Copyright Conditions
IFAC 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).
Paper Submission
All papers published in IFAC PoL must be between 4 (minimum) and 6
(maximum) pages in the final version.
No extra page charges are allowed.
Papers have to be submitted via the IFAC PaperPlaza conference
manuscript management system,
following the IFAC guidelines (https://www.ifac-control.org/conferences/author-guide).
Authors' Schedule
| Contributed Paper | Invited Session Proposal | Invited Paper | Extended Abstract | IFAC Young Author Award |
| Submission deadline | January 31 | January 15 | February 1 | January 31 | March 15 |
| Review deadline | March 13 | January 20 | March 13 | March 13 | April 15 |
| Associate Editor's report deadline | March 15 | January 20 | March 15 | March 15 | April 20 |
| Opening date for final submissions | March 15 | - | March 15 | March 15 | March 15 |
| Final Submission deadline | April 15 | - | April 15 | April 15 | April 15 |
