ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template

ACM has transitioned to a new authoring template. This new TeX template (acmart v2.08) consolidates the previous eight individual ACM journal and proceedings templates. The templates are updated to the latest software versions, developed to enable accessibility features, and they use a new font set.

The new LaTeX package incorporates updated versions of the following ACM templates:

All journals use acmsmall with the following exceptions:

Note: Most proceedings authors will use the "sigconf" proceedings template. If you are unsure which template variant to use, please request clarification from your event or publication contact.

Important information regarding submission versions for review: After finalizing the formatting of your paper you must use the option “ manuscript ” with \documentclass[manuscript] command. This will generate the output in single column review format which is required. Accepted manuscripts will be transformed during production to produce properly formatted output accord to the publication specifications. Authors will be provided the opportunity to review and approve the formatted output before the article is published to the ACM Digital Library.

Before using the 2017 ACM consolidated proceedings template, we strongly suggest that you read the TeX User Guide. Authors who plan to use their own packages should read the longer Implementation Guide.

ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template

Source

%% %% This is file `sample-sigconf-authordraft.tex', %% generated with the docstrip utility. %% %% The original source files were: %% %% samples.dtx (with options: `all,proceedings,bibtex,authordraft') %% %% IMPORTANT NOTICE: %% %% For the copyright see the source file. %% %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed %% with new filenames distinct from sample-sigconf-authordraft.tex. %% %% For distribution of the original source see the terms %% for copying and modification in the file samples.dtx. %% %% This generated file may be distributed as long as the %% original source files, as listed above, are part of the %% same distribution. (The sources need not necessarily be %% in the same archive or directory.) %% %% %% Commands for TeXCount %TC:macro \cite [option:text,text] %TC:macro \citep [option:text,text] %TC:macro \citet [option:text,text] %TC:envir table 0 1 %TC:envir table* 0 1 %TC:envir tabular [ignore] word %TC:envir displaymath 0 word %TC:envir math 0 word %TC:envir comment 0 0 %% %% %% The first command in your LaTeX source must be the \documentclass %% command. %% %% For submission and review of your manuscript please change the %% command to \documentclass[manuscript, screen, review]. %% %% When submitting camera ready or to TAPS, please change the command %% to \documentclass[sigconf] or whichever template is required %% for your publication. %% %% \documentclass[sigconf,authordraft] %% %% \BibTeX command to typeset BibTeX logo in the docs \AtBeginDocument>> %% Rights management information. This information is sent to you %% when you complete the rights form. These commands have SAMPLE %% values in them; it is your responsibility as an author to replace %% the commands and values with those provided to you when you %% complete the rights form. \setcopyright \copyrightyear \acmYear \acmDOI %% These commands are for a PROCEEDINGS abstract or paper. \acmConference[Conference acronym 'XX] %% %% Uncomment \acmBooktitle if the title of the proceedings is different %% from ``Proceedings of . ''! %% %%\acmBooktitle \acmISBN %% %% Submission ID. %% Use this when submitting an article to a sponsored event. You'll %% receive a unique submission ID from the organizers %% of the event, and this ID should be used as the parameter to this command. %%\acmSubmissionID %% %% For managing citations, it is recommended to use bibliography %% files in BibTeX format. %% %% You can then either use BibTeX with the ACM-Reference-Format style, %% or BibLaTeX with the acmnumeric or acmauthoryear sytles, that include %% support for advanced citation of software artefact from the %% biblatex-software package, also separately available on CTAN. %% %% Look at the sample-*-biblatex.tex files for templates showcasing %% the biblatex styles. %% %% %% The majority of ACM publications use numbered citations and %% references. The command \citestyle switches to the %% "author year" style. %% %% If you are preparing content for an event %% sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, you must use the "author year" style of %% citations and references. %% Uncommenting %% the next command will enable that style. %%\citestyle %% %% end of the preamble, start of the body of the document source. \begin %% %% The "title" command has an optional parameter, %% allowing the author to define a "short title" to be used in page headers. \title %% %% The "author" command and its associated commands are used to define %% the authors and their affiliations. %% Of note is the shared affiliation of the first two authors, and the %% "authornote" and "authornotemark" commands %% used to denote shared contribution to the research. \author \authornote \email \orcid \author \authornotemark[1] \email \affiliation \city \state \country > \authorrvld> \affiliationrvld Group> \city \country> \email \author \affiliation \city \country > \author \affiliation \city \state \country> \author \affiliation \city \state \country> \author \affiliation \city \state \country> \email \author \affiliationrvld Group> \city \country> \email \author \affiliation \city \country> \email %% %% By default, the full list of authors will be used in the page %% headers. Often, this list is too long, and will overlap %% other information printed in the page headers. This command allows %% the author to define a more concise list %% of authors' names for this purpose. \renewcommand %% %% The abstract is a short summary of the work to be presented in the %% article. \begin A clear and well-documented \LaTeX\ document is presented as an article formatted for publication by ACM in a conference proceedings or journal publication. Based on the ``acmart'' document class, this article presents and explains many of the common variations, as well as many of the formatting elements an author may use in the preparation of the documentation of their work. \end %% %% The code below is generated by the tool at http://dl.acm.org/ccs.cfm. %% Please copy and paste the code instead of the example below. %% \begin   00000000.0000000.0000000 Do Not Use This Code, Generate the Correct Terms for Your Paper 500  00000000.00000000.00000000 Do Not Use This Code, Generate the Correct Terms for Your Paper 300  00000000.00000000.00000000 Do Not Use This Code, Generate the Correct Terms for Your Paper 100  00000000.00000000.00000000 Do Not Use This Code, Generate the Correct Terms for Your Paper 100   \end \ccsdesc[500] \ccsdesc[300] \ccsdesc \ccsdesc[100] %% %% Keywords. The author(s) should pick words that accurately describe %% the work being presented. Separate the keywords with commas. \keywords %% A "teaser" image appears between the author and affiliation %% information and the body of the document, and typically spans the %% page. \begin \includegraphics[width=\textwidth] \caption \Description \label \end \received \received[revised] \received[accepted] %% %% This command processes the author and affiliation and title %% information and builds the first part of the formatted document. \maketitle \section ACM's consolidated article template, introduced in 2017, provides a consistent \LaTeX\ style for use across ACM publications, and incorporates accessibility and metadata-extraction functionality necessary for future Digital Library endeavors. Numerous ACM and SIG-specific \LaTeX\ templates have been examined, and their unique features incorporated into this single new template. If you are new to publishing with ACM, this document is a valuable guide to the process of preparing your work for publication. If you have published with ACM before, this document provides insight and instruction into more recent changes to the article template. The ``\verb|acmart|'' document class can be used to prepare articles for any ACM publication --- conference or journal, and for any stage of publication, from review to final ``camera-ready'' copy, to the author's own version, with <\itshape very>few changes to the source. \section As noted in the introduction, the ``\verb|acmart|'' document class can be used to prepare many different kinds of documentation --- a double-anonymous initial submission of a full-length technical paper, a two-page SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies abstract, a ``camera-ready'' journal article, a SIGCHI Extended Abstract, and more --- all by selecting the appropriate <\itshape template style>and <\itshape template parameters>. This document will explain the major features of the document class. For further information, the <\itshape \LaTeX\ User's Guide>is available from \url. \subsection The primary parameter given to the ``\verb|acmart|'' document class is the <\itshape template style>which corresponds to the kind of publication or SIG publishing the work. This parameter is enclosed in square brackets and is a part of the <\verb|documentclass|>command: \begin \documentclass[STYLE] \end Journals use one of three template styles. All but three ACM journals use the <\verb|acmsmall|>template style: \begin \item >: The default journal template style. \item >: Used by JOCCH and TAP. \item >: Used by TOG. \end The majority of conference proceedings documentation will use the <\verb|acmconf|>template style. \begin \item >: The default proceedings template style. \item>: Used for SIGCHI conference articles. \item>: Used for SIGPLAN conference articles. \end \subsection In addition to specifying the <\itshape template style>to be used in formatting your work, there are a number of <\itshape template parameters>which modify some part of the applied template style. A complete list of these parameters can be found in the <\itshape \LaTeX\ User's Guide.