CCSC South Central Conference Paper Submissions


Instructions for Submitting Papers to CCSC South Central 2024
  1. Faculty and professionals at colleges and universities are encouraged to submit papers in all areas of computer science. Areas of particular interest include computer science education, undergraduate student research and projects, current topics, and new curricula . Accepted papers are published in the Journal for Computing Sciences in Colleges which is included in the ACM digital library.
  2. Papers are generally limited to approximately 6 pages single-spaced, single column layout. The 6 page limit (approximately) includes all references, figures, and tables. All submissions must be in PDF.
  3. Authors of ACCEPTED papers will be required to submit final copies of papers in LaTex format for use in the published journal. Pdf versions of papers submitted for review are required, but accepted final copy must include a LaTex version of any accepted paper See the CCSC National editor’s templates and help creating a LaTex manuscript for detailed information about formatting papers in LaTex (see paper_template folder). Authors can refer to the CCSC Journal editor's author site for further information regarding LaTex guidelines.
  4. All submissions must be uploaded through EasyChair by January 16, 2024.
  5. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance to the conference on February 12, 2024. Notification will be sent to all authors by email.
  6. By submitting to the CCSC, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to CCSC:SC 2024 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for CCSC:SC 2024. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the ACM or IEEE, to detect violations of these policies.
  7. The conference will employ a double-anonymous review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors' identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process. In particular:
    • Authors' names must be omitted from the submission.
    • All references to the author's prior work should be in the third person.
    • Authors are encouraged to title their submission differently than preprints of the authors on ArXiV or similar sites. During review, authors should not publicly use the submission title.
  8. Accepted papers are published in the Journal for Computing Sciences in Colleges which is included in the ACM digital library.
  9. By submitting to the CCSC:SC 2024, authors acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the ACM, and the authorship policy of the IEEE.