IEEE S&P Manuscript Structure Guidelines

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This comprehensive guide details the strict content partitioning rules for preparing papers for top-tier security conferences like IEEE S&P. It advises authors on differentiating between core claims (which must live in the limited body pages) and verification material (which belongs in the appendix), ensuring adherence to strict page limits and review expectations.

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IEEE S&P Supplementary Material

Use this when splitting content between the body and the appendix. S&P's model is stricter than most: there is no separate supplement upload in the verified CFPs — everything is one PDF of at most 13 body pages plus at most 5 pages of references and appendices, 18 total, with all content past page 13 clearly marked as appendix and reviewers explicitly not required to read appendices (sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html, checked 2026-07-08).

The rule that decides every split

If the acceptance case needs it, it lives on pages 1–13. The appendix is for material a convinced reviewer might verify, never for material that does the convincing.

Content	Placement	Why
Threat model, all of it	Body	The claim is undefined without it
Adaptive-attack evaluation summary	Body	The defense's acceptance case
End-to-end exploit walkthrough (one target)	Body	Existence proof of the attack
Per-target breakdown across 30 targets	Appendix	Verification depth, not persuasion
Full protocol/proof details	Appendix, with theorem statements in body	Statements are claims; derivations are checks
Ethics considerations	Body (submission); dedicated section added at camera-ready doesn't count against limits	Reviewed substance
Extended related work	Appendix	Positioning core stays in body (`ieeesp-related-work`)
Measurement instrument details (query lists, scan configs)	Appendix	Reproducibility depth

The 5-page arithmetic

References and appendices share the 5-page allowance. A security paper's bibliography routinely runs 2.5–3 pages in compsoc format, leaving perhaps two pages of real appendix. Consequences:

Budget references first; the appendix gets the remainder.
Long tables (per-CVE results, device lists) may need an artifact-repository home instead — but then nothing argumentative may depend on them.
"Deferred to the extended version" is acceptable for proofs only if the paper states the theorem and its assumptions fully in the body; check the current CFP's stance on citing anonymous tech reports (待核实).

Marking and mechanics

Everything after page 13 must be clearly labeled as appendix — a running "Appendix" heading structure, not a continuation of numbered sections that silently crosses the boundary.
Appendix references from the body should be load-bearing pointers ("full derivation in App. B"), and the body sentence must still stand if the pointer is never followed.
The appendix is inside the anonymous PDF: the same anonymization sweep applies (ieeesp-submission), including figure paths and dataset names that identify a lab.

Split audit — run over the section list:
for each body section:    would a first-round reviewer cut the paper
                          without this? if no → appendix candidate
for each appendix item:   does any *claim* in the body rely on it as
                          evidence? if yes → PROMOTE to body or weaken
                          the claim
page check:               body ≤ 13 · refs+appendix ≤ 5 · total ≤ 18
                          · post-13 content labeled

Interplay with the Revise pathway

A Revise expectations summary often asks for material authors originally appendixed ("bring the adaptive evaluation into the main text"). Cheapest prevention: at first submission, put the summary statistics of every appendix experiment in the body with a pointer down — reviewers who can see the number rarely demand the relocation.

Anti-patterns from this venue's review piles

The 13th page ends mid-evaluation and the "results continue" in Appendix A — reads as a page-limit dodge and draws the over-length flag.
Proof-by-appendix: a body theorem whose stated assumptions differ from the appendix proof's actual assumptions.
An appendix ethics discussion — at S&P ethics is reviewed substance and the registration form asks for it directly.
Appendix-only artifacts descriptions when the availability statement in the body promises more than the appendix delivers.

Output format

[Page arithmetic] body <n>/13 · refs <n> + appendix <n> ≤ 5 · total <n>/18
[Marking] post-p13 labeled ✓/✗
[Promotion list] <appendix items the acceptance case secretly depends on>
[Demotion list] <body items a first-round reviewer would not miss>
[Anonymity] appendix swept ✓/✗

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Updated At 2026-07-28