SCIS 2022
2022 Symposium on
Cryptography and Information Security
Osaka, Japan & Online, Jan. 18 – 21, 2022
The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

Copyright ©2022 The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers

How to Format and Submit Your Manuscript for SCIS 2022
SCIS 2022 Secretariat∗

Kaitaro Genko∗

Abstract: In this guide, we explain the method of preparing and submitting the manuscript for
SCIS 2022 (online abstract, PDF abstract, and full paper). Text style short online abstracts andpaper style long PDF abstracts are scheduled to be published through the website and a collectionof full papers is scheduled to be distributed at the symposium as “abstracts of SCIS 2022”. Authors
are required to prepare all of “Online abstract within 1,300 characters (in English) or within 500characters (in Japanese)”, “PDF abstract within one page”, and “Full paper within eight pages”. The
online abstract is registered by text input, while the PDF abstract and the full paper are submitted byuploading an electronic ﬁle. It is not necessary to submit the hard copy. The registered “Onlineabstract” and the submitted “PDF abstract” and “Full paper” are collected for the Web publishingand the abstracts, respectively. In order to avoid troubles, please prepare and submit your manuscript
according to this guide.
Keywords: SCIS 2022, manuscript style, ﬁle format.

1Online Abstract

In the full paper, please include the title, authors,aﬃliation, address, abstract, keywords, main text, diagrams, references, and appendices, etc.

Text style short 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 bewithin 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)”.

22.2

PDF Abstract and Full Paper

Paper style long PDF abstracts will be published on
Web, and full papers will be distributed in SCIS 2022.
Please prepare your PDF abstract not exceeding 1
page and full paper not exceeding 8 pages.
Since the submitted manuscript will be published asit is, please prepare the manuscript according to thefollowing. Note that this document itself follows therecommended style for the full paper abstracts.
2.1

2.3

Composition of the 1st Page

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).

Limitations of Document Size and Page
Count

2.4

The paper size is set to be A4. The PDF abstract
must not be more than one page, and the full paper
must not be more than eight pages.
In the PDF abstract, please include the title, authors, aﬃliation, address, keywords, and abstract. If
necessary, you can add diagrams and references.

∗Layout of Manuscript

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.
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.

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/2022/call.html.
There are both English and Japanese versions.

SCIS 2022 Secretariat, 2–1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka,
565-0871,
Japan.
scis2022-organizer@cryptocybersec.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp1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.

Table 1: Necessary items and languages on the 1st page
Paper Language Japanese English
Title
J and E
EAuthors
J and E
EAﬃliation
J and E
EAddress
J and E
EAbstract
J or EEKeywords
J or EE

Please refer to the manual of your PDF conversion
software about font embedding.

J: Japanese; E: English
J and E: Japanese and English is required
J or E: either Japanese or English
E: only English is required

4Inquiries

3About Submitting the Manuscript

SCIS 2022 Secretariat
scis2022-organizer@crypto-cybersec.comm.eng.
osaka-u.ac.jp

3.1

Presentation Application

References

For the presentation application, please register via[1] Author name, “ Title of paper, ” Journal name,the web page, under “Registration” inpages, etc.
http://www.iwsec.org/scis/2022/registration.html.
Then proceed to the registration of new presentation[2] Author name, “ Title of book, ” Press name, pages,
after login into “My page”.
publishing year etc.
3.2

Manuscript Registration and Submission

Please submit the online abstract, the PDF abstract,
and the full paper online. It is not necessary tosubmit 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, January 4, 2022
(JST). After the manuscript is submitted, it can be
updated for any number of times until the deadline.
The abstracts are based on the last version of any information submitted. Early submission is recommended
because congestion in the server is expected in the lastminutes of the deadline. Please be informed that ifauthors fail to submit enough information necessary
for organizing the symposium program by the deadline, then the submission may be excluded from theprogram.
3.3

File Format

The online abstract must be in text form and thePDF abstract and the full paper must be in PDF
form. Moreover, the size of the PDF ﬁle must notexceed 1.5 MB. 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 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.

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