ATC 2026

Submission

The camera-ready version of your paper should be submitted via HotCRP. This will include all your sources and the generated PDF.

Please respect the following timeline:

• Send revision plan to shepherd: 25 Sep 2026 [Post a comment in HotCRP]
• Sign copyright forms: 1 Oct 2026 [Watch for a separate email with instructions]
• Submit camera-ready version: 16 Oct 2026 [Submit in HotCRP]

Formatting

Camera-ready papers can have 13 pages of technical content (7 pages for short papers), including all text, figures, tables, etc. In some cases, an additional page may be approved for a maximum of 14 pages, but only if the shepherd deems necessary. Appendices are not allowed.

Bibliographic references are not included in the page limit. You must use the US letter paper size, with all text and figures fitting inside a 178 x 229 mm (7 x 9 in) block centered on the page, using two columns separated by 8 mm (0.33 in) of whitespace. Use 10-point font (typeface Times Roman, Linux Libertine, etc.) on 12-point (single-spaced) leading. Graphs and figures should be readable when printed in grayscale, without magnification. Do not include page numbers, footers, or headers. References within the paper should be hyperlinked.

Paper Titles Should be in Initial Caps, Meaning the First Letter of the Main Words Must be Made Capital Letters. As an example, refer to the previous sentence: note the Capital Letter "M" in Meaning, Main, Must, and Made, the Capital Letter "C" in Caps and Capital, the Capital Letter "L" in Letter and Letters, and so on.

Most of these rules are automatically applied when using the official SIGPLAN LaTeX or MS Word templates from the ACM, available from the ACM Template Page.

Please follow the font requirements from part 8 of the ACM Guidelines for Proceedings. In particular, papers should have Type 1 fonts (scalable), not Type 3 (bit-mapped). All fonts MUST be embedded within the PDF file. This will usually happen by default when using pdflatex, but in rare cases, PDFs generated with pdflatex will not contain embedded fonts. This most often occurs when vector images included in paper do not themselves embed their fonts.

Authors should make sure to use the ACM classification system. For details, please see the ACM CCS Page.

Be sure that there are no bad page or column breaks, meaning no widows or orphans (single line of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a column). Section and Subsection heads should remain with at least 2 lines of body text when near the end of a page or column. When submitting the camera-ready paper, make sure the authors’ full names and affiliations in HotCRP are up-to-date, and that the abstract in HotCRP is also updated.

Copyright Block

The bottom-left corner of the first page of the final paper must include a copyright notice. Authors will receive the relevant copyright information after they have filled out the e-Rights form via the ACM rights-management tool on the HotCRP page of the paper.

ACM will use its automated system to email this information to the authors. Please set your email spam settings to allow messages from "rightsreview@acm.org". The copyright block includes the DOI specific to the paper, rights-management text that depends on the author's choice of a license or copyright transfer, the official name, dates, and location of the event.

For papers typeset using MS Word, the copyright block statement must be in 7-point Libertine font, with the first paragraph text justified, and with the venue information in italics. Refer to the interim-layout.docx sample file from the ACM Template Page to view how the ACM copyright statement should appear. You should preserve the original formatting.

Images and Figures

Below are some recommendations to ensure good print reproduction of the images, figures, and illustrations utilized in your submission.

Colors and Black & White (Gray Scale) Print Testing. If you have any images in color, your images will appear in full color in any distributed electronic proceedings and in the ACM digital library. Please print your paper out in black and white to ensure that the tones and screens used in your images or figures reproduce well in black and white, too.

Resolution & CMYK. Figures, charts, and diagrams should use a vector image format (e.g. PDF, SVG). Raster images (e.g. photographs) should be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and saved as TIFF images (or other compatible formats that support print-quality resolution). When creating or revising your images for inclusion in the paper, we recommend choosing CMYK (and not RGB) as the color profile.

TIFF/PNG versus JPG (JPEG) image. For raster images (e.g. photos), TIFFs are preferred for press applications where quality takes priority over file size. When TIFFs are compressed (using the LZW compression option when saving from Adobe Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring maximum quality. A JPEG is a compressed image format designed to keep the file size small, which makes it ideal for use in web graphics. However, to achieve this, the JPEG format actually removes precision from the image. This is referred to as a lossy compression system. On a printout, the removed data tends to show up as blocky areas of a solid color, or ghosting near high-contrast changes. At higher print resolutions (a minimum of 200 dpi), there’s usually enough data in the JPEG file for the compression artifacts to be very noticeable. PNG files are also a good alternative as the format is also lossless.

Rules/Lines. Rules used in your graphs, tables or charts must be at least 0.5 point in stroke and black for quality reproduction. Finer lines and points than this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your laser printed hardcopy when checked -- your laser printers will usually have a far lower resolution than the imagesetters that will be used.

Fonts. If your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear differently when printed in the proceedings. Remember to check your figure creation to ensure that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly. Be sure that your images do not contain any Type 3 fonts.

Transparency. If a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be embedded, and layers be flattened or grouped together properly in the file. Transparency must be flattened.

Third-Party Material and Acknowledgements

In the event any element used in your material contains the work of third-parties, it is the authors' responsibility to secure any necessary permissions and/or licenses, and the authors will provide the same permissions in writing to the ACM. If the copyright holder requires a citation to a copyrighted work, it is the authors' responsibility to include the correct wording and citations to the copyrighted material in their submissions.

It is the authors' responsibility to be sure that any funding or special contribution acknowledgements are included in the final version submitted as required by any research, financial, or other grants received (typically by using an "Acknowledgements" section before the "References" section).

Registration

For each accepted paper, at least one author must have a full (non-student) registration.

Questions

Any questions about camera-ready papers can be emailed to the PC chairs (program-chairs26@atc.sigops.org) and/or the publication chair (Tianyin Xu).