Preparation and submission of manuscripts

The Journal of the ACM seeks original papers of the highest quality, which will be accessible to a broad audience. Papers should be written in a way that a nonspecialist can understand the main ideas.

Submissions to JACM is done electronically through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jacm. Once you are at that site, you will be asked to create an account and password with which you can enter the ACM Manuscript Central manuscript review tracking system. Proceed to the Author Center to submit your manuscript and other accompanying files.

You will be asked to create an abstract that will be used throughout the system as a synopsis of your paper. You will also be asked to classify your submission using the ACM Computing Classification System through a link provided at the Author Center. For completeness, please select at least one primary-level classification followed by two secondary-level classifications. To make the process easier, you may cut and paste from the list. Remember, you, the author, know best which area and sub-areas are covered by your paper; in addition to clarifying the area where your paper belongs, classification often helps in quickly identifying suitable reviewers for your paper. So it is important that you provide as thorough a classification of your paper as possible.

For editorial review, the manuscript should be prepared either with LaTeX or with Microsoft Word.

If you are going to prepare your manuscript in LaTeX, please go to the following URL for further instructions (please follow the small standard format):
http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions/latex_style.

If you prefer to prepare your manuscript in MS Word, please go to the following URL (please follow the small standard format):
http://www.acm.org/publications/word_style/word-style-toc/.

Should you need technical help working with your LaTeX or MS Word files, please direct your query to: acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com

Questions regarding editorial review process should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief.