Eurovis Call for Full Papers

Submission Guidelines

Formatting Instructions

In order to submit to Eurovis 2020, authors prepare their submissions as a PDF file using the Eurovis 2020 LaTeX2e Style (including a document class, a style file, a sample source file, and a corresponding PDF output file). Use EGauthorGuidelines-eurovis20-full.tex for your submission.

Please make sure that an image embedded in your paper does not contain transparent pixels (i.e., an alpha channel of a transparent color) because this will lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed or printed.

Submissions can also include supplementary material such as videos or executable programs. The server will accept uploads of at most 200 MB, so multiple files of over 200 MB must be submitted separately. We encourage the use of digital videos to support paper submissions, particularly if part of, or all of the work covers interactive techniques. Please use only the most common video codecs (e.g., MP4 format using the H.264 codec) to maximize the chances that the reviewers can see it.

We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted papers to the full papers track. However, it is unusual for papers to exceed 10 pages (including all images but excluding references). Papers should only be as long as their content would justify. Reviewers might rate a submission lower if it is perceived as being unnecessarily long. Authors are encouraged to use supplementary documents to provide extra contents.

Abstracts and full papers are submitted using the Precision Conference System (PCS).

Camera Ready Version

In order to submit to the camera ready version to Eurovis 2020, authors should prepare their submissions as a PDF file using the Eurovis 2020 LaTeX2e Style. Please ensure that the option \SpecialIssuePaper is used.

Authors of accepted papers are also requested to fill in the Exclusive License Agreement (one per paper) and send the signed document to s.behnke@eg.org.

Common mistakes when creating the final version of the paper are:

• headlines are too long: besides the running headlines there has to be place for the page numbers. Please shorten the headline to accomodate for page numbers.
• formatting of figure captions: "Figure <number>:" should be bold and the caption should be set in italics. This is often caused by overwriting the default settings when using the figure, caption, or subfigure packages. Try using
  \captionsetup{labelfont=bf,textfont=it})


Authors Guidelines

For Eurovis 2020 double-blind reviewing is optional. Thus, authors may opt to disclose their identities, but this is not required.
All submissions must be original works that have not been published previously in any conference proceedings, magazine, journal, or edited book. Concurrent submissions are strictly forbidden. If it is determined that a manuscript is simultaneously under the consideration by another publication venue, the manuscript will be rejected.

We expect that the submissions will clearly discuss the novel and significant contributions as well as place them in the context of prior art in the field. Authors should highlight how their contributions differ from previous work and advance the state of the art in visualization. Among the venues for important prior art are journals such as Computer Graphics Forum and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics as well as conferences like Eurovis, SciVis, InfoVis, VAST, and PacificVis.

Authors should cite all relevant previous work and clearly explain the differences between it and their paper, including their own previous work with full reference details. If it is impossible to do so, for instance, because the work is submitted but not yet publicly available, then include a version of the relevant document(s) with your submission as supplemental material. Authors should not include an acknowledgments section in the initial submission, nor should they post their submitted manuscript on the web before the notification date.

For papers that have previously been reviewed for other venues and have been rejected or withdrawn, the authors can provide a cover letter describing the changes they have made to comply with reviewers’ comments and requests. This procedure is strongly recommended and it is meant to improve the efficiency of the reviewing process but does not imply reviewer continuity. The cover letter is submitted as an ‘Additional Material’.

All full papers accepted to Eurovis 2020 appear in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, containing the conference proceedings, and will appear at the same time in the Eurographics digital library.

Note that for each full paper the submission of an abstract is mandatory by the abstract deadline, with completed papers due on by the full paper deadline. If you do not submit an abstract by this deadline, you will not be able to submit a paper. For the abstract submission, you need to fill out the parts about the title, authors, paper type, abstract, and keywords in the form. The remaining fields (the document, additional material) only have to be submitted by the final deadline (see Important Dates). Make sure that you select the correct paper type and choose appropriate keywords. If multiple paper type categories apply, select the one which best fits your paper.

Full papers will undergo a revision and review cycle after initial notification of review results, in order to ensure they are acceptable for publication and presentation in the journal. At least one author of an accepted paper must register (pay before May 3) and attend the conference to present the work, and authors will also be required to present a brief (less than one-minute) summary of their talk at the opening papers preview session (also called papers fast-forward).

Contributions must be written and presented in English.

Our conference will adhere to the ethics guidelines for reviewers, which can be found here: Reviewer Guidelines.