Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC²R) is the publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Communications (SIGMOBILE) and prints papers and articles on topics within the SIG's field of interest. Papers submitted to MC²R are reviewed for relevance and technical coherence. Papers printed in MC²R are not subject to the ACM prior publication rule and may be submitted to other ACM journals for publication. Authors receive complimentary copies of the issue in which their submission is published.

Format for Papers

Papers submitted to MC²R should conform to the following specifications:

1. All material submitted must be in postscript or PDF format. The original LaTeX or Word files will be required for an accepted manuscript so we can perform the final copy formatting. Note that LaTeX is strongly encouraged as the format for the final manuscript as it allows us to easily maintain the same "look-and-feel" across all the papers. Delays in publishing of a final, accepted manuscript can possibly occur due to the extra difficulty in reformatting Word documents.

2. For those using LaTeX (2e), here is a beta style file we use for formatting and here is a test input file with example output in PostScript. (Note: this is a new style file as of November 1, 2001) The style file requires the publicly available Adobe fonts to be properly setup in your LaTeX installation as well as the graphics/color packages and fancyhdr package. These files are all available through any of the TeX CTAN archives (such as ftp.dante.de). If you have an older version of LaTeX or incomplete installation, you may wish to simply follow the other instructions below.

3. Manuscripts should be single spaced (except for papers containing a great deal of mathematical notation; these should be prepared with as little additional line spacing as possible).

4. Manuscripts should be formatted for two columns with a gutter width of 1/8".

5. The paper should be meant for printing on 8.5 by 11 inch paper. Left and right margins should be 3/4" from the edges of the page and the top and bottom margins should be 1/2".

6. No header or footer information (page numbers, names, report numbers, etc.) should appear on the pages.

7. The title of the paper should appear on the first page. Authors are encouraged to include a short abstract of approximately 100 words. The text of the paper should begin a few lines below the abstract. The author's names, affiliations, email addresses, or another other identifying information should not be included in the manuscript. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality by double-blind review process, with the identity of the authors withheld from the reviewers. Authors should separately email the title, author names, full address, two subject areas and abstract of their papers to the editors.

8. To ensure that the PostScript-formatted papers are readable by the editorial staff, the document should be in PostScript version 2 or later, and reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe fonts (i.e., Courier, Times Roman, or Helvetica); other fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file. The main text font should be 10 point Times or Times Roman.

9. Authors are expected to inform the editor if a submission has completely or substantially been published elsewhere; failure to do so is grounds for not accepting the paper. Submissions which have been substantially revised, improved or expanded beyond previously published work are most welcome, provided the editor is informed at the time of submission.

Manuscripts should be emailed to editors_sigmobile@acm.org

Those without electronic mail access may send a disk with their manuscript to:
Dr. Jason Redi
BBN Technologies
10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.

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