Paper Title (use style: paper title)

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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: name@[Link] line 4: e-mail: name@[Link]

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Figure 1. Example of a ONE-COLUMN figure caption. Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
proper nouns and element symbols.
Please see last page of this document for AN EXAMPLE For papers published in translation journals, please give
of a 2-COLUMN Figure. the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure language citation [6].
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes (references)
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
(A/m)” or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
not label axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
example, write “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
D. Footnotes [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
Use footnotes sparingly (or not at all) and place them at [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
the bottom of the column on the page on which they are
referenced. Use Times 8-point type, single-spaced. To help [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
your readers, avoid using footnotes altogether and include interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
necessary peripheral observations in the text (within 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
parentheses, if you prefer, as in this sentence). [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.
[8] Electronic Publication: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs):
Article in a journal:
[9] D. Kornack and P. Rakic, “Cell Proliferation without Neurogenesis in [10] H. Goto, Y. Hasegawa, and M. Tanaka, “Efficient Scheduling
Adult Primate Neocortex,” Science, vol. 294, Dec. 2001, pp. 2127- Focusing on the Duality of MPL Representatives,” Proc. IEEE Symp.
2130, doi:10.1126/science.1065467. Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (SCIS 07), IEEE Press,
Article in a conference proceedings: Dec. 2007, pp. 57-64, doi:10.1109/SCIS.2007.357670.

Figure 2. Example of a TWO-COLUMN figure caption: (a) this is the format for referencing parts of a figure.