What you will need to submit
- Title
- Author(s) information
- 250-word abstract for technical review
- 100-word summary for the program
- Keywords used in search for your paper (optional)
Note: Only original material should be submitted. Commercial papers, papers with no new research/development content, and papers with proprietary restrictions will not be accepted for presentation.
How to submit your abstract
- Browse the conference topics to see list of conferences, or view the Call PDF.
- Choose one conference that most closely matches the topics of your abstract. You may submit more than one abstract, but submit each abstract only once
- Post-deadline submissions: Click the title of the conference to view the full description and submit by clicking the "Additional Information" tab and then the "Submit An Abstract" button on that page
- Sign in to your SPIE account, or create an account if you do not already have one
- Follow the steps in the submission wizard until the submission process is completed
Submission agreement
Presenting authors, including keynote, invited, oral, and poster presenters, agree to the following conditions by submitting an abstract:
Review and program placement
- To ensure a high-quality conference, all submissions will be assessed by the conference chair/editor for technical merit and suitability of content.
- Conference chairs/editors reserve the right to reject for presentation any paper that does not meet content or presentation expectations.
- Final placement in an oral or poster session is subject to chairs' discretion.
Publication of Proceedings in the SPIE Digital Library
- SPIE will publish all submitted presentations for viewing during the conference, as well as permanently archive all presentations in the conference proceedings on the SPIE Digital Library
- SPIE retains rights to distribute and market the official SPIE recording of the presentation, presentation video, and/or poster
- Most SPIE conferences follow an onsite publication model, meaning that manuscripts received by the advertised due date will be published for online viewing during the event, as well as archived in the SPIE Digital Library
- A select few of SPIE conferences may elect to follow a Post-Meeting model of publication in order to conduct a more through review of manuscripts. In this model, manuscripts will be published 2-4 weeks after the event in the SPIE Digital Library., and may not be published for online viewing during the event
- Authors must be authorized to transfer copyright of the manuscript to SPIE, or provide a suitable publication license. Authors retain the right to prepare derivative publications based on the paper
- Conference chairs/editors may require manuscript revision before approving publication and reserve the right to reject for publication any paper that does not meet acceptable standards for a scientific publication.
- Conference chair/editor decisions on whether to allow publication of a manuscript are final
- Only papers, presentations, and posters presented at the conference and received according to publication guidelines and due dates will be published in the conference Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library
- SPIE partners with relevant scientific databases to enable researchers to find the papers in the Proceedings of SPIE easily. The databases that abstract and index these papers include Astrophysical Data System (ADS), Ei Compendex, CrossRef, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scopus, and Web of Science
- More publication information is available on the SPIE Digital Library.
Contact information
For questions about your presentation, submitting an abstract post-deadline, or the meeting, contact your Conference Program Coordinator.
For questions about your manuscript, contact your Proceedings Coordinator.
