January 17, 1996

Dear Author:

I congratulate you on the acceptance of your paper to the SIGMOD 1996 conference. I will be editing the SIGMOD proceedings this year, and am enclosing instructions to prepare your paper for publication in the proceedings. We ask you to submit:

• On-line copy of the abstract, for placement on the WEB, by Monday, January 22. (You will have an apportunity to update this when you submit the final paper in March). The Abstract must be formatted using html, as shown in the example below.

• The exact page count of your paper, by email, so as to reach me by Friday, March 1, 1996. This is a FIRM deadline.

• Camera-ready copy (produced on a high-resolution out-put device) of your manuscript on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, as per the format detailed below. There is a limit of 12 pages for each concept and experience track paper.

  The manuscript must reach me by Friday, March 8, 1996.

• A revised on-line copy of your abstract, identical to the one in the revised final paper. Please remove all formatting commands from the on-line abstract. Send me the simple ascii abstract by electronic mail, so as to reach me by Friday, March 8, 1996.

• A postscript version of your final paper. Please send the postscript version by electronic mail, so as to reach me by Friday, March 8, 1996.

• The signed ACM copyright form. ACM will not publish any paper that is not accompanied by a signed copyright form. In those cases where there is more than one author per paper, the first-named author only must sign. ACM copyright form will be sent to you electronically. The copyright form must reach me by Friday, March 8, 1996.

Please use the following address:

Inderpal Singh Mumick
SIGMOD 1996
AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue, 2B-235
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA.
908 582-2001
mumick@research.att.com

Detailed instructions follow. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Sincerely,


Inderpal Singh Mumick

• 12 page limit.

• The title of the paper must be in 14 pt bold Times Roman font (\LARGE size in LaTex).
• Use 10 pt. bold Times Roman font for each author name.
• List the affiliation and email address for each author under the author's name. Use 9pt regular Times Roman font (\small size in LaTex) for the affiliation and email address of each author.
• VERY IMPORTANT: Repeat the affiliataion for each author, even if all the authors have the same affiliation. An exception to this rule may be made only if the paper has 6 or more authors.
• There is no need to give the postal address for authors. WWW addresses may be given. If given, WWW addresses should be in regular Times Roman font.

• Use 10 pt. Times Roman font for the main body of the paper.

• Use 8 1/2" x 11" paper.

• Pages must be numbered, starting at the page number I will send you by email on Tuesday, March 5, 1996. If you must mail me the paper before March 5, 1996, please leave the pages UNNUMBERED, and please write the page number in pencil on the back of each sheet.

• Two-column format. Each column must be 3.33" wide, with a 0.33" spacing between the columns.

• Left and right margins must each be .75". Top margin must be .75", and the bottom margin must be 1.00". Thus, the printed height of the text will be 9.25".

• Leave 1" white space on lower left corner of the first column on the first page for ACM to fill in the copyright information. DO NOT print a copyright message in this space.

• This site contains a LaTeX style file "sigmod96.sty" and a "sample-sigmod96.tex" file that conforms to above requirements. If you are a LaTeX user, I request that you use the "sigmod96.sty" file, and start by modifying the "sample-sigmod96.tex" file to convert it into your paper. In particular, you must format author names/addresses as shown in the sample file. The sample file also includes a command to put in the starting page number that I will send you by Tuesday, March 5.

• Format the paper using the html format shown below.

• I will appreciate if you copy the html abstract below (by looking at the html source of the abstract), and replace title/authors/text with your title/authors/text.

• Change the name "paperMumickAbstract" in the htnl source by substituting "Mumick" with the last name of the first author on the paper. Capitalize the last name as shown.
• More sample abstracts.

How to write an online html abstract?

Inderpal Singh Mumick(Bell Laboratories)
Second Author (Bell Laboratories)

Text of abstract. Please note that each author is listed on a separate line, with affiliation next to the author name. The affiliation is repeated for each author, even if the affiliation is the same.

Second para of abstract.

The postscript version must be identical to the camera-ready copy of the paper.

Inderpal Singh Mumick, mumick@research.att.com