SCIS 20162016 Symposium on
Cryptography and Information Security
Kumamoto, Japan, Jan. 19 - 22, 2016
The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

cCopyright ⃝2016
The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

How to Format and Submit Your Manuscript for SCIS2016
SCIS2016 Secretariat∗

Kaitaro Genko∗

Abstract: In this guide, we explain the method of preparing and submitting the manuscript for
SCIS2016 (online abstract and full paper). Online abstract (Web and USB memory) and full paper
proceeding (USB memory) are scheduled to be distributed in SCIS2016. Authors are required to prepare
both “Online abstract within 1,300 characters (in English) or within 500 characters (in Japanese)”,and “Full paper within eight pages”. The online abstract is registered by text input, while the fullpaper 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 publishingand the USB-memory proceeding, respectively. In order to prevent troubles in the proceedings, please
prepare and submit your manuscript according to this guide.
Keywords: SCIS 2016, manuscript style, file format.

1Online Abstractmargins 18 mm, respectively. Except these margins,please put the context in an area of height 260 mm
and width 174 mm.
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 notnecessary to put the label after the first page. Paper
number is also unnecessary.
Please put page numbers in the paper.

The online abstract of your manuscript will be published on Web and also included in the USB memories that will be distributed in SCIS2016. Please input
the text of the online abstract via the online submission system. It must be within 1,300 characters (inEnglish) or within 500 characters (in Japanese).
After participation application on Web, you can access “my page”. After registering for new presentation,
you can input the online abstract under “Manuscript(online abstract)”

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The necessary items and languages for the first pageof the text are summarized in Table 1.

Full Paper (USB-memory Proceeding)USB-memory proceeding will be distributed in SCIS
2016. 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 proceeding.
2.1

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 E
E

Limitations of Document Size and Page
CountThe paper size is set to be A4. The manuscript (maintext for USB-memory proceeding) must not be morethan eight pages.
Please include the title, authors, aﬃliation, address,abstract, keywords, main text, diagrams, references,and appendices, etc. in the eight pages.
2.2

Composition of the 1st Page

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 “Abstract” in the full paper need not be thesame as the online abstract (but they can be the same).

Layout of Manuscript

2.4

Please arrange the margins as follows: top margin
17 mm, bottom margin 20 mm, and the right and left

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 from∗ SCIS2016 Secretariat, 3-9-11, Midori-cho Musashino-shi, Tokyo

180-8585, Japan. scis2016@lab.ntt.co.jp

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http://www.iwsec.org/scis/2016/call.html.
There are both English version and Japanese version.

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About Submitting the Manuscript

3.1

Presentation Application

For the presentation application, please register via
the web page, under “Registration” in
http://www.iwsec.org/scis/2016/registration.html.
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 the full paper
online. It is not necessary to submit the hardcopy.
Please login to “my page”, in order to register andsubmit the manuscript through the submission page.
Deadline for submission is December 15, 2015 (JST).
After the manuscript is submitted, it can be updated
for any number of times until the deadline. The online
abstracts and the USB-memory proceeding are basedon the last version of any information submitted. Early
submission is recommended because congestion in theserver is expected in the last minutes of the deadline.
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 1.5M B for theconvenience of making the USB memory. If your file
is more than 1.5M B, it may not be put in the USB
memory. Please take 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 UsedThe PDF file of the submitted manuscripts are collected to the USB-memory proceeding “as it is”. Therefore, in order for 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 sofware 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
SCIS2016 Secretariat
Email: scis2016@lab.ntt.co.jp

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