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Sample Layout For The Preparation of Manuscripts: Affiliations (Font-12, Italic)

The document provides a sample layout for preparing manuscripts that includes formatting guidelines for titles, authors, affiliations, abstracts, body text, figures, tables, equations, references, and pagination. Key elements include typing the manuscript in 12-point Times New Roman font, leaving 3cm margins, limiting the paper to a maximum of 8 pages, and following a specific structure and numbering system for sections, figures, tables, and equations.

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Sample Layout For The Preparation of Manuscripts: Affiliations (Font-12, Italic)

The document provides a sample layout for preparing manuscripts that includes formatting guidelines for titles, authors, affiliations, abstracts, body text, figures, tables, equations, references, and pagination. Key elements include typing the manuscript in 12-point Times New Roman font, leaving 3cm margins, limiting the paper to a maximum of 8 pages, and following a specific structure and numbering system for sections, figures, tables, and equations.

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Sample Layout for the Preparation of Manuscripts

Title of the Paper (font-14, bold)


Author Names (font-12, normal)
Affiliations (font-12, italic)
email address of the corresponding author
An abstract of approximately 150 words
should convey the scope of the paper and
be as informative as possible. The
abstract must be able to stand on its own
without reference to the main text.
1. INTRODUCTION
All papers presented at the Technical
Sessions will be published. Authors are
requested to submit their full papers in
camera-ready format on or before the
deadline set by the Institute of Physics,
Sri Lanka. The style of writing should
conform to accepted English usage.

rest of the text in size 12. Section headings should be numbered 1, 2, 3 etc with
capital letters. Capitalise only the first
letter of each word for sub-headings and
use 1.1, 1.2, etc to number the subheadings. Leave double space before
section headings or sub-headings.
3. FIGURES AND TABLES
Place them where they are first mentioned in the text. Figures must be
drawn with the captions below them and
sequentially numbered with Arabic
numbers. Table captions should be
typed above the tables.
4. EQUATIONS
All equation numbers must be enclosed
in parentheses and flushed right.

2. TEXT
Text must be typewritten clearly and accurately in single spacing on one side of
an ordinary A4-size paper (297 mm 210
mm) in a. single column. The text must be
typed leaving 3 cm margins on all sides.
The submitted manuscripts of each
contribution must be in their final formats
and of good appearance, because they
will be printed directly without any editing.
It is essential that the camera-ready
copies are clean and unfolded.

5. REFERENCES
References in the bibliography should
be referred in the text by the Arabic
number within square brackets. All references should be organised to provide,
the last name of the author(s) followed
by initials, title of the paper (in italics),
journal name (in abbreviation), volume
(underlined), year of publication (within
brackets) page numbers.

Use a laser printer for printing the text.


Authors are also requested to submit a
softcopy of the manuscript in
Microsoft Word format once the papers
are accepted for presentation. Select
Times New Roman as the default font. The

6. PAGINATION
Number each page on the top
right-hand corner of the page. The final
pagination of proceedings will be numbered by the editor/publisher. Avoid
footnotes as much as possible. Number
of pages should be limited to a
maximum of 8 (eight).

title of the paper should be in size 14 and the

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