Information for Authors

Types of paper accepted for the FedCSIS:

• Full paper - 8 pages; published in Conference Proceedings with ISBN number; submitted to IEEE Digital Library
• Short paper - 4 pages; published in Conference Proceedings with ISBN number; submitted to IEEE Digital Library
• Position paper - 6 pages; published in Position Papers volume with ISBN number

Formatting instructions presented below apply to all three types of papers.

A PDF file is enough for paper submission and evaluation. Information on submission and the link to paper submission website will be announced shortly.

When your contribution is accepted, please, upload all your source files (i.e. all files that are necessary and sufficient for reproducing your PDF using standard software) together with PDF in one zip arichive. (Of course, you can use any other standard archiver).

After submitting the article, please, double check, if

• You entered correct title
• You entered correct abstract
• You entered all the authors in correct order
• Names of all authors have all diacritical signs

Please, note that this data will be used for Proceedings on pendrive as well as for IEEEXplore digital library. Specifically, if you made any changes of title, abstract or list of authors in the final version, please, perform this changes at the paper submission system too. Alternatively, send modified versions directly to the TeXnical editor.

All articles published in the Conference Proceedings on the CD will be placed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. To ensure that each conference article meets the specifications required by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and the FedCSIS high-quality standards, the final version will be produced from the author's source by our TeXnical editor. To make the processing as fast as possible, authors are kindly requested to follow the following instructions. You can send your article in any of the three formats:

• LaTeX (prefered)
• OpenDocument
• MSWord (deprecated)

LaTeX

To prepare an article in LaTeX, use the standard IEEEtran document class. It can be downloaded form here. Additional instruction for this macro package usage (inserting of graphic files, algorithms, programming code fragments, etc) can be found here. This document is based on the guide "Preparation of Papers in Two-Column Format for Conference Proceedings Sponsored by IEEE" that can be found within the IEEE portal. Please, use the source of this document as a template for your article.

When submitting an article in LaTeX, please, provide:

• The source of the article.
• Files of all the inserted graphics.
• PDF file with the article (this file will be sent to the reviewers).

OpenDocument Format

Preparing an article in the OpenDocument Format, please, use the following template and guide. You can refer to the OpenDocument Fellowship site for list of applications that support OpenDocument format.

Use IMCSITTemplate.odt file, included in the template and guide as a template for your contribution. The article elements (titles, abstract, author's name and address, programming code fragments, table and figure captions etc.) should be formated using the corresponding styles (see the documentation). You are not allowed to change explicitly fonts, paragraph formatting. etc.

When submitting an article in OpenDocument Format, please, provide:
The source of the article.
Files of all the inserted graphics.
PDF file with the article. PDF will be sent to the referees.

MSWord

If you choose MSWord format, please, first of all consider the possibility to switch to LaTeX, which produces perfect platform-independent documents.

To submit an article in MSWord, use the following template and guide. Use the IMCSITTemplateDoc.doc file, included in the template and guide as a template for your contribution. The article elements (titles, abstract, author's name and address, programming code fragments, table and figure captions etc.) should be formated with the corresponding styles (see the documentation). You are not allowed to change explicitly fonts, the paragraph formatting, etc.
Do not try to adjust the format of your article manually. It is better to leave not perfectly formatted text "as is".
You are encouraged to convert the article to OpenDocument format. Please, refer to the OpenDocument Fellowship site for the list of available converters.
Do not use Open XML format (docx extensions)!

When submitting an article in MSWord, please, provide:

• The source of the article.
• Files of all the inserted graphics.
• PDF file with the article. PDF will be sent to the referees.

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