Quick and Dirty Instructions for the New ACM Typesetting

Format—acmart Class
Rasit Eskicioglu
now “Retired” Publication Chair
for SenSys and BuildSys and their Workshops

Preamble
ACM has recently adopted a unified format ([Link]) for its publications. The newcomers to the communities
should have no problem using it, as it will be just a template to use. This new format has several important changes
that might confuse particularly those of us in the Sensys and Buildsys communities and in their affiliated workshops,
who have been accustomed to the old (slightly modified) [Link] style. One such change is that all
ACM conference proceedings are now using 9pt fonts for the main text. This package uses free packages and fonts
(Linbiolinum and LibLiberte) available in all major TEX distributions (TEXLive, MikTEX, MacTEX) 2015 and later.
If you have older distributions your documents will have incorrect fonts.

Important Rules
1. The preferred format is LATEX. If you are not an avid LATEX user, you can use the new Word format, but make
sure to read the User Guide (1) carefully, and install the new Linbiolinum and LinLiberte fonts that comes
with the package.
2. Read the User Guide (1). Read it again, especially if you were using the old style.
3. Do not change anything in the [Link] file.
4. Do not change any length, such as \textlength, \textheight, or any margin in the body of your paper.
5. Look at the [Link] and create your own with all of the information and include the body of your
manuscript at the end.
6. The ACM-Reference-format block provides proper and full citation information of your manuscript (if pub-
lished) and it is required for all manuscripts (regular or short papers, as well as demo and poster abstracts).
Do not set printacmref to false to disable it to save space, because you will be asked to include it for your
Camera Ready manuscript.
7. ACM now uses CCS Categories (replacing Terms) block in all publications. This block, as well as Keywords
are required for all short or regular papers (not needed for demo or poster abstracts). Please provide proper
content for them (see the User Guide for details).

Top Matter
The details are in the User Guide (1) (pages 8–9), but I want to emphasize the fact that ACM discourages the use of
SIG
“merged” authors block, such Proceedings
as shown below: Paper in LaTeX Format∗
Extended Abstract†
Ben Trovato G.K.M. Tobin Lars Thørväld
Institute for Clarity in Documentation, P.O. Box 1212, Dublin, Ohio, 43017-6221
{trovato,tobin,lars}@[Link]

ABSTRACT part to be unnumbered in your output, simply append an asterisk

to the command name. Examples of both numbered and unnum-
This paper provides a sample of a LATEX document which conforms,
bered headings will appear throughout the balance of this sample
Instead, somewhat
ceedings.
loosely, to the formatting guidelines for ACM SIG Pro-
use a separate \affiliation for each author to generate
[Link] following:
Because the entire article is contained in the document environ-
CCS CONCEPTS ment, you can indicate the start of a new paragraph with a blank
line in your input file; that is why this sentence forms a separate
• Computer systems organization → Embedded systems; Re-
paragraph.
dundancy; Robotics; • Networks → Network reliability;

KEYWORDS 1 2.1 Type Changes and Special Characters

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You can indicate italicized words or phrases in your text with the
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LaTeX Format. In Proceedings of ACM Conference, Washington, DC, USA,
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Ben Trovato‡ G.K.M. Tobin§∗ Lars Thørväld
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for Clarity title
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P.O. Box 1212 P.O. Box 1212 1 Thørväld Circle
Dublin, Ohio 43017-6221
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Dublin, Ohio 43017-6221 Hekla, Iceland
trovato@[Link]
Ben Trovato webmaster@[Link]
G.K.M. Tobin larst@[Link]
Lars Thørväld
Institute for Clarity in Documentation Institute for Clarity in Documentation The Thørväld Group
Lawrence P. Leipuner Sean Fogarty Charles Palmer
P.O. Box 1212 P.O. Box 1212 1 Thørväld Circle
Brookhaven Laboratories NASA Ames Research Center Palmer Research Laboratories
Dublin, Ohio 43017-6221 Dublin, Ohio 43017-6221 Hekla, Iceland
P.O. Box 5000 Moffett Field, California 94035 8600 Datapoint Drive
trovato@[Link] webmaster@[Link] larst@[Link]
lleipuner@[Link] fogartys@[Link] San Antonio, Texas 78229
ABSTRACT 2 THE BODY OF THE cpalmer@[Link]
PAPER
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John Smith
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ture, with P. Kumquat
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for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation running text is called an inline or in-text formula. It is produced
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the required information above in your .tex file.

