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Submission guidelines

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This is a prior year version of the policies and processes at CCN. Please refer to the current year's documentation for the latest information, as policies and processes may change from year to year.

Frequently Asked Questions

I can no longer attend CCN 2025. Can my co-author present my poster?

Please reach out to the Technical Programme Committee (tpc@ccneuro.org) to request to change the “Presenter” to your co-author on your submission. Presenters are identified via submission metadata on OpenReview.

However, please note that Presenters need to be unique across both tracks at CCN 2025 (i.e., an individual can be listed as Presenter on no more than one Proceedings paper or Extended Abstract). Each Presenter must pay for a registration at CCN 2025. However, we acknowledge that things come up: In the event that the Presenter can’t attend CCN 2025 in person, we won’t withdraw the work and a co-author can put up the poster; however, the Presenter must stay registered.

I can no longer attend CCN 2025. Can my co-author present my talk?

Talks selections are determined based on submissions and their Presenters jointly. As such, we won’t be able to transfer a talk to a different Presenter, unlike with a poster (see the above question).

What is the timezone for the deadlines?

“Anywhere on Earth” or AOE; (UTC-12). You can think of this as midnight, your time. (In most time zones it ends up being several hours after midnight.)

There seem to be two deadlines, which one…

tl;dr: On the 17th we need your title, author list, and abstract (paper summary), but you have until the 20th to upload the PDF. If you are unsure, we advise you to keep the 17th as an internal deadline.

Everything in the OpenReview submission form is due by the "abstract registration deadline" abstract-deadline, anywhere on earth, except for the PDF. The PDF is due by the "full submission deadline" on submission-deadline, anywhere on earth. It will not be possible to edit the author list, the presenter, or the reciprocal reviewer of a submission after abstract-deadline. It will be possible to make edits to other submission metadata (including the title and the \~300-word abstract) from Feb 18th to submission-deadline, but any major edits (that substantially change the evidence or contributions of the paper) will result in a desk rejection.

Why are there two deadlines?

The two deadlines exist for us to have time to recruit and onboard reviewers signing up as part of a submission, while keeping the final (PDF) deadline as late as our timeline allows. We suggest thinking about the overall deadline as abstract-deadline so you don’t miss the abstract registration deadline.

How should I format the anonymized author block?

Please use the anonymized title-author block included in the templates; see below. Do not duplicate this block (e.g., according to the number of anonymized authors of the manuscript). In particular, each anonymized submission to either CCN track should have a similar-length title-author block (modulo a single- or double-line title).

[Your title]

Anonymous Authors\ Double blind review

Can we have shared first or last authorship?

Yes. You still must choose a fixed ordering of authors in the submission form.

Can I include keywords?

These are not necessary. We match reviewers and categorize submissions according to your full-text abstract.

Can I include acknowledgements?

In the post-decision, “camera-ready” version, yes. Please omit this from the anonymized submission to be reviewed. If acknowledgements are inadvertently included in the anonymized submission, we may have to desk reject it for failure to meet the double-blind reviewing requirements of CCN 2025.

Can I include supplementary material?

Yes, you can include these in the PDF that you submit for review; by appending it after the References. However, reviewers are not obliged to take this material into account. Make sure any linked material is anonymized. The supplementary material does not need to adhere to the 2-column format of the main text (i.e., it can be single-column).

Yes, we encourage code submissions as evidence of reproducibility. However, note that a code repository takes extra effort to anonymize, and we will desk-reject submissions that accidentally de-anonymize their authors via a linked code repository with identifying information.

We recommend Anonymous GitHub as a service that helps to anonymize a GitHub-hosted code repository, but we allow links to any hosting service as long as they maintain anonymity. We suggest including a link to the anonymous repository in a footnote in the PDF.

Please remember to avoid naming the repository or the exact package name if it is already publicly available. You can add the name and repository URL back in during the post-decision / camera-ready phase.

Do references count towards the 8-page limit?

No.

How should I format equations?

We don’t prescribe a particular format. The APA standard is OK, for example.

Can I preprint the manuscript that I plan to submit to CCN?

Papers to both tracks must be submitted fully anonymized. Authors may disseminate their work publicly under their names (e.g., on a preprint server), but are asked to refrain from publicizing (e.g., on social media) work under review at CCN until CCN decisions are released for all tracks (all-decisions) to prevent accidental de-anonymization during the review process.

Can I submit my manuscript to another publication venue (e.g., a conference or journal) or submit such a manuscript to the Proceedings track?

The Proceedings track does not allow the submission of manuscripts that have been published or are under review elsewhere ("concurrent" or “dual” submissions). However, after we have made a decision on your submission (proceedings-decisions), you may decide to submit the manuscript to another venue which may have its own policy on prior publication. Accepted CCN Proceedings papers will have an assigned DOI, which may affect this decision.

Where can I find more information on the review process?

For authors:\ Submission guidelines (This document!)\ Author response guidelines

For reviewers and (senior) area chairs:\ Reviewer guidelines\ Area chair (AC) guidelines\ Senior area chair (SAC) guidelines

Contact Info

If you encounter a situation that you are unable to resolve on your own, please contact the Technical Program Committee (TPC) at tpc@ccneuro.org.

If the issue is related to OpenReview technical issues, email the OpenReview support team directly at info@openreview.net.