Guidelines and Template for Full Paper Articles

14th International Research Conference of KDU

FA Author1#, SB Author2, and TCD Author3

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Affiliation 1, Country
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Affiliation 2, Country
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Affiliation 3, Country
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<[email protected]>

Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions

for authors to prepare papers for publication in the Your paper should also be in a two-column format with
Proceedings of 14th International Research Conference a space of 4.00 mm (0.15") between columns.
of KDU. You can use this document either as a set of
instructions or as a template into which you can type
III. PARAGRAPH STYLE
your own text directly. The template has adopted the
Line spacing shall be 13 pt, and no space before and
main good-practices used in scientific publications,
after in the paragraph formatting, as set in this
which are also compatible with those of Social Sciences
document. Keep one blank line space between 2
and Humanities.
paragraphs as formatted in this document. No paragraph
The abstract should not exceed 250 words.
should be indented. All paragraphs should be justified,
i.e. both left and right-justified.
Keywords— Minimum 3 keywords

A. Text Font of Entire Document

I. INTRODUCTION
The entire document should be in Times New Roman.
This document is a template and it adopts standard
Other font types may be used if needed for special
practices used by researchers in both hard and soft
purposes. Recommended font sizes are shown in Table
sciences. You can download an electronic copy of this
1.
template from <www.kdu.ac.lk/irc2021> as an MS
Word file and type your paper on it.
Table 1. Font sizes for this publication

II. PAPER LAYOUT Font Appearance

Perhaps the easiest way to comply with the conference Size
paper formatting requirements is to use this document as Regular Bold Italic
a template and simply type your text into it. When using
9 table caption, reference item
this as a template, you do not need to worry about page
figure caption, No (partial)
layout, fonts, etc. The main body of the paper should be reference item
organized into sections, as Introduction, Methodology
and Experimental design, Results, Discussion and 9 email address No No
Conclusion, Acknowledgement and References. The
10 body text abstract abstract (body)
abstract (already accepted) should be included at the
Heading
beginning. Papers, excluding the abstract portion, shall (Italics and
not exceed six (06) pages in length. bold)

10 level-1 heading (in No level-2, level-3

A. Page Format Small Caps), headings, author
As already formatted in this document, your paper paragraph affiliation
should use a page size corresponding to A4, which is
210 x 297mm (8.27" x 11.69”). The margins should be 11 author-name No No
set as follows: 16 Title Yes Only where
required
i. Top = 20 mm (0.75")
Source: KDU IRC 2021
ii. Bottom = 20 mm (0.75")
iii. Left = Right = 20 mm (0.75")
 columns. Any Table or Figure that takes up more than 1
column width should be positioned either at the top or at
the bottom of the page.

B. Title and Author Details

The title should be in 16pt Regular font, centered. The
first letter of every word in a title should not be
capitalized except for names and relevant technical
terms (e.g. Biological terms).

Author name/s should be in 11pt size, centered, not

italicized. The family name should be written as the last
part of each author's name (e.g. ABC Perera or Amal BC
Perera). Degrees and other qualifications should NOT
be shown with the author/s name/s. Author affiliation/s
should be in 10pt Italic, centered. The corresponding
author should be identified with a <#> sign and email
address is compulsory for the corresponding author, Fig
which should follow the affiliation lines, in 9pt size, ure 1. A line graph using colours
non-italic as indicated above. The name of the Source: KDU IRC 2021
presenting author should be underlined.
Graphics may be in full colour. All colours will be
C. Section Headings
retained on the PDF. Graphics should not use stipple fill
No more than 3 levels of section headings should be
patterns because they may not be reproduced properly.
used. All headings should be in 10pt font. Level-1
Please use only SOLID FILL colours which contrast well
headings should be used for categorizing different
both on screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as
sections of the main body. Each section can be
shown in Fig 1.
additionally categorized using Level-2 and Level-3
headings.
When you include images, make sure that the resolution
is adequate to reveal the important detail in the Figure.
1) Level-1 Heading: They should be in Uppercase, Please check all Figures in your paper both on screen
centered. The level-1 heading carries a number in and on a black-and-white hardcopy.
Roman uppercase except for headings “ REFERENCES”,
“ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIFIC SYMBOLS” and
E. Figure and Table Captions
“ACKNOWLEDGEMENT”. For example, see headings “I.
Always start the word Table or Figure/Fig with an
INTRODUCTION” and “ACKNOWLEDGEMENT” of this
uppercase letter, as shown in this page. Figures and
document.
Tables should be separately numbered using Arabic
numerals. Captions should be in the 9pt Regular font.
2) Level-2 Heading: This heading should be in Italic,
Captions of a single line (e.g. Figure 1) should be
left-justified and numbered using an uppercase
centered, whereas multi-line captions should be justified.
alphabetic letter followed by a period. For example, see
Captions with Figure numbers should be placed after
heading “C. Section Headings” above.
their associated Figures, as shown in Figure 1. Captions
with Table numbers should be placed, as shown in Table
3) Level-3 Heading: This heading should be left- 1.
justified in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral
followed by a right parenthesis. The level-3 heading
F. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers
should end with a colon. The body of the level-3 section
Page numbers, headers and footers should NOT be used.
immediately follows the level-3 heading in the same
paragraph. For example, this paragraph begins with a
level-3 heading. G. Links and Bookmarks
If you need to refer to an Internet, email address or URL
in your paper, you should type out the address or URL
B. Figures and Tables
fully in Regular font within <…> marks.
Figures and Tables should be centered in the column.
Large Figures and Tables may span across both
H. Units and Symbols
SI system should be followed. Leave one letter space
between the numerical figure/value and the symbol of
the unit, as shown in the above statement.

REFERENCES
The list of References should not be numbered. Arrange
the list of references in alphabetical order of the family
name/surname of the first author. All reference items
should be in the 9pt font. Please use “Harvard Style”
referencing with formatting as in the example given
below.

Zhang S, Zhu C, Sin JKO, et al. (1999) A novel ultra-thin

elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT, IEEE Electron
Device Lett., 20, 569–571.

ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIFIC SYMBOLS

When any abbreviation occurs for the first time in a
paper, it should be given in full words, followed by the
abbreviation within parenthesis. Specific symbols
should be treated in the same manner.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In the acknowledgement section, please do not
acknowledge persons by their posts/positions. You may
acknowledge funding organizations, research institutes
and those who have supported your research work.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY/IES

This section should contain a small

[1] Photo colour bust image of the author/s and
graph
a short bio (50-75 words).