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The document provides formatting guidelines for a conference paper. It specifies the required paper title, author names and affiliations, and abstract section. It also provides guidance on formatting the paper components like margins, fonts, equations and units. The document aims to ensure consistency across all papers in the conference proceedings.

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IEEE Formatting

The document provides formatting guidelines for a conference paper. It specifies the required paper title, author names and affiliations, and abstract section. It also provides guidance on formatting the paper components like margins, fonts, equations and units. The document aims to ensure consistency across all papers in the conference proceedings.

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Paper Title

Given Name Surname Given Name Surname* Given Name Surname Given Name Surname
dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation)
name of organization (of name of organization (of name of organization (of name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation)
City, Country City, Country City, Country City, Country
email address or ORCID email address or ORCID email address or ORCID email address or ORCID
*Corresponding author

Given Name Surname Given Name Surname


dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation)
name of organization (of name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation)
City, Country City, Country
email address or ORCID email address or ORCID

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and


already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads,
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications
Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. The template is used to format your paper and style the text.
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
I. INTRODUCTION
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications that
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing not as an independent document. Please do not revise any of
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper the current designations.
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) the content as a separate text file. Complete all content and
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. organizational editing before formatting. Please note sections
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- A-D below for more information on proofreading, spelling and
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this grammar.
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses,
following the example. Some components, such as multi- Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the text
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and limit
although the various table text styles are provided. The use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph.
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper. Do
the applicable criteria that follow. not number text heads-the template will do that for you.

II. EASE OF USE A. Abbreviations and Acronyms


Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
A. Selecting a Template used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in
US-letter paper size. If you are using A4-sized paper, please the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
close this file and download the file “MSW_A4_format”.

Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.
B. Units outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A
 Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the
are encouraged.) English units may be used as parentheses.)
secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would  A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”.
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such The word alternatively is preferred to the word
as “3.5-inch disk drive”. “alternately” (unless you really mean something that
 Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in alternates).
amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads  Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
to confusion because equations do not balance “approximately” or “effectively”.
dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly state
the units for each quantity that you use in an equation.  In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the “u”;
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of if not, keep using lower-cased.
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in text:  Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
“. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”. “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and “compliment”,
“discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” and “principle”.
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”. Use
“cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
C. Equations  The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
The equations are an exception to the prescribed the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
specifications of this template. You will need to determine  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the abbreviation “et al.”.
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
paper is styled. An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within
IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right
tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
they are part of a sentence, as in: prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
ab  toolbar.
A. Authors and Affiliations
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop.
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This is
the author sequence that will be used in future citations and by
D. Some Common Mistakes indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns nor
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as
possible (for example, do not differentiate among departments
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and of the same organization).
other common scientific constants, is zero with
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for more
 In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, than 8 authors.
question and exclamation marks are located within 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
quotation marks only when a complete thought or name default, adjust the template as follows.
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the correct
or statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated number of columns from the selection palette.
c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or
the extra authors. “Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
B. Identify the Headings “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axes
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
the reader through your paper. There are two types: component “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”.
heads and text heads.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Component heads identify the different components of your The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
include Acknowledgments and References and, for these, the expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. B.
correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered
your Figure captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run- footnote on the first page.
in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a style
(in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop REFERENCES
down menu to differentiate the head from the text.
The template will number citations consecutively within
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and,
Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”,
cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list. Use
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed.
letters for table footnotes.
C. Figures and Tables
Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published,
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the element symbols.
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. For papers published in translation journals, please give the
English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
citation [6].
Table Table Column Head
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
copy More table copya Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) (references)
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., 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
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
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].
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.

Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
composing and formatting conference papers. Please
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure ensure that all template text is removed from your
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when conference paper prior to submission to the conference.
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an
Failure to remove template text from your paper may result in your paper not being published.
Authors’ background

Your Name Title* Research Field Personal website

*This form helps us to understand your paper better, the form itself will not be published. Please make sure that you have
deleted this form in your final paper after acceptance.

*Title can be chosen from: master student, Phd candidate, assistant professor, lecture, senior lecture, associate professor, full
professor

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