>Frequently-used parameters, or combinations of parameters, include: \begin \item >: Suitable for a ``double-anonymous'' conference submission. Anonymizes the work and includes line numbers. Use with the \texttt command to print the submission's unique ID on each page of the work. \item>: Produces a version of the work suitable for posting by the author. \item>: Produces colored hyperlinks. \end This document uses the following string as the first command in the source file: \begin \documentclass[sigconf,authordraft] \end \section Modifying the template --- including but not limited to: adjusting margins, typeface sizes, line spacing, paragraph and list definitions, and the use of the \verb|\vspace| command to manually adjust the vertical spacing between elements of your work --- is not allowed. \section The ``\verb|acmart|'' document class requires the use of the ``Libertine'' typeface family. Your \TeX\ installation should include this set of packages. Please do not substitute other typefaces. The ``\verb|lmodern|'' and ``\verb|ltimes|'' packages should not be used, as they will override the built-in typeface families. \section The title of your work should use capital letters appropriately - \url has useful rules for capitalization. Use the <\verb|title|>command to define the title of your work. If your work has a subtitle, define it with the <\verb|subtitle|>command. Do not insert line breaks in your title. If your title is lengthy, you must define a short version to be used in the page headers, to prevent overlapping text. The \verb|title| command has a ``short title'' parameter: \begin \title[short title] \end \section Each author must be defined separately for accurate metadata identification. As an exception, multiple authors may share one affiliation. Authors' names should not be abbreviated; use full first names wherever possible. Include authors' e-mail addresses whenever possible. Grouping authors' names or e-mail addresses, or providing an ``e-mail alias,'' as shown below, is not acceptable: \begin \author \email \email \end The \verb|authornote| and \verb|authornotemark| commands allow a note to apply to multiple authors --- for example, if the first two authors of an article contributed equally to the work. If your author list is lengthy, you must define a shortened version of the list of authors to be used in the page headers, to prevent overlapping text. The following command should be placed just after the last \verb|\author<>| definition: \begin \renewcommand \end Omitting this command will force the use of a concatenated list of all of the authors' names, which may result in overlapping text in the page headers. The article template's documentation, available at \url, has a complete explanation of these commands and tips for their effective use. Note that authors' addresses are mandatory for journal articles. \section Authors of any work published by ACM will need to complete a rights form. Depending on the kind of work, and the rights management choice made by the author, this may be copyright transfer, permission, license, or an OA (open access) agreement. Regardless of the rights management choice, the author will receive a copy of the completed rights form once it has been submitted. This form contains \LaTeX\ commands that must be copied into the source document. When the document source is compiled, these commands and their parameters add formatted text to several areas of the final document: \begin \item the ``ACM Reference Format'' text on the first page. \item the ``rights management'' text on the first page. \item the conference information in the page header(s). \end Rights information is unique to the work; if you are preparing several works for an event, make sure to use the correct set of commands with each of the works. The ACM Reference Format text is required for all articles over one page in length, and is optional for one-page articles (abstracts). \section Two elements of the ``acmart'' document class provide powerful taxonomic tools for you to help readers find your work in an online search. The ACM Computing Classification System --- \url --- is a set of classifiers and concepts that describe the computing discipline. Authors can select entries from this classification system, via \url, and generate the commands to be included in the \LaTeX\ source. User-defined keywords are a comma-separated list of words and phrases of the authors' choosing, providing a more flexible way of describing the research being presented. CCS concepts and user-defined keywords are required for for all articles over two pages in length, and are optional for one- and two-page articles (or abstracts). \section Your work should use standard \LaTeX\ sectioning commands: \verb|section|, \verb|subsection|, \verb|subsubsection|, and \verb|paragraph|. They should be numbered; do not remove the numbering from the commands. Simulating a sectioning command by setting the first word or words of a paragraph in boldface or italicized text is \section The ``\verb|acmart|'' document class includes the ``\verb|booktabs|'' package --- \url --- for preparing high-quality tables. Table captions are placed <\itshape above>the table. Because tables cannot be split across pages, the best placement for them is typically the top of the page nearest their initial cite. To ensure this proper ``floating'' placement of tables, use the environment \textbf to enclose the table's contents and the table caption. The contents of the table itself must go in the \textbf environment, to be aligned properly in rows and columns, with the desired horizontal and vertical rules. Again, detailed instructions on \textbf material are found in the \textit<\LaTeX\ User's Guide>. Immediately following this sentence is the point at which Table~\ref is included in the input file; compare the placement of the table here with the table in the printed output of this document. \begin \caption \label \begin \toprule Non-English or Math&Frequency&Comments\\ \midrule \O & 1 in 1,000& For Swedish names\\ $\pi$ & 1 in 