Paper Title* (use style: paper title)
*Note: Sub-titles are not captured in Xplore and should not be used
line 1: 1st Given Name Surname line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd 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: 4th Given Name Surname line 1: 5th Given Name Surname line 1: 6th 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
Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, measures proportionately more than is customary. This
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire
Abstract. (Abstract) proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do
not revise any of the current designations.
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key
words)
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a
and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with
sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing
spelling and grammar.
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are for you.
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout
this document and are identified in italic type, within A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
prescribed, although the various table text styles are provided. abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
The formatter will need to create these components, and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
II. EASE OF USE B. Units
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file.
Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
leads to confusion because equations do not balance
The template is used to format your paper and style the dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts state the units for each quantity that you use in an
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note equation.
Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of Be aware of the different meanings of the
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal”
text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”. and “principle”.
Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”. Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
C. Equations
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 After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the Save
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in: the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word
Formatting toolbar.
ab A. Authors and Affiliations
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” is the author sequence that will be used in future citations and
by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
D. Some Common Mistakes
succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate among
The word “data” is plural, not singular. departments of the same organization).
The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
other common scientific constants, is zero with names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for more
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”.
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 a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A correct number of columns from the selection palette.
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing the extra authors.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is
punctuated within the parentheses.)
A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. B. Identify the Headings
The word alternatively is preferred to the word Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that the reader through your paper. There are two types:
alternates). component heads and text heads.
Do not use the word “essentially” to mean Component heads identify the different components of
“approximately” or “effectively”. your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased. table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text
box.
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head REFERENCES
from the text. The template will number citations consecutively within
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head [2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”, cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed. Use letters for table footnotes.
C. Figures and Tables Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert proper nouns and element symbols.
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. For papers published in translation journals, please give
the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
language citation [6].
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
Table Table Column Head
[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
copy More table copya Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
(references)
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
[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
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or Stand. Abbrev., in press.
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
“Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. University Science, 1989.
IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) composing and formatting conference papers. Please
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in ensure that all template text is removed from your
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted conference paper prior to submission to the
conference. Failure to remove template text from
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. your paper may result in your paper not being
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the published.
unnumbered footnote on the first page.
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