Author Instructions

Submission and Registration Policies

All papers submitted to the CDC 2025, whether for review or publication upon acceptance, must be written in English and formatted in the standard 2-column format provided on PaperPlaza. The submission site opens in January 2025.

For “review”, all regular and invited papers are limited to eight (8) pages. PaperPlaza will not permit longer papers to be uploaded. The decision regarding the acceptance of each paper is at the discretion of the conference’s Technical Program Committee. 

For “publication” in the conference proceedings, all accepted and invited papers are limited to six (6) pages. Authors may upload longer manuscripts up to a maximum of eight (8) pages total. However, each page over six will incur an additional overlength page charge. 

If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors listed on the paper must attend the conference and present the paper according to the schedule decided by the conference’s Technical Program Committee. 

If the presenter is unable to attend the conference for any reason, it is his/her responsibility to ensure that the paper is presented by a qualified colleague. 

At least one of the authors listed on the paper must register for the CDC 2025 to upload the final manuscript. 

Student registrants may upload one final paper. Regular registrants may upload up to three final papers.

Additional papers can be uploaded with an overlength page charge.

All submissions will be tested for similarity and overlap with prior published material using the iThenticate tool. The results of such overlap will be made available to the Program Committee for evaluation. In case of possible violations of the IEEE ethics rules in publishing, the case will be investigated by a committee that reports to the VP for Publications.

Large Language Model (LLM) Policy 

Please note that CDC 2025 will follow the IEEE CSS Generative AI Guidelines.

Paper Submission Instruction 
 

All papers must be submitted electronically using PaperPlaza. The submission site opens in January 2025.

Only PDF files will be accepted. A maximum file size of 2MB for all uploaded papers is enforced. Click here for information on creating IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs.

Page size requirements 

Caution: US Letter and margins settings below are required for the final submission.

L-CSS with CDC option

Note also that the journal, IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) now allows one to submit and publish a paper in the Journal, but present it at CDC. The submission will be through the L-CSS link on PaperPlaza. All details are provided on the journal website, in the section of L-CSS and CDC. Note that the submission deadline for such joint contributions is March 7, 2025. It can be submitted as a regular paper or an invited session paper.

Margins, Formats & Templates

Note: Initial submissions may be up to 8 pages. However, for final submission, the paper should be 6 pages long. Any page over 6 pages will incur an overlength page charge up to a maximum of two extra pages. 

Caution: Style files and templates provided here have been created to ensure that the margin requirement is adequately met. 

REMINDER: Authors are responsible for submitting their papers in the required format. All papers that are accepted will be published as submitted by the Author. The Conference is NOT responsible for editing or correcting errors in the paper. 
 

Create IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF

The Paperplaza CDC 2025 system supports compliant conversion of PDF files. Upload the pdf file of your submission and the system converts it to a compliant pdf, satisfying all technical requirements regarding the pdf version and font embedding.

Be sure to use the Word template or LaTeX style file provided by the conference and follow the conference instructions concerning paper size, number of pages, and page margins while preparing your contribution. 
 

• If needed, more instructions can be found here.
• PDF compliance can also be tested here before uploading.