imc-supplementary
GitHub指导IMC论文正文与附录及发布内容的划分。确保决策关键证据、伦理讨论保留在有限页数的正文中，防止滥用无限附录。规范匿名化要求、数据归档标准及附录结构，保障评审完整性。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-supplementary -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "imc-supplementary",
"description": "Use when deciding what belongs in an ACM IMC paper body versus its appendix and released artifact, covering the acmart page limits, the rule that decision-critical evidence and the Ethics discussion stay in the reviewed pages, double-blind supplementary material, and how to split a measurement paper between body, appendix, and dataset."
}
IMC Supplementary
Use this when assembling IMC supplementary material. IMC's acmart format gives an unlimited
appendix, which tempts authors to offload the argument — but the governing rule is strict: the
page-limited body must be self-contained and decision-complete. Reviewers read the appendix and
the artifact at their discretion; anything the decision depends on lives in the body.
What goes where
| Content | Body (within page limit) | Appendix / released artifact |
|---|---|---|
| The measurement question and the headline finding | Yes | — |
| Vantage-point summary + coverage/representativeness argument | Yes | Full per-vantage-point table |
| Methodology sufficient to judge soundness | Yes | Full configs, seed/target lists |
| Key results, confidence intervals, and their limitations | Yes | Secondary plots, full result tables |
| The Ethics discussion | Yes (section; details may extend to appendix) | IRB form, extended safety analysis |
| Raw/large datasets, logs, scripts | — | Yes (released artifact) |
| Reproduction instructions | A pointer | The README and run scripts |
If a reviewer would need to open the appendix or artifact to know whether to accept, the paper is mis-partitioned — move that evidence into the body.
The unlimited-appendix trap
IMC's appendix is unlimited but may not be used to abuse the page limit. Consequences:
- Keep the finding, the vantage-point justification, the core methodology, the headline results, and the limitations in the body — they are decision-critical.
- Per-vantage-point tables, full parameter grids, extra target lists, and additional analyses go to the appendix with explicit forward references.
- Do not smuggle a load-bearing result into the appendix because the body is full — an argument that only closes with appendix material reads as unreviewable, and reviewers are entitled to stop at the body.
The Ethics section is not optional supplementary
Unlike ordinary appendix material, the Ethics treatment is required and must be a clearly
marked section (details may spill to an appendix). Do not relegate the entire ethics argument to an
optional appendix the reviewer might skip — a paper without a visible Ethics section may be
rejected (imc-submission).
Double-blind supplementary rules
[No identity] no authors, affiliations, acknowledgements, grants, testbed names, AS/probe IDs,
or lab-domain links anywhere in the appendix or artifact
[Anonymized links] the dataset/tool link points at an anonymizing host, not a personal/lab repo
[Clean archive] no .git history, credentials, API keys, cluster paths, or huge irrelevant captures
[Opens clean] the archive unzips and the README orients a reader in a minute on a fresh machine
[Provenance] vantage-point and timing metadata present but scrubbed of identity
Appendix architecture
- Order appendix sections to mirror the paper's structure (per measurement/RQ), so reviewers navigate by topic, not page number.
- Reference each appendix section from the body at least once — orphaned material is invisible under discretionary review.
- Keep the released dataset's schema documentation with the artifact, not buried in the appendix.
Vignette: splitting a multi-vantage-point study
A paper measuring a protocol from many vantage points over months: the body keeps the question, a summarized vantage-point table with the coverage-bias argument, the core method, the headline findings with confidence intervals, the limitations, and the Ethics section; the appendix holds the full per-vantage-point breakdown, the complete target lists with capture dates, and secondary analyses; the released artifact holds the time-stamped dataset, the schema, and the analysis scripts. Nothing decision-critical lives only outside the body.
Output format
[Supplement status] ready / needs fixes / not ready
[Partition check] anything decision-critical outside the body? <none / move: what>
[Ethics visibility] Ethics section present in the body? yes/no
[Page limit] body self-contained within limit? appendix not abused? yes/no
[Anonymity] appendix/artifact clean of identity + infrastructure? passed/issues
[Body dependency] <what a reviewer can decide without opening the appendix/artifact>
Version History
- 9f86f09 Current 2026-07-19 16:01
