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Universidad Particular Ricardo Palma (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
Lima, Peru line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
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IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
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Formatting toolbar. ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)

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For papers published in translation journals, please give the English citation first, followed by the
B. Identify the Headings original foreign-language citation [6].

Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide the reader through your paper. There are two [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of

types: component heads and text heads. Bessel functions,” Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955. (references)

[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
Component heads identify the different components of your paper and are not topically subordinate to [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T.
each other. Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for these, the correct style to use is Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
“Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run-in [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name Stand. Abbrev., in press.
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from the text.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and

plastic substrate interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the
Japan, p. 301, 1982].
primary text head because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this one topic. If there are
[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA: University Science, 1989.
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