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-27 allocates accepted main-track papers 7 proceedings pages plus up to 2 acknowledgement/reference pages, with an option to purchase up to two additional technical-content pages at $300 each. Camera-ready source files are due 2026-12-14.
• 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• Keep all references from the submitted paper unless superseded, and explain major citation updates conservatively.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.