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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,
Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
Abstract. (Abstract) and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key spelling and grammar.
words)
Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
with most of the formatting specifications needed for for you.
preparing electronic versions of their papers. All standard
paper components have been specified for three reasons: (1) A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
ease of use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout
this document and are identified in italic type, within B. Units
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
prescribed, although the various table text styles are secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
provided. The formatter will need to create these be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
II. EASE OF USE  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) leads to confusion because equations do not balance
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the state the units for each quantity that you use in an
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please equation.
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file.
 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 “webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
are 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 C. Equations
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire The equations are an exception to the prescribed
proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do specifications of this template. You will need to determine
not revise any of the current designations. whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat
box.

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the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
paper is styled. After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using Save As command, and use the naming convention
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you prescribed by your conference for the name of your paper. In
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate this newly created file, highlight all of the contents and
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and import your prepared text file. You are now ready to style
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than your paper; use the scroll down window on the left of the MS
a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas Word Formatting toolbar.
or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in:
A. Authors and Affiliations
ab  The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not is the author sequence that will be used in future citations and
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate among
D. Some Common Mistakes departments of the same organization).
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for
other common scientific constants, is zero with more than 8 authors.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
default, adjust the template as follows.
 In American English, commas, semicolons, periods,
question and exclamation marks are located within a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
quotation marks only when a complete thought or b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic correct number of columns from the selection palette.
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A the extra authors.
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is B. Identify the Headings
punctuated within the parentheses.) Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. the reader through your paper. There are two types:
The word alternatively is preferred to the word component heads and text heads.
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that Component heads identify the different components of
alternates). your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
“approximately” or “effectively”. these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased. provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
from the text.
 Be aware of the different meanings of the
homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and Text heads organize the topics on a relational,
“compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the primary
and “principle”. text head because all subsequent material relates and
elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub-
 Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals)
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen. sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles
named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and
 There is no period after the “et” in the Latin “Heading 4” are prescribed.
abbreviation “et al.”.
C. Figures and Tables
 The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”. a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them
An excellent style manual for science writers is [7]. in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
Table Table Column Head Use letters for table footnotes.
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead
Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
copy More table copya names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when proper nouns and element symbols.
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As For papers published in translation journals, please give
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the language citation [6].
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)”
or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. (references)
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R.
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
unnumbered footnote on the first page. Stand. Abbrev., in press.
REFERENCES [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
The template will number citations consecutively within interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
[2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.

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