pldi-camera-ready

PLDI Camera-Ready

Since 2023, "camera-ready" at PLDI means producing a journal article: accepted

papers appear as PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages),

Issue PLDI — Vol 7 for 2023, Vol 8 for 2024, Vol 9 for 2025 (SIGPLAN blog

2022-08-08 and ACM DL, read 2026-07-08). The conference talk in June is downstream

of the article, not the other way around: the 2025 wording invited PACMPL Issue

PLDI authors to present, without requiring it. Recheck the current instructions —

the 2026 camera-ready deadline itself was not visible in accessible renderings

(待核实).

What changes at acceptance

| Submission state | Camera-ready state |

|---|---|

| Anonymous, third-person self-citations | Real authors, ORCIDs, affiliations, acknowledgements, grants restored |

| "We will..." sentences in the response | Delivered text, tables, and proofs — reviewers may verify |

| acmsmall draft with review margins | acmsmall with ACM rights block, CCS concepts, and final metadata |

| Code on an anonymous mirror | Artifact heading to Zenodo with a DOI (see pldi-artifact-evaluation) |

| No fee questions | Open-access handling under ACM's model |

Open access, concretely

PACMPL is Gold Open Access. As of the check date: the discounted author-side APC

was 400 USD, SIGPLAN covers it for authors who cannot pay, ACM Open institutions

owe nothing, and ACM became a fully open-access publisher on January 1, 2026

(dl.acm.org/journal/pacmpl, read 2026-07-08). Verify which regime applies to your

institution during the rights workflow rather than budgeting from hearsay, and

never route the fee question to a student author alone.

The de-anonymization pass

Do this as a diff, not a rewrite:

git diff submission..camera-ready -- paper/ | grep -E '^\+' | \
  grep -viE 'author|orcid|acknowledg|grant|funding|\\cite' && \
  echo "WARNING: content drift beyond identity restoration"

Legitimate additions: author block, acknowledgements, funding, restored

first-person self-citations, and the revisions promised in the author response.

Anything else — a new claim, a quietly changed number — needs your shepherd's or

the chairs' sign-off. Fix any self-citations that were blinded into vagueness:

"prior work [12]" may now become "our earlier analysis [12] which this paper

extends," with the delta stated plainly.

PACMPL metadata checklist

• Title and author order exactly as approved; changes after acceptance go through

the chairs, not the production form.

• ORCID for every author; ACM's workflow expects them.
• CCS concepts and keywords chosen by where compiler and PL readers will search,

not copied from the template sample.

• Citations to post-2023 SIGPLAN papers in journal form: *Proc. ACM Program.

Lang.* volume, issue (PLDI/POPL/OOPSLA/ICFP), article number — see

pldi-related-work for the bibliography discipline.

• Every axis label and table caption re-read at final size; the single-column

layout is unforgiving of figure text scaled for two columns.

Coordinate the three deliverables

The article, the artifact, and the talk ship on different clocks: the article on

the production deadline, the artifact on the AE timetable (Zenodo versioning

means no artifact camera-ready deadline), and the talk in June — registration for

PLDI 2026 opened March 16, 2026. Name one owner for each clock; the classic

failure is a perfect article whose artifact DOI still points at a stale

pre-response version.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] on track / blocked
[Response commitments] delivered: n/n, with section pointers
[Identity restoration] author block / ORCID / acknowledgements / self-citations
[Open access] ACM Open covered / APC path / SIGPLAN waiver (verify current terms)
[Clocks] article: <date 待核实> | artifact: <AE timetable> | talk: <June program>