acmart
FormatACM commissioned the construction of a Master Article
Template that
consolidates all previous ACM journal and proceedings formats
(including SIGPLAN’s legacy sigplanconf
format) and
is designed to enable a uniform production workflow for authors and
publishers. The acmart
format includes a number of sub-formats, two
of which are relevant to SIGPLAN authors:
acmsmall
sub-format: a one-column format used by papers published
as an issue of PACM on Programming Languages
(PACMPL)
sigplan
sub-format: a two-column format used by papers published
as traditional SIGPLAN proceedings
ACM provides technical
support
for authors working with the acmart
format. General comments and
problems about the acmart
format may be communicated through the
SIGPLAN Information
Director.
For LaTeX users, the acmart
package includes the following essential files for an
author:
acmart.cls
)ACM-Reference-Format.bst
)The acmart
format is available from ACM’s Master Article
Template page
and from CTAN (and is
distributed with most popular TeX distributions).
The package documentation
provides a detailed description of all features.
The acmart
format is maintained in a
GitHub repository.
Please use the following LaTeX commands:
\documentclass[acmsmall,screen]{acmart}
.
Authors can choose either author-year citations, with \citestyle{acmauthoryear}
, or numeric citations, with \citestyle{acmnumeric}
.\documentclass[sigplan,screen]{acmart}
.The review
option is strongly encouraged, but not required, for
submissions. (The review
option will add line numbers, which make it
easier for reviewers to reference specific parts of the paper in their
comments, but should have absolutely no other effect on the
typesetting.)
The screen
option adds colors to hyperlinks and cross references.
The ACM Publishing System (TAPS) maintains a list of accepted LaTeX packages that are compatible with TAPS production processing of your LaTeX source files. Please note that for the successful conversion of your article to HTML, the use of LaTeX packages must be restricted to the list.
The acmart
format is not supported by Microsoft Word, as of March 2020.
Please review SIGPLAN’s republication policy.
If you would like some advice on how to write submissions, here are some suggestions by
Third-party material requires to be acknowledged at two places:
The paper needs to provide attribution. For figures, add a credit line at the end of the caption (ideally containing year, creator, copyright holder, license, source URL).
The publishing-rights agreement needs to list all third-party materials.
See ACM Instructions for Including Third-Party Material and ACM Guidance for Authors on Fair Use for more details.
Are you a student needing additional support to present your paper at the conference? The SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC) can help you.