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 III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are
already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions
Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
given in this document. (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-
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) the template will do that for you.
This template, modified in MS Word 2003 and saved as Finally, complete content and organizational editing before
“Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 – RTF” for the PC, provides authors formatting. Please take note of the following items when
with most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing proofreading spelling and grammar:
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
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 in
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses, B. Units
following the example. Some components, such as multi-  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, are encouraged.) English units may be used as
although the various table text styles are provided. The secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
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
US-letter paper size. If you are using A4-sized paper, please equation.
close this file and download the file for “MSW_A4_format”.
 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 out units when they appear in text:
All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts are “. . . a 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 C. Equations
anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and The equations are an exception to the prescribed
not as an independent document. Please do not revise any of specifications of this template. You will need to determine
the current designations. whether or not your equation should be typed using either the

Identify applicable sponsor/s here. (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 IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents.
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
  prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word Formatting
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. toolbar.
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined A. Authors and Affiliations
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not
The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a
repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .”
Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
D. Some Common Mistakes example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.

 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and 1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
other common scientific constants, is zero with change the default, adjust the template as follows.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
affiliation lines.
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods,
question and exclamation marks are located within b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
quotation marks only when a complete thought or from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When Column” from the selection palette.
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for the
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation second affiliation.
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A d) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a the default, adjust the template as follows.
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing
e) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is
punctuated within the parentheses.) f) Change number of columns: Select the “Columns”
icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select “1
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. Column” from the selection palette.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word
g) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that
and copy this selection.
alternates).
h) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down
“approximately” or “effectively”. the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can additional affiliation.
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the “u”; i) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to the
if not, keep using lower-cased. right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an even
numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations, place
 Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor up to
“affect” and “effect”, “complement” and
highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go to
“compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal”
and “principle”. 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 these, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT (HEADING 5)
correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
your Figure captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run- America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a style expression, “One of us (R. B. G.) thanks . . .” Instead, try “R.
(in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop B. G. thanks”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnum-
down menu to differentiate the head from the text. bered footnote on the first page.
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical
REFERENCES
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this The template will number citations consecutively within
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”, sentence: “Reference [3] was the first . . .”
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
C. Figures and Tables actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
table footnotes.
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them
in 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
publication should be cited as “in press” [5]. Capitalize only
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence.
the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
element symbols.

Table Column Head

For papers published in translation journals, please give the
Table
Head
English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
Table column subhead Subhead Subhead
citation [6].
copy More table copya
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
[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.
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic (references)
(which is ideally a 300 dpi TIFF or EPS file, with all fonts [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
embedded) because, in an MSW document, this method is 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
somewhat more stable than directly inserting a picture. [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
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box > [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
Figure 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure 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.