Springer's guidelines and technical instructions for the preparation of proceedings papers.

Preparing Your Proceedings Paper

• The "Author Guidelines" document how a proceedings paper should be structured, how elements (headings, figures, references) should be formatted using our predefined styles, etc.
• We also give some insight on how your paper will be typeset at Springer.
• Springer has developed Word templates to help you prepare your paper.
• The PDF of the Authors Guidelines can be downloaded here or as part of the zip files containing complete sets of instructions and templates for various text preparation systems.

Template and Guidelines

Download the complete sets of instructions and templates:

Licence to Publish Agreement

• Each contribution must be accompanied by a Springer Nature Licence to Publish agreement. Modified agreements are not acceptable.
• The corresponding author, who is also marked as such in the header of the paper, must sign the agreement on behalf of all of the authors of a particular paper, having gained their permission to do so.
• He or she signs and accepts responsibility for releasing the material on behalf of any and all co-authors.
• The corresponding author must be available to check the paper before it is published. .
• Please note that once a paper has been delivered to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the paper cannot be made.
• Authors’ names cannot be added or deleted, their order cannot be changed, and the corresponding author cannot be altered.