FORMATTING AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Formatting and Submission Guidelines

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. All submissions must be in PDF format. All submissions must use the US Letter page format.

Make sure that you are using the correct IEEE style file: the title should be typeset in 24pt font and the body of the paper should be typeset in 10pt font.

Latex users: please use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} (without option 'compsoc' or 'compsocconf').

Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories as follows:.

Submission category Size Limit
Technical Research 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
Workshop Proposals For workshop proposals: 4 pages for the proposal + 1 page for the draft workshop CFP
For workshop papers: 7 pages
Technical Briefings 2-page abstract, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Software Engineering Education and Training Full papers and case studies: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Panel session proposals: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Software Engineering in Society Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Long papers: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Case study papers: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Software Engineering in Practice 10 pages, including all text, figures, tables, appendices, figures, and references.
New Ideas and Emerging Results 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Doctoral Symposium Full Papers: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Extended Abstracts for Posters: 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures (Include the words "Extended Abstract" below the title of the paper in the Camera-Ready version of the paper).
ACM Student Research Competition 2 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures; references only may be included on up to 1 additional page.
Demonstrations 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Posters (i) an extended abstract of no more than two pages, excluding references, but including all text, appendices, and figures and (ii) a 24 inch x 36 inch poster
ICGSE 2017 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
ICPC 2017 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
MobileSoft 2017 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
MSR 2017 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.
SEAMS 2017 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.

Submissions that do not comply with these instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.

Accepted contributions

All accepted contributions will be published in the ICSE 2017 Proceedings or the ICSE 2017 Companion Proceedings and in both the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE Digital Library.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2017. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Accepted contributions

The SIGSOFT CAPS program OFFERS three distinct services to support conference attendance for SIGSOFT STUDENT members, SIGSOFT professional members, as well as non-member UNDERGRADUATE students:

CAPS-GRAD: Travel support for GRADUATE STUDENTS (only OPEN to SIGSOFT student members)

CAPS-UG: Travel support for undergraduate students (open to non-members)

CAPS-KIDS: Travel support to help defray cost of childcare (open to SIGSOFT student and professional members)