How to obtain a Letter of Acquisition (LoA)

Conferences are eligible to participate in IEEE’s Conference Publications Program (CPP) upon approval of their IEEE sponsorship application. To obtain a Letter of Acquisition (LoA) and request inclusion in the CPP, which includes the submission of material to be considered for our online collection, an IEEE Conference Publication Form will need to be submitted.  The form can be found online at: 

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/organizers/conf-app.html?appName=Publication

This form will alert us of your intention to produce a conference publication and initiate the acquisition process. Upon review and approval, IEEE will send you your Letter of Acquisition (LoA). The Letter of Acquisition is an agreement between your conference and IEEE to consider your conference for acceptance into the CPP and IEEE Xplore®.

The LoA includes the following:

• Conference publication title should be used on all Conference Publication materials exactly as it appears in the LoA
• Catalog numbers for the conference publication, with instructions on placement
• Copyright Information
• Conference Paper templates to provide to your authors, using either MS Word or LaTeX download download the template (DOC, 30.2 KB)
• List of conference publication materials to be provided to IEEE, including both IEEE Xplore®-compliant version and the version(s) distributed at the conference

Please note that the LoA does not guarantee that your conference technical papers will be published in IEEE Xplore®. IEEE can withhold the publishing of conference proceedings that do not meet the IEEE quality standards.