How to Submit A Pre-print to Arxiv

some useful links

• Open Access Requirement from ACM
• Open Access Requirement from IEEE
• arxiv tutorial
• Typesetting a document in ACM style for Arxiv

submit to arxiv via overleaf

[Note] Suggest to use the overleaf for arxiv submission, as it is simple. More details can be found at here

• Within the overleaf project, select the submit button on the upper-right corner.

• You need to make sure there is no compiling error.

TL,DR

1. Do not directly upload the camera ready version, remove the copyright.

For ACM paper, the copyright block can be remove with following command in latex:

\settopmatter{printacmref=false}
\setcopyright{none}
\renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{}
\pagestyle{plain}

Put the above code before \maketitle

2. Create the latex source file

• directly download the latex code from overleaf as .zip file
• include the reference file .bbl in the zip file
  • in overleaf, it can be found at logs and output file, and you should download it
  • if the main tex file is main.tex, make sure the reference is main.bbl
  • unzip the latex file and move the .bbl file into it, then re-compress to a zip file

3. Submit the file to Arxiv

• The Arxiv website is: https://arxiv.org/submit
• For license:
  • I prefer to choose
    • CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution
    • CC BY-NC-SA: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
  • the above license prohibit the commercial use
• Something to note:
  • make sure all files do not contain space