This template is to be used for submissions to EUSSET conferences, in particular ECSCW, from 2026 onward. Please see the specific web page for your conference and track for detailed guidance.
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% This is a work-in-progress version of a LaTeX template for EUSSET conferences,
% intended to be an update for the template in use as of ECSCW 2025. Thank you
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% TeXlive, with compatibility extending back to 2022.
% You can add one or several (separated by commas) of the following document
% options in the square brackets:
% anonymous - removes author names from the first page and the document
% metadata, please use this if the review process calls for it
% noneusset - removes EUSSET branding from the editorial footer and the
% PDF metadata, use this when authoring a document not intended
% for a EUSSET conference
\documentclass[]{eusset}
\usepackage{listings} % You can remove this if your manuscript doesn't have code listings.
% Paper information:
\title{EUSSET Submission Format Instructions}
% The paper may optionally have a subtitle.
%\subtitle{This is Where the Optional Subtitle Goes}
% Author information:
% List authors one by one starting with an \author{Full name here} and followed
% by metadata for that author - email, ORCID iD (given as just the alphanumeric ID
% without the URL prefix) and affiliation consisting of institution and country.
% Email and affiliation are mandatory, ORCID iD is optional and can be deleted.
% Each author may optionally list multiple affiliations.
\author{Jane Doe}
\email{jane.doe@example.com}
\orcid{0000-0001-4321-1234} % optional - see https://orcid.org/
\affiliation{
\institution{Example University}
\country{Scotland}
\ror{https://ror.org/4d3c2b1a} % optional - see https://ror.org/
}
\authorFootnote[myequal]{Both authors contributed equally to this article.}
% For authorFootnote, you can assign an optional ID in square brackets for a
% footnote that you intend to reuse for multiple authors.
\author{Jim Anotherperson}
\email{jim.anotherperson@example.com}
\affiliation{
\institution{Example University}
\country{Scotland}
}
\author{John Doe}
\email{john.doe@example.org}
\orcid{0000-0002-6789-9876}
\affiliation{
\institution{Elsewhere Example College}
\country{England}
}
% If an author footnote ID is reused, the content of the curly braces is ignored.
\authorFootnote[myequal]{}
\author{Lisa von Expert}
\email{vonexpert.l@example.de}
\affiliation{
\institution{Example Universität}
\country{Germany}
\ror{https://ror.org/1a2b3c4d}
}
\authorFootnote{Here's a second author footnote example.}
% For the copyright notice, you can choose from:
% CC-BY-4.0 - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (EUSSET recommendation)
% CC-BY-SA-4.0 - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
% CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
% CC0-1.0 - Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal
% licensed - Publication rights licensed to EUSSET, authors retain copyright otherwise
% Please contact your conference organizers if you need guidance.
\copyright{}
% The DOI for your paper will be provided by the conference organizers after
% acceptance of the submission. Until then you can keep the placeholder.
\doi{10.48340/to-be-added}
\begin{abstract}
This document is formatted in accordance with the up-to-date guidelines planned for future EUSSET conferences. It uses a custom \LaTeX{} document class that introduces a number of additions and changes compared to the previous template. You may want to use this file as a template while minding any additional guidelines provided in your conference's call for papers.
\end{abstract}
\keywords{replace, these, with, your, own, keywords}
\begin{teaserfigure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,alt={A close-up photo of a variety of tropical plants in vivid colors}]{teaser}
% Did you know that unlike other figures in the main text, the teaser figure is allowed to fill
% the page margins? Replace "\textwidth" with "\paperwidth" above to try it out!
\caption{This is an example teaser figure showcasing the use of a full-color photo as an eye catch. A good teaser figure is wider than it is tall. If your submission includes one, please ensure that the abstract and keywords still fit on the first page. Photo: \citet[cropped vertically]{Fietkau2018}}
\label{fig:teaser}
\end{teaserfigure}
% Conference information:
% You should receive an adjusted copy of the following code block from your
% conference or workshop organizers.
% ===============================================
\conferenceName{24th EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work}
\conferenceShort{ECSCW}
\conferenceYear{2026}
\submissionType{Posters and Demos}
\journalName{Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies}
\issn{2510-2591}
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% Start of the actual text!
\begin{document}
% To cite any reference,
% use \citet{Light2023} to get 'Light et al. (2023)'
% or \citep{Light2023} to get '(Light et al., 2023)'
\section{Document layout}
The text bloc (the printed area) should measure and must not exceed 150 x 247 mm; it must have a one-column format and be positioned at the center of the page. In A4 format, this corresponds to 30 mm margins on the left and right and 25 mm margins at the top and bottom of the page. EUSSET conferences do not accept submissions in paper sizes other than A4.
