The Last Step Before Submitting a Paper
Having edited 20+ manuscripts for various venues, I have compiled a long checklist to polish papers. Hope you will find it useful :-).
Layout
- Is there widows or orphans?
- Is there a paragraph before going into subsections?
- Proper captions for all images and tables?
Reference
Do not trust Google Scholar. There are multiple things to take care.
- Are the venue titles consistent?
- Same conference, same booktitle
- Capitalization
- Is the meta information correct?
- Is the entry type (e.g. @inproceedings vs @article vs @incollection) correct?
- Is the page index correct?
- Many venues (e.g., SIGCHI, CSCW) adopt
articleno
andnumpages
. If it starts from page 1, you should be alarmed.
- Many venues (e.g., SIGCHI, CSCW) adopt
- If it is a new publications without metadata, annotate it with
note: Early Access
- For online resources, mark the access date
- Are there repetitive entries for the same reference?
- Always a bonus
- Include the
doi
orEprint
(ACM only) - Remove redundant items like
editor
,month
, etc. - Search the publication information instead of using the preprint version
- Include the
You may use some online tools to tidy your BibTex, e.g., bibtex-tidy
I personally recommend using abbreviations for common publication venues.
Bibtex
@String(CGF = {Computer Graphics Forum})
@String(TVCG = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics})
@String(CHI = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems})
@String(IV = {Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (IV)})
@String(VAST = {Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology})
@String(BELIV = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors on Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV)})
@String(AVI = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)})
@String(DIS = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)})
@String(CNC = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C\&C)})
@String(CSCW = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)})
@String(IUI = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)})
Misc.
- Are all the URLs correct and anonymous?
- Is there any copyright issues for multimedia resources?
- How to use third-party images in your paper by Prof. Pierre Dragicevic
- Am I using LaTex packages supported by the publisher?