Sample RACE Paper for A4 Page Size

First Author#, Second Author*, Third Author#

#
First-Third Department, First-Third University
Address
1
[email protected]
3
[email protected]
*
Second Company
Address Including Country Name
2
[email protected]
Received xx/xx/xxxx; Revised xx/xx/xxxx; Accepted xx/xx/xxxx

Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of a RACE
journal. The authors must follow the instructions given in the document for the papers to be published. You can use this document
as both an instruction set and as a template into which you can type your own text.
©2020 RACE. All rights reserved
Keywords— Put your keywords here, keywords are separated by comma.
Italic. Email address must be in 9 pt Courier Regular font.
I. INTRODUCTION Received, revised and accepted dates must be in 10 pt regular
point.
This document is a template. An electronic copy can be
downloaded from the conference website. For questions on
paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications All title and author details must be in single-column
committee as indicated on the conference website. format and must be centered.
Information about final paper submission is available from the TABLE 1
conference website. FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS

Font Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)

II. PAGE LAYOUT Size Regular Bold Italic
8 table caption (in reference item
An easy way to comply with the conference paper Small Caps), (partial)
formatting requirements is to use this document as a template figure caption,
and simply type your text into it. reference item
9 author email address abstract abstract heading
A. Page Layout (in Courier), body (also in Bold)
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 cell in a table
which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. The 10 level-1 heading (in level-2 heading,
margins must be set as follows: Small Caps), level-3 heading,
paragraph author affiliation
● Top = 19mm (0.75") 11 author name
24 title
● Bottom = 43mm (0.75")
Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short
● Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56")
minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”,
Your paper must be in two column format with a space of “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.
4.22mm (0.17") between columns. Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.
Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any
III. PAGE STYLE membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior
Member IEEE).
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the
justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified. last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).
Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of
Text Font of Entire Document
the company and the name of the country where the author is
The entire document should be in Times New Roman or based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.
may be used if needed for special purposes.
Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1. Section Headings
No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All
Title and Author Details
headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must
Title must be in 24 pt Regular font. Author name must be be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in
in 11 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 10 pt Section III-B.
1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small Caps, The two level-1 headings which must not be numbered are
centered and numbered using uppercase Roman numerals. “Acknowledgment” and “References”.
For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this document.
2) Level-2 Heading: : A level-2 heading must be in Italic, left- font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be
justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic letter capitalized except for short minor words as listed in Section
followed by a period. For example, see heading “C. Section III-B. Captions with table numbers must be placed before
Headings” above. their associated tables, as shown in Table 1.
3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented, in Italic
and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a right
parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon. The
body of the level-3 section immediately follows the level-3
heading in the same paragraph. For example, this paragraph
begins with a level-3 heading.
Figures and Tables
Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table
or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.
Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on
the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns
Fig. 1 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use
only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 Example of an image with acceptable resolution

C. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers

Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.
and on a black-and-white hardcopy
D. Links and Bookmarks
Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be removed
would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of from papers during the processing of papers for publication.
an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution If you need to refer to an Internet email address or URL in
is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure. your paper, you must type out the address or URL fully in
Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on Regular font.
a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on
a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that: E. References
● the colors used in each figure contrast well, The heading of the References section must not be
numbered. All reference items must be in 8 pt font. Please
● the image used in each figure is clear, use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as
shown in the References section. Number the reference items
● all text labels in each figure are legible. consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).
When referring to a reference item, please simply use the
Figure Captions reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or
Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure “Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g.
captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single “Reference [3] shows …” Multiple references are each
line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3], [4]–[6]).
must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers Examples of reference items of different categories shown
must be placed after their associated figures, as shown in in the References section include:
Fig. 1. ● example of a book in [1]
B. Table Captions
● example of a book in a series in [2]
Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman
numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular ● example of a journal article in [3]
 ● example of a conference paper in [4] ● example of a patent in [5]
IV. CONCLUSIONS [2] J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series:
Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in
● A conclusion section is recommended as it helps the Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.
[3] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin
readers to check the relevance. Conclusion may the elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron
scope of the work presented in the paper. Device Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
[4] M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High
resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in
● ACKNOWLEDGMENT Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
[5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed
digital-to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.
● The heading of the Acknowledgment section and the [6] (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee.org/
References section must not be numbered. [7] M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN. [Online]. Available:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEE
● Thanks to Dr S. H. Gawande for his valuable tran/
[8] FLEXChip Signal Processor (MC68175/D), Motorola, 1996.
contribution in developing the RACE article template. [9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.
[10] A. Karnik, “Performance of TCP congestion control with rate
feedback: TCP/ABR and rate adaptive TCP/IP,” M. Eng. thesis,
● REFERENCES Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1999.
[1] S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko, Laser Assisted Microtechnology, 2nd [11] J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, and D. Towsley, “A stochastic model of TCP
ed., R. M. Osgood, Jr., Ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998. Reno congestion avoidance and control,” Univ. of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA, CMPSCI Tech. Rep. 99-02, 1999.
[12] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specification, IEEE Std. 802.11, 1997.