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Formatting and Submission Instructions

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the ACM Formatting Guidelines (LaTeX users, please use the "Option 2" style). All submissions must be in PDF format. All submissions must use the US Letter page format.

Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories as follows:

Submission category Size Limit
Technical Research 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables,
appendices; references only may be included on up to 2
additional pages.
Workshop Proposals 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures,
plus 1 additional page for your workshop's call for papers.
Technical Briefings 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures;
and at least 3 typical sample slides of presentation.
Software Engineering in Practice Experience reports and case studies: 10 pages, including all
text, references, appendices, and figures.
Panel proposals: 2 pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.
Software Engineering in Society Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.
Long papers: 10 pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.
Software Engineering in Education and
Training		 Full papers and case studies: 10 pages, including all text,
references, appendices, and figures.
Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.
Panel proposals: 4 pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.
Demonstrations 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Visions of 2025 and Beyond 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Doctoral Symposium 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
ACM Student Research Competition 2 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures; references
only may be included on up to 1 additional page.
Posters 2 pages, excluding references, but including all text, appendices,
and figures and a 24 inch x 36 inch poster.


Submissions that do not comply with these instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.



ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS

All accepted contributions will be published in the ICSE 2016 Proceedings or the ICSE 2016 Companion Proceedings and in both the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE Digital Library.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2016. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

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