The two font families used throughout the EUSSET conference template are Charter, a serif font used for body text, section headers, page numbers, and most other parts of the document, and Fira Sans, a sans-serif font used for the title area and editorial footer. Fira Mono is used for monospaced text. All three of these font families are freely licensed and available for commercial and non-commercial use at no charge. Visually similar fonts may be substituted in technical environments where these specific ones cannot be used.
In contrast to the previous template, interactive clickable links are now allowed and encouraged. DOIs and other web URLs may be set up to lead to external URLs. External web links should be set in a dark blue (preferably \textcolor{eussetUrl}{\#003CE6}). Intra-text references to other sections, figures, or bibliographic references may also be clickable. \LaTeXtip{The template will handle most of these for you automatically. You can use \texttt{\textbackslash url} freely (and \texttt{\textbackslash href} judiciously). If you use \texttt{\textbackslash autoref} instead of \texttt{\textbackslash ref} for internal references, you will get a clickable link including the target type, e.g. ``\autoref{sec:title}'' instead of just ``\ref{sec:title}''.}
The footer of the first page should contain an editorial block, set in the title area's sans-serif font at 8 point and separated from the body text by a 0.7 point black line, starting with the full citation information for this submission, followed by a copyright statement, and ending with a line containing information about the EUSSET Digital Library. The conference organizers will provide guidance on how to finalize this footer and may make additional refinements after submission.
The footer of pages two and onward should contain a centered page number.
\section{Title, author, abstract, keywords}
\label{sec:title}
The \textbf{title} of the article should be set in 22 point sans-serif bold, flushed left. It should be the first element on the first page. If the paper has a subtitle, it should be set in a separate line, spaced 6 point apart, in 18 point sans-serif at normal weight.
The title should be followed by the \textbf{author list}, which is formatted flushed left with each author having a separate line formatted as follows. The first element is the full name of the author in 12 point text. Submitters may use each author name as a clicakble link towards that author's ORCID record. If so, they may optionally add an ORCID icon no larger than 16pt after the name as a visual indicator, which should also be clickable. Authors may not have the author names link to any other websites. After the author name, the rest of the line is set in 10 point text. Following the author name should be a ``\textperiodcentered'' separator character with a space on each side. After that follows the name and country of the author's affiliation, separated by a comma. Similar to the author name and its corresponding ORCID record, the name of the institution may optionally be a clickable link to the institution's ROR record, and if so, the name may be followed by a ROR icon no larger than 16pt in width as an added indicator. If an author has multiple affiliations, they may be listed separated by commas. If an author has multiple affiliations in different countries, they may be listed by separating each institution's name and the corresponding country by a comma, and then separating the different affiliations by a semicolon. The e-mail address of the author, set in italic, may optionally follow after another spaced ``\textperiodcentered'' separator character, and may optionally be clickable. If a line is too long to fit the text width, any segments following a line break should have 5 mm hanging indents. \LaTeXtip{The template will handle most of the above automatically for you. You can use the \texttt{anonymized} document option in the \texttt{\textbackslash documentclass} line at the start of the file to generate an anonymized version for review -- this will remove the author names from page one and from the PDF metadata. You will need to ensure yourself that your body text is anonymized.}
The next element should be a short \textbf{abstract} of not more than 200 words which clearly summarizes the paper. The abstract should be set in 10 point sans-serif with 12 point line leading (line space). The abstract should have 24 point vertical space between it and the author list.
The abstract may optionally be followed by a list of \textbf{keywords}, formatted the same as the abstract and no longer than three lines of text (but they may be much shorter -- authors should list pertinent key terms for search and association while avoiding ``keyword spam'').
The last element of the title area, whether it is the abstract or the keyword list, should be separated from the body text by another 24 point of space. The combined title area including the title, subtitle, author list, optional teaser figure (see \autoref{sec:figures}), abstract, and keywords should fit on the first page alongside the editorial footer. If it does not, some elements should be shortened.
\section{Body text}
Body text should be set in 12 point Charter (the font used here) or an equivalent serif font. Line spacing (leading) should be 15 point. The first paragraph after a headline should not be indented; otherwise the first line of a body text paragraph should be indented by 5 mm. Body text should be justified (i.e., do not use a ragged-right style).
Section headings should be set in Charter bold and flushed left:
\begin{itemize}
\item Level 1: 18 point, 24 point space before, 12 point after.
\item Level 2: 14 point, 18 point space before, 9 point after.
\item Level 3: 12 point, 12 point space before, 6 point after.
\end{itemize}
\begin{quote}
Quoted passages of more than 40 words should be set off from the text by indenting the left-hand margin 5 mm. Such quotations should be set in 10 point with 12 point line spacing, with 2 mm additional spacing before and after the quotation.
