Instructions for Camera-Ready Papers

  • All papers must conform to the RANLP stylesheet. All BSNLP final papers must be typeset
    • in LaTeX,
    • in A4, two-column format,
    • in Times Roman 11pt font.
  • A long paper should not exceed eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) additional pages for references. A short paper should not exceed five (5) pages for content plus two (2) additional pages for references.
  • Make sure that all fonts are embedded in the PDF.
  • Typeset the paper title, section, and subsection titles in title-case. (LaTeX does this with \title, \section and \subsection commands.)
  • Place figure and table caption below figures and tables, respectively. End caption text with a full stop. Center tables and figures.
  • Acknowledgements: Do not number the acknowledgement section.
  • You may typeset the tables in a smaller font size (use \small{...} in LaTeX)
  • Do not tweak the vertical spacings between paragraphs, figures, or tables to make your paper shorter. Instead, try to rephrase the text to get rid of the "orphans" (a single word at the bottom of a paragraph that gets left behind).
  • Try to get rid of "widows" (a word or line of text that is forced to go on alone and start its own column or page).
  • If there is space left at the end of your submission, please do not align the two columns to equal height. Instead, leave the right column shorter than the left one.
  • Follow proper typographical style, avoid common errors:
    • Dashes:
      • Hyphens should appear only in hyphenated words (e.g., "ex-president", "data-driven", etc.) In other cases, rather than a single hyphen, use en-dash and em-dash.
      • For typesetting a range of values (e.g., "1998–2014") in LaTeX use two hyphens or \textendash, and make sure there are no blanks around the en-dash.
      • For parenthetic text use either of the following styles, consistently
        1. One em-dash—(in LaTeX, three hyphens or \textemdash), and make sure there are no blanks around the em-dash; or
        2. one en-dash – (in LaTeX two hyphens or \textendash) and make sure to add blanks on both sides of the en-dash;
    • URL's: typeset URL's in monospaced font and preferably in footnotes; (several ways to do that in LaTeX, e.g., {\tt ...} )
    • Footnotes: place footnote marks after the punctuation mark (after comma, period, or double quote), e.g., if footnote mark is at the end of the sentence;
    • Always put a comma after "i.e.,", and "e.g.,". Since it should always occur in the middle of the sentence (it is not good style to begin a sentence with it) you will always need a comma before it as well. The same applies to "etc." if it occurs in the middle of the sentence (not at the end).
    • Text that continues a sentence after a formula or equation should not be indented (use \noindent in LaTex);
    • Avoid line breaks in LaTeX after a full stop that does not mark the end of a sentence (e.g., "Fig. 1"): put a "~" (tilde) between the period and the number ("Fig.~1").