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Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

*Note: Sub-titles are not captured in proceedings and should not be used

line 1: 1st Given Name Surname line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address line 5: email address line 5: email address

line 1: 4th Given Name Surname line 1: 5th Given Name Surname line 1: 6th Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address line 5: email address line 5: email address

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do
Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. not revise any of the current designations.
(Abstract)
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key
words) Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with spelling and grammar.
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) for you.
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings.
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are Due to the strict of international publication standard
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout (Atlantis Press), please set your full paper not over 6 pages.
this document and are identified in italic type, within If not meet the standard, your full paper may be not
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such published, because of it will be rejected from publisher.
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
prescribed, although the various table text styles are
provided. The formatter will need to create these components, Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
II. EASE OF USE and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your B. Units
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the ● Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file. secondary units (in parentheses). An exception
would be the use of English units as identifiers in
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications
trade, such as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
The template is used to format your paper and style the
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts ● Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template leads to confusion because equations do not balance
measures proportionately more than is customary. This dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly

Please do not give the page number in the header or footer.


state the units for each quantity that you use in an ● In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can
equation. accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased.
● Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not ● Be aware of the different meanings of the
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement”
text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”. and “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”,
“principal” and “principle”.
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.
● Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”. ● Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
● The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
C. Equations the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
The equations are an exception to the prescribed ● There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
specifications of this template. You will need to determine abbreviation “et al.”.
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font). ● The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
paper is styled.
IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers,
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in: the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word
Formatting toolbar.
a b A. Authors and Affiliations
The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop.
authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined
conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not
from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a
is the author sequence that will be used in future citations and
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .”
by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
D. Some Common Mistakes nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
● The word “data” is plural, not singular. succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate among
departments of the same organization).
● The subscript for the permeability of vacuum μ0, and
other common scientific constants, is zero with 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for more
than 8 authors.
● In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
question and exclamation marks are located within default, adjust the template as follows.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When
b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic
icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation
correct number of columns from the selection palette.
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing the extra authors.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is
punctuated within the parentheses.) B. Identify the Headings
● A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
The word alternatively is preferred to the word the reader through your paper. There are two types:
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that component heads and text heads.
alternates).
Component heads identify the different components of
● Do not use the word “essentially” to mean your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
“approximately” or “effectively”. Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your REFERENCES
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you The template will number citations consecutively within
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head [2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not
from the text. use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, Use letters for table footnotes.
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”, Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
C. Figures and Tables should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span proper nouns and element symbols.
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert For papers published in translation journals, please give
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. language citation [6].

TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Table Table Column Head Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead (references)
copy More table copy a [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
“Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label University Science, 1989.
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. Conference templates contain guidance text for
composing and formatting conference papers. Please
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) ensure that all template text is removed from your
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in conference paper prior to submission to the
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted conference. Failure to remove template text from
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. your paper may result in your paper not being
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the published.
unnumbered footnote on the first page.

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