ijcai-camera-ready

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Use when preparing an accepted IJCAI or IJCAI-ECAI paper for camera-ready submission, author de-anonymization, author-order checks, copyright and proceedings metadata, final formatting, source/package readiness, in-person presentation obligations, and artifact release timing.

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IJCAI Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, Author Kit, registration page, copyright instructions, and presentation rules before advising authors.

Camera-ready audit

Replace anonymous placeholders with full authors, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and approved contribution statements if the current kit permits them.
Confirm that accepted-paper author order may be changed only within current rules; IJCAI cycles commonly forbid adding or removing authors after the author-information deadline.
Rebuild in the current IJCAI style without margin, font, spacing, or bibliography hacks.
Ensure ethics, limitations, reproducibility, data, and artifact statements match what was promised at submission and in the response.
Prepare source files, figures, bibliography, metadata, copyright forms, and any open-access proceedings forms required by current instructions.
Arrange registration and in-person presentation. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 required at least one accepted-paper author to attend in Bremen and present unless an exception was approved.
Release code/data only after checking anonymity no longer matters, licenses are valid, and promised artifacts are ready.

Camera-ready gate checklist

IJCAI camera-ready adds obligations that submission did not: de-anonymization, copyright, open-access proceedings metadata, registration, and in-person presentation. Clear each gate.

Gate	Pass condition	Fail mode IJCAI enforces
De-anonymization	Authors, affiliations, funding, acknowledgements restored	Leftover "Anonymous Author" or stale blind phrasing
Author set	Order fixed within current rules; no adds/drops past the deadline	Adding an author after author-information close
Format	Rebuilt in current IJCAI style, no margin/font/spacing hacks	Squeezed body to fit, broken bibliography
Copyright/metadata	Open-access proceedings forms and copyright signed	Missing form blocks publication
Registration/presentation	At least one author registered and present per current rules	Promised attendance unmet, exception not approved
Promised artifacts	Statements match submission and response	Released code differs from what reviewers were told

Acceptance-to-publication traceability

Treat the accepted submission, reviews, author response, and final proceedings record as one auditable chain. Camera-ready edits should close reviewer concerns and production requirements without quietly changing the scientific object that was accepted.

Trace item	Camera-ready action	Escalate when
Accepted claims	Keep theorem, experiment, dataset, and benchmark scope aligned with the reviewed PDF	The headline or contribution claim is stronger than the accepted version
Author response promises	Add only promised clarifications, corrections, and reproducibility notes	A promised artifact, limitation note, or appendix pointer is missing
Resubmission history	Preserve required disclosure consistency and do not rewrite around prior-review obligations	The final narrative conflicts with the submitted resubmission file
Ethics and LLM-use statements	Carry forward policy-sensitive disclosures in the permitted location	The final text hides or revises a disclosure reviewers relied on
Public artifact release	Replace anonymous links with durable public repositories only after license and anonymity checks	A repository reveals private review material or differs from promised contents

Final-package manifest

Before upload, build a manifest that names the owner and status for every item. Do not mark the paper ready because the PDF compiles; IJCAI camera-ready work can still be blocked by forms, metadata, attendance, or artifact mismatches.

Item	Required check	Owner
PDF	Current IJCAI style, page rules, author block, acknowledgements, no blind placeholders	corresponding author
Source package	TeX/Word source, figures, bibliography, style files, reproducible local build	production owner
Proceedings metadata	title, abstract, author order, affiliations, ORCID/author data, copyright/open-access forms	submitting author
Presentation	registration, in-person presenter, talk/poster assets, exception status if any	presenting author
Reproducibility/artifact release	code/data/license/readme/version tag match submitted claims and response commitments	artifact owner
Archive	submitted PDF, reviews, response, accepted PDF, source package, final public artifacts	project lead

Change-control rules

Label each edit as production fix, reviewer-clarification fix, artifact-release fix, or scientific-content change.
Accept production and reviewer-clarification fixes when they preserve the accepted contribution.
Treat new experiments, new theory, new datasets, broader claims, or removed limitations as scientific-content changes requiring chair guidance before upload.
Keep a short diff note for the project archive: what changed, why it was allowed, and where the submitted or response text already supported it.

Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper after acceptance

A multi-agent learning paper that promised a released simulator in its reproducibility section is accepted. Camera-ready order: restore authors and funding; confirm no coauthor was added past the author-information deadline; rebuild in the current style without compressing the body; sign copyright and supply proceedings metadata; register one author for in-person presentation; write a change-control note for the promised simulator clarification; only then publish the simulator under a valid license with the anonymized history scrubbed, so the public artifact matches what reviewers saw.

Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix

"Final PDF still says anonymous." Replace every blind placeholder before upload; chairs may reject non-compliant camera-ready files.
"Author list changed." Revert to the locked set; obtain chair approval before any exception.
"Formatting was altered to fit." Restore the official style and move overflow to the appendix, since proceedings consistency is enforced.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Final package] <PDF/source/figures/bib/metadata/copyright/registration>
[Policy checks] <authors/presentation/reproducibility/artifacts/licensing>
[Traceability checks] <accepted claims / response promises / public artifact / disclosure consistency>
[Change-control risk] production fix / clarification fix / scientific-content change
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>