asplos-submission

ASPLOS Submission

This is the audit to run in the final week, against the exact PDF that will be uploaded. Every rule below is the ASPLOS 2027 cycle as verified 2026-07-08 through the CFP and the April-cycle HotCRP pages; the numbers are one edition's snapshot.

Hard-format gates

Gate	2027 rule	Failure mode
Length	≤ 11 pages, single-spaced, two-column — the count includes all text, figures, tables, and footnotes	Rejection without review is the stated risk for violations
References	Excluded from the 11 pages, unlimited	—
Template	The provided LaTeX template is mandatory	Geometry hacks are detectable and named as reject-risk
Appendices	Allowed in the same file, unlimited — but the 11 pages must be self-contained; reviewers are neither required nor encouraged to read appendices	Decision-critical content parked past page 11 simply does not exist
Deadline	11:59 PM AoE on the cycle date (next: September 9, 2026)	HotCRP saved-but-incomplete is not submitted

The citation rules almost everyone gets wrong on the first try

ASPLOS imposes bibliography requirements that authors arriving from ISCA, SOSP, or PLDI habitually violate:

• Every reference entry must list the full, non-abbreviated first and last names of every co-author — "J. Smith et al." fails on both counts.
• In-text citation numbers should be hyperlinked to their reference entries.
• Each entry should carry a clickable link, preferably a DOI.

Mechanical sweep before upload:

# et-al and initials-only detection in the bibliography
grep -nE 'et al\.|\b[A-Z]\.\s*[A-Z][a-z]+' references.bib | head -40
# DOI coverage: entries without a doi/url field
grep -c '@' references.bib; grep -ciE 'doi *=|url *=' references.bib
# PDF-side: confirm links are live (count of URI annotations)
pdftk paper.pdf dump_data 2>/dev/null | grep -c URI || true

Double-blind sweep, ASPLOS flavor

• Cite your own prior work in the third person; if that is impossible, upload it as anonymized supplemental material instead.
• Do not write "removed for blind review" — the 2027 CFP disallows the placeholder itself.
• arXiv postings, tech reports, and talks are not prior publications, and the submission may ignore them to preserve anonymity — you are not obligated to cite or differentiate your own preprint.
• Sweep PDF metadata, embedded file paths, repository URLs, acknowledgments, and grant numbers. Workload traces or testbeds identifiable to one lab need neutral description.