A brief presentation with tongue-in-cheek advice to young researchers.

1. Towards an effective approach to publishing

2. Hints and tips to: get your stuff published

4. DOs and DON'Ts

5. Experiments

6. Select a venue

7. Wait for reviews

8. Get the reviews

9. Profit!?

12. Do write : ”the literature on this topic is vast, we outline below some key previous works”

13. Do not write : ”we had to remove 2 pages from the conference submission, now we added them back for the journal version”

14. Do write : ”portions of this work were previously presented in summary form”

15. Do not write : ”if you remove your glasses and step back you may see this is not totally random”

16. Do write : ”the data suggests a certain correlation to be studied in future work”

18. Do write : ”we omit the details for lack of space”

19. Do not write : ”we tried lots of stuff and were getting desperate, the only thing that kind of worked was this”

20. Do write : ”we summarize only the main results”

21. Do not write : ”we started reviewing the literature two days before the deadline”

22. Do write : ”in a very recent work [x] did something similar, we will compare against it in future work”

28. Many reviewers will actually read your paper

29. That's pretty much it

30. Get the reviews

31. Finally: Keep your goals flexible Thank you!