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You can prepare your paper either in MS Word (the previous link) or in Latex (this link, the file "ProcSci_TeX.zip"). Some authors suggest changing line 10 in the file ProcSci_Tex/templates/author.tex from "\documentclass{svproc}" to "\documentclass{styles/svproc}".

The file "Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf" gives you a general idea of how a correctly formatted paper should look like. You should also explore the Springer Nature's proceedings website.

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