AAAI Camera Ready

Use this after AAAI acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready email, publication/attendance page, author kit, copyright instructions, and proceedings source-file requirements.

Camera-ready checklist

• Apply the current AAAI proceedings template and page rules. AAAI-26 accepted main-track papers used 7 proceedings pages plus pages solely for references and acknowledgments, with an option to purchase up to two additional technical-content pages.
• Prepare source files as required: LaTeX or Word source, figures, bibliography, style files, and a high-resolution PDF.
• Add author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding, and ethical disclosures where required.
• Keep all references from the submitted paper unless superseded, and explain major citation updates conservatively.
• Resolve reviewer-facing clarity issues without changing the scientific identity of the paper.
• Complete copyright transfer and any AAAI Digital Library metadata.
• Ensure at least one author registers and presents the paper, unless current exceptional-circumstance procedures apply.

AAAI Press production gotchas

AAAI Press compiles the proceedings from your source, so a PDF that looks fine locally can still be kicked back. The two-column AAAI style is strict about a few things that trip up authors arriving from single-column or NeurIPS-style submissions:

• Do not alter margins, font sizes, or column gap; AAAI explicitly forbids style hacks to gain space. If you need room, purchase technical pages instead of shrinking the template.
• Disable \pdfoutput overrides and embed all fonts; non-embedded fonts are a common rejection.
• Move references and acknowledgments into the pages that do not count against the technical limit, per the current rule, rather than padding the main body.
• Restore author block, funding, and ethics statements that were stripped for double-blind review.

Deanonymization sweep

Acceptance reverses the anonymity discipline: now identity must be present and correct, while stale blind-mode placeholders must go. Walk the paper, supplement, and code for "Anonymous", redacted citations to your own prior work, and \\if-blind toggles still set to blind.

Worked vignette

A knowledge-representation paper lands at 7.5 technical pages after restoring the author block and an ethics statement. Decision: it cannot shrink the template, so the author buys one extra technical page (within the current cap), keeps references on the non-counting pages, and re-runs the deanonymization sweep before uploading source to AAAI Press.

Release plan

• Replace anonymous code/data links with durable public repositories or archives.
• Publish a project page only if it is stable, accurate, and does not overclaim beyond the paper.
• Preserve a copy of the submitted PDF, reviews, rebuttal, accepted PDF, source package, and artifact release for future journal extensions.

Output format

[Camera-ready state] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Proceedings files] <PDF/source/bib/figures/supplement>
[Page status] within limit / extra pages needed / over limit
[Publication obligations] copyright / registration / presentation / metadata
[Final fixes] <ordered list before upload>