Author Anonymity
In most conferences, submission are reviewed by using either blind (reviewers are hidden from the authors) or
double blind (reviewers don’t know the identity of the author(s), and the author(s) don’t know the identity of the
reviewers) policies.

2
The authors should use anonymous option to hide their identity:

SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format—This is a Very Long

Title That will not Fit in One Line∗
Anonymous Author(s)
ABSTRACT to the command name. Examples of both numbered and unnum-
This paper provides a sample of a LATEX document which conforms, bered headings will appear throughout the balance of this sample
somewhat loosely, to the formatting guidelines for ACM SIG Pro- document.
ceedings1 . Because the entire article is contained in the document environ-
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paragraph.
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2 THE BODY OF THE PAPER 2.2.1 Inline (In-text) Equations. A formula that appears in the
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Lawrence
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4ture, with numbered or unnumbered headings for sections, subsec-
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ACM ISBN 123-4567-24-567/08/06. . . $15.00
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KEYWORDS
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ACM Reference Format: you, when you use the appropriate heading commands around
Ben Trovato, G.K.M. Tobin, Lars Thørväld, Lawrence P. Leipuner, Sean the titles of the headings. If you want a sub-subsection or smaller
Fogarty, and Charles Palmer. 2017. SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format— part to be unnumbered in your output, simply append an asterisk
This is a Very Long Title That will not Fit in One Line. In Proceedings of
to the command name. Examples of both numbered and unnum-
15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys). ACM,
bered headings will appear throughout the balance of this sample
New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [Link]
document.
Because the entire article is contained in the document environ-
1 INTRODUCTION ment, you can indicate the start of a new paragraph with a blank
The proceedings are the records of a conference2 . ACM seeks to give line in your input file; that is why this sentence forms a separate
these conference by-products a uniform, high-quality appearance. paragraph.
To do this, ACM has some rigid requirements for the format of the
proceedings documents: there is a specified format (balanced double 2.1 Type Changes and Special Characters
columns), a specified set of fonts (Arial or Helvetica and Times
We have already seen several typeface changes in this sample.
Roman) in certain specified sizes, a specified live area, centered
You can indicate italicized words or phrases in your text with the
∗ Produces the permission block, and copyright information 3 command \textit; emboldening with the command \textbf and
† [Link] insisted his name be first. typewriter-style (for instance, for computer code) with \texttt.
‡ The secretary disavows any knowledge of this author’s actions. But remember, you do not have to indicate typestyle changes when
§ This author is the one who did all the really hard work.
1 This is an abstract footnote
such changes are part of the structural elements of your article;
2 This is a footnote for instance, the heading of this subsection will be in a sans serif4
typeface, but that is handled by the document class file. Take care
Sample Driver
The following latex snippet is used to generate the above (less the author block) output:

\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}

\usepackage{balance} % For balanced columns on the last page

\setcopyright{acmcopyright} % if you give the rights to ACM

\acmDOI{...} % DOI - Insert your DOI below...
\acmISBN{...} % ISBN - Insert your conference/workshop's ISBN below...
\acmYear{2017} % Insert Publication year
\copyrightyear{2017} % Insert Copyright year (typically the same as above)
\acmPrice{15.00}
\acmConference[Short Name]{Long Name}{dates}{venue}

\begin{document}
\title[Short Title]{Long Title for Your ACM Conference Paper}
\begin{abstract}
...
\end{abstract}
...
\begin{CCSXML}
<ccs2012>
<concept>
<concept_id>10010520.10010553.10010562</concept_id>
<concept_desc>Computer systems organization~Embedded systems</concept_desc>
<concept_significance>500</concept_significance>
</concept>
...
\end{CCSXML}

\ccsdesc[500]{Computer systems organization~Embedded systems}

...

\keywords{ACM proceedings, \LaTeX, text tagging}

\maketitle
\input{body-of-your-manuscript}

\balance
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{name-of-your-bib-file}

\end{document}

You should generate the CCSXML code with the tool at [Link] and copy and paste it in your
“driver” file.

