Submission Guidelines for ISMAR Conference Proceedings

Note: Deadline has been extended to 19 Match 2018

Note: All initial S&T submissions, due 19 March 2018, as well as Poster Papers and Workshop Papers should be formatted as ISMAR Conference Proceedings papers.

All submissions must be done electronically. Note that there are several submission categories. Note that the use of a teaser image in papers is encouraged.

Submission Method:

S&T Papers, Poster Papers and Demos: is via PCS
Workshop papers: information will be posted later.
Doctoral Consortium: is via PCS

Templates:

Page Length:

S&T Papers
- 4--10 pages of text, plus references (as many pages as needed)
Workshops, Poster Papers and Demos:
- Please see the respective Poster Papers/Workshops/Demos call for accepted page length.
Doctoral Consortium
- 4 pages in length, including references

Size and Margins:

Paper Size: 8.5 inches by 11.0 inches (21.59cm by 27.94cm)
Top Margin: 0.75 inch (1.905 cm)
Bottom Margin: 1.0 inch (2.54 cm)
Left Margin: 0.75 inch (1.905 cm)
Right Margin: 0.75 inch (1.905 cm)
Columns: Two (2) columns, each 3.33 inches (8.46 cm) wide
Column Gutter: 0.34 inches (0.84 cm) column gutter

Title:

Title Text: 14.5pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, centered
Capitalize the first letter of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; do not capitalize articles, coordinate conjunctions, or prepositions (unless the title begins with such a word). Capitalize the second word in compound words if it is a noun or proper adjective or the words have equal weight (Cross-Reference, Run-Time).
Leave two blank lines after the title.

Author Information and Affiliation:

Author Names: 10pt Helvetica (or Arial), centered.
Multiple authors: multiple columns.
Affiliation should include full names, company / institution identification, and email addresses.
Affiliations are centered below each author name in 8pt, not bold.
Include e-mail addresses as a footnote with a horizontal rule above the footnote area.
Follow the author information by two blank lines before main text.

Copyright Space:

A 0.5 inch (1.18 cm) space must be left at the bottom of the left column on the first page of the paper for the copyright information added during the printing process.

Abstract:

The word "ABSTRACT": 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, flush left, NOT numbered, small caps, abstract content begins on a new line.
Body Text: 9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading; up to 3 in. (7.62 cm) long. Leave one blank line after the abstract.

Keywords:

The word "Keywords": 9pt Times or Times Roman, bold, flush left, NOT numbered.
Body Text: 9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading
Capitalize the first letter of the first keyword.
Include a period (.) at the end of the keywords.
A list of relevant keywords should be included at the end of the abstract.

Index Terms:

The words "Index Terms": 9pt Times or Times Roman, bold, flush left, NOT numbered
Body Text: 9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading
Descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System, located at http://www.acm.org/about/class/class/2012, should be used.
A list of relevant index terms should be included after the keywords.

Headings:

Section Headings: 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, flush left, numbered, small caps
Subsection Headings: 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, flush left, numbered
Sub-subsection Headings: 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), flush left, numbered

Body Text:

9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading
indent all paragraphs by 1em (roughly 3mm) except the first one under a heading
no blank lines between paragraphs

Caption Text:

8pt Helvetica (or Arial)
Capitalize only the first word of each figure caption.
Capitalize in sentence case for a table title/caption; try to limit the table captions to a simple title and not a full description.
Figures and tables must be numbered separately and should be labelled 'Figure:' or 'Table:' (note the use of a colon NOT a period).
Figure captions are to be centered below the figures. When the caption expands across multiple lines, it should become flush left.
Table titles/captions are to be centered above the tables.

Acknowledgments:

word "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS": 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, flush left, NOT numbered, small caps
Body Text: 9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading
In the USA, it is spelled ‘acknowledgments’, without the ‘e’ after the ‘g’. Since the IEEE is a USA based society, we would recommend having it spelled ‘acknowledgments’ and have done that in our template. However, for the rest of the world, we will not correct it in conference papers - we also spell it ‘acknowledgements’ with an ‘e’ after the ‘g’.

Citations and References:

word "REFERENCES": 9pt Helvetica (or Arial), bold, flush left, NOT numbered, small caps
Body Text: 9pt Times or Times Roman, justified on 10pt leading
List of references: 8pt Times or Times Roman on 9.5pt leading
When referenced in the text, enclose the citation number in square brackets, for example [1].
Where appropriate, include the name(s) of editors of referenced books.
[1] Albert B. Smith, Christopher D. Jones, and Egon F. Roberts, "Article Title", Journal, Publisher, Location, pp. 1-10, Date.
[2] Christopher D. Jones, Albert B. Smith, and Egon F. Roberts, Book Title, Publisher, Location, Date.
[3] Christopher D. Jones, Albert B. Smith, and Egon F. Roberts, "Chapter Title", Book Title, Book Editors, Publisher, Location, Date

Submission Guidelines for ISMAR S&T TVCG Journal Papers

Note: the guidelines below are to be used only after acceptance. All initial S&T submissions, due 19 March 2018, should be formatted as ISMAR Conference Proceedings papers (see above).

ISMAR TVCG Papers must be submitted electrically to PCS. The ISMAR TVCG Papers will use the vgtc journal style format. Note that the use of a teaser image in papers is encouraged.

For more information, please see the instructions here.

Page Length:

4--10 pages of text, plus references (as many pages as needed)

Size and Margins:

It is very important to follow these margins exactly or you run the risk of losing text when the final paper is produced at a smaller trim size.

Paper Size: 8.5 inches by 11.0 inches (21.59cm by 27.94cm)
Top Margin: 0.75 inch (1.905 cm)
Bottom Margin: 0.625 inch (1.5875 cm)
Inside Margin: 0.75 inch (1.905 cm)
Outside Margin: 0.625 inch (1.5875 cm)
Columns: Two (2) columns, each 3.48 inches (8.8392 cm) wide
Column Gutter: 0.17 inches (0.4318 cm) column gutter

Images:

Teaser images are allowed and encouraged. Please do not include any other images/graphs/charts on the first page of your paper and try to place all other images in one of the four corners of your pages, if possible.

Header:

Please do NOT include headers in your paper. We will automate these for you with the appropriate information.