Submission Format for IMS2014 (Title in 18-point Times font)

Leave Author List blank for your IMS2014 Summary (initial) submission.
IMS2014 will be rigorously enforcing the double-blind reviewing requirements.
∗ Leave Affiliation List blank for your Summary (initial) submission

Abstract—Use 9 point Times New Roman Bold for the abstract. you must still adhere to the general guidelines embodied
Set your line spacing to be 10 points rather than single space. in this document concerning, but not limited to, font size,
Indent the first line by 0.125 inches and type the word “Abstract” margin size, page limits, file size, etc.
in 9 point Times New Roman Bold Italic. This should be followed
by two spaces, a long dash (option / shift / minus), two spaces,
and then the first word of your abstract (as shown above). A II. OVERVIEW OF THE D IGEST F ORMAT
more professional look will result if all the spaces are set to a All paragraphs of text, including the abstract, figure cap-
font style of regular rather than bold. Times font is an acceptable
substitute for Times New Roman font. After the abstract, you tions, and references, should be justified at the left and the
should list a few key words from the IEEE approved Index Terms right edges.
(send email to keywords@ieee.org for the latest list) that describe For the Title use 18-point Times (Roman) font. Its paragraph
your paper. The index terms are used by automated IEEE search description should be set so that the line spacing is single
engines to quickly locate your paper. Typically, you should list with 6-point spacing before and 6-point spacing after (Format
about 5 to 7 key words, in alphabetical order, using 9 point Times
New Roman Bold font. An example is shown next. → Paragraph → Indents and Spacing). The font description
Index Terms—Ceramics, coaxial resonators, delay filters, for the Author List and Authors’ Affiliation(s) should be 12-
delay-lines, power amplifiers. point Times. The paragraph descriptions should be set so that
the line spacing is single with 6-point spacings before and
I. I NTRODUCTION after. Use an additional line spacing of 12 points before the
beginning of the double column section, as shown above.
Please read through this entire template before you start
using it to create your paper! This will save you and the MTT
III. D ETAILED T EXT F ORMATTING
considerable time, and improve your chances for acceptance.
The following information is provided to help you prepare the Using 8.5 x 11-inch paper, the top and bottom margins are
Initial Submission as well as the Final Paper for submission 1.125 inches, and the left and right margins are 0.85 inches.
to IMS2014. (Many authors submit the same exact paper for Except for Title, Authors and Affiliations, use a double column
the initial as well as the final submission. This is a common format. The column width is 3.275 inches and the column
practice. See item #4 below.) A contributor should remember spacing is 0.25 inch.
that: Each major section begins with a Heading in 10 point
1) Deadlines are absolute, don’t even ask! Times font centered within the column and numbered using
Roman numerals (except for ACKNOWLEDGMENT and R EF -
2) Summaries may not exceed three pages, including all
ERENCES), followed by a period, a single space, and the title
figures, tables, references, etc. Additionally, there is a
using an initial capital letter for each word. The remaining
size limit on the electronic version of all Summaries. In
letters are in SMALL CAPITALS. The paragraph description of
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), submissions
the section heading line should be set for 18 points before, 6
may not exceed 2 Megabytes.
points after, and the line spacing should be set to exactly 12
3) Acceptance rates have historically run at slightly over points.
50%. There is not sufficient room within the Technical For the body of your paper, use 10-point Times font and set
Program to accept all submissions. your line spacing at “exactly 12 points” with 0 points before
4) Many submitters with previous IMS experience realize and after. Indent each paragraph by 0.125 inches.
that, if their submission is accepted, they will be Further details are provided in the remainder of this paper
required to submit a version of their Final Paper to for specific situations.
be published in the Symposium Digest. As the Digest
paper will be similar in length to the Summary, many A. Major Subsections
contributors opt to prepare their Summary in the As shown, denote subsections with left justified 10-point
format required for the Digest. This template contains Times Italic. Order them with capitalized alphabetic characters
the instructions for the proper preparation of such a (A, B,. . . ). Follow the letter designation with a period, a single
document. space, and then the subsection title capitalizing the first letter
5) You should employ this format. This document is being of each word. The paragraph description of the subsection
made available as a template for your convenience. If heading is set to “exactly 12-point” line spacing with 6 points
you elect not to use this template, please remember that before and after.
 TABLE 1
Summary of Typographical Settings
Font Specifics Paragraph Description
Section (Times Roman unless specified) spacing (in points) alignment indent
style size special line before after (in inches)
Title plain 18 none single 6 6 centered none
Autohr List plain 12 mpme single 6 6 centered none
Affiliations plain 12 none single 6 6 centered none
Abstract bold 9 none exactly 10 0 0 justified 0.125 1st line
Headings plain 10 small caps exactly 12 18 6 centered none
Subheadings italic 10 none exactly 12 6 6 left none
Body plain 10 none exactly 12 0 0 justified 0.125 1st line
Paragrahps
Equations Symbol font for special characters single 6 6 centered none
Figures 6 to 9 point sans serif (Helvetica) single 0 0 centered none
Figure Captions plain 9 none 10 0 0 justified none, tab at 0.5
References plain 9 none 10 0 0 justified 0.25 hanging