\end{quote}
\section{References}
The reference format is based on the Springer version of the author-year Chicago format, but with minor differences.
\begin{itemize}
\item Full article or book titles are required, including for proceedings.
\item To avoid misidentification, authors' (and editors') names should always include the first (or given) name.
\item Bibliography entries may list an ISBN if applicable. It should be formatted as an ISBN-13 including dashes and preceded by ``ISBN: '' in the bibliographic information. You can use \url{https://www.isbn.org/ISBN_converter} to convert between ISBN formats.
\item References should list a DOI if available. DOIs should be listed at the end of an entry, separated from the rest by a double space, and formatted as full URLs beginning with the ``https://doi.org/'' resolver prefix. They may be formatted as clickable links. \LaTeXtip{The DOI field in BibTeX entries should contain only the ID part of a DOI beginning with the ``10.'' prefix and leave the formatting of the final DOI link to the template.}
\item Entries may list an arbitrary web URL when appropriate (in particular for citations of websites), formatted just like DOIs. In most cases, entries should not need both a DOI and a separate URL, but in cases where the authors deem it useful to have both, the two should be separated by a ``\textperiodcentered'' character with a space on each side. A non-DOI web URL may optionally be followed by a clickable link to an Internet Archive Wayback Machine link for that specific URL, which can be set as an Internet Archive icon graphic or as the shorthand ``[IA]''. \LaTeXtip{Some BibTeX data sources are especially known for adding a redundant copy of the DOI to the URL field. The template will make an effort to detect and suppress these, but authors should nonetheless make sure to clean up their BibTeX data if the document shows redundant web URLs.}
\end{itemize}
Citations should be incorporated into the text, either directly in the sentence (``As claimed by \citet{Light2023}...'') or at the end, with author's name and date of publication in parentheses: \citep{Light2023}. \LaTeXtip{Older versions of the template erroneously instructed authors to use the \texttt{\textbackslash cite} command. You should not be using it at all in combination with this template. Instead, for each citation you can decide between \texttt{\textbackslash citep} for the parenthetical reference and \texttt{\textbackslash citet} for the textual version.}
References should be listed at the end of the article, after the acknowledgments and notes, in alphabetical and chronological order. References should be set in 10 point, with 5 mm hanging indents.
(a) References to books should include the author's name; year of publication; title in full, in italics; publisher; place of publication; volume number (if appropriate). See \citet{Johansen1988} in the reference list.
(b) References to articles in periodicals should include the author's name; year of publication; title of article; full title of periodical, in italics; volume number; issue number; issue date; page numbers. See \citet{Gerson1986} in the reference list.
(c) References to essays in edited editions should include the author's name; year of publication; title of essay; editor's name; title of collection, in italics; publisher; place of publication; volume number (if appropriate). See \citet{Bowers1990} in the reference list.
\section{Notes}
Please keep notes to a minimum, and avoid long or discursive notes. Short notes should preferably be placed as footnotes at the bottom of the page.\footnote{Footnotes should be set in 9 point, 10 point leading.} Notes should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and indicated in the text by superscript numerals.
\section{Tables}
Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, with the label in bold, followed by the caption (\textbf{Table 1.} xxxxx). As a general formatting guideline, horizontal rules should be used to indicate headers and footers, while vertical rules should be avoided unless to signal different subsections of a table; individual rows and columns should be separated by spacing instead. Tables should not have background colors. \LaTeXtip{Authors may optionally use packages like \texttt{array} or \texttt{booktabs} for extended control over table formatting.}
Each table should be referred to in the text, e.g. ``see \autoref{tab:pc-ownership}''. In references to individual tables by number, the word ``Table'' should be written out and start with a capital letter (``Table'' instead of ``tbl.''). Each table should preferably be positioned in place in the manuscript.
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{rl}
Year & PC ownership [\%] \\
\hline
2010 & 37.3 \\
2011 & 39.2 \\
2012 & 41.1 \\
2013 & 42.8 \\
2014 & 43.9 \\
2015 & 44.8 \\
2016 & 45.8 \\
2017 & 46.4 \\
2018 & 47.0 \\
2019 & 47.1 \\
\end{tabular}
\caption[Short test]{An example table showing the percentage of households worldwide who own at least one personal computer, excluding mobile devices \citep{Statista2021}. Caption in 10 point, 12 point leading, 12 point space before and after.}
\label{tab:pc-ownership}
\end{table}
\section{Figures}
\label{sec:figures}
Figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, with the label in bold, followed by the caption (\textbf{Figure 1.} xxxxx). Each figure should be referred to in the text, e.g. ``see \autoref{fig:diagram}''. In references to individual figures by number, the word ``Figure'' should be written out and start with a capital letter (``Figure'' instead of ``fig.''). Each figure should preferably be positioned in place in the manuscript.
