Instructions for LNCS authors are available here.
Before submitting your files please verify the following checkpoints.
• Use as few .tex files as possible, a single file is best, name it main.tex,
it helps the assembling task.
• Use \documentclass[runningheads, envcountsame, a4paper]{llncs}
and only these options; some packages modify the paper format to letter
if a4 is not specified.
• Use Algorithm2e for listings of algorithms.
• pdflatex processes a bit better than the sequence latex, dvips, pspdf.
Thus, using together\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}\usepackage{epstopdf}
could help to switch from latex to pdflatex.
• \usepackage[hyphens]{url} improves the aspects of hyperlinks in thefinal document.
• \usepackagemicrotype solves some small overfull errors.
• Titles: In English, the first word and the last word of titles should becapitalised. In addition, all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs,
and subordinate conjunctions should be capitalised. Articles and coordinating conjunctions are not capitalised. Traditionally, prepositions are notcapitalised. Use the same conventions for all titles of sections, subsection,etc.
• In \author use \and as separator between authors names.
• Give all the affiliation (the entries in this order, one entry per line), department, university, street address (including country), e-mail. Do notuse comma or dot at the end of each affiliation line.
• In email if you use {author1,author2,...}@... please use \email{$\{$author1,$\}$@...}.
• Use \fnmsep (i.e. footnote mark separator) to separate \thanks by \inst.
• \titlerunning could be shorter than Title, please check to see if it fits
in the header, if not, then you should shorten it up.
• Inside the \authorrunning{} field of your article, please use only the
initial of your first name, followed by a dot. The word “and” between
two authors is used without a comma. If there are three or more authors,
there is a comma before “and”. If headings with author names are notfitting well in the page, then you should use “et al.” after the first author.
1• Use \toctitle and \tocauthor, they are important fields defining yourpaper in the proceedings Table Of Contents.
• For \tocauthor use ~ between first name and name to avoid a break line
inside author’s names.
• After \maketitle \setcounter{footnote}{0} to start footnotes from 1
after \thanks.
• LNCS recommends keywords, within the abstract (before \end{abstract}just type \keywords{your list}. Please flag in which of the categories
announced in the call for papers does your paper fit better, as the first keyword. If none of the announced categories fits, then with the first keywordjust define your new topic. Please, use significant keywords (uppercase notneeded for keywords).
• Normally, captions of tables, figures, should end without a dot. If you feelthat dots are needed, please be consistent within the whole article. Table
captions are above the tables, while figures have captions below.
• If you wish to include an Appendix, then the position of such a section
is right before the Acknowledgments and References, as usually thesethings are the last parts in a paper.
• For Acknowledge please use \section*{Acknowledgments}.
• Please use BIBTEX: it is a computer program taking care about consistency of bibliography, (within the paper and cross papers). For information about using BIBTEX please consult this link. There exists also an
automatic conversion tool from bibitem to bibtex, yet not all formats arerecognized. Note that Googling for a title together with the word “bibtex”
usually gives good results.
• Check the names in the bibliography, some accents could be missing, nocapital letters for e.g. Turing, RNA, etc., wrong hyphenations, etc. To
correct we should add a new level of {. . . } in the bib file.
• To prevent line breaking in unwanted places, we can use {...}.
• Check spelling errors and English mistakes for the whole paper. You are
the last one checking for spelling errors before your paper is published.
Some things not to do:• do not change the default font of the document (that is do not \usepackage{times}
or other fonts), or use too many variations on fonts.
• do not \usepackage[...]{babel}.
• do not use whatever fancy signs as in mathabx.

2• do not modify \qed.
• do not use a4wide or geometrix.
• avoid using \vspace, in paricular, \vspace with a negative argument. Ifthings are not going as we wish, instead of negative \vspace there should
be another solution.
• do not use \newpage for formatting reasons, trying to fit floating figures
or tables.
• do not use frames around figures, algorithms, other elements of yourpaper.
• do not use a complicated directory structure for your document, usuallyfor a short paper things can be solved with a single source file.
• do not use \newcommand{\keywords}... The new LNCS style has internally defined this command.
• do not \usepackage{hyperref}.
• do not \usepackage{caption}.
• do not use \mailsa to specify the authors’ email address, where \mailsa
is defined as \urldef{\mailsa}\path|an@email} we can use \email{...}
command available in the llncs.cls.
• do not use \mainmatter; this is a command only for the whole volume,for papers inside the volume this is rather undesirable.
• do not use \sloppy; a simple solution for overfull errors could be torephrase the sentences causing problems; in many cases \usepackage{microtype}
helps too.

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