IJCAI Submission
Use this for an IJCAI main-track submission audit. Reopen the current conference CFP,
Author Kit, FAQ, reproducibility page, submission site, and conflict policy before giving
deadline-ready advice.
Submission audit
- Confirm the target program: main track, one of the special tracks, Survey Track, or a
non-main program. Track rules and deadlines can differ.
- Verify Chairing Tool account access, title, abstract, author details, ORCID status,
author confirmations, keywords, conflicts, and any Primary Paper Initiative fee exposure.
- Apply the current author kit. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 main-track papers used a 9-page total limit:
7 pages for body text, figures, and tables, plus up to 2 pages for references.
- Check that no acknowledgements or contribution statements appear in the anonymous review
version, and that the optional ethics statement sits where current rules permit.
- Enforce double-blind anonymity in PDF content, metadata, filenames, supplement, code,
paths, URLs, and resubmission files.
- Submit supplementary material and resubmission information by the full-paper deadline; do
not rely on rebuttal-time uploads.
- Confirm the per-author submission limit, dual-submission policy, and last-12-month
rejection disclosure before upload.
- Apply the current LLM-use policy. For IJCAI-ECAI 2026, style/language polishing was
allowed, but LLM-written manuscript text was a desk-reject risk.
Blocking risks
- Missing abstract registration or missing author information.
- Overlength PDF or template manipulation.
- Identity leakage in the paper, supplement, code, data, paths, or metadata.
- Missing required resubmission information for a recent rejected version.
- Concurrent formal archival submission.
- LLM-generated paper text, hallucinated references, or unsupported claims.
Desk-reject risk matrix
IJCAI screens a large submission volume and can reject on mechanical grounds before any
scientific review. Sort each risk by whether it is auto-fatal at intake.
| Risk |
Severity |
Pre-upload check |
| Missing abstract registration |
Fatal |
Abstract filed by its earlier deadline |
| Overlength or template manipulation |
Fatal |
Page count and Author Kit style verified |
| Anonymity leak in PDF/metadata/code |
Fatal |
Names, URLs, filenames scrubbed |
| Missing resubmission file |
Fatal |
Anonymized rejected version attached |
| Concurrent archival submission |
Fatal |
No venue overlap during review |
| LLM-written manuscript text |
High |
Only policy-allowed polishing |
Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper at intake
A multi-agent RL paper is ready scientifically but its anonymized PDF embeds the lab name in a
figure caption and its code ZIP keeps an institutional path. Both are anonymity leaks that can
desk-reject the paper before review. Fix order: scrub the caption and metadata, re-zip with
relative paths, confirm the page count, verify the abstract was registered on time, and confirm
no concurrent archival submission.
Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix
- "Exceeds the limit." Compress to the body limit and move overflow to the appendix; do not
shrink margins, fonts, or spacing to fake compliance.
Output format
[IJCAI readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Track] main / special / survey / other
[Blocking checks] <page/anonymity/authors/ORCID/supplement/resubmission/dual-submission/LLM>
[Highest desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix order] <ordered fixes before submission>
1---2name: ijcai-submission3description: Use when auditing an IJCAI or IJCAI-ECAI main-track submission for Chairing Tool readiness, abstract and author-information deadlines, page limits, double-blind anonymity, supplementary files, reproducibility, resubmission information, author limits, dual-submission policy, and LLM-use policy.4---56# IJCAI Submission78Use this for an IJCAI main-track submission audit. Reopen the current conference CFP,9Author Kit, FAQ, reproducibility page, submission site, and conflict policy before giving10deadline-ready advice.1112## Submission audit1314- Confirm the target program: main track, one of the special tracks, Survey Track, or a15 non-main program. Track rules and deadlines can differ.16- Verify Chairing Tool account access, title, abstract, author details, ORCID status,17 author confirmations, keywords, conflicts, and any Primary Paper Initiative fee exposure.18- Apply the current author kit. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 main-track papers used a 9-page total limit:19 7 pages for body text, figures, and tables, plus up to 2 pages for references.20- Check that no acknowledgements or contribution statements appear in the anonymous review21 version, and that the optional ethics statement sits where current rules permit.22- Enforce double-blind anonymity in PDF content, metadata, filenames, supplement, code,23 paths, URLs, and resubmission files.24- Submit supplementary material and resubmission information by the full-paper deadline; do25 not rely on rebuttal-time uploads.26- Confirm the per-author submission limit, dual-submission policy, and last-12-month27 rejection disclosure before upload.28- Apply the current LLM-use policy. For IJCAI-ECAI 2026, style/language polishing was29 allowed, but LLM-written manuscript text was a desk-reject risk.3031## Blocking risks3233- Missing abstract registration or missing author information.34- Overlength PDF or template manipulation.35- Identity leakage in the paper, supplement, code, data, paths, or metadata.36- Missing required resubmission information for a recent rejected version.37- Concurrent formal archival submission.38- LLM-generated paper text, hallucinated references, or unsupported claims.3940## Desk-reject risk matrix4142IJCAI screens a large submission volume and can reject on mechanical grounds before any43scientific review. Sort each risk by whether it is auto-fatal at intake.4445| Risk | Severity | Pre-upload check |46| --- | --- | --- |47| Missing abstract registration | Fatal | Abstract filed by its earlier deadline |48| Overlength or template manipulation | Fatal | Page count and Author Kit style verified |49| Anonymity leak in PDF/metadata/code | Fatal | Names, URLs, filenames scrubbed |50| Missing resubmission file | Fatal | Anonymized rejected version attached |51| Concurrent archival submission | Fatal | No venue overlap during review |52| LLM-written manuscript text | High | Only policy-allowed polishing |5354## Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper at intake5556A multi-agent RL paper is ready scientifically but its anonymized PDF embeds the lab name in a57figure caption and its code ZIP keeps an institutional path. Both are anonymity leaks that can58desk-reject the paper before review. Fix order: scrub the caption and metadata, re-zip with59relative paths, confirm the page count, verify the abstract was registered on time, and confirm60no concurrent archival submission.6162## Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix6364- "Exceeds the limit." Compress to the body limit and move overflow to the appendix; do not65 shrink margins, fonts, or spacing to fake compliance.6667## Output format6869```text70[IJCAI readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready71[Track] main / special / survey / other72[Blocking checks] <page/anonymity/authors/ORCID/supplement/resubmission/dual-submission/LLM>73[Highest desk-reject risk] <one issue>74[Fix order] <ordered fixes before submission>75```
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