Paper Title (use style: paper title)

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

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C. Equations • Be aware of the different meanings of the
The equations are an exception to the prescribed homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and
specifications of this template. You will need to determine “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal”
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the and “principle”.
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 equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your • The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
paper is styled. the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, • There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using abbreviation “et al.”.
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate • The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than
a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
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
α + β = χ. (1) for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. Be your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” Formatting toolbar.
D. Some Common Mistakes A. Authors and Affiliations
• The word “data” is plural, not singular. The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
• The subscript for the permeability of vacuum µ0, and Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
other common scientific constants, is zero with example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
• In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, 1)For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
question and exclamation marks are located within change the default, adjust the template as follows.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or
a)Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic affiliation lines.
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation b)Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a Column” from the selection palette.
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing
c)Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for the
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is
punctuated within the parentheses.) second affiliation.
2)For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change the
• A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. default, adjust the template as follows.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word
a)Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that
alternates). b)Change number of columns: Select the “Columns” icon
from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
• Do not use the word “essentially” to mean Column” from the selection palette.
“approximately” or “effectively”.
c)Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
• In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can and copy this selection.
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased.
 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 the label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an even with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations, place “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axes
your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor up to with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go to “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”.
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.
the reader through your paper. There are two types: B. G. thanks”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnum-
component heads and text heads. bered footnote on the first page.
Component heads identify the different components of
your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. REFERENCES
Examples include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES and, for The template will number citations consecutively within
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style sentence: “Reference [3] was the first . . .”
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
from the text. Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head table footnotes.
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level Unless there are six authors or more give all authors'
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”, should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for proper
C. Figures and Tables nouns and element symbols. For papers published in
translation journals, please give the English citation first,
1)Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and tables
followed by the original foreign-language citation [6].
at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in the
middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span across [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
both columns. Figure captions should be below the figures; Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
table heads should appear above the tables. Insert figures and (references)
tables after they are cited in the text. Use the abbreviation [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
“Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
[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
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
Table Table Column Head [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
copy More table copya
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
Figure 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)

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