Author Guidelines

Eligibility

A paper is eligible for inclusion in a GCP volume once it has been formally accepted by the programme committee of a conference publishing with GCP. GCP does not accept unsolicited papers outside of a conference's own call and review process, and inclusion in a volume is never guaranteed by submission alone — it follows conference acceptance, and then compliance with the requirements on this page.

Submission route

You do not send your camera-ready paper to GCP directly. You submit it through the channel your conference specifies — typically the same submission system used for peer review, or a dedicated camera-ready upload link shared by the organizers. The conference's volume editor collects all accepted, formatted papers and transmits the completed volume to the GCP editorial office as a single package.

If you are unsure how to submit your camera-ready file, contact your conference's programme committee first; they hold the deadline and the upload mechanism for their own volume.

Originality and prior publication

By submitting a camera-ready paper, the corresponding author confirms that:

• The work is original and has not been published, in full or substantially, in another journal, book, or proceedings volume;
• The paper is not under consideration elsewhere while it is being processed for a GCP volume;
• Any text, data, figures, or ideas drawn from other sources are clearly attributed, with quotations and paraphrase distinguished and cited;
• Any overlap with the authors' own prior work (for example, an extended conference abstract or a preprint) is disclosed to the volume editor and clearly indicated in the paper itself.

Every camera-ready submission is screened against a text-similarity database before publication. A high similarity score does not automatically disqualify a paper — properly quoted and cited material, standard methodological phrasing, and the authors' own previously disclosed work are expected to show some overlap — but unexplained matches are referred back to the volume editor for clarification before the paper is included.

Use of AI writing tools

Authors may use AI-based tools to support language editing, formatting, or literature discovery, provided the intellectual content, analysis, and conclusions are the authors' own. Where a generative AI tool has been used to draft, rewrite, or substantively edit any part of the text, figures, or code, this must be disclosed in an Acknowledgements or Methods note describing which tool was used and for what purpose. AI tools cannot be listed as authors, since authorship carries accountability that a tool cannot hold.

Authorship and contributions

Everyone listed as an author should have made a meaningful contribution to the conception, execution, or interpretation of the work, and should be able to take public responsibility for the parts of the paper they contributed. Individuals who contributed in a more limited way — technical support, funding acquisition alone, or general supervision — are better credited in an Acknowledgements section than listed as authors. The corresponding author is responsible for confirming, on behalf of all co-authors, that everyone listed has approved the final camera-ready version and the author order.

What happens after acceptance

1. Camera-ready formatting. You format your accepted paper using the GCP template (see Formatting Guidelines) and submit it through your conference's system by the deadline the organizers set.
2. Compliance check. The volume editor checks each paper against the formatting and completeness requirements and may return a paper for minor correction.
3. Similarity screening. Papers are screened as described above; flagged papers are returned to authors for clarification.
4. Volume assembly. Once all papers in a volume pass these checks, the volume editor submits the complete package to the GCP editorial office.
5. Production. GCP typesets the volume, assigns DOIs and an ISBN, and prepares proofs.
6. Publication. The volume is published in full, open access, with each paper individually citable by its own DOI.

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain copyright in their work. By publishing with GCP, authors grant the series a non-exclusive licence to publish, host, and distribute the paper, and the published version is made available to readers under CC BY 4.0. This means readers may reuse and adapt your work, including commercially, provided they credit you as the author — it does not transfer ownership away from you.

Proofs and corrections

Corresponding authors receive a proof of the typeset paper before publication and are asked to check it for typesetting errors within the window given by the volume editor. Because volumes are published as a complete, dated set, proof corrections are limited to typesetting and factual accuracy — new results, additional authors, or substantive rewrites cannot be introduced at proof stage. Errors identified after publication are handled under the correction and retraction provisions in Publication Ethics.

Withdrawal

An author who needs to withdraw a paper before publication should contact the volume editor as early as possible. Because production follows a fixed calendar tied to the whole volume, late withdrawals can affect the schedule for every other author in that volume, so early notice matters. Withdrawal after publication is treated as a retraction request under the publication ethics policy, not a simple removal.