Common Instructions and Policies
7th IEEE Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference — manuscript guidelines, review process, and publication policy for all submission tracks.
Manuscript and Submission Guidelines
- Format
- IEEE two-column
- File type
- PDF only
- Review
- Double-blind
- Tracks
- Regular · Industry · WIP
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers. They must represent original, unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal.
All papers use single-spaced, double-column pages with a 10-point font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), inclusive of figures, tables, and references. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX, provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing, must be used — papers that don't follow the style guidelines may be rejected without review. Electronic submissions must be a readable PDF file.
Regular Track
Full technical papers reporting substantive, rigorously evaluated research contributions.
Industry Track
Applied and deployed work from industry, government, and civil society practitioners.
Position Paper / WIP
Work in progress or position papers not yet at full technical depth.
All manuscripts are submitted through the conference's Microsoft CMT submission portal, opening 1 September 2026.
Submission PortalDouble-blind, plagiarism-screened, and judged on merit
Mandatory plagiarism screening
All submitted manuscripts undergo mandatory plagiarism screening as per IEEE guidelines. Papers violating ethics will be desk-rejected and the parent organisations of all authors informed.
Double-blind review
Submitted papers should not list author names, affiliations, or any other personally identifiable information. Authors should not identify themselves or their organisation, explicitly or by implication — references to your own work should be in the third person.
Judging criteria
Submissions are judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope.
Final author list
The author list and order at the time of submission is considered final — no co-authors can be added, removed, or re-ordered after the submission deadline or upon acceptance, with no exceptions. Manuscripts that don't meet the size, formatting, and anonymisation requirements will be rejected without review; papers that don't meet the requisite depth for their track may instead be offered a place as a WIP/Poster paper, with one week to submit a shorter version.
What happens after acceptance
Author registration required
At least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Every accepted paper must have an individual author registration.
Copyright transfer
As per IEEE policy, authors of every published paper need to sign a copyright transfer agreement. Instructions are shared with authors after paper acceptance.
IEEE Xplore inclusion
All accepted and presented papers are submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.
Acknowledgment: the Microsoft CMT service is used for managing the peer-review process for this conference, provided free of charge by Microsoft, including Azure cloud costs and software development and support.
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