Typesetting Papers in ToCTeX
Before final publication, authors are requested to typeset their manuscript in ToCTeX. You will need to send us the appropriately formatted .tex and .bib files and the figures as .pdf files. To format the .tex and .bib files, please follow the steps below.
- Download toctex.zip and unzip it to a new directory.
- Download toc-template.tex and store it in the same directory. Rename it to the name of your article. Open the file with an editor, and fill in the fields marked with exclamation marks, following the instructions in the file. Copy and paste the contents of your article into the appropriate place. One of the things you will be asked to supply is ACM and AMS classification codes.
- Compile your article using "pdflatex" and "bibtex". (Note that the file will not compile properly in "latex".)
- You may find our example file, example.zip, helpful; it includes further instructions on ToCTeX formatting.
- We highly recommend that you read the Tips for ToC authors before starting to edit the ToCTeX version. The "tips" are about the style of exposition - LaTeX, mathematical, and English. Some of the "tips" describe policies; e.g., it is firm ToC policy that all Appendices precede the bibliography. It is also strongly recommended that all "Appendix" material (usually proofs) be folded into the main text.
- We encourage authors to study the source files of recently published articles by clicking the "Source ZIP" button on the article's home page.
- You may mine a file containing all the bib entries of published articles.
- Send us the .tex file, the .bib file, any figure files (in PDF format), and the final PDF file.
- Please don't forget to include your affiliation, email address, and URL in the "Authors" section of the article (after the bibliography).
- Please inlude a brief biographic sketch of each author at the end of the article, in the "about the authors" section. Take the bio sketches of previously published papers as models. Some guidelines: please include basic information about your education, research, career (institutions, advisor(s), thesis title, honors/awards, list of areas of interest in some detail ["complexity theory" will not distinguish you from the majority of authors]). This is a good place to pay tribute to a mentor who helped shape your career - perhaps someone at your high school. We encourage you to include some personal information (place where you grew up, family, hobby, etc), sprinkle it with humor. Please include links in the bio sketch (to your advisor's and your Alma Mater's home page, your favorite hobby site, etc.). As far as links go, the more, the merrier.
- Please also send us photos for inclusion in the "About the authors" HTML page associated with the article. (The picture will not appear in the article.) The picture should be in portrait, and preferably not bigger than 300KB.
Last updated June 20, 2009.