Updated 2020-12-18
Changes compared to previous years
- TEI 2021 is using the new The ACM Publication System (TAPS) process and templates for all tracks except for Pictorials. There is no longer a different Extended Abstracts format.
- The submission process has changed slightly. There are now two deadlines for revised version (20. October 2020) and final camera-ready version (tbd).
- There are no hard page length limits for submissions anymore. Nevertheless, please try to be as concise as possible. Reviewers may suggest shortening the paper or may reject the paper if its contribution is not adequate for its length. The ACM TAPS web site contains a handy table for comparing the page length of single-column manuscript and dual-column camera-ready version. Previous TEI instances had a page limit of 4-10 dual-column pages. You might want to stay within these limits.
- As the conference is virtual event, you will be asked to prepare and submit a video summary of your talk before the conference.
When submitting your paper for review:
- You have the choice between writing your paper using the LaTeX template (.zip), the LaTeX template in the Overleaf collaborative editor, or the MS Word template (.docx).
- We suggest using the LaTeX template instead of the Word template. It will make the final submission much easier.
- Please submit you paper as a single-column manuscript via PCS. For the LaTeX template, the document class should be set using
\documentclass[manuscript, review=true]{acmart}.
When submitting the revised version:
- If your paper has been conditionally accepted, you are asked to submit a revised version and a list of changes you made.
- Please submit a deanonymized paper revision at this stage.
- The deadline for paper revisions is 30. October 2020 via PCS.
- Format: a PDF file using the same single-column submission template and supplementary materials as necessary
- You do not need to submit paper source files or a video at this point in time (unless asked so by reviewers).
When submitting the final camera-ready version:
- Some time after the acceptance notification you will receive an email regarding the further publishing process. This email will contain up-to-date instructions for preparing and submitting the camera-ready version (including a deadline for uploading it).
- Submissions for some tracks (i.e. Pictorials) can not be handled by TAPS. Authors will receive information about uploading the camera-ready PDF file to PCS instead.
- There is no hard page limit for the final version. Nevertheless, you should try to adhere to the page limits set for each track in the CfP. Also, you should make sure that the last page of the final PDF generated by TAPS is not nearly empty.
- We strongly suggest using the LaTeX template instead of the Word template for preparing the camera-ready (TAPS) version. Finalizing the submission using the Word template/workflow has caused authors some frustration. Please use the ACM Master Article Class and the included template. It does not matter which
\documentclassyou choose because TAPS will automatically apply\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}to your source. - If you are using the Word template, please prepare and submit your camera-ready version as a single-column manuscript by following the official guidance. As the official templates are still changed from time to time, please wait with preparing the camera-ready version until you are notified about the further steps..
- For papers that are published via TAPS, the following steps will take place:
- You will receive an email from the ACM copyright management system asking you to complete the copyright form. Please fix any spelling errors in your paper title and author metadata at this point.
- Please include the provided ACM copyright information (conference name, DOI, ISBN, license, price) in your document source.
- If your source file is a MS Word document, follow the TAPS instructions in order to add required metadata to the document.
- Some time after you submitted the copyright form, you will receive an email from TAPS asking you to upload your source files and supplementary files to TAPS.
- Prepare your source files and pack them into a ZIP file that follows the directory structure shown on the TAPS page.
- Note: You are also required to submit PDF version of your paper. However, this PDF is just for troubleshooting – all content for the Digital Library is compiled directly from the sources.
- Upload the ZIP file either via the upload form on the TAPS page (only for small files) or by uploading it to the external service linked on the TAPS page.
- TAPS will check whether the sources are valid and can be compiled. After some time the TAPS page will either show you a success message or an error message (you need to check the page manually from time to time). In the latter case, you will be given an error log. Please fix all issues and upload the ZIP file again until the manuscript compiles successfully.
- Once upload and compilation completed successfully, you need to check whether PDF and HTML versions were generated correctly. Please check whether author names, figures, equations, references, etc. are rendered correctly in both formats. If not, click the “reject” radio button in order to upload a new version.
- Once you are satisfied with the results, please click the “approve” radio button.
- The proceedings chairs will check your submission for completeness and obvious formatting problems. If there are changes required, they will contact the corresponding author by email.
For all questions regarding the publication process, please contact the publication chairs, Chatai and Raphael, at publications@tei.acm.org.