Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

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line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd Given Name Surname
line 1: 1st 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 or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID
line 5: email address or ORCID
line 1: 5th Given Name Surname line 1: 6th Given Name Surname
line 1: 4th 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 or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID
line 5: email address or ORCID

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already defines the components of your paper [title, text, proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do
heads, etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use not revise any of the current designations.
Symbols, Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title
or Abstract. (Abstract) Abstract should contain from 100-150 words.
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key
words) Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors spelling and grammar.
with most of the formatting specifications needed for
preparing electronic versions of their papers. All standard Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
paper components have been specified for three reasons: (1) text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
ease of use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. for you.
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
this document and are identified in italic type, within
used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such
abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not
and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
prescribed, although the various table text styles are
in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
provided. The formatter will need to create these
components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow.
B. Units
II. EASE OF USE • Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please • Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file. in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
leads to confusion because equations do not balance
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
The template is used to format your paper and style the state the units for each quantity that you use in an
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts equation.
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note • Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
measures proportionately more than is customary. This “webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.

XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.00 ©20XX IEEE

 • Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”. • The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list) the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
• There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
C. Equations
abbreviation “et al.”.
The equations are an exception to the prescribed
specifications of this template. You will need to determine • The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
font). To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary
to treat the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text
after your paper is styled. IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
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
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a and by indexing services. Names should not be listed in
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” columns nor group by affiliation. Please keep your
affiliations as succinct as possible (for example, do not
D. Some Common Mistakes differentiate among 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
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a the extra authors.
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is
punctuated within the parentheses.) B. Identify the Headings
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
alternates). Component heads identify the different components of
your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
• Do not use the word “essentially” to mean Examples include Acknowledgments and References and,
“approximately” or “effectively”. for 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
• Be aware of the different meanings of the from the text.
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
• Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”. elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub-
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals)
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two The template will number citations consecutively within
sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket
named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and [2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not
“Heading 4” are prescribed. use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
C. Figures and Tables Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span Use letters for table footnotes.
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
proper nouns and element symbols.
Table Table Column Head
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead For papers published in translation journals, please give
copy More table copy a the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
language citation [6].
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)

Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when (references)
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)”
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write Stand. Abbrev., in press.
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted University Science, 1989.
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R.
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
unnumbered footnote on the first page. composing and formatting conference papers. Please
ensure that all template text is removed from your
conference paper prior to submission to the
REFERENCES conference. Failure to remove template text from
your paper may result in your paper not being
published.

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