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\title{Formatting Instructions for COLM 2025 \\ Conference Submissions}
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\author{Antiquus S.~Hippocampus, Natalia Cerebro \& Amelie P. Amygdale \thanks{ Use footnote for providing further information
about author (webpage, alternative address)---\emph{not} for acknowledging
funding agencies. Funding acknowledgements go at the end of the paper.} \\
Department of Computer Science\\
Cranberry-Lemon University\\
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA \\
\texttt{\{hippo,brain,jen\}@cs.cranberry-lemon.edu} \\
\And
Ji Q. Ren \& Yevgeny LeNet \\
Department of Computational Neuroscience \\
University of the Witwatersrand \\
Joburg, South Africa \\
\texttt{\{robot,net\}@wits.ac.za} \\
\AND
Coauthor \\
Affiliation \\
Address \\
\texttt{email}
}
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\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
The abstract paragraph should be indented 1/2~inch (3~picas) on both left and
right-hand margins. Use 10~point type, with a vertical spacing of 11~points.
The word \textit{Abstract} must be centered and in point size 12. Two
line spaces precede the abstract. The abstract must be limited to one
paragraph.
\end{abstract}
\section{Submission of conference papers to COLM 2025}
COLM requires electronic submissions, processed by
\url{https://openreview.net/}. See COLM's website for more instructions.
The format for the submissions is a variant of the NeurIPS and ICLR formats.
Please read carefully the instructions below, and follow them
faithfully.
\subsection{Style}
Papers to be submitted to COLM 2025 must be prepared according to the
instructions presented here.
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%% into the style file for \LaTeXe. This is to help reviewers
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%% style file for the final version of accepted papers.
Authors are required to use the COLM \LaTeX{} style files obtainable at the
COLM website. Please make sure you use the current files and
not previous versions. Tweaking the style files may be grounds for rejection.
\subsubsection{Copy Options}
If your paper is ultimately accepted, the option {\tt
{\textbackslash}final} should be set for the {\tt {\textbackslash}usepackage[submission]\{colm2025\_conference\}} command for the camera ready version. The {\tt submission} options is the default, and is to be used for all submissions during the review process. It also turns on the line numbers. If you wish to submit a preprint, the option {\tt preprint} should be used.
\subsection{Retrieval of style files}
The style files for COLM and other conference information are available online at:
\begin{center}
\url{http://www.colmweb.org/}
\end{center}
The file \verb+colm2025_conference.pdf+ contains these
instructions and illustrates the
various formatting requirements your COLM paper must satisfy.
Submissions must be made using \LaTeX{} and the style files
\verb+colm2025_conference.sty+ and \verb+colm2025_conference.bst+ (to be used with \LaTeX{}2e). The file
\verb+colm2025_conference.tex+ may be used as a ``shell'' for writing your paper. All you
have to do is replace the author, title, abstract, and text of the paper with
your own.
The formatting instructions contained in these style files are summarized in
sections \ref{gen_inst}, \ref{headings}, and \ref{others} below.
\section{General formatting instructions}
\label{gen_inst}
The text must be confined within a rectangle 5.5~inches (33~picas) wide and
9~inches (54~picas) long. The left margin is 1.5~inch (9~picas).
Use 10~point type with a vertical spacing of 11~points. Palatino is the
preferred typeface throughout, and is mandatory for the main text. Paragraphs are separated by 1/2~line space, with no indentation.
Paper title is 17~point and left-aligned.
All pages should start at 1~inch (6~picas) from the top of the page.
Please verify that any custom header information you may add does not override the style defined in this document. This has been known to occur especially when submissions are converted to a new template from a previous one (i.e., for re-submission to a different venue).
Authors' names are
set in boldface, and each name is placed above its corresponding
address. The lead author's name is to be listed first, and
the co-authors' names are set to follow. Authors sharing the
same address can be on the same line.
Please pay special attention to the instructions in section \ref{others}
regarding figures, tables, acknowledgements, and references.
There will be a strict upper limit of 9 pages for the main text of the initial submission, with unlimited additional pages for citations.
We strongly recommend following arXiv's guidelines for making your paper friendly for HTML conversion: \url{https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_latex_best_practices.html}.
\section{Headings: first level}
\label{headings}
First level headings are in lower case (except for first word and proper nouns), bold face,
flush left and in point size 12. One line space before the first level
heading and 1/2~line space after the first level heading.
\subsection{Headings: second level}
Second level headings are in lower case (except for first word and proper nouns), bold face,
flush left and in point size 10. One line space before the second level
heading and 1/2~line space after the second level heading.
\subsubsection{Headings: third level}
Third level headings are in lower case (except for first word and proper nouns), bold face, italics,
flush left and in point size 10. One line space before the third level
heading and 1/2~line space after the third level heading.
\section{Citations, figures, tables, references}\label{others}
These instructions apply to everyone, regardless of the formatter being used.
\subsection{Citations within the text}
Citations within the text should be based on the \texttt{natbib} package
and include the authors' last names and year (with the ``et~al.'' construct
for more than two authors). When the authors or the publication are
included in the sentence, the citation should not be in parenthesis using \verb|\citet{}| (as
in ``See \citet{Vaswani+2017} for more information.''). Otherwise, the citation
should be in parenthesis using \verb|\citep{}| (as in ``Transformers are a key tool
for developing language models~\citep{Vaswani+2017}.'').
The corresponding references are to be listed in alphabetical order of
authors, in the \textsc{References} section. As to the format of the
references themselves, any style is acceptable as long as it is used
consistently.
\subsection{Footnotes}
Indicate footnotes with a number\footnote{Sample of the first footnote} in the
text. Place the footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear.
Precede the footnote with a horizontal rule of 2~inches
(12~picas).\footnote{Sample of the second footnote}
\subsection{Figures}
All artwork must be neat, clean, and legible. Lines should be dark
enough for purposes of reproduction; art work should not be
hand-drawn. Any text within the figure must be readable. We ask to not use font sizes below {\tt small}. We strongly recommend to use vector representations (e.g., pdf or svg) for all diagrams.
We strongly recommend positioning all figures at the top or bottom of the page.
The figure number and caption always appear below the figure. Place one line space before the figure caption, and one line space after the figure. The figure caption is lower case (except for first word and proper nouns); figures are numbered consecutively.
Make sure the figure caption does not get separated from the figure.
Leave sufficient space to avoid splitting the figure and figure caption.
You may use color figures.
However, it is best for the
figure captions and the paper body to make sense if the paper is printed
either in black/white or in color.
\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
%\framebox[4.0in]{$\;$}
\fbox{\rule[-.5cm]{0cm}{4cm} \rule[-.5cm]{4cm}{0cm}}
\end{center}
\caption{Sample figure caption.}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Tables}
All tables must be centered, neat, clean and legible. Do not use hand-drawn tables. The table number and title always appear below the table. See Table~\ref{sample-table}. Please do not use font sizes below {\tt small} in tables. We recommend using {\tt booktabs} or a similar package to style tables.
We strongly recommend positioning all tables at the top or bottom of the page.
Place one line space before the table title, one line space after the table title, and one line space after the table. The table title must be lowercase (except for first word and proper nouns); tables are numbered consecutively.
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf PART} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf DESCRIPTION} \\
\midrule
Dendrite &Input terminal \\
Axon &Output terminal \\
Soma &Cell body (contains cell nucleus) \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Sample table title}\label{sample-table}
\end{table}
\section{Final instructions}
Do not change any aspects of the formatting parameters in the style files.
In particular, do not modify the width or length of the rectangle the text
should fit into, and do not change font sizes (except perhaps in the
\textsc{References} section; see below). Please note that pages should be
numbered.
\section{Preparing PostScript or PDF files}
Please prepare PostScript or PDF files with paper size ``US Letter'', and
not, for example, ``A4''. The -t
letter option on dvips will produce US Letter files.
Consider directly generating PDF files using \verb+pdflatex+
(especially if you are a MiKTeX user).
PDF figures must be substituted for EPS figures, however.
Otherwise, please generate your PostScript and PDF files with the following commands:
\begin{verbatim}
dvips mypaper.dvi -t letter -Ppdf -G0 -o mypaper.ps
ps2pdf mypaper.ps mypaper.pdf
\end{verbatim}
\subsection{Margins in LaTeX}
Most of the margin problems come from figures positioned by hand using
\verb+\special+ or other commands. We suggest using the command
\verb+\includegraphics+
from the graphicx package. Always specify the figure width as a multiple of
the line width as in the example below using .eps graphics
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} ...
\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{myfile.eps}
\end{verbatim}
or % Apr 2009 addition
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} ...
\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{myfile.pdf}
\end{verbatim}
for .pdf graphics.
See section~4.4 in the graphics bundle documentation (\url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/grfguide.ps})
A number of width problems arise when LaTeX cannot properly hyphenate a
line. Please give LaTeX hyphenation hints using the \verb+\-+ command.
\section*{Author Contributions}
If you'd like to, you may include a section for author contributions as is done
in many journals. This is optional and at the discretion of the authors.
\section*{Acknowledgments}
Use unnumbered first level headings for the acknowledgments. All
acknowledgments, including those to funding agencies, go at the end of the paper.
\section*{Ethics Statement}
Authors can add an optional ethics statement to the paper.
For papers that touch on ethical issues, this section will be evaluated as part of the review process. The ethics statement should come at the end of the paper. It does not count toward the page limit, but should not be more than 1 page.
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\appendix
\section{Appendix}
You may include other additional sections here.
\end{document}