VLDB 2012 - Camera Ready Instructions for PVLDB Vol 5
All papers accepted for VLDB 2012 are published in the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) Vol. 5, which has a rolling deadline at the start of each month. The papers must be submitted in the VLDB format. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the VLDB format detailed here. In particular, it is not allowed to modify the format with the objective of squeezing in more material. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting detailed here will be rejected without review.
Research Track: Please ensure that the final version of your paper:
- is not longer than 12 pages.
- does strictly follow the PVLDB style template wrt. line spacing, font size or style of captions;
- shows no page numbers, headers or footers;
- is formatted using US letter paper format;
- has no line overflows, no widows or orphans, etc.;
- has balanced columns on the last page (LaTeX tip: \usepackage{balance});
- all figures and tables are readable (without having to turn the PDF reader's magnification to 400%);
- avoids abbreviations where not needed, e.g., when referencing the name of a journal or when referring to a Section, a Figure etc.;
- has no numbering issues, e.g., all floats (Figures, Tables etc) are numbered consecutively and also the references in the text use the correct numbers;
- uses the abbrv bibliography style (LaTeX) including all references being alphabetically sorted. References should include author, title, proceedings, pages, and year; with proceedings or journal name in italics.
- embeds all fonts, including Type 1 postscript fonts, within your PDF.
You can check this with the 'Properties' menu of Acrobat Reader (should show 'embeded' for each font). TeX users can check with the command updmap --edit that pdftexDownloadBase14 is set to true for your pdftex installation (better also set dvipsDownloadBase35 true). This is a request by the ACM digital library to improve searchability of our papers; ACM maintains a FAQ about embedding fonts in TeX. - contains the same author information as in the CMT. e.g., the order of the authors must be the same in the paper and CMT. Middle names of the authors, if any, must be the same as it is in CMT.
- contains no citations in the Abstract.
- contains the same Abstract as the one submitted to CMT.
- Please double-check with your co-authors to see if they would like to acknowledge any funding sources in the paper.
Style Files and Samples
VLDB provides a style template that is based on the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. You can download all necessary files below. Notice that the copyright area in the bottom left of the first page is intentionally left blank. We will be "stamping" the copyright information onto your paper ourselves.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| vldb.cls | LaTeX document class |
| vldb_style_sample.zip | LaTeX example |
| vldb_sample.doc | Microsoft Word template |
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Camera Ready Copy Submission Process for Accepted Papers.
Note: These instructions are for Accepted Papers only. Please see http://www.vldb2012.org/call-for-contributions/research-track/ for instructions on the first submissions. Please do not upload a Copyright Transfer Form unless your paper has been accepted for publication.- Please submit the final version of your paper as PDF using the VLDB2012 conference management tool that is accessible at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/VLDB2012/.
- In CMT, please check carefully the paper's meta-data such as title, abstract, the authors' names, affiliations, and their order, and correct those if neccessary; note that this information will be used for producing the final conference booklet.
- Finally, download the PVLDB Copyright Transfer Form, sign it and scan it and upload the signed form below:
Publication Process
All papers accepted for VLDB 2012 are published in the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) Vol. 5. Accepted VLDB papers are continuously published in monthly issues. You can expect 1 to 2 months for a Camera Ready Copy of your paper to appear in the Proceedings.
PVLDB is an archival journal with monthly issues that is published online on vldb.org, in the ACM Digital Library, on DBLP and, since 2011, also in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) on arxiv.org.