ijcai-camera-ready

IJCAI Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, Author Kit, registration page, copyright instructions, and presentation rules before advising authors.

Camera-ready audit

• Replace anonymous placeholders with full authors, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and approved contribution statements if the current kit permits them.
• Confirm that accepted-paper author order may be changed only within current rules; IJCAI cycles commonly forbid adding or removing authors after the author-information deadline.
• Rebuild in the current IJCAI style without margin, font, spacing, or bibliography hacks.
• Ensure ethics, limitations, reproducibility, data, and artifact statements match what was promised at submission and in the response.
• Prepare source files, figures, bibliography, metadata, copyright forms, and any open-access proceedings forms required by current instructions.
• Arrange registration and in-person presentation. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 required at least one accepted-paper author to attend in Bremen and present unless an exception was approved.
• Release code/data only after checking anonymity no longer matters, licenses are valid, and promised artifacts are ready.

Camera-ready gate checklist

IJCAI camera-ready adds obligations that submission did not: de-anonymization, copyright, open-access proceedings metadata, registration, and in-person presentation. Clear each gate.

Gate	Pass condition	Fail mode IJCAI enforces
De-anonymization	Authors, affiliations, funding, acknowledgements restored	Leftover "Anonymous Author" or stale blind phrasing
Author set	Order fixed within current rules; no adds/drops past the deadline	Adding an author after author-information close
Format	Rebuilt in current IJCAI style, no margin/font/spacing hacks	Squeezed body to fit, broken bibliography
Copyright/metadata	Open-access proceedings forms and copyright signed	Missing form blocks publication
Registration/presentation	At least one author registered and present per current rules	Promised attendance unmet, exception not approved
Promised artifacts	Statements match submission and response	Released code differs from what reviewers were told

Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper after acceptance

A multi-agent learning paper that promised a released simulator in its reproducibility section is accepted. Camera-ready order: restore authors and funding; confirm no coauthor was added past the author-information deadline; rebuild in the current style without compressing the body; sign copyright and supply proceedings metadata; register one author for in-person presentation; only then publish the simulator under a valid license with the anonymized history scrubbed, so the public artifact matches what reviewers saw.

Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix

• "Final PDF still says anonymous." Replace every blind placeholder before upload; chairs may reject non-compliant camera-ready files.
• "Author list changed." Revert to the locked set; obtain chair approval before any exception.
• "Formatting was altered to fit." Restore the official style and move overflow to the appendix, since proceedings consistency is enforced.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Final package] <PDF/source/figures/bib/metadata/copyright/registration>
[Policy checks] <authors/presentation/reproducibility/artifacts/licensing>
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>