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Paper Format Check

A free, private check of your manuscript against the ACCEE 2027 template — before anyone else sees it.

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Check your paper before you submit it

Formatting is the most common reason a paper goes back to its author — and it is the easiest thing to fix. Upload your Word file and in a few seconds you get a plain-language list of everything that does not match the official ACCEE 2027 template, with the exact fix for each item.

This is not a submission and not a review. Nothing you upload here reaches the committee or the reviewers, and the result has no effect on the decision about your paper. It is a private tool for you, and you can run it as many times as you like.

Why it matters

Most manuscripts arrive with the same four problems

We ran this checker over 95 real Word manuscripts submitted to a comparable IEEE-format conference. Only six of them had no formatting problem at all. Four issues came up again and again:

69%
missing the conference header
65%
wrong margins
56%
references not in template style
53%
wrong page size (A4 instead of Letter)

None of this says anything about the quality of the research. But each one costs the author an e-mail, a correction round and a few days — and close to a deadline, that is exactly the time nobody has. Two minutes on this page removes them before they ever become a problem.

What is checked

Everything a reviewer would send back to you

All of it comes from one place: the official ACCEE 2027 Word template. The checker compares your file against that template — it does not invent rules of its own.

Page setup

Page size, all four margins, the two-column layout, column gap and line spacing.

Fonts and styles

Body font and size, and whether the paper actually uses the template's styles for the title, headings, abstract, keywords and captions.

Structure

Title, the centered author block, affiliation and e-mail lines, abstract, keywords, and the conference header on the first page.

References and citations

Whether the reference list uses the template style and whether the numbering follows the IEEE rule: [1] is the first work cited in the text.

Figures

The real resolution of every figure at the size it is printed, whether a small image was enlarged until it went blurry, and whether captions use “Fig. 1” rather than “Graph 1”.

Leftovers and length

Template placeholder text still sitting in the paper (“given name surname”, “email address or ORCID”…), page numbers that should not be there, and your page count against the fee rule.

Optional: the AI language & reference review. Tick the box in the upload panel and a language model reads the whole paper for academic English, IEEE reference formatting, citation style, abbreviations and units. It takes about a minute longer and is just as optional as the rest of this page — the format check works without it.
Just so you know

What this page does not do

Your file

What happens to the document you upload

Your file is sent to the conference's own checking service over an encrypted connection, opened there, and removed as soon as the check is finished. It is never added to your submission and never published.

The text extracted from your paper stays in the service's memory for up to four hours — only so the assistant under your report can quote your own paragraphs back to you while you discuss the findings. After that it is discarded. Nothing is written to a database, and there is no account to delete.

Two parts of the check use a language model through the Anthropic API: the optional language review, and a short automated screen that checks the topic of the paper against the conference's content policy. In both cases only the text of your manuscript is sent, and only for that analysis.

After the report

The fastest way to fix everything

  1. Start from the template, not from your old file. Most findings come in a group and all of them disappear at once when the text lives in the official ACCEE 2027 template: page size, margins, columns, fonts and the first-page header are already correct there.
  2. Paste your content in with “Keep Text Only”. Then apply the template's styles (Paper Title, Author, Abstract, Keywords, Heading 1…, References). This is what the checker looks at — plain bold text is not a heading.
  3. Ask the assistant about anything unclear. Under every report there is a chat box. It has your report and your paper in front of it, so it can point at the exact paragraph, explain the rule and suggest the corrected wording.
  4. Run the check again, then submit in CMT. Re-checking is free and unlimited. When the report is clean, upload the paper to CMT as usual.
Questions

Frequently asked

Is using this page mandatory?

No. It is a courtesy tool. It is strongly recommended, because the problems it finds are exactly the ones that would otherwise come back to you later — but your submission is valid whether or not you use it.

My paper is in .doc (Word 97–2003). Can I still check it?

Yes — it is converted automatically before checking. One limitation: converted files do not carry a page count, so the page/fee note is skipped for them. Please prepare the final manuscript as .docx.

What if my paper is longer than six pages?

That is allowed. The first six pages are included in the registration fee and every page after that costs 50 USD; there is no upper limit. The checker simply tells you the page count and the extra fee so there is no surprise later. See the registration page for the fee table.

It says my conference header is missing, but I can see it on page 1.

Two common causes. Either the header line was typed into the body text instead of the Word header area (View → Header & Footer), or the paper was built from another conference's template and still carries that conference's header. The report tells you which one it found.

Are there subjects ACCEE does not accept?

Yes. Papers with military, political or terrorism-related subject matter are not accepted in any form. The checker screens for this, and if it is triggered you are told directly instead of receiving a format report. Engineering work that merely mentions security, defence mechanisms, drones, radar or satellites is not affected — the screen looks at what the paper is about.

Can I run it more than once?

Yes, as often as you need — it is free. There is a fair-use limit of 20 checks per hour from the same network connection, which no normal author reaches.

The report is clean. Does that mean my paper will be accepted?

No. It means the manuscript matches the template and reads well enough for the automated checks. Acceptance is decided by peer review on the strength of the work itself.

Ready when you are

It takes a few seconds, it is free, and nobody but you sees the result.