Submission Instructions
Adhere strictly to the following instructions to finalize your Camera-Ready paper submission
Follow the instructions below to prepare your final manuscript.
- Deal with all comments provided by reviewers and double check the language of your paper.
- Add Authors names and affiliations to your paper. Don't add any title (e.g. Dr., Prof, ...) to the author names.
- Make sure that all Figures and Tables are of high quality, their content is easily readable and have in-text citation.
- The authors are urged to ensure that the camera-ready submission strictly follows the IEEE Template given on the conference website
- The number of pages in Final Camera-Ready Paper must be within Six Pages.
- Headers, footers and page numbers will be added by the conference publication team. So, make sure that your paper contains no headers, no footers, and no page numbers.
- See Detail of Camera Ready Paper Preparation Guideline at the bottom of this page
- The camera-ready papers that do not meet these requirements will not be submitted for further consideration to IEEE Xplore.
Your final paper must be compliant with the requirements of the IEEE Xplore digital library. To help you meet this requirement, you must FIRST check to ensure that your PDF file is compliant by using the IEEE PDF eXpress web tool BEFORE you submit your camera-ready paper to the conference final submission web site. Otherwise, your submission will be excluded from Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Log in to the IEEE PDF eXpress TM site
1. First-time users should do the following:
- Select the New Users - Click Here link.
- Enter 67218X for the Conference ID, your email address and a password.
- Continue to enter information as prompted.
- An Online confirmation will be displayed and an email confirmation will be sent verifying your account setup.
2. Previous users of PDF eXpress need to follow the above steps, but should enter the same password that was used for previous conferences. Verify that your contact information is valid.
- After logging in, please upload the source files of your camera-ready paper for conversion (e.g. DOC, DOCX, TEX and so on). Alternatively, you can also just check the compliance of your generated PDF file.
- After few minutes, you will receive the IEEE-Xplore-compatible PDF version of your paper by e-mail. Alternatively, you can also download it from IEEE PDF eXpress.
- Please send us the confirmation mail from IEEE PDF eXpress ( with subject IEEE PDF eXpress Site Services: New PDF is ready(Paper ID xxxxxxxxxx) ) via email (ict4da@ict4daconf.org)
To include your accepted paper in the IEEE Xplore digital library, one of the authors must fill and sign the IEEE copyright transfer form and return it to IEEE. Transferring copyright is a necessary requirement for publication. The transfer will be performed through the electronic IEEE Copyright Form (eCF).
Procedure for IEEE Copyright Form eCF submission:
- Login to your CMT Paper Submission Portal https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F and Click on the IEEE copyright link. You will be redirected to IEEE Copyright Form Submission page.
- Click on “Click here to redirect to the IEEE copyright website” to transfer eCF and you will be redirected to IEEE copyright portal.
- Follow the steps (Step 1 to Step 5) and provided instructions to complete the IEEE Copyright Transfer process.
- At the end of Step 5, download the completed Copyright Form and save it
as .pdf (Make sure to download a copy of the completed form.) - Login to your CMT Paper Submission Portal and upload this pdf file of the Copyright Transfer Form.
It completes the Copyright Transfer of your paper to IEEE. Please note that separate copyright transfer is required for each paper. Finally, upload your PDF paper validated by IEEE PDF eXpress via the CMT (update the previous submission)
If you have any questions, please contact us via email (ict4da@ict4daconf.org) or mobile number +251911901055
More on Camera Ready Paper Preparation
Important Dates
Previous ICT4DA Editions
Key Formatting Guidelines
- Template: Use an official IEEE conference template to ensure accurate formatting.
- Length: The typical length is a maximum of 6 pages, including figures, tables, and references. For each additional page 100 USD is charged and at maximum, two additional pages are permitted.
- Font: Use 10-point Times New Roman or Times font.
- Layout: Format your paper in a two-column layout.
- Margins: Adhere to the margins specified by the template; materials outside these will not be accepted.
- Title: The title should be in boldface, centered, with capital letters for the first letters of most words.
- Abstract: Include a concise, 150–250-word abstract at the beginning, followed by 3-5 keywords.
- Page Numbers: Do not include page numbers; they will be added by the IEEE.
- Figures & Tables: Place figures and tables near their first mention in the text and position them at the top or bottom of columns, not in the middle.
- References: All references should be listed at the end of the paper in the standard IEEE format.
- Submission File: Only PDF files will be accepted, and all fonts must be embedded.
- For more check submission instruction at – https://ict4daconf.org/camera-ready/
Similarity, plagiarism and self-plagiarism
- For your paper to be submitted to IEEE Xplore, the overall similarity rate of a paper should not exceed 30 percent, and the similarity rate to a single source should not exceed 10 percent.
- All submitted papers will be checked for plagiarism through the IEEE CrossCheck system. Papers with significant overlap with the authors own papers or other papers will be rejected without review.
- You have to remove, replace, rewrite, redraw the content (text, figures, tables) if any, from already published sources. Nothing is to be done on “References” section.