Note: This process is not for initial submission of manuscripts. It is only for the “accepted submissions”. This page is created by modifying information in the ACM Publication Workflow. Updated 04/22/2022

Step 1: Complete the copyright form

  • For the authors with accepted submissions, it is important to understand that the dg.o 2021 conference proceedings will be copyrighted. Therefore, by presenting and publishing with dg.o 2022, you are also acknowledging that your work has not appeared, and will not appear, in another publication in the same form.
  • Corresponding author(s) will be contacted to fill the copyright information, provided by ACM.
  • Once authors complete their ACM e-Rights forms, they will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to submit their papers to the ACM Publishing System (TAPS).

Step 2: Formatting for the ACM Proceeding

For people using MS Word: Please follow the guideline in this link. 

  1. Download the ACM Primary Article Template – Microsoft Word.
  2. Open the zip file and save the template file to your machine and then follow the instructions to attach the ACM Article Template to your accepted submission version and prepare your paper (still in single-column format) for validation in using the ACM Publishing System (TAPS).

For people using LaTeX: 

We strongly recommend using Overleaf Platform available to all ACM authors. Follow the direction in this link to create your manuscript. Please use the latest version of the Master Article Template – LaTeX to create your article submission. Please use the template option “sigconf” to format your paper; like \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}.

Citation Style and Reference Formats: Follow the styles written in the direction. For example, if you use Zotero, the citation style is ACM SIG Proceedings. If you are using other systems for exporting references, please find a citation style corresponding to ACM SIG Proceedings.

Note to authors:

  • The ACM Copyright information: ACM will send you the Copyright information once you finish your TAPS process in Step 3. So at this time, authors may keep the default ACM Copyright that came with the template. After the TAPS process is finished, authors will receive personalized Copyright information with a direction. 
  • After all the authors submit your formatted manuscript to EasyChair, the ACM TAPS process will be initiated. Authors will receive an email from TAPS with the guideline to follow. 

Please proceed to Step 3 below.

Step 3: Submit your file(s) to the ACM Publishing System (TAPS) 

  • Download these instructions (cursor over to download) for information on how to use TAPS. TAPS will process your paper and auto-generate proofs of your article for your review. Please allow time for generating and correcting the proof. While you may need to make corrections to the output in TAPS, you MUST revise the file which was uploaded to TAPS. This means you may not reupload new versions from your locally kept source files.
  • Please make sure that you and your authors approve tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com in their email settings to ensure that all messages from TAPS are received.
  • Ideally, authors should complete uploading the verified file to TAPS by the end of May so that we can publish and make the ACM proceeding available to you before the conference begins.

Best Practices

Please see the ACM’s best practices guidelines for Microsoft Word, LaTeX, and The ACM Publishing System (TAPS). These have been compiled and will be updated regularly to serve as a reference to help authors prepare their text for publication by the most efficient means possible.

Authors are also encouraged to review the video in the right-hand sidebar at the ACM workflow page.

If you wish to provide us with your feedback on the templates, documentation, or workflow, please contact us at production@hq.acm.org.

  1. For Microsoft Word best practices, please see embedded instructions within the formatted 2-column example of the submission template which includes alt-text for floats.
  2. LaTeX best practices; also available in PDF

The ACM Publishing System (TAPS) best practices; also available in PDF

e-Rights questions need to be sent to rightsreview@hq.acm.org
TAPS support questions need to be directed to TAPS support at tapssupport@aptaracorp.com