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

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings,
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, and not as an independent document. Please do not revise any
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special of the current designations.
Characters, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. (Abstract, between
150-250 words)
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
Keywords—component; formatting; style; styling; insert (key Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
words) the content as a separate text file. Keep your text and graphic
files separate until after the text has been formatted and styled.
I. INTRODUCTION (Heading 1) Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard returns to only one
return at the end of a paragraph. Do not add any kind of
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a
pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not number text heads-
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with
the template will do that for you.
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper Finally, complete content and organizational editing before
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of formatting. Please take note of the following items when
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic proofreading spelling and grammar:
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
conformity of style throughout conference proceedings. Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses, and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in
following the example. Some components, such as multi- the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed,
although the various table text styles are provided. The
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating B. Units
the applicable criteria that follow. There shall be 8-12 pages in  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
total. are encouraged.) English units may be used as
secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
II. EASE OF USE be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
as “3.5-inch disk drive.”
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the A4 to confusion because equations do not balance
paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please close dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
this file and download the file “MSW_USltr_format”. state the units for each quantity that you use in an
equation.
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications  Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
The template is used to format your paper and style the text. units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter,” not
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are “webers/m2.” Spell units when they appear in text: “...a
prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note few henries,” not “...a few H.”
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
  Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25,” not “.25.”  In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can
Use “cm3,” not “cc.” (bullet list) accurately replace the word using, capitalize the “u”; if
not, keep using lower-cased.
C. Equations  Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
The equations are an exception to the prescribed “affect” and “effect,” “complement” and “compliment,”
specifications of this template. You will need to determine “discreet” and “discrete,” “principal” and “principle.”
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer.”
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat  The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
paper is styled.
 There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within abbreviation “et al.”
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right
tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is,” and the
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example.”
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when
they are part of a sentence, as in IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
ab  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
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined toolbar.
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1),” not
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except at the beginning of a
A. Authors and Affiliations
sentence: “Equation (1) is ...”
The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
D. Some Common Mistakes repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
other common scientific constants, is zero with 1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o.” change the default, adjust the template as follows.
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
question and exclamation marks are located within affiliation lines.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or name
b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear Column” from the selection palette.
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
or statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated the second affiliation.
outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A 2) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the the default, adjust the template as follows.
parentheses.)
a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
 A graph within a graph is an “inset,” not an “insert.”
b) Change number of columns: Select the “Columns”
The word alternatively is preferred to the word
icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that
alternates). Column” from the selection palette.
c) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
and copy this selection.
“approximately” or “effectively.”

Identify applicable sponsor/s here. If no sponsors, delete this text box

(sponsors).
 d) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure
the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an
additional affiliation. example, write the quantity “Magnetization,” or
“Magnetization, M,” not just “M.” If including units in the
e) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
the right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations, “Magnetization (A ( m(1),” not just “A/m.” Do not label axes
place your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
up to highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go “Temperature (K),” not “Temperature/K.”
to Column icon and select “2 Columns”. If you have an odd
number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)
the page; all previous will be in two columns.
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
B. Identify the Headings America is without an “e” after the “g.” Avoid the stilted
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. B.
the reader through your paper. There are two types: component G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered
heads and text heads. footnote on the first page.

Component heads identify the different components of your

paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples
REFERENCES
include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES, and for
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5.” Use “figure The template will number citations consecutively within
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your brackets [1], which is an IEEE style format. The sentence
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract,” will require you to punctuation follows the bracket [2]. Refer simply to the
apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style reference number, as in [3]—do not use “Ref. [3]” or
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence:
the text. “Reference [3] was the first ...”
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level table footnotes.
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published,
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1,” even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
“Heading 2,” “Heading 3,” and “Heading 4” are prescribed. cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
C. Figures and Tables the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and element symbols.
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in For papers published in translation journals, please give the
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the citation [6].
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
abbreviation “Fig. 1,” even at the beginning of a sentence. Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
TABLE I. TABLE STYLES (references)
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
Table Table Column Head 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead [3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
copy More table copya anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
b.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
(which is ideally a 300 dpi resolution TIFF or EPS file with
all fonts embedded) because this method is somewhat more
stable than directly inserting a picture.
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box >
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line.
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.