IJCAI Submission

Use this for an IJCAI main-track submission audit. Reopen the current conference CFP, Author Kit, FAQ, reproducibility page, submission site, and conflict policy before giving deadline-ready advice.

Submission audit

• Confirm the target program: main track, one of the special tracks, Survey Track, or a

non-main program. Track rules and deadlines can differ.

• Verify Chairing Tool account access, title, abstract, author details, ORCID status,

author confirmations, keywords, conflicts, and any Primary Paper Initiative fee exposure.

• Apply the current author kit. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 main-track papers used a 9-page total limit:

7 pages for body text, figures, and tables, plus up to 2 pages for references.

• Check that no acknowledgements or contribution statements appear in the anonymous review

version, and that the optional ethics statement sits where current rules permit.

• Enforce double-blind anonymity in PDF content, metadata, filenames, supplement, code,

paths, URLs, and resubmission files.

• Submit supplementary material and resubmission information by the full-paper deadline; do

not rely on rebuttal-time uploads.

• Confirm the per-author submission limit, dual-submission policy, and last-12-month

rejection disclosure before upload.

• Apply the current LLM-use policy. For IJCAI-ECAI 2026, style/language polishing was

allowed, but LLM-written manuscript text was a desk-reject risk.

Blocking risks

• Missing abstract registration or missing author information.
• Overlength PDF or template manipulation.
• Identity leakage in the paper, supplement, code, data, paths, or metadata.
• Missing required resubmission information for a recent rejected version.
• Concurrent formal archival submission.
• LLM-generated paper text, hallucinated references, or unsupported claims.

Desk-reject risk matrix

IJCAI screens a large submission volume and can reject on mechanical grounds before any scientific review. Sort each risk by whether it is auto-fatal at intake.

Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper at intake

A multi-agent RL paper is ready scientifically but its anonymized PDF embeds the lab name in a figure caption and its code ZIP keeps an institutional path. Both are anonymity leaks that can desk-reject the paper before review. Fix order: scrub the caption and metadata, re-zip with relative paths, confirm the page count, verify the abstract was registered on time, and confirm no concurrent archival submission.

Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix

• "Exceeds the limit." Compress to the body limit and move overflow to the appendix; do not

shrink margins, fonts, or spacing to fake compliance.

Output format

[IJCAI readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Track] main / special / survey / other
[Blocking checks] <page/anonymity/authors/ORCID/supplement/resubmission/dual-submission/LLM>
[Highest desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix order] <ordered fixes before submission>