Before Submission

1. You must submit your paper through the ACM Manuscript Central. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one by clicking “Create Account” in the upper righthand corner. Further help with Manuscript Central can be found on the Manuscript Central Help page.

2. Submissions should be full papers with appropriate citations. Your submission should adhere to the ACM policies on prior publication, including correct citations of your own and other prior work.
Please read ACM’s policies on these issues:
ACM policy on prior publication and simultaneous submission
ACM policy on plagiarism, including self plagairism

3. Your submission should have ACM Categories and Subject Descriptors and as many of the 16 fixed ACM General Terms as apply. Please go to the ACM Computing Classification System for additional information. You may also supply any additional keywords and phrases you would like to be included.

4. Your submission must be formatted in either Microsoft Word or LaTeX, according to the ACM style guides
LaTeX style guide
Please note that this takes you to the general LaTeX style guide page. The correct format for TOS is the Small Standard Format, a direct download can be found here
Microsoft Word style guide
Please note that this is the general Microsoft Word style guide page. The correct format for TOS is the Small Standard Format, a direct download can be found here

5. Your submission MUST include a cover letter documenting where any prior version of the submitted material may have appeared and how the submission differs from the prior versions. Your submission will be returned to you if it does not include a cover letter.



After Acceptance

All author rights forms are now filled electronically through the ACM e-Rights Transfer Application. If your paper was submitted before April 2, 2013, has recently been accepted, and you have not yet been contacted concerning e-rights transfer, please send your manuscript number to Laura Lander, Journals Manager, at lander@hq.acm.org.

ACM Author-Izer

Once your manuscript is published by ACM, you can access the unique ACM Author-Izer, which expands content visibility of your research. This new service lets you generate and post a link to any of your ACM published articles on your homepage or institutional repository. Through this link, any visitors to your personal bibliography pages can download the definitive version of your articles for free from the ACM Digital Library. For more information and directions on how to make use of this, please visit http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service.