IFAC Publications and Copyright Policy

The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC symposium must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting which will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Proceedings volumes by Elsevier Science, Oxford, England. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice or in an IFAC affiliated journal. All papers presented will be recorded in the Control Engineering Practice.
Copyright in material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica, Control Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all presented contributions. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented. Authors in any doubt should consult the detailed IFAC Copyright conditions available from the IFAC Secretariat.