Final Publication Submissions
Instructions for Authors
- Download the Form: Authors are required to download the LICENCE TO PUBLISH FORM
- Complete the Form: Fill out all required fields in the form accurately.
- Submit the Form and Final Paper: Submit the completed and signed form along with the final publication version of your paper via ConfTool.
Please ensure all steps are completed to facilitate a smooth submission process. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to contact our support team.
Paper Submissions
Full Paper Submission Guidelines
*The full paper submission date has been extended until 17 November.
Review Process
- The accepted papers will be published after the conference in the bookseries “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” of Springer. The proceedings will be indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.
- Please use one of the following templates from the publisher (only these template formats will be accepted):
- CLF2025Template.docm: sample Microsoft Word document with formatting macros
- CLF2025Template_Mac.docm: sample Microsoft Word document with formatting macros. A special version of the sample document for users of Microsoft Word for Mac 2016 and newer. Please note that the macros are NOT compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011.
- SPLNPROC Technical Instructions.pdf: Detailed instructions on how to use the template and its macros.
- LaTex package: the template in LaTex format
- Please submit your final paper using the ConfTool before the deadline of 17 November 2024.
- The papers must be submitted in English.
- Don’t add any author details in the paper itself – please leave the author details within the template blank/ as is, to ensure a double-blind peer review process. Please also remove any institution, Learning Factory name and funding statements in your full paper for review purposes.
- Each paper should consist of a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 8 pages (including references and appendix).
- If the paper was done in LaTex, please submit the paper in pdf format.
- All papers will undergo a double-blind review process.
- Each paper will be allocated to at least two reviewers of the Scientific Committee
- Feedback from the reviewers will be communicated via ConfTool and additionally via e-mail to the authors.
- Note that reviewer comments may require rework to the paper, and authors need to plan accordingly
- The registration fee includes the publication of one paper. For any additional paper contribution an additional fee will apply, up to a maximum of 3 papers per presenting author.
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REACTION TO REVIEWERS COMMENTS
Call for Abstracts
The 16th Conference on Learning Factories (CLF) 2026 invites abstracts for its annual conference which will be held from 5-8 May 2026.
Submission Categories
- Regular scientific papers: Regular papers should be 8–10 pages in length (Springer format) and are expected to present original and innovative contributions related to technologies, didactic approaches, learning factory operations, or learning factory concepts. Submissions must be grounded in a rigorous and scientifically sound methodology.
- Short papers: This category is for short papers to present updates of LF infrastructure instead of scientifically based contributions. They have a length of 4-6 pages (Springer format), are presented in a dedicated poster session and are collected in a “CLF 2026 Book of Short Papers” made available as a download on the CLF website (not Scopus indexed).
- A maximum of 3 papers (independent if regular or short papers) per presenting author may be submitted.
Abstract Submission Guidelines
- The submission of an abstract is necessary for submitting full papers for regular/short papers. The abstract is submitted using ConfTool
- Provide a descriptive title. Please use “Title Case”, i.e., start each word with a capital letter and continue in lower case. Do not use capital letters or lower case only. The abstract title should be concise and clearly convey the subject of the abstract.
- The abstract (max 300 words) should briefly describe the context and rationale for the study, the aim, the approach/ methodology, the main contribution(s), and relevance to learning factory concepts or applications.
- When submitting the abstract using ConfTool, please select at least one, and a maximum two conference categories from the list provided in the submission tool that best suits your submission.
- Please keep in mind that final paper presentations for the conference should be done in person – this is not a hybrid conference.
- For a final paper to be published in the conference proceedings, a paper has to be presented at the conference. No presentation, no publication.
Full Paper Submission Guidelines
The accepted regular papers will be published after the conference in the bookseries “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” of Springer. The proceedings will be indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.
- Please use one of the following templates from the publisher (only these template formats will be accepted):
- CLF2026Template: sample Microsoft Word document with formatting macros
- CLF2026Template MAC: sample Microsoft Word document with formatting macros. A special version of the sample document for users of Microsoft Word for Mac 2016 and newer. Please note that the macros are NOT compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011.
- SPLNPROC Technical Instructions.pdf: Detailed instructions on how to use the template and its macros.
- LaTex package: the template in LaTex format
- The papers must be submitted in English.
- Don’t add any author details in the paper itself – please leave the author details within the template blank/ as is, to ensure a double-blind peer review process. Please also remove any institution, Learning Factory name and funding statements in your full paper for review purposes.
- Each regular paper should consist of a minimum of 8 pages and a maximum of 10 pages and each short paper of a minimum 4 and a maximum of 6 pages (including references and appendix).
- If the paper was done in LaTex, please submit the paper in pdf format.
Review process
- All papers will undergo a double-blind review process.
- Each paper will be allocated to at least two reviewers of the Scientific Committee
- Feedback from the reviewers will be communicated via ConfTool and additionally via e-mail to the authors.
- Note that reviewer comments may require rework to the paper, and authors need to plan accordingly
- The registration fee includes the publication of one paper. For any additional paper contribution an additional fee will apply, up to a maximum of 3 papers per presenting author.