Author Guidelines

Step A: Manuscript Preparation

1. The manuscript should be prepared in Springer LNCS format using MS WORD and/or LaTeX template available respectively in MS word (.doc), and LaTeX. The guidelines given here may help you to prepare the manuscript. Preferable format of manuscript is through LaTeX. These templates and guidelines can also be found in publisher’s homepage by clicking on 'Instructions for Authors' section.

2. The figures / graphs / plots in the manuscript MUST be of good resolution (600 dpi or more), tables MUST NOT be in pictorial format. Text in figures should not be too small, and preferably of equal size as text of the article.

3. Figures, text, or the tables MUST be visible within boundary of the text area of the page and MUST NOT go beyond it.

4. Do NOT use any Social / Academic titles (e.g. Mr.,Ms.,Dr.,Prof. etc) preceding the author names. Do NOT mention the position of a person (e.g., research scholar, student, assistant professor, professor, IEEE member, IEEE student member etc.) in the affiliation.

5. Mention full address, affiliation, and email of ALL authors, specify a corresponding author with the corresponding e-mail ID. [Once an article is accepted, the publisher will send the proofreading of article to this e-mail]

6. Do not make any page numbering and do not give any running head title.

7. Every article must bear a self-composed independent single paragraph as Abstract, which MUST NOT bear any citation or reference. Abstract MUST not have a section number.

8. Articles must be written in spell checked and grammatically correct English.

9. All references, figures, and tables should be numbered in sequence starting from 1 and MUST be duly cited / referred within the text.

10. Adhere to page size (A4 : 8.27″X11.69″), page margin size (top:2.05″, bottom:2.05″, left/inside: 1.73″, right/outside: 1.73″), line spacing ( ‘single’ ), and font style ( ‘Times’ ), font sizes (Title: 14pt – bold, Abstract: 9 pt, Keywords: 9 pt, Section header : 12 pt – bold, Subsection header: 10 pt – bold, Table and figure caption: 10 pt – bold, Text body: 10 pt) as prescribed in Springer LNCS template, do not manually alter ANY of these parameters.

11. verify the referencing style of LNCS, which will help to produce correct reference format. A reference should bear following parameters in proper format: author name(s), title of article/book, conference/journal name, volume, issue, page numbers, and publication year.

12. Any article, not in format, will be subjected to rejection without any judgment on its quality.

13. The articles should be own work of the authors. If any work is referred from others (or some other work by the author), proper acknowledgement should be given. Plagiarism of any type, if detected, will lead to rejection of the articles anytime.

Step B: Submitting for Review

1. Follow the link here and submit your article with properly mentioning article title, authors names and other details that will be asked..

2. Create / sign up for an Easychair account if you do not have one.

3. Fill proper metadata of the article in Easychair as they exist in your article. Title, Abstract, Keywords, list of authors (in order) and their affiliation should be mentioned in Easychair while submitting.

4. You will be assigned an unique article ID of your submitted article, which you should remember and use for any correspondence.

5. Page size of an article should not exceed 14 in any case. Desired page size is minimum 8.

6. You need not upload editable source files (.doc or .docx or LaTeX files) for review. Submit single PDF files only. If your article is selected, you will later be asked for the source files.

7. Review decision will be e-mailed to authors.

8. No offline submission request through e-mail or surface mail will be entertained. Offline submissions will lead to outright rejection without any review or validating the quality of the article.

Note: DO NOT submit multiple copies of same article, which will cause rejection. Any revision / uploading a new version / updating author information can be done on a submission through Easychair.

Step C: After Acceptance

1. Preparing and uploading of the Camera Ready Article:

   The final camera-ready copy of the papers must be in Springer LNCS format with a length of maximum 14 pages. It is desired that maximum number of pages in an article should not exceed 14 pages in any circumstance. Check Step A: Manuscript preparation above for formatting the camera ready article. Upload camera-ready PDF on to the Easychair, and submit source file(s) along with items mentioned in Section C (Point No. 6) as .zip or .rar file.

2. Paying Registration Fee:

   Calculate the registration fee according to your page length and type of authorship as directed in REGISTRATION page and make payment using Foreign Telegraphic Transfer or Direct Transfer or NEFT Transfer or Wire transfer (preferable). Do not forget to keep the pay-in-slip or Challan or online payment receipt. You need the scanned copy of it to complete next steps.

3. Filling up of the Registration Form

   The registration form can be downloaded in PDF format from here [Registration_Form_ICACIE2020.pdf] or in word format from here [Registration_Form_ICACIE2020.doc]

   Download the form and fill all the details. Send the duly filled registration form along with all other documents as listed below.

4. Filling up of the Publishing Agreement Form:

   The Publishing Agreement Form can directly be downloaded from here.

5. Filling up of the Permission Request Form (if you have used any Third Party Materials in your Paper)

   The Permission Request Form can directly be downloaded from here.

6. Mailing the following items in .zip / .rar format to icacie2020@gmail.com

   1. Duly filled in registration form (In PDF Format).
   2. The Camera Ready Paper source files (MS Word format/Latex folder)
   3. Scanned copy of filled in Publishing Agreement Form.
   4. Scanned copy of filled in Permission Request Form (if you have used any Third Party Materials in your Paper)
   5. Proof of studentship (valid on 1st June 2020) for availing Student Registration (if applicable) signed by head of the department/course coordinator/registrar/director/principal.
   6. Scan of registration fee proof.

   The mail must bear the subject line as: “Registration of article ICACIE2020-PID-XXX”.

   (A SINGLE MAIL must bear all items below. If size exceeds 20 MB, break the mail into more than one. Append to subject line of the mails: Part 1, Part 2 etc. Multiple mails without size limitation will not be considered.)

Step D: Presentation Preparation

Electronic presentation facility will be available and presentation time is limited to 10 minutes including the question and answer session. The presentation should be crisp to clearly bring out the objective of the research and its outcomes along with its importance and applications, if any. The PPT must adhere to the template given [here].

Number of slides should be 10 (must not be beyond 12).

Presentation slides along with recorded video (mp4 format with max. 10 minutes) presentation must be mailed to icacie2020@gmail.com on or before 20.06.2020

The mail MUST bear a subject line “Presentation slide and video of article ICACIE2020-XXX”

Recommendation for extending work for special issues will be on the basis of the value of the work as well as the presentation.

Paper Submission

All submitted papers will be checked for plagiarism through the Turnitin software. Papers with significant overlap with the authors own papers or other papers will be rejected without review.

All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors by email. The authors of the accepted papers will be allowed to make corrections in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers within the stipulated deadline.