Please note that you may need to put the \balance towards the end of the body of your manuscript file.

Running Headers
One of the changes in the new style is the “running heads”. There are three potential ugliness with this: Long
conference name, long manuscript title, and long author list.

ICCPS,Ben
April
Trovato,
2017, Pittsburgh,
G.K.M. Tobin,
PA Lars
USA Thørväld, Lawrence P. Leipuner, Sean Fogarty, Charles Palmer, John Smith, and Julius P. Kumquat

command \textit; emboldening with the command \textbf and Table 1: Frequency of Special Characters
typewriter-style (for instance, for computer code) with \texttt.
But remember, you do not have to indicate typestyle changes when Non-English or Math Frequency Comments
such changes are part of the structural elements of your article;
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beginning and end of the text that is to be in the different typeface.
You can use whatever symbols, accented characters, or non- 4
English characters you need anywhere in your document; you can
find a complete list of what is available in the LATEX User’s Guide [? proper location in the .tex file [? ]. The key is a short reference you
]. invent to uniquely identify each work; in this sample document,
the key is the first author’s surname and a word from the title. This
To avoid “long conference title” problem, use one of the following \acmConference{...} tags for SenSys’18 and
BuildSys’18, respectively:

\acmConference[SenSys'18]{The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems}{November 4--7, 2018}
{Shenzhen, China}

\acmConference[BuildSys'18]{The 5th International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments}

{November 7--8, 2018}{Shenzhen, China}

Further, if you have a long title, use the optional ShortTitle in the \title. As a rule-of-thumb, if your title is longer
than a single column width, it should be shortened.

\title[SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format]{SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format---This is a Very Long Title
That will not Fit in One Line}

And if you have three or more authors (or the list is longer than a a single column width), use the following with the
first author’s names:
\renewcommand{\shortauthors}{F. LastName et al.}

Lastly, use the names and last names of the authors in the “authors block” consistently. Pick one of the ways shown
below and use it consistently everywhere, including your bibliographies:
Ben Travato
B. Travato

Lawrence P. Leipuner
L.P. Leipuner

Gordon K.M. Tobin

G.K.M. Tobin

Bibliographies and Citations

Regular staff of the institutions, such as ACM and IEEE, review manuscripts for their archival journals to provide
consistency and coherency in those publications. All other publications, such as conference proceedings and newslet-
ters, are typically compiled by different volunteers, leading to various inconsistencies. Recently, ACM requires an
additional “block”, ACM Reference format:, in every publication to make the citation process easier. However,
this is only one side of the coin, as we have to provide the other side by properly citing our references. Most common
error is to use incomplete references to save space in the body of a paper. Keep in mind that ACM uses the natbib
package and the [Link] for processing references. Check the User Guide (1) (Section 2.10
Bibliography) and make sure that you provide all the required fields for the each bib entry.

Acknowledgements
If you have to acknowledge someone or something in your manuscript, please insert your message between \begin{acks}
and \end{acks}. This is no longer a \section in the manuscript.

Balanced Columns
Although not enforced, SenSys and BuildSys communities have been using the balance package to balance the
columns on the last page of the manuscripts.

5
 The good... The ugly...

ICCPS, April 2017, Pittsburgh, PA USA B. Trovato et al. ICCPS, April 2017, Pittsburgh, PA USA B. Trovato et al.

Figure 3: A sample black and white graphic that needs to span two columns of text. Figure 3: A sample black and white graphic that needs to span two columns of text.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [7] Leslie Lamport. 1986. LaTeX User’s Guide and Document Reference Manual.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Yuhua Li for providing the [8] S.L. Salas and Einar Hille. 1978. Calculus: One and Several Variable. John Wiley
matlab code of the BEPS method. and Sons, New York.
The authors would also like to thank the anonymous referees
for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions. The work is
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
under Grant No.: 61273304 and Young Scientsts’ Support Program
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank Dr. Yuhua Li for providing the
matlab code of the BEPS method.
The authors would also like to thank the anonymous referees
for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions. The work is
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
under Grant No.: 61273304 and Young Scientsts’ Support Program
([Link]

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