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=12cm,alt={A line diagram showing a data series climbing almost steadily from 37\% in 2010 to around 44\% in 2014, then reducing its upward slope to flattening out at about 47\% in 2019}]{example_diagram}
\caption{An example visualization of the data in \autoref{tab:pc-ownership}. This diagram was created in LibreOffice Calc, exported as PDF, and then cropped and touched up in Inkscape. This process results in a clean embedded vector graphic. Caption in 10 point, 12 point leading, 12 point space before and after.}
\label{fig:diagram}
\end{figure}
Authors are encouraged to make sensible use of color within figures. Photographs should be in full color if available, with the ideal target resolution being 300dpi. Diagrams should make accessible use of color for added visual contrast, but should avoid relying on color as the sole semantic differentiator wherever possible -- shapes and patterns may be used alongside colors to differentiate between data series. Test your diagrams using color blindness simulator tools and black-and-white conversions to ensure accessibility.
If figures contain text that is intended to be readable, it should not be much smaller than the figure caption at the final size.
Supported formats for raster images are JPEG (mainly for photographs) and PNG (mainly for diagrams and other computer-rendered graphics). We recommend that authors export and embed diagrams in a vector graphics format for optimal quality if feasible, e.g. SVG or PDF. Whether this is possible depends on your diagram authoring process. Free tools such as Inkscape can convert between different vector formats.
The first page may optionally contain a special \textbf{teaser figure} positioned between the author list and the abstract, with 24pt of space before and after (see \autoref{fig:teaser} in this template). A teaser figure is intended to give readers a visual first impression of the article's topic. The teaser figure's caption should be set in the same font family as the abstract, apart from that it should be formatted the same as the other figures and be included in the normal figure indexing. The teaser figure should be scaled so that the full title area including the abstract and keywords all fit on the first page. Good teaser figures tend to be wider than they are tall. Unlike other figures in the document, the teaser figure may optionally extend into the page margins and span the full borderless width of the page.
\section{Lists}
Numbered and bulleted lists may be used directly in the text. For stylistic reasons, lists should not use more than four depth levels. The following list styles are recommended:
\begin{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 1 item 1
\begin{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 2 item 1
\item bullet list, depth 2 item 2
\begin{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 3 item 1
\item bullet list, depth 3 item 2
\begin{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 4 item 1
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 1 item 3
\end{itemize}
\item bullet list, depth 1 item 2
\item bullet list, depth 1 item 3
\end{itemize}
\begin{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 1 item 1
\begin{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 2 item 1
\item numbered list, depth 2 item 2
\begin{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 3 item 1
\item numbered list, depth 3 item 2
\begin{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 4 item 1
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 1 item 3
\end{enumerate}
\item numbered list, depth 1 item 2
\item numbered list, depth 1 item 3
\end{enumerate}
\section{Code Listings}
If your manuscript contains multi-line code examples, they should be set in a suitable monospace font (recommended: Fira Mono) on a light gray background. Code listings should be positioned and captioned just like figures and tables (see \autoref{lst:guessing}), and may use language-specific syntax highlighting. If they do, colors with a suitably strong contrast to the background and to one another should be used. \LaTeXtip{This template contains styling presets for the \texttt{listings} package, but other packages for code listings may also be used instead.}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=Python,label={lst:guessing},caption={A random number guessing game implemented in Python.}]
import random
secret_number = random.randint(1, 100)
# Run in a loop until the game is won
while True:
guess = int(input("Guess the number between 1 and 100: "))
if guess == secret_number:
print("Congratulations! You guessed the number!")
break
elif guess < secret_number:
print("Too low! Try again.")
else:
print("Too high! Try again.")
\end{lstlisting}
\section{Permissions}
If the paper is accepted for publication, an agreement granting EUSSET non-exclusive publication rights will need to be made. The conference organizers will guide submitters through this process. EUSSET encourages the use of established licenses, such as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, for open access publications. It is the obligation of the author(s) to obtain written permission for quotations from unpublished material, for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of illustrations or tables from unpublished or copyrighted material.
\begin{acks}
List your acknowledgments here (or omit the section). If the submission has external funders, they should be mentioned here, optionally including a link to their ROR ID, their website, or both. Example: \fundingOrg[ror=https://ror.org/018mejw64]{German Research Foundation}. Acknowledgments should be set at 10 point, 12 point leading.
\end{acks}
\bibliography{EUSSET_template}
\end{document}