Paper Title

Given Name Surname Given Name Surname* Given Name Surname Given Name Surname
dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation)
name of organization (of name of organization (of name of organization (of name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation) Affiliation)
City, Country City, Country City, Country City, Country
email address or ORCID email address or ORCID email address or ORCID email address or ORCID
*Corresponding author

Given Name Surname Given Name Surname

dept. name of organization (of dept. name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation)
name of organization (of name of organization (of
Affiliation) Affiliation)
City, Country City, Country
email address or ORCID email address or ORCID

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already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads,
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Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. The template is used to format your paper and style the text.
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I. INTRODUCTION
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications that
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing not as an independent document. Please do not revise any of
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper the current designations.
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the Before you begin to format your paper, first write and save
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) the content as a separate text file. Complete all content and
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. organizational editing before formatting. Please note sections
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are built- A-D below for more information on proofreading, spelling and
in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout this grammar.
document and are identified in italic type, within parentheses,
following the example. Some components, such as multi- Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the text
leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and limit
although the various table text styles are provided. The use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph.
formatter will need to create these components, incorporating Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper. Do
the applicable criteria that follow. not number text heads-the template will do that for you.

II. EASE OF USE A. Abbreviations and Acronyms

Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
A. Selecting a Template used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations in
US-letter paper size. If you are using A4-sized paper, please the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
close this file and download the file “MSW_A4_format”.

Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.
B. Units parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the
 Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units parentheses.)
are encouraged.) English units may be used as  A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”.
secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would The word alternatively is preferred to the word
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such “alternately” (unless you really mean something that
as “3.5-inch disk drive”. alternates).
 Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in  Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads “approximately” or “effectively”.
to confusion because equations do not balance
dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly state  In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can
the units for each quantity that you use in an equation. accurately 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
C. Equations the 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
specifications of this template. You will need to determine abbreviation “et al.”.
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
 The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).
abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
paper is styled.
IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
they are part of a sentence, as in: the scroll down 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. authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This is
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a the author sequence that will be used in future citations and by
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns nor
D. Some Common Mistakes group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as
possible (for example, do not differentiate among departments
 The word “data” is plural, not singular.
of the same organization).
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and
other common scientific constants, is zero with 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for more
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
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the correct
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase number of columns from the selection palette.
or statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated
outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A
 c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure
the extra authors. 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
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
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. B.
(in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the unnumbered
down menu to differentiate the head from 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 REFERENCES
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
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list. Use
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them letters for table footnotes.
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
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 TYPE 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)
[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.
(references)
[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].
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.