B. Equations  
Equations should be centered in the column and numbered 10-point Helvetica
sequentially. Place the equation number to the right of the
8-point Helvetica
equation within a parenthesis, with right justification within
its column. An example would be
I ZZ
∂
E · dL = − B·dS (1)
∂t
or
∂D
∇×H = J+ . (2)
∂t
Note that a period is used to properly punctuate the previous
sentence. It is placed at the end of the second equation. Make
sure that any subscripts in your equations are legible and are
not too small to read! When referring to an equation, use the
number within parenthesis. For example, you would usually
refer to the second equation as (2) rather than equation (2). If
Fig. 1. Estimated relationship between the time an author spends reading
possible, use the Symbol font for all special characters.The these instructions and the quality of the author’s digest article.
paragraph description of the line containing the equation
should be set for 6 points before and 6 points after. The
paragraph spacing will need to be set to “single” rather than them into the top of the next column. Do not lump all figures
“exactly 12 point” so that the height will autoscale to fit the at the end of the paper! If you have difficulties with the
equation. titles on your figures, you can always elect to add in the
titles as separate text boxes, rather than importing the titles
IV. F IGURES with the graph. This is sometimes helpful in getting a lengthy
Most of the following applies to Microsoft Word. Figures vertically-oriented title to display correctly.
should utilize as much of the column width as possible in order Notice that prior to the graph, a single 12-point line is used
to maximize legibility. Use a sans serif font, such as Helvetica. to separate the preceding text from the graph. The equivalent
Helvetica is larger and much easier to read than Times. Using of a blank line should exist between the bottom of the graph
8- to 10-point Helvetica usually results in a legible figure. Do (the x-axis caption) and the figure caption. (In this particular
not use any font smaller than 8-point! It must be legible. When case, there was no need to add a blank line between the x-
referring to a figure, use the abbreviation Fig. followed by its axis label and the figure caption, because there was already
number. Place figure captions directly below each figure. Use adequate spacing provided by the image border.) After the
9-point Times with the paragraph spacing set at “exactly 10 figure caption, there should be a single 12-point blank line
points.” Set a tab at 0.5 inch. Type “Fig. #.” (# is the numeral) before the text resumes. LATEX accepts encapsulated post script
then tab over to the 0.5 inch mark before beginning the text files as figures. Standard post script figures will not expand and
of the figure caption. Note that figure captions are always (left contract to fill the designate area on the page. Encapsulated
and right) justified, rather than centered, even if they are less post script files will. Thus, encapsulated post script files must
than a single full line in length. See the caption for Fig. 1. obviously be only one page long. It is often easy to convert a
Within LATEX there is basically only one option for placing post script file to encapsulated post script. In Linux this can
figures within your paper. Often the easiest way is to insert be done with the command, “ps2epsi.” If you decide to use
color traces in your graphical data, be absolutely certain that VI. C REATION OF THE PDF F ILE
there is no ambiguity about your graphical information when Your final submission must be IEEE Xplore Compatible,
printed on a B&W printer. Here is a common example of what or your paper will be rejected. The IEEE PDF eXpress web
can go wrong with the numbering and sizing of axis titles on site used for IMS2014 will be available to aid you in this
a graph. In this case, the graph was initially pasted at a much process. IEEE PDF eXpress is an online tool that converts
larger size than the column width, and then reduced to fit: your document into a PDF format that complies with IEEE
Table I on the second page was inserted using “Insert”, Xplore R
standards. Authors should check the IMS2014 web
“Text Box”, creating the text contained in Table I, and then site (http://ims2014.org) for the most up-to-date instructions.
formatting the text box using all the settings available under As always with a conversion to PDF, authors should very
“Format”, “Text Box. . . ”. Table I also serves as an illustration carefully check a printed copy.
of one of the rare instances when the double column format
requirement can be violated. Certain figures and tables will VII. C ONCLUSION
require the full-page width to display. It is usually best to Following these instructions will improve the quality of
place these figures and tables at the top, rather than in the your paper and the IMS Digest. If you have comments, please
middle or bottom of a page. Tables should be entered within contact one of the Steering Committee editors.
a single column if this can be done cleanly, without the entry
becoming too crowded. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For the Summary paper submission only, no acknowledge-
V. C ITING P REVIOUS W ORK ments are allowed.
When referencing a journal article [1], a conference digest
article [2] or a book [3], place the reference numbers within R EFERENCES
square brackets. To simultaneously cite these references [1] [1] W. H. Cantrell, “Tuning analysis for the high-Q class-E power amplifier,”
IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory & Tech., vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 2397-2402,
- [3] use the format just demonstrated. The reference list is December 2000.
the last section and references are listed in the order cited. [2] W. H. Cantrell, and W. A. Davis, “Amplitude modulator utilizing a high-
Use 9 point Times. The paragraph description is set for a Q class-E DC-DC converter”, 2003 IEEE MTT-S Int. Microwave Symp.
Dig., vol. 3, pp. 1721-1724, June 2003.
line spacing of exactly 10 points with 0 point spacing before [3] H. L. Krauss, C. W. Bostian, and F. H. Raab, Solid State Radio
and after. A 0.25 inch hanging indention should be specified. Engineering, New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1980.
Generally speaking, references should be very detailed. For
Note: For the Summary paper submission only, references to
journal articles, list all authors by initials and last name, the
the authors own work should be cited as if done by others
title of the paper in quotations (capitalizing only the first letter
to enable a double-blind review. Citations must be complete
of the first word, unless it would be capitalized in a sentence,
and not redacted, allowing the reviewers to confirm that
e.g., a proper noun), the journal name in italics, the volume
prior art has been properly identified and acknowledged.
number, the issue number, the page numbers, and the date.
Use the examples provided [1] - [3] as a guide.
For the double-blind submission, citations of the authors’
own work should be worded in a way that avoids identifying
any connection to the authors. Simply note your prior work
in the same way as work by other authors. For example, do
not write, “We (or the authors) demonstrated in [x] that. . .”
Rather write, “It was demonstrated in [x] that. . .”