Authors Guidlines

Step A: Manuscript Preparation

1. The manuscript should be prepared in Springer LNCS format using MS WORD and/or LaTeX. The guidelines given here may help you to prepare the manuscript. Preferable format of manuscript is through LaTeX. These templates and guidelines can also be found in publisher’s homepage (link) by clicking on 'Instructions for Authors' section.

2. The figures / graphs / plots in the manuscript MUST be of good resolution (600 dpi or more), tables MUST NOT be in pictorial format. Text in figures should not be too small, and preferably of equal size as text of the article.

3. Figures, text, or the tables MUST be visible within boundary of the text area of the page and MUST NOT go beyond it.

4. Do NOT use any Social / Academic titles (e.g. Mr.,Ms.,Dr.,Prof. etc) preceding the author names. Do NOT mention the position of a person (e.g., research scholar, student, assistant professor, professor, IEEE member, IEEE student member etc.) in the affiliation.

5. Mention full address, affiliation, and email of ALL authors, specify a corresponding author with the corresponding e-mail ID. [Once an article is accepted, the publisher will send the proofreading of article to this e-mail]

6. Do not make any page numbering and do not give any running head title.

7. Every article must bear a self-composed independent single paragraph as Abstract, which MUST NOT bear any citation or reference. Abstract MUST not have a section number.

8. Articles must be written in spell checked and grammatically correct English.

9. All references, figures, and tables should be numbered in sequence starting from 1 and MUST be duly cited / referred within the text.

10. Adhere to page size (A4 : 8.27″X11.69″), page margin size (top:2.05″, bottom:2.05″, left/inside: 1.73″, right/outside: 1.73″), line spacing ( ‘single’ ), and font style ( ‘Times’ ), font sizes (Title: 14pt – bold, Abstract: 9 pt, Keywords: 9 pt, Section header : 12 pt – bold, Subsection header: 10 pt – bold, Table and figure caption: 10 pt – bold, Text body: 10 pt) as prescribed in Springer LNCS template, do not manually alter ANY of these parameters.

11. verify the referencing style of LNCS, which will help to produce correct reference format. A reference should bear following parameters in proper format: author name(s), title of article/book, conference/journal name, volume, issue, page numbers, and publication year.

12. Any article, not in format, will be subjected to rejection without any judgment on its quality.

13. The articles should be own work of the authors. If any work is referred from others (or some other work by the author), proper acknowledgement should be given. Plagiarism of any type, if detected, will lead to rejection of the articles anytime.


Step B: Submitting for Review

1. Follow the link here and submit your article with properly mentioning article title, authors names and other details that will be asked..

2. Create / sign up for an Easychair account if you do not have one.

3. Fill proper metadata of the article in Easychair as they exist in your article. Title, Abstract, Keywords, list of authors (in order) and their affiliation should be mentioned in Easychair while submitting.

4. You will be assigned an unique article ID of your submitted article, which you should remember and use for any correspondence.

5. Page size of an article should not exceed 12 in any case. Desired page size is 08 – 10.

6. You need not upload editable source files (.doc or .docx or LaTeX files) for review. Submit single PDF files only. If your article is selected, you will later be asked for the source files.

7. Review decision will be e-mailed to authors.

8. No offline submission request through e-mail or surface mail will be entertained. Offline submissions will lead to outright rejection without any review or validating the quality of the article.

Note: DO NOT submit multiple copies of same article, which will cause rejection. Any revision / uploading a new version / updating author information can be done on a submission through Easychair.

Step C: After Acceptance

1. Preparing and uploading of the Camera Ready Article:
The final camera-ready copy of the papers must be in Springer LNCS format with a length of maximum 12 pages. Over-length charges will apply for each extra page beyond 10 pages. However, it is desired that maximum number of pages in an article should not exceed 12 pages in any circumstance. Check Step A: Manuscript preparation above for formatting the camera ready article. Upload camera-ready PDF on to the Easychair, and submit source file(s) along with items mentioned in Section e (below) as .zip or .rar file.

2. Paying Registration Fee:
Calculate the registration fee according to your page length and type of authorship as directed in REGISTRATION page and make payment using Foreign Telegraphic Transfer or Direct Transfer or NEFT Transfer or Wire transfer (preferable) or demand draft. Do not forget to keep the pay-in-slip or Challan or online payment receipt. You need the scanned copy of it or scan of the DD to complete next steps.

3. Filling up of the Registration Form, which can be found in MS WORD format [here].

4. Filling up of the Consent to Publish Form, which can be found in publisher's web page

5. Mailing the following items in .zip / .rar format to micaconf@gmail.com: a) The Camera ready Article source files, preferably in MS Word format
b) Scanned copy of filled in Registration Form.
c) Scanned copy of filled in Consent to Publish Form.
d) Proof of studentship for availing Student Registration (if applicable) signed by head of the department/course coordinator/registrar/director/principal.
e) Scan of registration fee pay-in-slip/voucher of online transfer/DD payable to MICA ( whichever applicable ).
The mail must bear the subject line as: “Registration of article MICA2026-XXX”. (A SINGLE MAIL must bear all items below. If size exceeds 20 MB, break the mail into more than one. Append to subject line of the mails: Part 1, Part 2 etc. Multiple mails without size limitation will not be considered.)

6. Submission of original demand draft by above mentioned registration deadlines. YOU NEED NOT POST ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE NOT MADE PAYMENT USING DEMAND DRAFT. MICA will not be responsible for any postal delay or failure in receiving the documents by the deadlines.