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+# Conference Formatting Requirements
+
+Comprehensive formatting requirements and submission guidelines for major academic conferences across disciplines.
+
+**Last Updated**: 2024
+
+---
+
+## Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
+
+### NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top-tier machine learning conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (December)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Main paper: 8 pages (excluding references)
+  - References: Unlimited
+  - Appendix/Supplementary: Unlimited (optional, reviewed at discretion)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times or Times New Roman, 10pt for body text
+- **Line spacing**: Single-spaced
+- **Margins**: 1 inch (2.54 cm) all sides
+- **Column separation**: 0.25 inch (0.635 cm)
+- **Paper size**: US Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** for initial submission (double-blind review)
+  - Remove author names, affiliations
+  - Anonymize self-citations ("Author et al." → "Anonymous et al.")
+  - Remove acknowledgments revealing identity
+- **Citations**: Numbered in square brackets [1], [2-4]
+- **References**: Any consistent style (commonly uses numbered references)
+- **Figures**: 
+  - High resolution (300+ dpi)
+  - Colorblind-friendly palettes recommended
+  - Can span both columns if needed
+- **Tables**: Clear, readable at publication size
+- **Equations**: Numbered if referenced
+- **LaTeX Class**: `neurips_2024.sty` (updated annually)
+- **Supplementary Materials**: 
+  - Code strongly encouraged (GitHub, anonymous repo for review)
+  - Additional experiments, proofs
+  - Not counted toward page limit
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/neurips_article.tex`
+
+**Submission Notes**:
+- Use official style file (changes yearly)
+- Paper ID on first page (auto-generated during submission)
+- Include "broader impact" statement (varies by year)
+- Reproducibility checklist required
+
+**Website**: https://neurips.cc/
+
+---
+
+### ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top-tier machine learning conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (July)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Main paper: 8 pages (excluding references and appendix)
+  - References: Unlimited
+  - Appendix: Unlimited (optional)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **Line spacing**: Single-spaced
+- **Margins**: 1 inch all sides
+- **Paper size**: US Letter
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **Citations**: Numbered or author-year (consistent style)
+- **Figures**: High resolution, colorblind-safe recommended
+- **LaTeX Class**: `icml2024.sty` (updated yearly)
+- **Supplementary**: Strongly encouraged (code, data, appendix)
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/icml_article.tex`
+
+**Submission Notes**:
+- Must use official ICML style file
+- Checklist for reproducibility
+- Ethics statement if applicable
+
+**Website**: https://icml.cc/
+
+---
+
+### ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top-tier deep learning conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (April/May)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Main paper: 8 pages (excluding references, appendix, ethics statement)
+  - References: Unlimited
+  - Appendix: Unlimited
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **Citations**: Numbered [1] or author-year
+- **LaTeX Class**: `iclr2024_conference.sty`
+- **Supplementary**: Code and data encouraged (anonymous GitHub)
+- **Open Review**: Reviews and responses are public post-decision
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/iclr_article.tex`
+
+**Unique Features**:
+- OpenReview platform (transparent review process)
+- Author-reviewer discussion during review
+- Camera-ready can exceed 8 pages
+
+**Website**: https://iclr.cc/
+
+---
+
+### CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top-tier computer vision conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (June)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Main paper: 8 pages (including figures and tables, excluding references)
+  - References: Unlimited (separate section)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times Roman, 10pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+  - Blur faces in images if needed
+  - Anonymize datasets if they reveal identity
+- **Paper size**: US Letter
+- **Citations**: Numbered [1]
+- **Figures**: High resolution, can be color
+- **LaTeX Template**: CVPR official template (changes yearly)
+- **Supplementary Material**: 
+  - Video demonstrations encouraged
+  - Additional results, code
+  - 100 MB limit for all supplementary files
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/cvpr_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://cvpr.thecvf.com/
+
+---
+
+### AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
+
+**Conference Type**: Major AI conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (February)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Technical papers: 7 pages (excluding references)
+  - References: Unlimited
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times Roman, 10pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **Paper size**: US Letter
+- **Citations**: Various styles accepted (be consistent)
+- **LaTeX Template**: AAAI official style
+- **Supplementary**: Optional appendix
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/aaai_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/
+
+---
+
+### IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
+
+**Conference Type**: Major AI conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 7 pages (excluding references)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required**
+- **LaTeX Template**: IJCAI official style
+
+---
+
+## Computer Science
+
+### ACM CHI (Human-Computer Interaction)
+
+**Conference Type**: Premier HCI conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (April/May)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Papers: 10 pages (excluding references)
