Springer Guidelines For Authors of Proceedings CS
Springer Guidelines For Authors of Proceedings CS
Springer Guidelines For Authors of Proceedings CS
You will find here Springer’s guidelines for the preparation of proceedings papers to
be published in one of the following series:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), incl. its subseries Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
(LNBI), and LNCS Transactions (contact: [email protected]);
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) (contact:
[email protected]);
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT),
formerly known as the IFIP Series ([email protected]);
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and
Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) ([email protected]);
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) (contact:
[email protected])
Your contribution may be prepared in LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Please use the tem-
plates provided on the authors’ page.
We need all source files (LaTeX files with all the associated style files, special fonts
and eps files, or Word or rtf files) and the pdfs of all of the papers. Please note that we
cannot accept Framemaker files. If your paper has been prepared using LaTeX, please
supply us with the underlying bib file for the references. Our typesetters will use this
to create the bbl file. LaTeX users should avoid self-defined environments and use the
bibliographic style MathPhySci for computer science proceedings. It is not possible to
have hyperlinks in references.
The volume editors, usually the program chairs, will be your main points of contact
for the preparation of the volume.
The corresponding author, i.e., the author responsible for checking the final proof
and for signing the copyright form on behalf of all of the authors, should be clearly
marked in the header of the paper. The inclusion of the corresponding author’s email
address is mandatory. In order to streamline communication during the publication
process, there should not be more than one corresponding author per paper.
We strongly recommend that all authors include their email addresses in their pa-
pers. These will be used by Springer to provide authors with a personal MySpringer
account (See Sect. 7), where they can download a free PDF of the entire proceedings
volume.
Headings. Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs, and all other words
except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital)
and should, with the exception of the title, be aligned to the left. Only the first two
levels of section headings should be numbered, as shown in Table 1. The respective
font sizes are also given in Table 1. Kindly refrain from using “0” when numbering
your section headings.
Table 1. Font sizes of headings. Table captions should always be positioned above the tables.
Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule. If the first word can stand
alone, the second word should be capitalized.
Here are some examples of headings: “Criteria to Disprove Context-Freeness of
Collage Languages”, “On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non-deterministic Pro-
grams by Software”, “A User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System”,
“Multi-flip Networks: Parallelizing GenSAT”, “Self-determinations of Man”.
available for indexing nor visible as individual papers on SpringerLink. They will,
however, be listed in the Table of Contents.
2.3 Fonts
We aim to publish all proceedings papers in full-text xml. Our templates for LaTeX
are based on CMR, and our xml templates for Word are based on Times. We ask you
to use the font according to the template used for your papers. Papers using other
fonts will be converted by our typesetters.
There is no need to include page numbers or running heads; this will be done at our
end. If your paper title is too long to serve as a running head, it will be shortened.
2.6 Formulae
Displayed equations or formulae are centered and set on a separate line (with an extra
line or half line space above and below). Equations should be numbered for reference.
The numbers should be consecutive within the contribution, with numbers enclosed in
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parentheses and set on the right margin. Please do not include section counters in the
numbering. If you are using Word, please use the Math function of Word 2007, Word
2010 or Word 2013, or MathType or the Microsoft Equation Editor with Word 2003,
to create your equations, and insert the math objects in your Word document in an
editable format through MathType or MsWord equation editors.
x+y=z (1)
2.7 Footnotes
The superscript numeral used to refer to a footnote appears in the text either directly
after the word to be discussed or – in relation to a phrase or a sentence – following the
punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period).1
For remarks pertaining to the title or the authors’ names, in the header of a paper,
symbols should be used instead of a number (see first page of this document). Please
note that no footnotes may be included in the abstract.
Program listings or program commands in the text are normally set in typewriter font.
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The footnote numeral is set flush left and the text follows with the usual word spacing.
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All authors must comply with our ethical standards, as detailed on our Editorial Poli-
cies page and in our Code of Conduct.
If figures, tables, animations or text quotations from copyrighted works (including
websites) are included in your paper, permission must be obtained from the copyright
holder (usually the original publisher) and the author(s) for both the print and the
online format, and full references must be included. Please take a look our Rights,
permissions, licensing page for more details.
Papers submitted for publication must present original work by the authors them-
selves that has not previously been submitted or published elsewhere. Proceedings
papers may be checked by our plagiarism-checking tool on their arrival at Springer.
