The Conference paper module is the conference paper writer in AI for Research. It is for researchers who need a full paper for a conference with proceedings: computer scientists and engineers submitting to IEEE or ACM venues, and researchers in any field whose conference asks for a 4 to 8 page paper rather than an abstract. You give it your title, the venue's format and page limit, and what you did and found. It searches published research, then writes the draft with contribution statements, related work tied to real papers, and gaps where only you have the facts.
What it does
A conference paper is shorter and more pointed than a journal article. Reviewers read many papers in a short window, so the introduction has to say what is new in a few bullet points, and the paper has to fit a hard page limit. The module is built around those two rules.
| You choose | Options | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Format | IEEE (two columns, numbered references), ACM (acmart, CCS concepts), general conference format | Section order and numbering, the reference style, and the front matter such as Index Terms or CCS concepts |
| Page limit | 4, 6 or 8 pages | How much space the draft gives each section |
| Conference | Optional, for example the venue's name and year | The framing, and any topics you paste from the call |
| Your study | Optional; paste or upload a draft or notes | Method, setup, metrics and results come from your text, used as given |
| Notes | Optional | The call's topics, required sections, double-blind rules, the figures you have |
The draft contains:
- A title and abstract sized for a conference.
- An introduction that ends in contribution statements, the short list that tells a reviewer what the paper adds.
- Related work with real citations. Numbered markers link to each source. Markers that point to no real source are removed before you see the text.
- Your method and results, as given. If you leave the study field empty, the method and results sections are a structure with [placeholders] that name what you must add. No data, participants or numbers are invented.
- A reference list in the chosen format's style.
How it works, step by step
- Open the Writing Studio and choose Conference paper.
- Enter the title or research question.
- Optionally name the conference, then pick the Format (IEEE, ACM or general) and the Page limit (4, 6 or 8 pages).
- Under Your study, paste or upload what you built or did and what you found: method, data, setup, metrics and results. A draft, a lab notebook export or a thesis chapter all work.
- In the notes, paste anything from the call for papers: topics, required sections, double-blind rules, the figures and tables you have.
- Choose where to search (All papers, Preprints, Medical, Web or My Library) and press Run. The draft streams in with the cited papers in a panel beside it.
- Press Open in editor to finish the paper with live citations, then export it to Word (free) or LaTeX (paid plans).
Computer science work often appears first in proceedings and on arXiv. Choosing Preprints or All papers covers both, and saving key papers to your Library first lets the draft cite exactly the work you know the reviewers will expect.
A worked example
Example (invented for illustration): a master's student has built a lightweight anomaly detector for sensor networks and wants to submit a 6-page paper to an IEEE conference.
- Conference paper, format IEEE, page limit 6 pages. She uploads her thesis chapter on the method and pastes her results table into the study field. In the notes she pastes the call's topic list and the double-blind rule. Cost: 15 credits.
- The draft frames the problem, cites published detectors in Related Work, lists three contributions, and reports her results exactly as given. It leaves a [placeholder] for the hardware specification she did not include.
- Her supervisor wants a shorter abstract for the submission form. She runs the Abstract module on the draft: 3 credits.
- She opens the draft in the editor, checks each cited paper, fills the placeholder and moves the text into the conference's IEEE template.
- When the paper is accepted, she makes the poster in Slides with the research poster maker: 3 credits.
Total: 21 credits, inside the Free plan's 45 a month.
What it does not do
- It does not lay out the camera-ready paper. The final two-column format comes from the conference's official IEEE, ACM or other template.
- It does not search IEEE Xplore or the ACM Digital Library. If those papers matter, bring your own export file from your institution's access and import it to your Library (BibTeX or RIS, as with Zotero and Mendeley import).
- It does not know your results. Without them it writes placeholders, never numbers.
- Citations are real papers, but a summary can still be broader than the paper. Read every source before you submit.
- It does not submit the paper or check it against a venue's reviewing rules. Read the call for papers yourself.
- It is not the journal route. For a longer IMRaD article, use the Research paper module, or try the free research paper writer for a quick draft without an account. To turn a thesis chapter into a journal article, see thesis to journal article.
Who uses it
- Master's and PhD students writing their first conference paper from a thesis chapter: see AI tools for PhD students and AI for a master's thesis.
- Academics and research groups with several submissions a year: see AI for academics.
- Industry researchers publishing at applied conferences: see AI for industry.
Before you submit, run Citation check to confirm each reference exists and is not retracted, and clean the reference list with the reference list formatter. If the work later goes to a journal, the journal formatter reorders it for the target journal. For the talk, the research presentation maker builds the slides.
Learn more
- How to write a conference paper
- How to format a paper for a journal
- How to make a research poster
- Thesis to journal article
Last updated 2026-11-13