Preparation of Reports in modified ASDF

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Abstract- These instructions give you basic guidelines for preparing reports in ASDF format.

I. INTRODUCTION
Your goal is to simulate the usual appearance of papers in ASDF conference proceedings but in
double-spaced format and in a single column. For items not addressed in these instructions,
please refer to other documents on ASDF style.

A. Full-Sized Copy
Prepare your paper in full-size format, on US letter paper (8.5 by 11 inches).
Type sizes and typefaces: Follow the type sizes specified in Table I. As an aid in gauging type
size, 1 point is about 0.35 mm. The size of the lowercase letter j will give the point size. Times
New Roman is the preferred font.
1) US letter margins (inches): top = 1 inch, bottom = 1 inch, side = 1 inch.
2) US letter margins (mm): top = 25.4 mm, bottom = 25.4 mm, side = 25.4 mm.
Paragraph indentation is 3.5 mm (0.14 in).

Left- and right-justify your columns. Use automatic hyphenation and check spelling. Digitize
and electronically paste all figures into the document.

II. HELPFUL HINTS

B. Figures and Tables
Position figures and tables at the tops and bottoms of pages, when possible. Avoid placing them
in the middle of columns. Figure captions should be centered below the figures; table captions
should be centered above. Avoid placing figures and tables before their first mention in the text.
Use the abbreviation Fig. 1, even at the beginning of a sentence.

Figure axis labels are often a source of confusion. Use words rather than symbols. For example,

This paper is a part of ASDFs Conference Porceedings. <Conference Title> Copyright

Reserved by the Organizers of the Conference. ISBN : , DOI Number, and Other info
comes here.

write Magnetization, or Magnetization, M, not just M. Put units in parentheses. Do not

label axes only with units. In the example, write Magnetization (A/m) or Magnetization (A
m1). Do not label axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write Temperature
(K), not Temperature/K.

Multipliers can be especially confusing. Write Magnetization (kA/m) or Magnetization (10 3

A/m). Figure labels should be legible, about 10-point type.

TABLE I
TYPE SIZES FOR CAMERA-READY PAPERS
Typ Appearance
e
size
(pts Regular Bold Italic
.)
Table captions,a table
6
superscripts
8 Section titles, a references,
tables, table names,a first
letters in table captions,a
figure captions, footnotes,
text subscripts, and
superscripts
9 Abstract
10 Authors affiliations, main Subheadi
text, equations, first letters ng
in section titlesa
11 Authors names
24 Paper title
a
Uppercase

15

10

0
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Applied Field (104 A/m)

Figure 1. Magnetization as a function of applied field.

Note how the caption is centered in the column.

C. References
Number citations consecutively in square brackets [1]. Punctuation follows the bracket [2].
Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Use Ref. [3] or Reference [3] at the beginning
of a sentence: Reference [3] was the first

Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the actual footnote at the bottom of the
column in which it was cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for table
footnotes (see Table I). IEEE Transactions no longer use a journal prefix before the volume
number. For example, use IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 25, not vol. MAG-25.

Give all authors names; use et al. if there are six authors or more. Papers that have not been
published, even if they have been submitted for publication, should be cited as unpublished
[4]. Papers that have been accepted for publication should be cited as in press [5]. In a paper
title, capitalize the first word and all other words except for conjunctions, prepositions less than
seven letters, and prepositional phrases.

For papers published in translated journals, first give the English citation, then the original
foreign-language citation [6].

D. Abbreviations and Acronyms

Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are used in the text, even if they have
been defined in the abstract. Abbreviations such as SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc, and rms do not have
to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in the title unless they are unavoidable.

E. Equations
Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right
margin, as in (1). To make your equations more compact, you may use the solidus (/), the exp
function, or appropriate exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but
not Greek symbols. Use an en dash () rather than a hyphen for a minus sign. Use parentheses
to avoid ambiguities in denominators. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when they
are part of a sentence, as in

a + b = c. (1)

Symbols in your equation should be defined before the equation appears or immediately
following. Use (1), not Eq. (1) or equation (1), except at the beginning of a sentence:
Equation (1) is

Other Recommendations
The Roman numerals used to number the section headings are optional. If you do use them, do
not number ACKNOWLEDGMENT and REFERENCES, and begin Subheadings with letters. Use two
spaces after periods (full stops). Hyphenate complex modifiers: zero-field-cooled
magnetization. Avoid dangling participles, such as, Using (1), the potential was calculated.
Write instead, The potential was calculated using (1), or Using (1), we calculated the
potential.

Use a zero before decimal points: 0.25, not .25. Use cm 3, not cc. Do not mix complete
spellings and abbreviations of units: Wb/m 2 or webers per square meter, not webers/m 2.
Spell units when they appear in text: a few henries, not a few H. If your native language
is not English, try to get a native English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper. Do not
add page numbers.

III. UNITS
Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units are encouraged.) English units may be
used as secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would be the use of English units as
identifiers in trade, such as 3.5-inch disk drive.
Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds.
This often leads to confusion because equations do not balance dimensionally. If you must use
mixed units, clearly state the units for each quantity that you use in an equation.

IV. SOME COMMON MISTAKES

The word data is plural, not singular. The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0 is zero,
not a lowercase letter o. In American English, periods and commas are within quotation
marks, like this period. A parenthetical statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated
outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the
parentheses.) A graph within a graph is an inset, not an insert. The word alternatively is
preferred to the word alternately (unless you mean something that alternates). Do not use
the word essentially to mean approximately or effectively. Be aware of the different
meanings of the homophones affect and effect, complement and compliment, discreet
and discrete, principal and principle. Do not confuse imply and infer. The prefix non
is not a word; it should be joined to the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen. There is no
period after the et in the Latin abbreviation et al. The abbreviation i.e. means that is,
and the abbreviation e.g. means for example. An excellent style manual for science writers
is [7].

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The preferred spelling of the word acknowledgment in America is without an e after the g.
Try to avoid the stilted expression, One of us (R. B. G.) thanks Instead, try R.B.G. thanks
Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered footnote on the first page.

REFERENCES
[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, On certain integrals of Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel
functions, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
[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 Writers Handbook. Mill Valley, CA: University Science, 1989.