Venue Templates

Venue Templates is a community skill for creating academic paper templates for conference and journal submissions, covering formatting requirements, citation styles, section structures, figure management, and compliance checking for scholarly publication workflows.

What Is This?

Overview

Venue Templates provides guidance on preparing academic papers that comply with specific conference and journal formatting requirements. It covers formatting rules that configure page margins, column layouts, font sizes, and spacing to match venue-specific LaTeX class files and style requirements, citation style management that applies the correct bibliography format using BibTeX or BibLaTeX with venue-specific reference styles, section structure templates that organize papers with required sections like abstract, introduction, methodology, results, and conclusions, figure and table management that sizes and positions visual elements with proper captions and cross-references, and compliance checking that verifies page limits, anonymization for blind review, and formatting rule adherence before submission. The skill helps researchers prepare well-formatted academic submissions efficiently and avoid desk rejections.

Who Should Use This

This skill serves academic researchers submitting papers to conferences and journals, graduate students preparing their first scholarly publications, and research teams managing multi-author paper formatting.

Why Use It?

Problems It Solves

Each venue has unique formatting requirements that differ in margins, fonts, citation styles, and section naming conventions. Switching between venue templates requires reconfiguring LaTeX document classes and bibliography styles. Anonymizing papers for double-blind review requires removing all author identifying information systematically. Verifying compliance with page limits and formatting rules before submission prevents desk rejections.

Core Highlights

Format configurator applies detailed venue-specific page layout rules. Citation manager sets up the correct bibliography and reference styles. Section builder creates required paper structure and section templates. Compliance checker verifies formatting rules, anonymization, and page limits.

How to Use It?

Basic Usage

% Conference paper template
\documentclass[sigconf]{
  acmart}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}

% Anonymize for review
\settopmatter{
  printacmref=false}
\renewcommand
  {\footnotetextcopyrightpermission}[1]{}

\title{Paper Title Here}
\author{Anonymous}
\affiliation{}

\begin{abstract}
  Concise summary of the
  research problem, method,
  and key findings.
\end{abstract}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
Context and motivation.

\section{Related Work}
Prior research.

\section{Methodology}
Technical approach.

\section{Results}
Experimental findings.

\section{Conclusion}
Summary and future work.

\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}

Real-World Examples

% Figure and table
% management
\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[
    width=\columnwidth]{
    figures/results.pdf}
  \caption{Comparison of
    method performance
    across benchmarks.}
  \label{fig:results}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[t]
  \centering
  \caption{Ablation study
    results.}
  \label{tab:ablation}
  \begin{tabular}{lcc}
    \toprule
    Method & Acc & F1 \\
    \midrule
    Baseline & 0.82 & 0.79 \\
    Ours & 0.91 & 0.88 \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

As shown in
Figure~\ref{fig:results}
and Table~\ref{tab:ablation},
our method improves accuracy.

Advanced Tips

Keep figures as vector PDFs for crisp rendering at any size in the final publication. Use the cleveref package for automatic reference formatting that adapts to the venue style. Check final PDF page count after compilation since LaTeX float placement can shift content across pages.

When to Use It?

Use Cases

Prepare a paper for ACM SIGCHI with the acmart document class and proper anonymization. Format a journal article for IEEE Transactions with two-column layout and IEEE citation style. Convert a paper between conference formats when resubmitting to a different venue.

Related Topics

LaTeX, academic writing, BibTeX, conference formatting, paper submission, scholarly publishing, and document preparation.

Important Notes

Requirements

LaTeX distribution with the venue-specific document class files installed for correct formatting. BibTeX or BibLaTeX with properly formatted reference entries for the bibliography section. PDF viewer for checking final output compliance with page limits and visual formatting requirements.

Usage Recommendations

Do: download the latest template from the venue website since formatting requirements change between submission cycles. Compile the paper multiple times to resolve cross-references and bibliography citations. Check anonymization thoroughly including metadata, file properties, and acknowledgment sections.

Don't: modify venue class files since changes may violate formatting requirements and cause desk rejection. Exceed page limits by adjusting margins or font sizes that deviate from the template. Submit without compiling the final PDF from a clean build to catch any unresolved references.

Limitations

Venue templates change periodically and older template versions may not meet current submission requirements. LaTeX formatting edge cases with complex figures or tables may require manual placement adjustments. Converting between venue formats requires restructuring sections and references that cannot be fully automated.