Sheridan Printing Company, Inc.
Technical Publications and Commercial Offset Lithographers
1425 Third Ave., Alpha, NJ 08865
1-908-213-8988
/ fax: 908-454-2554 / email
INSTRUCTIONS WERE REVISED ON 7/8/05 @ 1:45 PM EST
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Sheridan Printing Company, Inc. Technical Publications and Commercial Offset Lithographers 1425 Third Ave., Alpha, NJ 08865 1-908-213-8988
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Dear Accepted Author,
Thank-you for participating in the VANET'05 Proceedings. This web page will acquaint you to the formatting and submission instructions for your regular full and short papers to the proceedings, the required fields, and how and where to submit your signed ACM Copyright or Permission forms. Please read the whole page. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM & SIG standards, specifications, guidelines, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations.
Submission Deadlines and Preparation of Copy
All ACM sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as
well as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must
be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications. Your
electronic submission MUST be received on or before July 27th, 2005.
This is a FIRM deadline. Please try to submit earlier. Your
page limit is set by the category your submission has been selected for:
| 10 Page Limit |
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| If you are submitting a poster or an invited talk abstract, click here | |
| Click here if you are contributing to one of the other co-located workshops | |
NOTES TO ALL AUTHORS: The following sections in all of the ACM templates are mandatory sections and should be filled in properly by the authors:
Categories & Subject Descriptors (the address for the ACM Computing Classification Scheme is: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/)
General Terms: This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability, Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Legal Aspects, Verification.
Keywords: This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by.
Title of Your Submission Should be Initial Caps -- Meaning First Letter of the Main Words Should be Made Capital Letters.
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A. Your actual source file is needed (.doc, .fm and .tex), to extract text and data to produce information and metadata for ACM's digital library, but your .ps file (for .tex and .fm submissions) will be distilled to an ACM settings pdf and used for the print, cd and/or the digital library. For ACM distilling settings, please download the following job option settings: www.sheridanprinting.com/distill_sets/ACM.joboptions (right click and choose save target as) to your Program Files, Adobe, Acrobat, Distillr, Settings folder and name as -- ACM.joboptions Then use this setting when you create/distill your new pdf.
B. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM standards and
formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations.
Also be sure that there are no bad page or column
breaks--meaning no widows (last line of a paragraph at the top of a column).
If this happens either tighten the previous column or force a line over. Section
and Sub-section heads should remain with at least 2 lines of body text when
near the end of a page or column. Also, be sure
that your .ps file is formatted for American Letter (8-1/2x11). In addition,
to retrieve the ACM.jobsettings for your pdf submission, click
here for the Acrobat Distiller settings.
C. Authors with
color figures, authors please
be aware your figures are printing in black and white (grayscale) in the body
pages of the proceedings. We suggest you print your paper to a black/white printer
(or black-white version) to be sure that the tones, screening, images reproduce
well in black and white. Your images may appear in color on your electronic
submissions and will appear in color in the ACM digital library. We recommend
images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction.
D. U.S. Government
employees please contact Lisa at Sheridan Printing
for the correct copyright statement for your submission, kindly inform us of
the authors, their affiliations, and which program you are using to produce
your submission to receive the proper copyright statement.
E. Click on which program you will be using to prepare your submission for the proceedings:
FrameMakerWORD USERS:
1. Please download
the template from the ACM website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
2. Name your .doc file using your VANET Paper # with the lead author's last name
(example: f129-weaver.doc / f129-weaver.pdf). Be sure to format your document
for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your submission adheres to
the set page limit for your type of submission (see above). See
the email with notification of acceptance and formatting instructions for your
paper id#, and link to submit your paper.
3. Insert the ACM copyright statement (VANET-blurb.txt, right click and download to cut
and paste into your paper). This statement should appear in 8 pt. Times New
Roman, justified text, with VANET'05 italicized. See the attached pdf
as an example: VANET-blurb.pdf
4.
You
need to upload your .doc and .pdf files to: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/vanet/vanet.cfm
on or before July 27th, 2005. We recommend
using the latest versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape to upload the
necessary files. You
will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your submission and signed forms,
but due to the volume of submissions, please be patient it may take a few days
to two weeks for us to process and check your submission.