5& Common in math\\ \$ & 4 in 5 & Used in business\\ $\Psi^2_1$ & 1 in 40,000& Unexplained usage\\ \bottomrule \end \end To set a wider table, which takes up the whole width of the page's live area, use the environment \textbf to enclose the table's contents and the table caption. As with a single-column table, this wide table will ``float'' to a location deemed more desirable. Immediately following this sentence is the point at which Table~\ref is included in the input file; again, it is instructive to compare the placement of the table here with the table in the printed output of this document. \begin \caption \label \begin \toprule Command &A Number & Comments\\ \midrule \textttauthor> & 100& Author \\ \texttttable>& 300 & For tables\\ \texttttable*>& 400& For wider tables\\ \bottomrule \end \end Always use midrule to separate table header rows from data rows, and use it only for this purpose. This enables assistive technologies to recognise table headers and support their users in navigating tables more easily. \section You may want to display math equations in three distinct styles: inline, numbered or non-numbered display. Each of the three are discussed in the next sections. \subsection A formula that appears in the running text is called an inline or in-text formula. It is produced by the \textbf environment, which can be invoked with the usual \textttbegin\,\ldotsend> construction or with the short form \texttt<\$\,\ldots\$>. You can use any of the symbols and structures, from $\alpha$ to $\omega$, available in \LaTeX~\cite; this section will simply show a few examples of in-text equations in context. Notice how this equation: \begin \lim_x=0 \end, set here in in-line math style, looks slightly different when set in display style. (See next section). \subsection A numbered display equation---one set off by vertical space from the text and centered horizontally---is produced by the \textbf environment. An unnumbered display equation is produced by the \textbf environment. Again, in either environment, you can use any of the symbols and structures available in \LaTeX\@; this section will just give a couple of examples of display equations in context. First, consider the equation, shown as an inline equation above: \begin \lim_x=0 \end Notice how it is formatted somewhat differently in the \textbf environment. Now, we'll enter an unnumbered equation: \begin \sum_^ <\infty>x + 1 \end and follow it with another numbered equation: \begin \sum_^<\infty>x_i=\int_^ <\pi+2>f \end just to demonstrate \LaTeX's able handling of numbering. \section The ``\verb|figure|'' environment should be used for figures. One or more images can be placed within a figure. If your figure contains third-party material, you must clearly identify it as such, as shown in the example below. \begin[h] \centering \includegraphics[width=\linewidth] \caption).> \Description \end Your figures should contain a caption which describes the figure to the reader. Figure captions are placed <\itshape below>the figure. Every figure should also have a figure description unless it is purely decorative. These descriptions convey what’s in the image to someone who cannot see it. They are also used by search engine crawlers for indexing images, and when images cannot be loaded. A figure description must be unformatted plain text less than 2000 characters long (including spaces). For figures that convey important and complex new information, a short text description may not be adequate. More complex alternative descriptions can be placed in an appendix and referenced in a short figure description. For example, provide a data table capturing the information in a bar chart, or a structured list representing a graph. For additional information regarding how best to write figure descriptions and why doing this is so important, please see \url. \subsection A ``teaser figure'' is an image, or set of images in one figure, that are placed after all author and affiliation information, and before the body of the article, spanning the page. If you wish to have such a figure in your article, place the command immediately before the \verb|\maketitle| command: \begin \begin \includegraphics[width=\textwidth] \caption \Description \end \end \section The use of \BibTeX\ for the preparation and formatting of one's references is strongly recommended. Authors' names should be complete --- use full first names (``Donald E. Knuth'') not initials (``D. E. Knuth'') --- and the salient identifying features of a reference should be included: title, year, volume, number, pages, article DOI, etc. The bibliography is included in your source document with these two commands, placed just before the \verb|\end| command: \begin \bibliographystyle \bibliography \end where ``\verb|bibfile|'' is the name, without the ``\verb|.bib|'' suffix, of the \BibTeX\ file. Citations and references are numbered by default. A small number of ACM publications have citations and references formatted in the ``author year'' style; for these exceptions, please include this command in the (before the command ``\verb|\begin|'') of your \LaTeX\ source: \begin \citestyle \end Some examples. A paginated journal article \cite, an enumerated journal article \cite, a reference to an entire issue \cite, a monograph (whole book) \cite, a monograph/whole book in a series (see 2a in spec. document) \cite, a divisible-book such as an