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. The B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications
various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are
The template is used to format your paper and style the text.
already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions
given in this document. (Abstract) All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are
prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
Keywords-component; formatting; style; styling; insert (key peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
words) measures proportionately more than is customary. This
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings,
and not as an independent document. Please do not revise any
This template, created in MS Word 2000 and saved as
of the current designations.
“Word 97-2000 & 6.0/95 – RTF” for the PC, provides authors
with most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic the content as a separate text file. Keep your text and graphic
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the files separate until after the text has been formatted and styled.
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard returns to only one
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. return at the end of a paragraph. Do not add any kind of
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not number text heads-
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this the template will do that for you.
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses,
Finally, complete content and organizational editing before
following the example. Some components, such as multi-
formatting. Please take note of the following items when
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed,
proofreading spelling and grammar:
although the various table text styles are provided. The
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating
the applicable criteria that follow. A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
II. EASE OF USE used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
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 in
the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the A4
B. Units
paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please close
this file and download the file for “MSW US ltr format”.  Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in text:
“. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.
Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)

Identify applicable sponsor/s here. (sponsors)

C. Equations  Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
The equations are an exception to the prescribed “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, within  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right abbreviation “et al.”.
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
 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
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. Be prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not toolbar.
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” A. Authors and Affiliations
The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
D. Some Common Mistakes
repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
other common scientific constants, is zero with organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. 1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, change the default, adjust the template as follows.
question and exclamation marks are located within a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
quotation marks only when a complete thought or affiliation lines.
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation Column” 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 the
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing second affiliation.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is 2) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
punctuated within the parentheses.) the default, adjust the template as follows.
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word b) Change number of columns: Select the “Columns”
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
alternates). Column” from the selection palette.
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean c) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
“approximately” or “effectively”. and copy this selection.
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can d) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the “u”; the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down
if not, keep using lower-cased. the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each
additional affiliation.
 e) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to the Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure
right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an even labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations, place writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an
your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor up to example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or
highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go to “Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
Column icon and select “2 Columns”. If you have an odd label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
the page; all previous will be in two columns. “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axes
with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
B. Identify the Headings “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”.
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
the reader through your paper. There are two types: component ACKNOWLEDGMENT (HEADING 5)
heads and text heads.
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
Component heads identify the different components of your America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples expression, “One of us (R. B. G.) thanks . . .” Instead, try “R.
include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES and, for these, B. G. thanks”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnum-
the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for bered footnote on the first page.
your Figure captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run-
in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a style REFERENCES
(in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop
down menu to differentiate the head from the text. The template will number citations consecutively within
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this sentence: “Reference [3] was the first . . .”
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level
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 reference list. Use letters for
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. 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 published,
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert element symbols.
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the For papers published in translation journals, please give the
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
citation [6].
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES

Table Table Column Head [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
copy More table copya (references)
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) [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
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
(which is ideally a 300 dpi TIFF or EPS file, with all fonts
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
embedded) because, in an MSW document, this method is
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
somewhat more stable than directly inserting a picture. Stand. Abbrev., in press.
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box > Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
Figure 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer's Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.