# Acl Submission

Use when auditing an ACL submission before an ACL Rolling Review cycle deadline...

- Repository: https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1346 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-27
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-submission -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-submission -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-submission -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-submission -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills`

## Description

Use when auditing an ACL submission before an ACL Rolling Review cycle deadline, covering long/short paper page budgets, the mandatory Limitations section, Responsible NLP checklist, anonymized PDFs and supplements, preprint declarations, dual-submission rules, resubmission linking, and ARR desk-reject triggers on OpenReview.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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

The rest: https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/blob/HEAD/ACL-Skills/skills/acl-submission/SKILL.md