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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
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(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, heads, of the current designations.
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Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
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A-D below for more information on proofreading, spelling
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) and grammar.
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“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors with has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and limit
most of the formatting specifications needed for preparing use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph.
electronic versions of their papers. All standard paper Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper. Do
components have been specified for three reasons: (1) ease of not number text heads-the template will do that for you.
use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3) Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
this document and are identified in italic type, within in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such
B. Units
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not
prescribed, although the various table text styles are provided. • Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units
The formatter will need to create these components, are encouraged.) English units may be used as
incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
II. EASE OF USE as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) • Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current in
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the leads to confusion because equations do not balance
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file. state the units for each quantity that you use in an
equation.
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications
• Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
The template is used to format your paper and style the
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in text:
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
“. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
measures proportionately more than is customary. This • Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings,
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C. Equations • There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
The equations are an exception to the prescribed abbreviation “et al.”.
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 font).
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
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,
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within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using
As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you
your conference for the name of your paper. In this newly
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate
created file, highlight all of the contents and import your
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and
prepared text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use
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the scroll down window on the left of the MS Word
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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 and
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
D. Some Common Mistakes succinct as possible (for example, do not 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 more
other common scientific constants, is zero with than 8 authors.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”.
2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
• In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, default, adjust the template as follows.
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
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation correct number of columns from the selection palette.
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, for
“approximately” or “effectively”. these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
• In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the “u”; table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
if not, keep using lower-cased. to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
• Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones from the text.
“affect” and “effect”, “complement” and
“compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical
and “principle”. basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this
• Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”. one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and,
• The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen. subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”,
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are prescribed.
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. Use
letters for table footnotes.
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
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
a the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
copy More table copy
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 an [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
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 only anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
“Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axes
with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
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 interface,” IEEE
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. University Science, 1989.
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
unnumbered footnote on the first page. IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
composing and formatting conference papers. Please
REFERENCES ensure that all template text is removed from your
The template will number citations consecutively within conference paper prior to submission to the
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2]. conference. Failure to remove template text from
Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use your paper may result in your paper not being
“Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a published.
sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”

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