SCIS 2023
2023 Symposium on
Cryptography and Information Security
Fukuoka, Japan, Jan. 24 – 27, 2023
The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

Copyright ©2023 The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

How to Format and Submit Your Manuscript for SCIS 2023
SCIS 2023 Secretariat∗

Kaitaro Genko∗

Abstract: In this guide, we explain the method of preparing and submitting the manuscript for
SCIS 2023 (online abstract and full paper). Text style short online abstracts are scheduled to bepublished through the website and a collection of full papers is scheduled to be distributed at thesymposium as “abstracts of SCIS 2023”. Authors are required to prepare both “Online abstract within
1,300 characters (in English) or within 500 characters (in Japanese)”, and “Full paper within eightpages”. The online abstract is registered by text input, while the full paper is submitted by uploading
an electronic ﬁle. It is not necessary to submit the hard copy. The registered “Online abstract”
and the submitted “Full paper” are collected for the Web publishing and the abstracts, respectively.
In order to avoid troubles, please prepare and submit your manuscript according to this guide.
Keywords: SCIS 2023, manuscript style, ﬁle format.

1Online Abstract

Table 1: Necessary items and languages on the 1st page
Paper Language Japanese English
Title
J and E
EAuthors
J and EE
Aﬃliation
J and E
E
AddressJ and E
E
Abstract
J or EE
Keywords
J or EE
J: Japanese; E: English
J and E: Japanese and English is required
J or E: either Japanese or English
E: only English is required

The online abstract of your manuscript will be published on Web that will be distributed at the symposium. Please input the text of the online abstract via
the online submission system. It must be within 1,300
characters (in English) or within 500 characters(in Japanese).
After the participation application on the Web, youcan access “my page”. After registering for a newpresentation, you can input the online abstract under“Manuscript (online abstract)”2

Full Paper

Full papers will be distributed in SCIS 2023. Please
prepare your full paper not exceeding 8 pages.
Since the submitted manuscript will be published as
it is, please prepare the manuscript according to thefollowing. Note that this document itself follows therecommended style for the full paper abstracts.
2.1

Moreover, please put the label of SCIS of height
16 mm and width 57 mm in the upper right cornerof the ﬁrst page. For the content and the style, please
follow the label of SCIS in this document. It is not necessary to put the label after the ﬁrst page. The paper
number is also unnecessary.
Please put page numbers in the paper.

Limitations of Document Size and Page
Count

2.3

The paper size is set to be A4. The manuscript mustnot be more than eight pages.
Please include the title, authors, aﬃliation, address,abstract, keywords, main text, diagrams, references,and appendices, etc. in the eight pages.

The necessary items and languages for the ﬁrst pageof the text are summarized in Table 1.
The “Abstract” in the full paper need not be thesame as the online abstract (but they can be the same).
2.4

2.2

Composition of the 1st Page

Layout of Manuscript

Style File for LATEXFor those who use LATEX to prepare the manuscript,
the LATEX style ﬁle and the template ﬁle were prepared.
Please acquire them fromhttp://www.iwsec.org/scis/2023/call.html.
There are both English version and Japanese version.

Please arrange the margins as follows: top margin
17 mm, bottom margin 20 mm, and the right and left
margins 18 mm, respectively. Except for these margins,please put the context in an area of height 260 mm andwidth 174 mm.
∗ SCIS 2023 Secretariat, 2-3-26 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064,

Japan. scis2023-info@mm.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp1

3About Submitting the Manuscript

References

3.1

Presentation Application[1] Author name, “ Title of paper, ” Journal name,pages, etc.

For the presentation application, please register via
the web page, under “Registration” in[2] Author name, “ Title of book, ” Press name, pages,
http://www.iwsec.org/scis/2023/registration.html.
publishing year etc.
Then proceed to the registration of new presentation
after login into “my page”.
3.2

Manuscript Registration and Submission

Please submit the online abstract and full paper online. It is not necessary to submit the hard copy.
Please login to “my page”, in order to register andsubmit the manuscript through the submission page.
Deadline for submission is 17:00, December 14, 2022(JST). After the manuscript is submitted, it can be updated for any number of times until the deadline. The
online abstracts and the abstracts are based on the lastversion of any information submitted. Early submission is recommended because congestion in the server isexpected in the last minutes of the deadline. Please beinformed that if authors fail to submit enough information necessary for organizing the symposium programby the deadline, then the submission may be excluded
from the program.
3.3

File Format

The online abstract must be in text form and thefull paper must be in PDF form. Moreover, the ﬁlesize of the full paper must not exceed 1.5 MB. Pleasetake extra care if the ﬁle contains many photographs.
Please also note the following section “About Fonts
That Can Be Used”.
3.4

About Fonts That Can Be Used

The PDF ﬁles of the submitted manuscripts are collected to the abstracts “as it is”. Therefore, in orderfor it to be displayed correctly in diﬀerent platforms,
the following guideline is recommended.
Latin font It is safer to embed all the fonts used.
Japanese font It is also recommended to embed theJapanese font in the PDF ﬁle as long as the ﬁlesize is not over the limit. Otherwise, please conﬁrm that the ﬁle can be correctly displayed andprinted with various software when the font is notembedded. If you use the Windows environment,
please check that it also works with other environments such as Mac and UNIX, etc.
Please refer to the manual of your PDF conversion
software about font embedding.

4Inquiries
SCIS 2023 Secretariat
Email: scis2023-info@mm.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp2