Before you submit

Read through the preview with this list. It takes ten minutes and prevents most of the reasons work is sent back.

The call

• The work fits the call’s topic and the track you chose.
• The kind is right: abstract, poster, full paper or another.
• It is within the word limit.
• It uses the reference style the call asks for.

Title, abstract, keywords

• The title says what the work is about, without abbreviations.
• The abstract gives the problem, the method, a result with a number, and what it means.
• Four to six keywords, which add to the title.

Authors

• Every author is listed, one entry each, in the agreed order.
• Every author has their own email address.
• Names are spelled as each author wants them printed.
• Affiliations are written in full.
• Every author has agreed to this submission.
• The corresponding author is the right person.

The text

• Headings are in order.
• Every figure and table has a caption and is mentioned in the text.
• Every abbreviation is explained the first time.
• Units are given, and are the same throughout.
• It has been read by someone who did not write it.

References

• The References panel shows no citation without a reference.
• No reference is left that is never cited.
• Each reference has its authors, year, title and source.

If the call reviews without names

• Your name and institution are not in the text, the figures or the file names.
• You refer to your own earlier work as you would to anyone’s: “Okafor (2025) showed”, not “we showed earlier”.
• Acknowledgments and funding are in the declarations, not in the text. They are kept from reviewers there.

Honesty

• The work is your own, and other people’s words and figures are credited.
• It is not under review anywhere else.
• Permissions are in hand for anything reused.
• Ethics approval and consent are stated, where they apply.

Then

Press Submit for review. You and your co-authors are told by email, and your submission shows where it is from then on. See Follow progress.