Camera-ready instructions

Camera-ready DEADLINE: 15th July 2022

In the next days after the acceptance notification, the contact author will receive an email from “rightsreview@acm.org” to complete the ACM rights forms.  Please, note that ACM rights management emails are sent from an automated system, these may wind up in SPAM folders. Please make sure that you set SPAM settings to allow emails from rightsreview@acm.org.

While waiting, you can revise your paper on the basis of the received reviews and check the camera-ready template instructions available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow 

After completing the ACM rights form, the contact author will receive an automatic separate email from TAPS (“tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com”). This email will contain instructions on how to upload the source files for processing. Again, check carefully also in the SPAM folders and allow emails from such an account.

Please, read very carefully all the instructions included in the TAPS email and all the information about the new templates (and frequent issues) available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow 

The deadline for uploading the camera-ready version on TAPS is 15th July 2022 AoE (please, note that you have to upload the camera-ready version only on TAPS using the link you will receive after completing the ACM rights form, NOT on the hotcrp submission system).

Other details about the new ACM template and TAPS:

LATEX — For more information on using LaTeX to prepare your article, please see Preparing Your Article with LaTeX (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-latex). 

Moreover, you should keep the following in mind:

  • Only one file should have a \documentclass{} command in it.
  • If you are including any LaTeX packages in your article, they must be part of the list of accepted packages.
  • You need not include any of the ACM article class files (acmart.cls, etc.)
  • Figures and images to be included can be in the “source” folder, or in a folder within the “source” folder, as long as the paths to those resources in the LaTeX files are correct.
  • You need to include the rights commands sent to you when you completed your rights form to the source of your article before delivering it to TAPS. 

Microsoft WORD — For more information on using Microsoft Word to prepare your article, please see Preparing Your Article with Microsoft Word (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-microsoft-word). 

Please note that it is very common to experience issues with the word template. The TAPS assistance is ready to help you but this process can require several iterations. Please, start the camera-ready process as soon as possible and avoid waiting until the last minute to upload your files on TAPS.

If you are using Microsoft Word to prepare your article, you should keep the following in mind:

  • You need to have started with the “submission” template, attached the “master” template to it, and successfully tagged and linked all citations, references, and links to tables and figures.
  • You must successfully validate your document in Word before submitting to TAPS.
  • You do NOT need to include any rights information in the Word source; TAPS will transfer that information from the rights form you completed to the HTML5 and PDF versions of the article that it generates.