ACL Submission

Run this audit before uploading to an ACL Rolling Review (ARR) cycle on OpenReview. ACL papers are not submitted to the conference directly: they enter an ARR cycle, collect reviews and a meta-review, and are later committed to ACL. Reopen the current ARR CFP at aclrollingreview.org/cfp and the target conference's call before trusting any number below.

Two-step reality check

• Confirm which ARR cycles feed your target ACL edition. ACL 2026 accepted work from the October 2025 and January 2026 cycles; committing requires a complete review package, so the last eligible cycle is earlier than the conference date suggests.
• The ARR deadline is the hard one. Commitment is a separate, later form with its own deadline (March 14, 2026 for ACL 2026), see acl-workflow for the calendar.
• All ARR deadlines run 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).

Format gate

• Long papers: up to 8 content pages. Short papers: up to 4. Both get unlimited pages for references, plus unlimited space after the conclusion for the required Limitations section and an optional ethics statement.
• A missing Limitations section or overlength content is an explicit desk-reject condition under the ARR CFP, this is the most common self-inflicted rejection.
• Use the official ACL LaTeX/Word style files unmodified; margin, font, or spacing tampering is treated as a length violation.
• Appendices go after references in the same PDF; reviewers are not obliged to read them, so the 8 or 4 content pages must carry the whole argument.

Anonymity gate