM Trans. Math. Soft. 1, 1 (March 1975), 26-34.
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Each submission must include a PDF or PostScript file for the complete
manuscript and an ASCII file containing title, abstract, authors, and contact
information for the corresponding author of the manuscript. The files should be
named xxxxxxxx.pdf (or .ps) and xxxxxxxx.asc where xxxxxxxx is a 5 to 8
character string from the last name of the corresponding author.
Each submission should indicate whether it is intended as a regular paper, short technical note, or tutorial/survey paper.
In the case where the work has already been published by a refereed
conference, the submission should note the prior publication on the title page.
Please refer to Editorial
Charter for the prior publication policy.
Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for originality,
relevance, and presentation. The author will be notified of the name of an
associate editor who will be responsible for the processing of the manuscript,
and is expected to keep this editor informed of any change of address. Revisions
requested by the associate editor should be returned directly to that editor.
After the refereeing process is complete, the area editor makes a
recommendation for acceptance or rejection to the Editor-in-Chief, who
makes the final decision on publication.
Authors whose papers are accepted shall use http://acm.manuscriptcentral.com/Submission for Editorial Review
How to Submit
In order to ensure timely review and facilitate
electronic publication, manuscripts must be submitted
on the web at
Review Process
Details of the review process are currently under
revision by the Editorial Board. In general, the process follows the same
guidelines as the other ACM Journal publications:
Procedures for Accepted Papers
How to Submit
Copyright and Use Agreement
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Formatting Documents For Submission & Electronic Publication
Please
read and observe the official ACM Copyright Policy,
which is part of the the official ACM Publications Plan.
We are currently developing information for authors to prepare their manuscripts so that they will have a consistent and appealing look as PDF or PostScript documents on the server. Guidelines for preparing your paper for publication can be found at ACM accepted manuscript preparation guidelines.
More detailed instructions for electronic publication are being developed, and will be located here. At the very least, it is essential that the ACM copyright be included on the first page of your final document.