Paper Title (Use Style: Paper Title)
Paper Title (Use Style: Paper Title)
Paper Title (Use Style: Paper Title)
*Note: Sub-titles are not captured in Xplore and should not be used
Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads,
The template is used to format your paper and style the
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols,
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts
Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or
Abstract. (Abstract) are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key measures proportionately more than is customary. This
words) measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a not revise any of the current designations.
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
with most of the formatting specifications needed for
preparing electronic versions of their papers. All standard Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
paper components have been specified for three reasons: (1) save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
ease of use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) spelling and grammar.
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
this document and are identified in italic type, within paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not for you.
prescribed, although the various table text styles are
provided. The formatter will need to create these A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
II. EASE OF USE abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the B. Units
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file. units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.
secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
2
Component heads identify the different components of ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)
your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R.
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you unnumbered footnote on the first page.
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head REFERENCES
from the text.
The template will number citations consecutively within
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket
hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the primary [2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not
text head because all subsequent material relates and use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub- sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals)
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
“Heading 4” are prescribed. Use letters for table footnotes.
Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
C. Figures and Tables
names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert proper nouns and element symbols.
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the
For papers published in translation journals, please give
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
language citation [6].
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES