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1 Introduction
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2 Results
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body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text.
4 Equations
Equations in LATEX can either be inline or on-a-line by itself (“display equations”). For
inline equations use the $...$ commands. E.g.: The equation Hψ = Eψ is written
via the command $ H \ psi = E \ psi$ .
For display equations (with auto generated equation numbers) one can use the
equation or align environments:
where,
a a a b a
F µν = ∂ µ A ν − ∂ ν A µ + gfabcAµAν (2)
Notice the use of \nonumber in the align environment at the end of each line, except
the last, so as not to produce equation numbers on lines where no equation
numbers are required. The \label{} command should only be used at the last line
of an align environment where \nonumber is not used.
The class file also supports the use of \mathbb{}, \mathscr{} and \mathcal{} com-
mands. As such \mathbb{R}, \mathscr{R} and \mathcal{R} produces R , R and R
respectively (refer Subsubsection 3.1.1).
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5 Tables
Tables can be inserted via the normal table and tabular environment. To put footnotes
inside tables you should use \footnotetext[]{ . . .} tag. The footnote appears
just below the table itself (refer Tables 1 and 2). For the corresponding
footnotemark use \footnotemark[ . . .]
\ b e g i n { t a b l e } [ < p l a c e m e n t - s p e c i fier>]
\caption{<table-caption>}\label{<table-label>}%
\begin{tabular}{@{} llll@{}}
\toprule
Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 & Column
4\\ \midrule
row 1 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
row 2 & data 4 & data 5\footnotemark[1] & data 6 \\
row 3 & data 7 & data 8 & data 9\footnotemark[2]\\
\botrule
\end{tabular}
\footnotetext{Source: This is an example of table footnote .
This is an example of table footnote.}
\footnotetext[1]{Example for a first table footnote .
This is an example of table footnote.}
\footnotetext[2]{Example for a second table footnote .
This is an example of table footnote.}
\end{table}
In case of double column layout, tables which do not fit in single column width
should be set to full text width. For this, you need to use \begin{table*} . .
. \end{table*} instead of \begin{table} . . . \end{table} environment.
Lengthy tables which do not fit in textwidth should be set as rotated table. For this,
you need to
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Table 2 Example of a lengthy table which is set to full textwidth
Element 1 1 Element 2 2
Project Energy σcalc σ expt Energy σcalc σ expt
Element 3 990 A 1168 1547 ± 12 780 A 1166 1239 ± 100
Element 4 500 A 961 922 ± 10 900 A 1268 1092 ± 40
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of table footnote this is an example of table footnote this is an example of table footnote.
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Example for a first table footnote.
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6 Figures
As per the LATEX standards you need to use eps images for LATEX compilation
and pdf/jpg/png images for PDFLaTeX compilation. This is one of the major
difference between LATEX and PDFLaTeX. Each image should be from a single input
.eps/vector image file. Avoid using subfigures. The command for inserting images for
LATEX and PDFLaTeX can be generalized. The package used to insert images in
LaTeX/PDFLaTeX is the graphicx package. Figures can be inserted via the normal
figure environment as shown in the below example:
\begin{figure}[<placement-specifier>]
\centering
\includegraphics{<eps-file>}
\caption{<figure-caption>}\label{<figure-label>}
\end{figure}
Fig. 1 This is a widefig. This is an example of long caption this is an example of long caption this
is an example of long caption this is an example of long caption
In case of double column layout, the above format puts figure captions/images to
single column width. To get spanned images, we need to provide \begin{figure*}
. . . \end{figure*}.
For sample purpose, we have included the width of images in the optional argument
of \includegraphics tag. Please ignore this.
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Table 3 Tables which are too long to fit, should be written using the “sidewaystable” environment as shown here
Element 1 1 Element 2
Projectile Energy σcalc σ expt Energy σcalc σ expt
Element 3 990 A 1168 1547 ± 12 780 A 1166 1239 ± 100
Element 4 500 A 961 922 ± 10 900 A 1268 1092 ± 40
5 Element 5 990 A 1168 1547 ± 12 780 A 1166 1239 ± 100
Element 6 500 A 961 922 ± 10 900 A 1268 1092 ± 40
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7 Algorithms, Program codes and Listings
Packages algorithm, algorithmicx and algpseudocode are used for setting algo-
rithms in LATEX using the format:
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{<alg-caption>}\lab el{<alg-label>}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
. . .
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
You may refer above listed package documentations for more details before setting
algorithm environment. For program codes, the “verbatim” package is required and
the command to be used is \begin{verbatim} . . . \end{verbatim}.
Similarly, for listings, use the listings package. \begin{lstlisting} . .
. \end{lstlisting} is used to set environments similar to verbatim
environment. Refer to the lstlisting package documentation for more details.
A fast exponentiation procedure:
begin
for i := 1 to 10 step 1 do
expt (2, i ) ;
newline () od Comments will be set flush to the right margin
where
proc expt (x,n) ≡
z := 1 ;
do if n = 0 then exit fi ;
do if odd (n) then exi t fi ;
comment : This is a comment statement;
n := n/2 ; x := x ∗ x od ;
{ n >0 };
n := n − 1 ; z := z ∗ x
od ; p r i n t ( z ) .
end
for i := maxint to 0
do begin
{ do nothing }
end ;
Write ( ’ Case – insensitive – ’ ) ;
Write ( ’ Pascal – keywords . ’ ) ;
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Algorithm 1 Calculate y = x n
Require: n ≥ 0 V x
0 Ensure: y = x n
1: y ⇋ 1
2: if n < 0
then 3 : X ⇋
1/x 4 : N
⇋ - n 5: else
6: X ⇋
x 7: N
⇋ n 8: end
if
9 : while N 0 do
10: if N is even then
11: X ⇋ X × X
12: N ⇋ N/2
13: else[N is odd]
14: y ⇋y ×X
15: N ⇋N - 1
16: end if
17: end while
8 Cross referencing
Environments such as figure, table, equation and align can have a label declared via
the \label{#label} command. For figures and table environments use the \label{}
command inside or just below the \caption{} command. You can then use the
\ref{#label} command to cross-reference them. As an example, consider the label
declared for Figure 1 which is \label{fig1}. To cross-reference it, use the command
Figure \ref{fig1}, for which it comes up as “Figure 1” .
To reference line numbers in an algorithm, consider the label declared for the line
number 2 of Algorithm 1 is \label{algln2}. To cross-reference it, use the command
\ref{algln2} for which it comes up as line 2 of Algorithm 1.
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9 Examples for theorem like environments
For theorem like environments, we require amsthm package. There are three types
of predefined theorem styles exists—thmstyleone, thmstyletwo and thmstylethree
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Proof. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text.
Exam- ple for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example
for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof
text.
Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample
body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text.
Proof of Theorem 1. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example
for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof
text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text. Example for proof text.
Example for proof text.
Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample
body text (refer Figure 1). Sample body text. Sample body text. Sample body text
(refer Table 3).
10 Methods
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12 Conclusion
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