+  - Late-Breaking Work: 4 pages
+- **Format**: Single-column ACM format
+- **Font**: Depends on ACM template
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** for Papers track
+- **LaTeX Class**: `acmart` with CHI proceedings format
+- **Citations**: ACM style (numbered or author-year)
+- **Figures**: High quality, accessibility considered
+- **Accessibility**: Alt text for figures encouraged
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/chi_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://chi.acm.org/
+
+---
+
+### SIGKDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top data mining conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (August)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Research Track: 9 pages (excluding references)
+  - Applied Data Science: 9 pages
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **LaTeX Class**: `acmart` (sigconf format)
+- **Font**: ACM template default
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **Citations**: ACM numbered style
+- **Supplementary**: Code and data encouraged
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/kdd_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://kdd.org/
+
+---
+
+### EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top NLP conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (November/December)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Long papers: 8 pages (+ unlimited references and appendix)
+  - Short papers: 4 pages (+ unlimited references)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times New Roman, 11pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+  - Do not include author names or affiliations
+  - Self-citations should be anonymized
+- **Paper size**: US Letter or A4
+- **Citations**: Named style similar to ACL
+- **LaTeX Template**: ACL/EMNLP official style
+- **Supplementary**: Appendix unlimited, code encouraged
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/emnlp_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://www.emnlp.org/
+
+---
+
+### ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
+
+**Conference Type**: Premier NLP conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (July)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 8 pages (long), 4 pages (short), excluding references
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 11pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required**
+- **LaTeX Template**: ACL official style (acl.sty)
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/acl_article.tex`
+
+---
+
+### USENIX Security Symposium
+
+**Conference Type**: Top security conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (August)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Papers: No strict limit (typically 15-20 pages including everything)
+  - Well-written, concise papers preferred
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **LaTeX Template**: USENIX official template
+- **Citations**: Numbered
+- **Paper size**: US Letter
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/usenix_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity
+
+---
+
+### SIGIR (Information Retrieval)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top information retrieval conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (July)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Full papers: 10 pages (excluding references)
+  - Short papers: 4 pages (excluding references)
+- **Format**: Single-column ACM format
+- **LaTeX Class**: `acmart` (sigconf)
+- **Anonymization**: **Required**
+- **Citations**: ACM style
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/sigir_article.tex`
+
+---
+
+## Biology & Bioinformatics
+
+### ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology)
+
+**Conference Type**: Premier computational biology conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (July)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Publication**: Proceedings published in *Bioinformatics* journal
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Typically 7-8 pages including figures and references
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **Citations**: Numbered (Oxford style similar to Bioinformatics journal)
+- **LaTeX Template**: Oxford Bioinformatics template
+- **Anonymization**: **Not required** (single-blind)
+- **Figures**: High resolution, color acceptable
+- **Supplementary**: Encouraged for additional data/methods
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/ismb_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://www.iscb.org/ismb
+
+---
+
+### RECOMB (Research in Computational Molecular Biology)
+
+**Conference Type**: Top computational biology conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (April/May)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Publication**: Proceedings published as Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
+- **Page Limit**: 
+  - Extended abstracts: 12-15 pages (including references)
+- **Format**: Single-column
+- **Font**: Based on Springer LNCS template
+- **LaTeX Class**: `llncs` (Springer)
+- **Citations**: Numbered or author-year
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** (double-blind)
+- **Supplementary**: Appendix can be submitted
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/recomb_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://www.recomb.org/
+
+---
+
+### PSB (Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing)
+
+**Conference Type**: Biomedical informatics conference  
+**Frequency**: Annual (January)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 12 pages including figures and references
+- **Format**: Single-column
+- **Font**: Times, 11pt
+- **Margins**: 1 inch all sides
+- **Citations**: Numbered
+- **Anonymization**: **Not required**
+- **Figures**: Embedded in text
+- **LaTeX Template**: PSB official template
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/psb_article.tex`
