Submissions, refereeing, and all correspondence will be conducted by email.
Submissions longer than 50 pages in the ACM style file format are discouraged for the simple reason that TOCL publishes only 800 pages per year. The authors of such submissions, if they are accepted, will be asked to put part of the material in an electronic appendix.
The preferred form of submission is by posting the paper first at the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) and subsequently sending the archive identifier by email to the appropriate area editor with a copy to acm-tocl@cs.utexas.edu (see Submission via CoRR for the benefits of this form of submission).
The submissions to CoRR are publically available one day after the posting. The Postscript files are stored in CoRR as gzipped files. So, unless your browser is reconfigured appropriately, to download papers posted in CoRR you need to save each Postscript file as a .gz file and then gunzip it.
An alternative form of submission consists of sending two email messages, the first one with the information containing the title, the author(s), and the abstract of the submission, and the second one with the Postscript or PDF file. Both emails should be sent to the appropriate area editor with a copy to acm-tocl@cs.utexas.edu.
Paper submissions instead of the second email (five copies, to the Editor-in-Chief) are also acceptable, but their handling may be delayed.
The submitted manuscripts should not be published or simultaneously submitted to another journal or to a conference. Full versions of important, published, conference papers are welcome. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the ACM.
To ensure timely processing of the submissions, whenever a paper needs to be revised, the authors will be asked to prepare the revised version within six months of receiving the reviews.
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