Paper Formatting Guidelines
All submissions must follow strictly the format and size constraints indicated below. Your goal as an author is to produce a clearly readable submission within these constraints.
- Submissions MUST be no more than ten (10) pages in 10 point Times Roman (or equivalent font). This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth.
- Submissions MUST be formatted as: double column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns.
- Each column MUST contain no more than 55 lines of text.
- LaTeX style file with margin, page layout, font, etc. definitions.
- BiBTeX style file with bibliography style definitions.
- LaTeX template file, an example of using the "spconf.sty" and "IEEEbib.bst" files above.
- PDF generated from the template file.
- Sample strings.bib and refs.bib files.
- Word 97/2000 Sample, a template of correct formatting and font use.
- Provide an abstract of fewer than 200 words.
- Number the pages.
- The paper MUST be submitted in PDF format. Other formats (including Postscript) will not be accepted. We must be able to display and print your submission exactly as we receive it, using only standard tools (Adobe Acrobat Reader), with no loading of special fonts.
- Make sure that the paper prints well on black-and-white printers, not color printers. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper.
- Make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper.
- Make sure that symbols and labels used in the graphs are readable as printed, and not only with a 20x on-screen magnification.
- Please limit the file size to less than 10 MB.
The following style files and templates are available for users of LaTeX and Microsoft Word: