Saving space in LaTeX

\usepackage{times} will use Times font instead of the default, saving significant space.

\usepackage[small,compact]{titlesec} will modify section titles and the spacing above/below them, resulting in significant space savings.

\usepackage[small,it]{caption} reduces the size of captions under tables and figures.

\def\Section {\S} allows you to replace the rather long “Section 5″ by §5 when you use \Section 5.

The itemize environment can be replaced by: \newcommand{\squishlist}{ \begin{list}{$\bullet$}

• { \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt} \setlength{\parsep}{3pt} \setlength{\topsep}{3pt} \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt} \setlength{\leftmargin}{1.5em} \setlength{\labelwidth}{1em} \setlength{\labelsep}{0.5em} } }

\newcommand{\squishlisttwo}{ \begin{list}{$\bullet$}

• { \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt} \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
  • \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}
  • \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
  • \setlength{\leftmargin}{2em}
  • \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}
  • \setlength{\labelsep}{0.5em} } }

\newcommand{\squishend}{

• \end{list} }

Example usage: \squishlist %% \begin{itemize} \item First item \item Second item \squishend %% \end{itemize}

Bibliography can be shrunk as follows: {\scriptsize \bibliographystyle{abbrv} \bibliography{references} } Replace \scriptsize by \footnotesize or \small depending upon your comfort level of font-shrinkage.

The standard \maketitle consumes significant space. Many conferences do not dictate a style-file for initial submission. Thus you could create your own compact title!

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article} \begin{document}

\twocolumn[% \centerline{\Large \bf A Randomized ID Selection Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Networks} %% Paper title

\medskip

\centerline{\bf Gurmeet Singh Manku} %% Author name(s) \bigskip ]

%% The rest of the paper (with no maketitle) \end{document}

The affiliation and email of authors can be moved to footnotes with \thanks: \author{Gurmeet Singh Manku\thanks{ Computer Science Department, Stanford University. EMail: [email protected]}}