+
+**Website**: https://psb.stanford.edu/
+
+---
+
+## Engineering
+
+### IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 8 pages (including figures and references)
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **LaTeX Class**: IEEEtran
+- **Citations**: IEEE style [1]
+- **Anonymization**: **Required** for initial submission
+- **Video**: Optional video submissions encouraged
+
+**LaTeX Template**: `assets/journals/icra_article.tex`
+
+---
+
+### IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
+
+**Formatting**: Same as ICRA (IEEE robotics template)
+
+---
+
+### International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 8 pages
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **LaTeX Class**: IEEE template
+- **Citations**: IEEE style
+
+---
+
+### Design Automation Conference (DAC)
+
+**Formatting Requirements**:
+- **Page Limit**: 6 pages
+- **Format**: Two-column
+- **Font**: Times, 10pt
+- **LaTeX Class**: ACM or IEEE template (check yearly guidelines)
+
+---
+
+## Multidisciplinary
+
+### AAAS Annual Meeting
+
+**Conference Type**: Broad scientific conference  
+**Formatting**: Varies by symposium (typically extended abstracts)
+
+---
+
+## Quick Reference Table
+
+| Conference | Pages | Format | Blind | Citations | Template |
+|------------|-------|--------|-------|-----------|----------|
+| **NeurIPS** | 8 + refs | Two-col | Double | [1] | `neurips_article.tex` |
+| **ICML** | 8 + refs | Two-col | Double | [1] | `icml_article.tex` |
+| **ICLR** | 8 + refs | Two-col | Double | [1] | `iclr_article.tex` |
+| **CVPR** | 8 + refs | Two-col | Double | [1] | `cvpr_article.tex` |
+| **AAAI** | 7 + refs | Two-col | Double | Various | `aaai_article.tex` |
+| **CHI** | 10 + refs | Single-col | Double | ACM | `chi_article.tex` |
+| **SIGKDD** | 9 + refs | Two-col | Double | ACM [1] | `kdd_article.tex` |
+| **EMNLP** | 8 + refs | Two-col | Double | Named | `emnlp_article.tex` |
+| **ISMB** | 7-8 pages | Two-col | Single | [1] | `ismb_article.tex` |
+| **RECOMB** | 12-15 pages | Single-col | Double | Springer | `recomb_article.tex` |
+
+---
+
+## General Conference Submission Guidelines
+
+### Anonymization Best Practices (Double-Blind Review)
+
+**Remove**:
+- Author names, affiliations, emails from title page
+- Acknowledgments section
+- Funding information that reveals identity
+- Any "our previous work" citations that make identity obvious
+
+**Anonymize**:
+- Self-citations: "Smith et al. [5]" → "Anonymous et al. [5]" or "Prior work [5]"
+- Institution-specific details: "our university" → "a large research university"
+- Dataset names if they reveal identity
+
+**Keep Anonymous**:
+- Code repositories (use anonymous GitHub for review)
+- Supplementary materials
+- Any URLs or links
+
+### Supplementary Materials
+
+**Common Inclusions**:
+- Source code (GitHub repository, zip file)
+- Additional experimental results
+- Proofs and derivations
+- Extended related work
+- Dataset descriptions
+- Video demonstrations
+- Interactive demos
+
+**Best Practices**:
+- Keep supplementary well-organized
+- Reference supplementary clearly from main paper
+- Ensure supplementary is anonymized for blind review
+- Check file size limits (typically 50-100 MB)
+
+### Camera-Ready Preparation
+
+After acceptance:
+1. **De-anonymize**: Add author names, affiliations
+2. **Add acknowledgments**: Funding, contributions
+3. **Copyright**: Add conference copyright notice
+4. **Formatting**: Follow camera-ready specific guidelines
+5. **Page limit**: May allow 1-2 extra pages (check guidelines)
+6. **PDF/A compliance**: Some conferences require PDF/A format
+
+### Accessibility Considerations
+
+**For All Conferences**:
+- Use colorblind-safe color palettes
+- Ensure sufficient contrast
+- Provide alt text for figures (where supported)
+- Use clear, readable fonts
+- Avoid solely color-based distinctions
+
+---
+
+## Common Mistakes to Avoid
+
+1. **Wrong style file**: Using outdated conference style file
+2. **Page limit violation**: Figures/tables pushing over limit
+3. **Font size manipulation**: Changing fonts to fit more content
+4. **Margin adjustments**: Modifying margins to gain space
+5. **De-anonymization**: Accidentally revealing identity in blind review
+6. **Missing references**: Not citing relevant prior work
+7. **Low-quality figures**: Pixelated or illegible figures
+8. **Inconsistent formatting**: Different sections using different styles
+
+---
+
+## Getting Official Templates
+
+**Where to Find Official Templates**:
+1. **Conference website**: "Call for Papers" or "Author Instructions"
+2. **GitHub**: Many conferences host templates on GitHub
+3. **Overleaf**: Many official templates available on Overleaf
+4. **CTAN**: LaTeX class files often on CTAN repository
+
+**Template Naming**:
+- Conferences often update templates yearly
+- Use the correct year's template (e.g., `neurips_2024.sty`)
+- Check for "camera-ready" vs. "submission" versions
+
+---
+
+## Notes
+
+1. **Annual updates**: Conference requirements change; always check current year's CFP
+2. **Deadline types**: 
+   - Abstract deadline (often 1 week before paper deadline)
+   - Paper deadline (firm, no extensions typically)
+   - Supplementary deadline (may be a few days after paper)
+3. **Timezone**: Pay attention to deadline timezone (often AOE - Anywhere on Earth)
+4. **Rebuttal**: Many conferences have author response/rebuttal periods
+5. **Dual submission**: Check conference policy on concurrent submissions
+6. **Poster/Oral**: Acceptance often comes with presentation format
+
+## Conference Tiers (Informal)
+
+**Machine Learning**:
+- **Tier 1**: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
+- **Tier 2**: AAAI, IJCAI, UAI
+
+**Computer Vision**:
+- **Tier 1**: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV
+
+**Natural Language Processing**:
+- **Tier 1**: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL
+
+**Bioinformatics**:
+- **Tier 1**: RECOMB, ISMB
+- **Tier 2**: PSB, WABI
+
+(Tiers are informal and field-dependent; not official rankings)
+