If, following publication, we find that plagiarism has been committed, the paper on
SpringerLink is given a “retracted” stamp, and a retraction text, explaining the rea-
sons for the retraction (i.e., plagiarism), is inserted. Please note that a retracted paper
remains visible, with its “retracted” stamp. It does not simply disappear.
A certain overlap in scientific content between articles by the same author is standard
practice and to be expected. However, it is essential that transparency is retained and
appropriate references included. Permission must be obtained from other publishers,
where appropriate.
authorship of the paper cannot be made. Authors’ names cannot be added or deleted,
their order cannot be changed, and the corresponding author cannot be altered.
Employees of US Government contractors or US Government departments often
have to sign an alternative form. We urge such authors to contact their own legal
departments as soon as their papers have been accepted and to get in touch with us
straight away. Unresolved copyright issues can delay the publication process consid-
erably.
Slides that complement a paper may be included as ESM. We do not publish slides as
an alternative to full scientific papers.
Please make sure that the paper you submit is final and complete, that any copyright
issues have been resolved, that the authors listed at the top of the chapter really are the
final authors, and that you have not omitted any references. Following publication, it
is not possible to alter or withdraw your paper on SpringerLink. Kindly note that we
prefer the use of American English.
If the templates and instructions have been followed closely, then only very minor alter-
ations will be made to your paper. The format of the paper will be checked by our type-
setters, and if, for example, vertical spacing has been inserted or removed, then this will
be remedied. In addition, running-heads, final page numbers, and a copyright line are
inserted, and the capitalization of the headings is checked and corrected if need be.
References not adhering to the style required for CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/)
are reformatted and, if available, DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are added. (We
would encourage you to include DOIs in your references.) Light technical copyediting
may also be performed.
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Once the files have been worked upon, our typesetters send a copy of the final PDF of
each paper to its corresponding author. The corresponding author is asked to check
through the final PDF to make sure that no errors have crept in during the transfer or
preparation of the files. Only errors introduced during the preparation of the files will
be corrected. Particular attention should be paid to the references section.
If the typesetter does not receive a reply from a particular corresponding author,
within the timeframe given (usually 72 hours), then it is presumed that the author has
found no errors in the paper. The tight publication schedule of our proceedings does
not allow us to send reminders or search for alternative e-mail addresses.
In some cases, it is the corresponding volume editor or the publication chair who
checks all of the PDFs. In such cases, the authors are not involved in the checking
phase.
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the
completeness and accuracy of the text, tables, and figures. Substantial changes in
content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not possible and
cannot be processed.
The proofs of the cover, inside-cover pages, front-matter pages and author index
are sent to the volume editors.
All Springer proceedings papers are published in our digital library, SpringerLink.
Only subscribers to Springer’s eBook packages or to the electronic book series are
able to access the full-text PDFs of our online publications and the ePub full-text
XML versions. Front and back matter, as well as abstracts and references, are freely
available for all users. The online version of your paper will be available before the
conference, unless the proceedings are to be published following the event. Please
inform your conference contact if we need to delay the online date, because a patent
application is underway.
If you have included your email address in the header of your paper, you will receive
an email from Springer (roughly four weeks after publication of the volume) linking
you to your personal “MySpringer” page. From here, you will be able to download
the pdf of the entire volume. You will find more details on this page. If the email
address in the header is a life-long address, then Springer will be able to make all of
your publications accessible from one single page.
Springer authors and volume editors are entitled to a discount on the list price of
any Springer publication. Details on how to make use of this privilege are given on
the author’s “MySpringer” page.
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We now offer Springer Nature conference proceedings authors the opportunity to
share the view-only final published version of their paper via SharedIt. Once your
paper has been published on SpringerLink, it will be given a “Share chapter” button
leading to a link that can be copied and posted on your personal website, within your
institutional repository, or on social media platforms, enabling you to share your re-
search with colleagues and other members of your scientific community.
The final source files, incl. bib files, images, etc. (no older source files)
A final PDF file corresponding exactly to the final source files.
A copyright form, signed by hand by the corresponding author on behalf of
all of the authors of the paper.
A suggestion for an abbreviated running head, if appropriate.
Information about correct representation of authors’ names, where necessary.
Acknowledgments. This should always be a run-in heading and not a section or sub-
section heading. It should not be assigned a number. The acknowledgments may in-
clude references to grants or support received in relation to the work presented in the
paper. Authors should make sure that they have included all necessary acknowledg-
ments before sending the files. Updates at a later stage are not possible.
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