Contribution Title

Givenname Surname1()[0000-1111-2222-3333], Second Author1[2222-3333-4444-5555], and Third Author2[1111-2222-3333-4444]

1 Princeton University, Princeton, USA

2 Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
lncs@springer.com

Abstract. The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper in short terms, and should contain 200-250 words. Abstract and keywords are made freely available in SpringerLink. Please use 9pt font size for the abstract and 10pt for the text.

Keywords: First Keyword, Second Keyword, Third Keyword. List your keywords here. They should be separated by middots, if possible. The first letter of each keyword should be capitalized.

Intorduction

This document constitutes Springer’s guidelines for the preparation of proceedings
papers. These may be stand-alone proceedings or part of a series. English is the official language. Please, do not forget to prove the spelling with your spell checker. Set the language to English (U.S.). Read the instructions in this sample paper carefully before typing.

The papers should be submitted in their final form. The publisher will perform no further adjustments. In the Proceedings the papers will be reproduced directly from the files submitted by the authors. The authors must upload their paper in MS Word and Pdf format through the conference management system.

Quick Start

Style Your Paper

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Finally name the document with your name and a short form of the title (e.g.,

Smith_TitleOfMyPaper.doc).

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Writing the Paper

Descriptive rules

Paper Size. Select the custom size of paper, i.e. 21 x 27.9 cm in Page Setup in your Word Processor. Only this paper size can be accepted.

Length of papers. The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (8-10 pages), where a page constitutes 300-400 words. We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content.

Very short papers (of fewer than 4 pages) may be moved to the back matter. Such papers will neither be available for indexing nor visible as individual papers on SpringerLink. They will, however, be listed in the Table of Contents.

Margins. The page layout should be "mirror margins". Leave 5.2 cm margin at the top, 5.2 cm at the bottom, 4.4 cm on the inside and 4.4 cm at the outside side of the page.

Page Layout. Type the paper in one columns 12.2 cm wide. The column should be left and right justified.

Fonts. Use Roman typeface (e.g. Times, Times New Roman) and 12 pt line spacing throughout the paper.

A Subsection Sample

Please note that the first paragraph of a section or subsection is not indented. The first paragraphs that follows a table, figure, equation etc. does not have an indent, either.

Subsequent paragraphs, however, are indented.

Sample Heading (Third Level). Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs, and all other words except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital) and should, with the exception of the title, be aligned to the left. Only two levels of headings should be numbered. Lower level headings remain unnumbered; they are formatted as run-in headings.

Sample Heading (Forth Level). The contribution should contain no more than four levels of headings. The following Table 1 gives a summary of all heading levels.

Table 1. Table captions should be placed above the tables.

Heading level	Example	Font size and style
Title (centered)	Lecture Notes	14 point, bold
1st-level heading	1 Introduction	12 point, bold
2nd-level heading	2.1 Printing Area	10 point, bold
3rd-level heading	Run-in Heading in Bold. Text follows	10 point, bold
4th-level heading	Lowest Level Heading. Text follows	10 point, italic

Author Names

Authors’ names should be written out in full in the header of the paper. They are shortened by us to “initials surname” in the running heads and take the form “surname, given name” in the author index. If you or any of your co-authors have more than one family name, it should be made quite clear how your name is to be displayed in the running heads and the author index.

All authors should write their given names in front of their surnames at the tops of their papers. If you only have one (main) name, please make sure that this name is written out in full in the running heads, when you check your final PDF.

Names and affiliations cannot be changed once a paper has been published. Also, if you have more than one paper in the volume, please check that your name has been written consistently throughout.

Affiliations, Email-Addresses, and ORCIDs

The affiliated institutions, including town/city and country, are to be listed directly below the names of the authors. Multiple affiliations should be marked with superscript Arabic numbers, and they should each start on a new line. Including your postal code is optional. We encourage authors to include their ORCIDs in superscript next to their names.

Please place an envelope icon (or any other pointer) next to the name of the corresponding author, whose email address is mandatory, in the header of the paper. Email
addresses should start on a new line directly under the corresponding affiliation.

