Guidelines for bibliography entries

Bibliography entries should contain:

  • Standard bibilographic data:
    • title
    • authors
    • venue
    • year of publication
  • When available:
    • DBLP BiBTeX tag
    • link to publicly accessible PDF
    • link to conference presentation video / slides
    • link to project page, if paper describes an implementation
  • One sentence "executive summary" stating the main result (not necessarily every contribution) of the paper. This is displayed in big lists of papers.
  • Longer summary of main results
    • Constructions: Describe the main idea behind results/instantiations. State the security model, hardness assumptions, and efficiency analysis if relevant. State the instantiations of easy-to-state things like gate-level ciphers.
    • Definitions: If a main contribution of paper, give an overview (see example in BHR12)
  • Other things:
    • Link to related work (especially followup fixes / major improvements) if clear
    • Link to glossary terms, unless this is the paper that defines the term (in that case, the glossary entry will just direct to the more detailed explanation in that paper's summary).
    • Stick to facts, avoid subjective evaluation
    • Take no more than a page. Preferably 1 or 2 paragraphs