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About Conference and Journals
For students in mainland of China, a good reference is the list provided by China Computer Federation (CCF).
The following page gives a good organization of the list.
Paper Writing
Overleaf & LaTex
For science and engineering students, LaTex is often used. As the environment configuration is hard, a popular option is the online editor Overleaf.
Website: https://www.overleaf.com
If you are a beginner of LaTex, we recommend you to read the documents provided by Overleaf:
Templates
The templates of some well-recognized conferences / Journals are listed here. Notice that normally a conference will post the relevant information on the Call for Papers page.
IEEE Template (used by ICDE, INFOCOM, etc): https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
ACM Template (used by SIGMOD, KDD, theWebConf, WSDM, CIKM, etc): https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
English Writing
Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel
Common LaTex Errors (And How to Avoid Them) by BOAZ TSABAN
Searching
“Search” occupies a large body of Research.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com
Z-lib is powerful for searching for textbooks. We do not provide the link here to avoid potential troubles.
Reading Papers
Here we recommend the following two tools for reading papers.
ReadPaper
Advantages:
- Compatible for different Operating Systems
- Allow online search
- Reference Card is convenient.
- Cloud Storage. Easy to sync.
- Reading time statistics
Drawbacks:
- Have to top up for better experience.
- Does not support offline reading. Relies heavily on Internet connection.
Zotero
Advantages
- Allows offline reading. People can read local files.
- Free
Drawbacks:
- There may be some bugs on machines with Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, etc)
- Does not include a search engine
Stories of Other PhDs
The PhD Grind by Philip GUO. Chinese translation: PhD-Grind-CHN
博士这五年 - 李沐
- 作者:Xiaolong CHEN
- 链接:https://chenxlong.top/article/a9fd13a7-f502-4869-8450-502262245920
- 声明:本文采用 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 许可协议，转载请注明出处。