Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings are published with Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be in PDF format, formatted in the LNCS style and be at most 25 pages long. A bibliography of up to two pages may be added. Additional material intended for the reviewers, but not for publication in the final version may be placed in a clearly marked appendix. Papers violating these constraints are rejected without review.
ESOP has an agreement with ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems to produce an issue of the journal collecting selected papers of the conference. The papers will follow the normal TOPLAS reviewing process but TOPLAS will grant them a speedier treatment so that the composition of the TOPLAS issue will be known before the next ESOP edition. It will be announced on its website.