LaTEX USERS:
1. Please use--sig-alternate class file from the ACM website
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
or the class file that is attached -- sig-alt-full.cls (both of these class files
are tighter formats and automatically inserts the ACM copyright statement and
conference info that is needed)]. Insert the following three lines
in your .tex document after \begin{document} to produce the correct copyright
statement and info:
\conferenceinfo{VANET'05,}
{September 2, 2005, Cologne, Germany.}
\CopyrightYear{2005}
\crdata{1-59593-141-4/05/0009} ***Other hints
on saving space on your shorter page limit submissions,
click here.
2. LaTex user, please use Type 1 fonts for your .ps file, for help
see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/sigfaq.htm#a14 for
help. If you still have difficulty check with your system administrator. The
.ps file will be distilled to the ACM pdf requirements for use for printing
and the ACM digital library.
3. Please include all text (including references from the .bbl file) into
one complete .tex document. We do not want a directory of multiple files, one
file with all text from your submission. We do not need the figures. We are
not recompiling your submission, only using the one (single-complete) source
file to extract text and data that we need to make the metadata for ACM's digital
library.
4. Name your .tex and .ps file using your VANET Paper # with the lead author's last name (example:
f129-weaver.tex / f129-weaver.pdf or .ps). Be sure to format your
document for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your submission adheres
to the set page limit for your type of submission (see above).
See the email with notification of acceptance and formatting instructions for
your paper id#, and link to submit your paper.
5. You
need to submit your paper by uploading your .tex and .ps/.pdf files to:
http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/vanet/vanet.cfm
on or
before July 27th, 2005. We
recommend using the latest versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape to upload
the necessary files. You
will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your submission and signed forms,
but due to the volume of submissions, please be patient it may take a few days
to two weeks for us to process and check your submission.
FRAME USERS:
1. Please make the .fm file match the specifications outlined in
the WORD template, available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
(see attached framemaker6.0 template, right click
to download) 2.
Name your .fm file using your VANET Paper # with the lead author's last name
(example: f129-weaver.fm / f129-weaver.pdf or .ps). Be sure to format your
document for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your submission adheres
to the set page limit for your type of submission (see above).
Please save your source file (.fm) that it can be opened and text extracted
with FrameMaker 6.0. See the email with notification of
acceptance and formatting instructions for your paper id#, and link to submit
your paper.
3. Authors using
FrameMaker, there is a text file (VANET-blurb.txt, right click to download) attached
with the ACM copyright information that needs to be inserted in the bottom/left
of the first page in 8 pt. Times Roman, note that VANET'05 is italicized. The VANET-blurb.pdf is attached so you can see the layout.
4. You
need to submit your paper by uploading your .fm and .ps/.pdf files to:
http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/vanet/vanet.cfm
on or before July 27th, 2005. We
recommend using the latest versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape to upload
the necessary files. You
will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your submission and signed forms,
but due to the volume of submissions, please be patient it may take a few days
to two weeks for us to process and check your submission.
Copyright Release Form Sheridan
Printing Co.
FAX: 1-908-213-3285, 1-908-454-2554 or 1-908-454-0179
(faxes are accepted now by ACM)
Questions Thank you again for participating in this conference and I look forward
to receiving your materials on a timely basis.
Remember, we MUST receive your camera-ready paper on or before
July 27, 2005. Please submit earlier if you can.
Sincerely,
ACM requires your original signature on a hardcopy of the copyright release
form. The form itself can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form2sheridan.html The
title, authors and publication must be filled in at the top and signed at the
bottom. Be sure that your title on the form matches the title on your submission,
or a new form will be requested. Only one form is needed with the lead
or contact author's original signature must be received on or before
before July 27th, 2005 to:
Attn: Lisa M. Tolles
Pdf of the ACM Copyright Form, right click to download
1425 Third Ave.
Alpha, NJ 08865 (USA)
If you still have questions or problems please contact myself, by phone: 1-908-213-8988 or via email at: lisatolles@sheridanprinting.com
with the conference name (VANET'05) in the subject line.
Lisa M. Tolles
Proceedings Coordinator
Sheridan Printing Co., Inc.
phone: 1-908-213-8988