How-to guide for successful abstract submission
- 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
All presenting authors, including keynote, invited, oral, and poster presenters, agree to the following by submitting an abstract:
- Register and pay the conference registration fee
- Agree to receive email messaging for the conference series
- Oral presenters: agree to recording and publication of your onsite presentation (slides synched with voice) in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library
- Poster presenters: one person may not present more than two posters in a poster session; submit a poster PDF for preview in the online programme (web and app) and for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library
- Submit a manuscript by the advertised due date for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library
- Obtain funding for registration fees, travel, and accommodations
- Attend the meeting
- Present at the scheduled time
Review and programme 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 and/or SPIE staff 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 chair discretion
Publication of Proceedings in the SPIE Digital Library
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- Only manuscripts, presentations, and posters presented at the conference and received according to publication guidelines and due dates will be published in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library
- Manuscripts, presentations, and posters will be officially published after the event in the SPIE Digital Library
- Conference chairs/editors or SPIE staff may require revision before approving publication and reserve the right to reject for publication any manuscript or presentation that does not meet acceptable standards for a scientific publication
- Conference chair/editor and/or SPIE staff decision to accept or reject a manuscript, presentation, or poster for publication is final
- Authors must be authorized to provide a suitable publication license to SPIE; authors retain copyright of all scientific material
- SPIE retains rights to distribute and market the official SPIE recording of the presentation and/or submitted poster
- SPIE partners with relevant scientific databases and indexes to enable researchers to easily find papers published in the Proceedings of SPIE. 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 in the SPIE Digital Library
Contact information
Questions? Contact the SPIE staff coordinator listed in your spie.org account.
For questions about the event, programme, your presentation, and/or submitting an abstract, contact your conference program coordinator.
For questions about submitting for, and publication on, the SPIE Digital Library, contact your proceedings coordinator.
