Guidelines and Policies

General Guidelines to Authors

Below are some useful instructions to assist the authors to submit their papers for 2025 IEEE INDICON. Read all the instructions carefully. Scroll to bottom of page to submit your manuscript.

ORIGINALITY OF SUBMITTED PAPERS:
Papers submitted to 2025 IEEE INDICON shall contain original work by the author(s) that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The IEEE anti- plagiarism policy is applicable to all submissions. The author(s) are solely responsible for any plagiarized submission.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
All papers are required to be prepared and submitted in the IEEE Standard two –column conference format of A4 size in English. Papers must be four to six pages in length, including texts, Figures, photographs and references. Literature review only papers are not accepted. Any submitted paper that exceeds six pages will be rejected. The first page must include the title of the paper, author(s), affiliations, address and text. Please do not include page numbers on submitted documents. Failing to conform to the standard format will result in rejection. Detailed format information is available in IEEE Website. Click here

PAPER UPLOAD:
All papers must be submitted in PDF Document via CMT Platform

The submitting authors may be required to create a CMT account before uploading the paper (if the submitting author does not have a CMT account). While uploading the paper, the authors should provide the title of the paper, an abstract of no more than 250 words in the respective text boxes in the paper submission page.

Please note that all accepted papers that are registered and presented in the conference will be sent for possible inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The authors must agree to the IEEE copyright conditions and sign the IEEE copyright form as part of the online submission process. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the Technical Program Committees (TPC).

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Conference Template
Manuscript and Submission Guidelines
Authors are required to follow the following manuscript guidelines:
  1. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers. They must represent original unpublished research that is NOT currently under review for any other conference or journal.
  2. Manuscripts submitted must be six pages; single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.
  3. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here. Papers not following the style guidelines may be rejected without review.
  4. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file.
  5. Submitted manuscripts will undergo mandatory plagiarism screening as per IEEE guidelines. Papers violating ethics will be desk-rejected and the parent organizations of all the authors informed.
  6. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee under a double-blind review process
    • Submitted papers should NOT list any author names, affiliations or any other personally identifiable information.
    • As an author, you should NOT identify yourself or your organization in the paper, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). References to your own work should be in the third-person.
    • Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope.
  7. The author list and order at the time of submission is considered final – no co-authors can be added or removed or re-ordered after the submission deadline or upon acceptance (no exceptions).
  8. Submitted manuscripts that DO NOT follow these guidelines (i.e., do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements ) will be rejected without review.
  9. Paper may be accepted for the track it is submitted in, or may be accepted as a WIP/Poster paper in case it does not meet the requisite depth. In case of the latter, authors will have 1 week to submit a shorter version of the paper to appear in the proceedings.
  10. Upon paper acceptance, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Every accepted paper must have an individual author registration.
  11. As per IEEE policy, authors of every published paper needs to sign a copyright transfer agreement. The instructions for the copyright agreement will be shared with the author after acceptance of the paper.
  12. All manuscripts must be submitted through the submit button given at bottom of page
    • Acknowledgment: The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
  13. All accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
Review Process
  1. Submitted manuscripts will undergo mandatory plagiarism screening as per IEEE guidelines. Papers violating ethics will be desk-rejected and the parent organizations of all the authors informed.
  2. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee under a double-blind review process
    • Submitted papers should NOT list any author names, affiliations or any other personally identifiable information.
    • As an author, you should not identify yourself or your organization in the paper, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). References to your own work should be in the third-person.
    • Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope.
  3. The author list and order at the time of submission is considered final – no co-authors can be added or removed or re-ordered after the submission deadline or upon acceptance (no exceptions).
  4. Submitted manuscripts that DO NOT follow these guidelines (i.e., do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements ) will be rejected without review.
  5. Paper may be accepted for the track it is submitted in, or may be accepted as a WIP/Poster paper in case it does not meet the requisite depth. In case of the latter, authors will have 1 week to submit a shorter version of the paper to appear in the proceedings.
 
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Camera Ready and Copyright Authors are requested to upload the camera ready. Authors need to complete the following steps:
  1. All final paper submissions must be electronic, using IEEE Xplore compliant PDF format (*.pdf). Failure to do so may result in the rejection of the paper. Authors are requested to upload the camera ready in CMT
  2. Type 3 fonts (bitmaps) will not be accepted. Authors can use the IEEE PDF eXpress to generate compliant PDF Files for final submission.
  3. Prepare final manuscript STRICTLY according to IEEE template. Failing which, we will not submit your manuscript to Xplore. Template can be found here. Preferably, use US Letter. Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
  4. Length of manuscript should be maximum 6 pages
  5. Format and verify your manuscript using IEEE PDF eXpress™ to generate IEEE Xplore®-compliant PDF. RESOURCES IEEE PDF eXpress: A freely available online tool designed to assist conference organizers and authors in complying with the IEEE PDF requirements https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/pdfexpress.html (In case, you need conference id to use PDFXpress, please use this – #68490)
  6. Get and upload your IEEE Electronic Copyright Form (eCF) to CMT.
  7. Upload your camera-ready paper (IEEE Xplore®-compliant PDF or Microsoft Word Document) to CMT, your respective track.
  8. Register for the conference with payment. Registration should be done before camera ready upload.
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Important Dates

Submission Start Date Submission End Date Notification of Acceptance Camera Ready Submission
June 30, 2025 August 31, 2025 November 2, 2025 November 16, 2025
*Note: All deadlines are Anywhere On Earth (AOE)