Skills Soft Skills Preparing Camera-Ready Academic Paper

Preparing Camera-Ready Academic Paper

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This guide outlines the comprehensive steps required to convert an accepted, anonymous academic paper into its final, published 'camera-ready' version for major conferences (e.g., RecSys). It covers crucial tasks such as restoring author details, affiliations, funding, integrating rebuttal promises, ensuring proper ACM two-column reflow, and managing public code/data repository release.
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Overview

RecSys Camera Ready

Use this after a RecSys acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, the ACM rights form, the registration page, and the decision email before advising authors. For 2026 the Reproducibility and Industry tracks listed a camera-ready deadline of July 27; the Main Track date was not extractable through the gateway (待核实) — confirm against the decision email.

Camera-ready audit

  • Convert the anonymous submission to the public proceedings version: names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, platform names where allowed, and the public repository link.
  • Apply the current final-page limit and the ACM two-column template; complete the ACM rights and copyright form and confirm title/abstract metadata and author order for the DOI.
  • Integrate the fixes you promised in the rebuttal without changing the accepted contribution beyond normal clarification.
  • Release the previously-anonymous artifact: replace the anonymized repository mirror with a public, licensed, citable archive, and test every link from a logged-out browser.
  • Confirm registration and presentation obligations — RecSys expects at least one author to register and present; verify the current policy on in-person versus remote.

ACM two-column reflow

  • Flipping the template from anonymous to camera-ready mode changes spacing; recheck every page break, figure placement, and the width of every ranking table after the flip.
  • Wide offline/online comparison tables and multi-panel figures often need full-column or full-width spans; verify nothing is clipped at a column boundary.
  • Material that fit the anonymous body can overflow once the author block, acknowledgements, and funding lines return; plan the trim before deadline night.
  • Keep table, figure, and section numbering stable so the reviews, rebuttal, and meta-review remain traceable to the final text.

De-anonymization sweep

Item stripped for review Camera-ready action
Author block, affiliations Restore in ACM template order
Acknowledgements, funding Reinstate; confirm grant numbers
Platform / dataset provenance Restore only what policy and data agreements allow
Anonymous repository mirror Replace with the public, licensed, DOI-able archive
Third-person self-citations Rewrite to first person where it improves clarity

Worked example: landing a rebuttal promise

The reviews accepted the paper on condition that the equal-budget tuning protocol move from the appendix into the main text. Camera-ready move: add two sentences to the experimental setup naming the shared grid and budget, keep the full grid in the appendix, and add one line to the abstract that the gain is over tuned baselines — without introducing any number the reviewers did not see.

Hedged logistics

  • Registration pricing, ACM rights-form mechanics, and the exact camera-ready date change every cycle; confirm against the decision email and current proceedings instructions rather than a prior year.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Final package] <PDF / source / bib / ACM rights form / metadata / public artifact>
[Policy checks] <page limit / authors / registration / presentation / artifact release>
[Rebuttal-change map] <promised fix -> final edit>
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>
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Category Soft Skills
Name recsys-camera-ready
Version v20260724
Size 3.71KB
Updated At 2026-07-29
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