Paper Submission Guidelines – ICSL-DSGA 2026
Submissions must consist of original, unpublished work and must be exclusively submitted to ICSL-DSGA 2026. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences or journals are strictly prohibited.
Authors must strictly follow the IEEE Conference Template (LaTeX or Microsoft Word), available on the . Non-compliance with the template may result in desk rejection.
All citations, references, figures, and tables must strictly adhere to the IEEE referencing format.
The manuscript length must be minimum 4 pages and maximum 6 pages, formatted in PDF.
Papers exceeding 6 pages are allowed up to a maximum of 8 pages, subject to an additional charge of USD 10 per extra page.
All fonts must be embedded in the final PDF file. Fonts requiring non-English language support are not permitted.
The submitted PDF must not be password-protected.
Authors must not include page numbers, headers, or footers in the manuscript.
The maximum number of authors per paper is limited to six (6).
All references, tables, and figures must be properly cited within the text and formatted according to the IEEE Conference Template.
Submissions must fall clearly within the scope of the conference themes and tracks.
Acceptance of papers will be determined by the Conference Chair, based on recommendations from the Technical Program Committee (TPC) and feedback from assigned reviewers.
All submissions must comply with strict academic integrity standards:
Text plagiarism must be below 20% (as per similarity index).
AI-generated content similarity must also be below 20%.
Papers exceeding these thresholds will be rejected or returned for mandatory revision.
Authors are responsible for ensuring ethical research conduct, proper citation practices, and originality of contributions.
References must be authentic, verifiable, and from credible sources. Randomly generated, fabricated, or non-existent references (including those generated by LLM tools without verification) are strictly prohibited.
Excessive self-citations must be avoided. Papers containing unjustified or inflated self-citation practices may be flagged for revision.