• computational complexity
• Instructions for authors
  • Authorship
  • Manuscript submission
  • Final version
  • Editorial recommendations
  • Common mistakes
• Subject classification
• cc document class
• Make it portable

Common mistakes

The following are common mistakes. Please make sure to avoid them:

• Forgetting the \received date. This is the date on which you sent your original submission. You should have something like \received{24 December 2009} in your preamble.
• Grammatically, equations are part of text and should usually end with a comma or period.
• If you find Lemma Lemma 2.3 or ((4.5)) in your article then this is most probably due to somthing like Lemma \ref{x} or (\ref{x}) in your LaTeX-file. Replace this by \ref{x} (omitting Lemma). The cc command \ref{x} already produces Lemma 2.3, or (4.5) in case of an equation.
• Use \citet{gatger03} for textual use of a citation as in "The book \citet{gatger03} supplies...".
  Use \citep{gatger03} for parenthetical use of a citation as in "This standard algorithm runs in time ... \citep{gatger03}."
• Use the optional argument of theorem like environments:
  
  \begin{theorem}[\cite{gatger03}]
  ...
  \end{theorem}
  
  Should you need theorem like environments which are not defined by the class (there are many, checkout the documentation!), you may define
  
  \newenvironment{metatheorem}{\begin{namedtheorem}{Meta Theorem}}{\end{namedtheorem}}
  
  in the preamble.
• Format proofs like
  
  \begin{proof}[\ref{thm::runtime}]
  ...
  \end{proof}
  
  Note the use of the optional argument resulting in "Proof (Theorem 17.1)." or similar.
  If a proof ends in a formula, use \qed (see documentation) or add a short phrase after it.
• Be sure to include a bibliography file as
  
  \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
  Here should be your bib file!
  \end{filecontents*}
  
  before the \documentclass statement.  Use \bibliography{\jobname} to produce the list of references near the end of your article.
  Should you not be able to provide a bib-file, which is usually required, try one of the documentclass options manualbibliography, cccite, or nonatbib.
• Also other supplied (non-binary) files must be included using such a filecontents environment.
• Appendices are sections after \appendix.
• You should use \begin{acknowledge} ... \end{acknowledge} to place acknowledgements (at the end). If they are missing put \noacknowledge at the same position.
• There are no footnotes allowed in title or author.