All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. All submissions must be in ms word format. All submissions must use the US Letter page format.
Make sure that you are using the correct IEEE style file: the title should be typeset in 24pt font and the body of the paper should be typeset in 10pt font.
Papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed the size limits stated for the paper categories as follows:

Technical Research

10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; references only may be included on up to 2 additional pages.

Workshop Proposals

For workshop proposals: 4 pages for the proposal + 1 page for the draft workshop CFP
For workshop papers: 7 pages

Technical Briefings

2-page abstract, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.

Software Engineering Education and Training

Full papers and case studies: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Panel session proposals: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.

Software Engineering in Society

Short papers: 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Long papers: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Case study papers: 10 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Submission Policy

• All submissions must conform to the ESRDB formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices, etc. References may be included on up to two additional pages. All submissions must be in ms word. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper is accepted).
• As part of the submission process, authors will have the option to indicate whether their manuscript is an original submission or the resubmission of a manuscript previously submitted to and rejected from any publication venue. Improved versions of previously submitted work are enthusiastically welcomed, and the authors are encouraged to use the optional “Improvements” field of the submission form to indicate where the work was previously submitted and how it was improved.

Click on the following link for paper template.

• Engineering Paper Template