JEA Instructions for Authors
The ACM JEA invites submissions describing original research in experimental algorithmics. A typical submission to the ACM JEA will include an article, a suite of programs, and perhaps a collection of test data and computational results.
All articles that fall within the scope of JEA will be reviewed by at least two professional colleagues. Authors may suggest appropriate reviewers, although the editors need not take up the suggestion.
Submitting Software and Data
The software, data, links, and documentation that accompany your manuscript will be checked to see that code installs properly, tools and data are adequately documented, and that results generally correspond to those described in the article. JEA does not ask reviewers to certify the correctness or quality of submitted code.
Software, data, and files are published by ACM JEA In the Digital Library and are freely available to the public. ACM does not ask for copyright or exclusive publishing license to software. Copyright remains with original owners who may grant non-exclusive permission to ACM to serve the artifacts from the ACM Digital Library and assign a DOI to the snapshot associated with their article for citation and linking purposes.
Both the copyrighted manuscripts and un-copyrighted support materials are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. If you are prevented by your employer from making your code available, mention that fact with your submission: JEA editors can review your code under a non-disclosure policy.
ACM Manuscript Central will invite you to upload all files that accompany your manuscript. JEA prefers to receive a zipped tar file or else a url pointing to those files, but other formats can be accommodated.
See Preparing Software and Data for JEA for guidelines on issues of languages, platforms, and packaging.
After Acceptance
When your manuscript is accepted you will be given instructions about submitting final versions of your files. ACM will use your source file to prepare the final version of your paper for publication in the Digital Library.
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ACM requires that manuscripts be prepared for publication using either LaTeX or MS Word using the template found in the Submitting Articles to ACM Journals information.
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You will be asked to provide the LaTeX or MS Word source (using the style files), together with the PDF file containing the final version of your paper (for comparison to the source).
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Software, data files, and websites that accompany your JEA article are not copyrighted by ACM.
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You may also be contacted by the JEA Editor-in-Chief with questions about your software and related file submissions.
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If you provide Supplemental Online-only Material, please provide a brief description of your supplementary online-only material (i.e., text and multimedia material) to be published in the Digital Library. A short "readme.txt" file will appear in the DL along with your supplementary material describing its content and whatever requirements there are for using it.
Author Gateway
Please be sure to visit the ACM Author Portal for additional important author information.