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 III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads,
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special
Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
Characters, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. (Abstract) the content as a separate text file. Keep your text and graphic
files separate until after the text has been formatted and styled.
Keywords—component; formatting; style; styling; insert (key Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard returns to only one
words) return at the end of a paragraph. Do not add any kind of
pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not number text heads-
the template will do that for you.
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
This template provides authors with most of the formatting Finally, complete content and organizational editing before
specifications needed for preparing electronic versions of their formatting. Please take note of the following items when
papers. All standard paper components have been specified for proofreading spelling and grammar:
three reasons: (1) ease of use when formatting individual
papers, (2) automatic compliance to electronic requirements A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
that facilitate the concurrent or later production of electronic Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
products, and (3) conformity of style throughout a conference used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
proceedings. Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type abstract. Do not use abbreviations in the title or heads unless
styles are built-in; examples of the type styles are provided they are unavoidable.
throughout this document and are identified in italic type,
within parentheses, following the example. Some components, B. Units
such as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not
prescribed, although the various table text styles are provided.  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
The formatter will need to create these components, are encouraged.) English units may be used as
incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
as “3.5-inch disk drive.”
II. EASE OF USE
 Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your to confusion because equations do not balance
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the A4 dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly state
paper size. the units for each quantity that you use in an equation.
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter,” not
The template is used to format your paper and style the text. “webers/m2.” Spell units when they appear in text: “...a
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are few henries,” not “...a few H.”
prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note  Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25,” not “.25.”
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template Use “cm3,” not “cc.” (bullet list)
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, C. Equations
and not as an independent document. Please do not revise any The equations are an exception to the prescribed
of the current designations. specifications of this template. You will need to determine
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the

Identify applicable sponsor/s here. If no sponsors, delete this text box (sponsors).
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat abbreviation “et al.”
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your
paper is styled.  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is,” and the
abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example.”
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
they are part of a sentence, as in your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
ab  prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
 the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
  toolbar.

Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. A. Authors and Affiliations
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1),” not repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except at the beginning of a Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
sentence: “Equation (1) is ...” example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
D. Some Common Mistakes
1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. change the default, adjust the template as follows.
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
other common scientific constants, is zero with affiliation lines.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o.” b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
question and exclamation marks are located within Column” from the selection palette.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or name c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation the second affiliation.
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear 2) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase the default, adjust the template as follows.
or statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A b) Change number of columns: Select the “Columns”
parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
parentheses.)
Column” from the selection palette.
 A graph within a graph is an “inset,” not an “insert.” c) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
The word alternatively is preferred to the word and copy this selection.
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that
alternates). d) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each
“approximately” or “effectively.” additional affiliation.
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can e) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to
accurately replace the word using, capitalize the “u”; if the right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an
not, keep using lower-cased. even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations,
 Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones place your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor
“affect” and “effect,” “complement” and “compliment,” up to highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go
“discreet” and “discrete,” “principal” and “principle.” to Column icon and select “2 Columns”. If you have an odd
number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on
 Do not confuse “imply” and “infer.” the page; all previous will be in two columns.
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
B. Identify the Headings “Magnetization, M,” not just “M.” If including units in the
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only
the reader through your paper. There are two types: component with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
heads and text heads. “Magnetization (A ( m(1),” not just “A/m.” Do not label axes
with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
Component heads identify the different components of your “Temperature (K),” not “Temperature/K.”
paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples
include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES, and for ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5.” Use “figure
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract,” will require you to America is without an “e” after the “g.” Avoid the stilted
apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. B.
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered
the text. footnote on the first page.
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this REFERENCES
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level The template will number citations consecutively within
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1,” “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
“Heading 2,” “Heading 3,” and “Heading 4” are prescribed. sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
C. Figures and Tables actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in table footnotes.
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published,
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
abbreviation “Fig. 1,” even at the beginning of a sentence. publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
TABLE I. TABLE STYLES element symbols.
Table Table Column Head For papers published in translation journals, please give the
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
copy More table copya citation [6].
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
b. [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
(references)
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.
(which is ideally a 300 dpi resolution TIFF or EPS file with [3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
all fonts embedded) because this method is somewhat more anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
stable than directly inserting a picture. York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box > Stand. Abbrev., in press.
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
example, write the quantity “Magnetization,” or University Science, 1989.