anthology or compilation \cite followed by the same example, however we only output the series if the volume number is given \cite (so Editor00a's series should NOT be present since it has no vol. no.), a chapter in a divisible book \cite, a chapter in a divisible book in a series \cite, a multi-volume work as book \cite, a couple of articles in a proceedings (of a conference, symposium, workshop for example) (paginated proceedings article) \cite, a proceedings article with all possible elements \cite, an example of an enumerated proceedings article \cite, an informally published work \cite, a couple of preprints \cite, a doctoral dissertation \cite, a master's thesis: \cite, an online document / world wide web resource \cite, a video game (Case 1) \cite and (Case 2) \cite and \cite and (Case 3) a patent \cite, work accepted for publication \cite, 'YYYYb'-test for prolific author \cite and \cite. Other cites might contain 'duplicate' DOI and URLs (some SIAM articles) \cite. Boris / Barbara Beeton: multi-volume works as books \cite and \cite. A couple of citations with DOIs: \cite. Online citations: \cite. Artifacts: \cite and \cite. \section Identification of funding sources and other support, and thanks to individuals and groups that assisted in the research and the preparation of the work should be included in an acknowledgment section, which is placed just before the reference section in your document. This section has a special environment: \begin \begin . \end \end so that the information contained therein can be more easily collected during the article metadata extraction phase, and to ensure consistency in the spelling of the section heading. Authors should not prepare this section as a numbered or unnumbered <\verb|\section|>; please use the ``<\verb|acks|>'' environment. \section If your work needs an appendix, add it before the ``\verb|\end|'' command at the conclusion of your source document. Start the appendix with the ``\verb|appendix|'' command: \begin \appendix \end and note that in the appendix, sections are lettered, not numbered. This document has two appendices, demonstrating the section and subsection identification method. \section Papers may be written in languages other than English or include titles, subtitles, keywords and abstracts in different languages (as a rule, a paper in a language other than English should include an English title and an English abstract). Use \verb|language=. | for every language used in the paper. The last language indicated is the main language of the paper. For example, a French paper with additional titles and abstracts in English and German may start with the following command \begin \documentclass[sigconf, language=english, language=german, language=french] \end The title, subtitle, keywords and abstract will be typeset in the main language of the paper. The commands \verb|\translatedXXX|, \verb|XXX| begin title, subtitle and keywords, can be used to set these elements in the other languages. The environment \verb|translatedabstract| is used to set the translation of the abstract. These commands and environment have a mandatory first argument: the language of the second argument. See \verb|sample-sigconf-i13n.tex| file for examples of their usage. \section The ``\verb|sigchi-a|'' template style (available only in \LaTeX\ and not in Word) produces a landscape-orientation formatted article, with a wide left margin. Three environments are available for use with the ``\verb|sigchi-a|'' template style, and produce formatted output in the margin: \begin \item[\texttt:] Place formatted text in the margin. \item[\texttt:] Place a figure in the margin. \item[\texttt:] Place a table in the margin. \end %% %% The acknowledgments section is defined using the "acks" environment %% (and NOT an unnumbered section). This ensures the proper %% identification of the section in the article metadata, and the %% consistent spelling of the heading. \begin To Robert, for the bagels and explaining CMYK and color spaces. \end %% %% The next two lines define the bibliography style to be used, and %% the bibliography file. \bibliographystyle \bibliography %% %% If your work has an appendix, this is the place to put it. \appendix \section \subsection Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi malesuada, quam in pulvinar varius, metus nunc fermentum urna, id sollicitudin purus odio sit amet enim. Aliquam ullamcorper eu ipsum vel mollis. Curabitur quis dictum nisl. Phasellus vel semper risus, et lacinia dolor. Integer ultricies commodo sem nec semper. \subsection Etiam commodo feugiat nisl pulvinar pellentesque. Etiam auctor sodales ligula, non varius nibh pulvinar semper. Suspendisse nec lectus non ipsum convallis congue hendrerit vitae sapien. Donec at laoreet eros. Vivamus non purus placerat, scelerisque diam eu, cursus ante. Etiam aliquam tortor auctor efficitur mattis. \section Nam id fermentum dui. Suspendisse sagittis tortor a nulla mollis, in pulvinar ex pretium. Sed interdum orci quis metus euismod, et sagittis enim maximus. Vestibulum gravida massa ut felis suscipit congue. Quisque mattis elit a risus ultrices commodo venenatis eget dui. Etiam sagittis eleifend elementum. Nam interdum magna at lectus dignissim, ac dignissim lorem rhoncus. Maecenas eu arcu ac neque placerat aliquam. Nunc pulvinar massa et mattis lacinia. \end \endinput %% %% End of file `sample-sigconf-authordraft.tex'.