Camera-ready guidelines

Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper in the Proceedings of CCN 2026! This page describes how to prepare and submit the camera-ready version of your manuscript.

Timeline

Camera-ready preparation

Formatting

When preparing your camera-ready copy, please ensure the following.

Fix formatting deviations

Fix any formatting deviations, especially if the TPC has notified you of such a deviation during the submission or review process. Your PDF should use the LaTeX template from the CCN website and appear exactly like the PDF examples compiled from that template. We ask that you use the LaTeX template to ensure visual conformity among all Proceedings papers.

Download: CCN 2026 LaTeX Template (zip)

If you encounter any issues with the template, please file an issue on GitHub.

Deanonymize your manuscript

Deanonymize your manuscript by replacing the anonymized author block with author names and affiliations.

The main text, including the title-author block and the abstract, must still adhere to the 8-page limit.

Add acknowledgments and disclosure

If appropriate, add an "Acknowledgments", "Disclosure", or "Acknowledgments and Disclosure" section, which does not count towards the main text page limit. We suggest including this section at the top of the page following the main text and immediately before the "References" section.

Add or deanonymize any acknowledgments. Acknowledgments may be omitted from the anonymized submission but should be included in the camera-ready version.

Ensure your disclosure of any use of AI tools, including large language models, is up to date. Unlike acknowledgments, disclosure of AI usage is required in both the submitted and camera-ready versions of the manuscript, per the LLM usage policy.

Make approved revisions

You must make the revisions that were approved during the review process.

The camera-ready version is not intended to be a significant revision of your manuscript. A significant revision would comprise new claims or new evidence that requires an adjustment of the claims in the submission. As an example, additional analysis that reverses a conclusion from your original submission would constitute a significant revision.

This is because the reviews and discussion based on the submitted version may no longer be a holistic evaluation of the work, and the CCN 2026 review processes have closed.

Page limit

The length limit of the main text is 8 pages, followed by any acknowledgments, references, and supplement.

Submission

A camera-ready revision to the PDF can be made via your Author console on OpenReview using "Edit" > "Camera-Ready Revision". You may make as many camera-ready revisions as necessary until the deadline.

Camera-ready copies are due by Jun 11, 2026, anywhere on Earth. The camera-ready copy is the final version of your Proceedings paper, and must adhere to the requirements described above. We will not accept revisions past this deadline. If you need to make a revision past this deadline, you will need to withdraw your Proceedings paper from CCN 2026 and resubmit to CCN 2027. Proceedings papers not adhering to the above requirements will be withdrawn by the TPC after the deadline.

Proceedings papers and their reviews, meta-reviews, and discussions will be made public on OpenReview after the camera-ready deadline.

Talk selections

A subset of accepted submissions will be selected for a Contributed Talk based on reviewer assessments. Talk selections will be announced by Jun 12, 2026, anywhere on Earth.

Regardless of its selection as a talk, your Proceedings paper must be presented as a poster at CCN 2026.

Presenter policy

Each submission must designate a unique "Presenter" (the presenting author as identified on OpenReview) who is registered for CCN 2026. If the Presenter is later unable to attend CCN in person, a co-author may present the poster on their behalf, but the Presenter must remain registered. If the contribution is also selected for a talk, the designated Presenter must give it, or forfeit the talk.

Since CCN now has two tracks with differing timelines, a Presenter may submit to both the Proceedings and Extended Abstracts tracks, but may not submit multiple contributions within the same track. If both contributions are accepted¹, the Presenter must select one for presentation and withdraw the other. This selection must be made between May 26 - Jun 11, 2026, after decisions are announced for all tracks.

If you must change the Presenter of your submission, please contact the TPC as soon as possible.

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 a technical issue related to the OpenReview platform, email the OpenReview support team directly at info@openreview.net and CC the TPC at tpc@ccneuro.org.