Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

*Note: Sub-titles are not captured in Xplore and should not be used

line 1: 1st Given Name Surname line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address line 5: email address line 5: email address

line 1: 4th Given Name Surname line 1: 5th Given Name Surname line 1: 6th Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address line 5: email address line 5: email address

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note peculiarities.
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, For example, the head margin in this template measures
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special proportionately more than is customary. This measurement and
Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. (Abstract) others are deliberate, using specifications that anticipate your
paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and not as an
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key independent document. Please do not revise any of the current
words) designations.
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with the content as a separate text file. Complete all content and
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing organizational editing before formatting. Please note sections A-
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper D below for more information on proofreading, spelling and
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of grammar.
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the text
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and limit
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph.
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this number text heads-the template will do that for you.
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses,
A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
following the example. Some components, such as multi-leveled
equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, although the Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
various table text styles are provided. The formatter will need to used in the text, even after they have been defined in the abstract.
create these components, incorporating the applicable criteria Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc, and rms do
that follow. not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in the title or
heads unless they are unavoidable.
II. EASE OF USE
B. Units
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your are encouraged.) English units may be used as secondary
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the US- units (in parentheses). An exception would be the use of
letter paper size. If you are using A4-sized paper, please close English units as identifiers in trade, such as “3.5-inch disk
this file and download the file “MSW_A4_format”. drive”.
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
The template is used to format your paper and style the text. amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are to confusion because equations do not balance

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 dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly state  In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can accurately
the units for each quantity that you use in an equation. replace the word “using”, capitalize the “u”; if not, keep
using lower-cased.
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of units:
“Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not  Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in text: “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and “compliment”,
“. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”. “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” and “principle”.
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”. Use  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
“cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to the
C. Equations word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
The equations are an exception to the prescribed  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin abbreviation
specifications of this template. You will need to determine “et al.”.
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font). To  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat the abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your 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 After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready for
stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use the the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save As
solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. Italicize command, and use the naming convention prescribed by your
Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not Greek conference for the name of your paper. In this newly created file,
symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a minus sign. highlight all of the contents and import your prepared text file.
Punctuate equations with commas or periods when they are part You are now ready to style your paper; use the scroll down
of a sentence, as in: window on the left of the MS Word Formatting toolbar.

 ab  A. Authors and Affiliations

The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. Be authors. A minimum of one author is required for all conference
sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined before articles. Author names should be listed starting from left to right
or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not “Eq. (1)” and then moving down to the next line. This is the author
or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a sentence: sequence that will be used in future citations and by indexing
“Equation (1) is . . .” services. Names should not be listed in columns nor group by
affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible
D. Some Common Mistakes (for example, do not differentiate among departments of the
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. same organization).
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
other common scientific constants, is zero with subscript names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for more
formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. than 8 authors.
 In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
question and exclamation marks are located within default, adjust the template as follows.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or name a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the correct
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear number of columns from the selection palette.
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase or
c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for the
statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated outside
of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical extra authors.
sentence is punctuated within the parentheses.)
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. The B. Identify the Headings
word alternatively is preferred to the word “alternately” Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide the
(unless you really mean something that alternates). reader through your paper. There are two types: component
heads and text heads.
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
“approximately” or “effectively”. Component heads identify the different components of your
paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples
include Acknowledgments and References and, for these, the
correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for your quantities and units. For example, write “Temperature (K)”, not
Figure captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run-in “Temperature/K”.
heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a style (in
this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)
down menu to differentiate the head from the text. The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. B.
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this one G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered
topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level head footnote on the first page.
(uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, conversely, if
there are not at least two sub-topics, then no subheads should be
introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading REFERENCES
3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. The template will number citations consecutively within
C. Figures and Tables brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use “Ref.
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence:
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in “Reference [3] was the first ...”
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the actual
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was cited. Do
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list. Use letters for
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. table footnotes.
Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’ names;
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published, even if
Table Table Column Head they have been submitted for publication, should be cited as
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
a
publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only the
copy More table copy first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and element
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) symbols.
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) For papers published in translation journals, please give the
English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure citation [6].
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an
example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or “Magnetization, [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of Lipschitz-
M”, not just “M”. If including units in the label, present them Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil. Trans. Roy.
Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955. (references)
within parentheses. Do not label axes only with units. In the
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
(which is ideally a 300 dpi TIFF or EPS file, with all fonts anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
embedded) because, in an MSW document, this method is York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
somewhat more stable than directly inserting a picture. [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name Stand.
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the Abbrev., in press.
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box > [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. 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].
example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or “Magnetization
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
{A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axes with a ratio of University Science, 1989.