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focs-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) paper — making the first ten pages carry the whole case to a broad theory committee, pairing informal and formal theorem statements, keeping single-column 11-point prose readable, and writing double-blind-safe self-references.
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# FOCS Writing Style
FOCS submissions carry no length cap, and the CFP encourages submitting the
full version of the paper — but everything outside the abstract, the
references, and the **first ten pages** is read only at the committee's
discretion (FOCS 2026 CFP, checked 2026-07-08). Style at this venue is
therefore an exercise in front-loading: the opening ten pages must let a
committee member from a different corner of TCS decide the paper's fate
fairly, even if they never turn to page eleven.
## Budgeting the guaranteed pages
A budget that survives contact with real papers:
