Instructions for authors
Papers should be submitted through the PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System in the dedicated section for WACE 2024. The deadline for draft paper submission is May 30, 2024. To submit a paper, please click the button below and select "Submit a contribution to WACE 2024" on the right side of the page.
All submissions must adhere to the IFAC paper layout and be in English.
The final versions should range between 4 (minimum) and 6 (maximum) pages.
Authors can find Word/LaTeX templates, ethical guidelines, style and layout instructions,
PDF specifications, as well as the license agreement in the
IFAC author guide.
Copyright conditions
All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meeting (Congress, Symposium,
Conference, Workshop) must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review
elsewhere. The authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored
conferences will abide by the highest standard of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the
Elsevier webpage
and the authors will abide by the
IFAC publication ethics guidelines.
Accepted papers that have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the
event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on
ScienceDirect.
To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license
when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to
share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all patent, trademark and other
intellectual property rights (including research data).