Formulae

Displayed equations or formulae are centered and set on a separate line (with an extra line or half line space above and below). Equations should be numbered for reference. The numbers should be consecutive within the contribution, with numbers enclosed in parentheses and set on the right margin.

If you are using Word, please use the Math function of Word 2007, Word 2010 or Word 2013, or MathType or the Microsoft Equation Editor with Word 2003, to create your equations, and insert the math objects in your Word document in an editable format through MathType or MsWord equation editors.

x + y = z	(1)

Please do not include section counters in the numbering.

Figures and Tables

It is essential that all illustrations are clear and legible. Vector graphics (rather than rasterized images) should be used for diagrams and schemas whenever possible. Please check that the lines in line drawings are not interrupted and have a constant width. Grids and details within the figures must be clearly legible and may not be written one on top of the other. Line drawings are to have a resolution of at least 800 dpi (preferably 1200 dpi). The lettering in figures should not use font sizes smaller than 6 pt (~ 2 mm character height). Figures are to be numbered and to have a caption which should always be positioned under the figures, in contrast to the caption belonging to a table, which should always appear above the table. Figures and Tables should be cross referred in the text.

Please try to avoid rasterized images for line-art diagrams and schemas. Whenever possible, use vector graphics instead (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. A figure caption is always placed below the illustration. Short captions are centered, while long ones are justified. The macro button chooses the correct format automatically.

Captions are set in 9-point type. If they are short, they are centered between the
margins. Longer captions, covering more than one line, are justified. Captions that do
not constitute a full sentence, do not have a period.

References

For citations of references, we prefer the use of square brackets and consecutive numbers. Citations using labels or the author/year convention are also acceptable. The following bibliography provides a sample reference list with entries for journal articles [1], an LNCS chapter [2], a book [3], proceedings without editors [4], as well as a URL [5].

Ethics and Permissions

If figures, tables, animations or text quotations from copyrighted works (including websites) are included in your paper, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder (usually the original publisher) and the author(s) for both the print and the online format. Please take a look at the following page for more details: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/journal-author-helpdesk/before-you-start/before-you-start/1330#toc-49264.

If plagiarism has been committed, the paper on SpringerLink is given a “retracted” stamp, and an erratum explaining the reasons for the retraction (i.e., plagiarism) is inserted. In addition, the volume editors and the author’s academic supervisors are informed. Please note that a retracted paper remains visible, with its “retracted” stamp. It does not simply disappear.

Please note that your paper may be checked by our plagiarism-checking tool on its arrival at Springer.

Kindly refer to the following page for guidelines on publishing ethics, conflict-of-interest statements, and more: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/journal-author-helpdesk/before-you-start/before-you-start/1330#toc-49265.

Conclusions

Send your papers only in electronic form. Papers must be uploaded before the deadline. After a paper is accepted for oral or poster presentation, one of the authors must com-plete a registration form and pay the appropriate fees be-fore the paper can be published in the Proceedings.

Please pay attention to the registration deadline.

Acknowledgments. This should always be a run-in heading and not a section or subsection heading. It should not be assigned a number. The acknowledgments may include references to grants or support received in relation to the work presented in thepaper.

Conflict of Interest. Every paper must contain a declaration of conflicts of interest. If there are no such conflicts write “The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest”.

References

Author, F.: Article title. Journal 2(5), 99–110 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5

Author, F., Author, S.: Title of a proceedings paper. In: Editor, F., Editor, S. (eds.) CONFERENCE 2016, LNCS, vol. 9999, pp. 1–13. Springer, Heidelberg (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/11823285_121

Author, F., Author, S., Author, T.: Book title. 2nd edn. Publisher, Location (1999).

Author, F.: Contribution title. In: 9th International Proceedings on Proceedings, pp. 1–2. Publisher, Location (2010). https://doi.org/10.1109/HPDC.2001.945188

LNCS Homepage, http://www.springer.com/lncs.