Paper Title (use style: paper title)

Subtitle as needed (paper subtitle)

Authors Name/s per 1st Affiliation (Author) Authors Name/s per 2nd Affiliation (Author)
line 1 (of Affiliation): dept. name of organization line 1 (of Affiliation): dept. name of organization
line 2: name of organization, acronyms acceptable line 2: name of organization, acronyms acceptable
line 3: City, Country line 3: City, Country
line 4: e-mail address if desired line 4: e-mail address if desired

AbstractThis electronic document is a live template. The III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are
already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
given in this document. (Abstract) the content as a separate text file. Keep your text and graphic
files separate until after the text has been formatted and styled.
Keywords-component; formatting; style; styling; insert (key Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard returns to only one
words) return at the end of a paragraph. Do not add any kind of
pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not number text heads-
the template will do that for you.
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
Finally, complete content and organizational editing before
This template, modified in MS Word 2003 and saved as formatting. Please take note of the following items when
Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 RTF for the PC, provides authors proofreading spelling and grammar:
with most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper
A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses, B. Units
following the example. Some components, such as multi-
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
although the various table text styles are provided. The are encouraged.) English units may be used as
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
the applicable criteria that follow. be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
as 3.5-inch disk drive.
II. EASE OF USE Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) leads to confusion because equations do not balance
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the A4 state the units for each quantity that you use in an
paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please close equation.
this file and download the file for MSW_USltr_format. Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
units: Wb/m2 or webers per square meter, not
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications webers/m2. Spell out units when they appear in text:
The template is used to format your paper and style the text. . . . a few henries, not . . . a few H.
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are Use a zero before decimal points: 0.25, not .25.
prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note Use cm3, not cc. (bullet list)
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications C. Equations
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, The equations are an exception to the prescribed
and not as an independent document. Please do not revise any specifications of this template. You will need to determine
of the current designations. whether or not your equation should be typed using either the

Identify applicable sponsor/s here. If no sponsors, delete this text box. (sponsors)
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font). There is no period after the et in the Latin
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat abbreviation et al..
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your
paper is styled. The abbreviation i.e. means that is, and the
abbreviation e.g. means for example.
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
they are part of a sentence, as in As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
toolbar.

Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. A. Authors and Affiliations
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
before or immediately following the equation. Use (1), not repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
Eq. (1) or equation (1), except at the beginning of a Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
sentence: Equation (1) is . . . example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
D. Some Common Mistakes
1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
The word data is plural, not singular. change the default, adjust the template as follows.
The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
other common scientific constants, is zero with affiliation lines.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter o.
b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select 1
question and exclamation marks are located within Column from the selection palette.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or
c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for the
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic second affiliation.
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation d) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A the default, adjust the template as follows.
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing e) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is f) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
punctuated within the parentheses.) icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select 1
A graph within a graph is an inset, not an insert. Column from the selection palette.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word g) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
alternately (unless you really mean something that and copy this selection.
alternates).
h) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
Do not use the word essentially to mean the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down
approximately or effectively. the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each
In your paper title, if the words that uses can additional affiliation.
accurately replace the word using, capitalize the u; i) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to the
if not, keep using lower-cased. right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an even
Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations, place
affect and effect, complement and your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor up to
compliment, discreet and discrete, principal highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go to
and principle. Column icon and select 2 Columns. If you have an odd
number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on
Do not confuse imply and infer. the page; all previous will be in two columns.
The prefix non is not a word; it should be joined to
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
B. Identify the Headings Magnetization, M, not just M. If including units in the
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
the reader through your paper. There are two types: component with units. In the example, write Magnetization (A/m) or
heads and text heads. Magnetization {A[m(1)]}, not just A/m. Do not label axes
with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
Component heads identify the different components of your Temperature (K), not Temperature/K.
paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples
include Acknowledgments and References and, for these, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT (HEADING 5)
correct style to use is Heading 5. Use figure caption for
your Figure captions, and table head for your table title. Run- The preferred spelling of the word acknowledgment in
in heads, such as Abstract, will require you to apply a style America is without an e after the g. Avoid the stilted
(in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop expression, One of us (R. B. G.) thanks . . . Instead, try R.
down menu to differentiate the head from the text. B. G. thanks. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnum-
bered footnote on the first page.
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this REFERENCES
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level The template will number citations consecutively within
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]do not use
subheads should be introduced. Styles named Heading 1, Ref. [3] or reference [3] except at the beginning of a
Heading 2, Heading 3, and Heading 4 are prescribed. sentence: Reference [3] was the first . . .

C. Figures and Tables Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the

actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and tables cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in the table footnotes.
middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span across Unless there are six authors or more give all authors'
both columns. Figure captions should be below the figures; names; do not use et al.. Papers that have not been published,
table heads should appear above the tables. Insert figures and even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
tables after they are cited in the text. Use the abbreviation Fig. cited as unpublished [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
1, even at the beginning of a sentence. publication should be cited as in press [5]. Capitalize only
the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES element symbols.

Table Table Column Head For papers published in translation journals, please give the
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
citation [6].
copy More table copya
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions, Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529551, April 1955.
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic (references)
(which is ideally a 300 dpi TIFF or EPS file, with all fonts [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
embedded) because, in an MSW document, this method is 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.6873.
somewhat more stable than directly inserting a picture. [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, Fine particles, thin films and exchange
anisotropy, in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271350.
MSWord Format pull-down menu, select Text Box > [4] K. Elissa, Title of paper if known, unpublished.
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. [5] R. Nicole, Title of paper with only first word capitalized, J. Name
Figure 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) Stand. Abbrev., in press.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, Electron spectroscopy
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface, IEEE
Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer's Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
example, write the quantity Magnetization, or University Science, 1989.