Acoustics and Psychoacoustics II December 2022, Argentina

Acoustic design of a concert hall

Shinichi Sato

Ingeniería de Sonido, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero

[email protected]

Abstract – Abstract accompanies every article regardless of its length. The maximum number of words is 200. The
abstract shall be written in one paragraph. The title is not necessary to be repeated in the abstract. Write the
abstract with the recognition that the reader has already read the title. Use of the personal pronouns (I, we, …) is
not recommended. Avoid use of acronyms and unfamiliar abbreviations. Do not include tables, figures, footnotes
and equations in separate lines. The abstract basically does not include literature citations.

1. INTRODUCTION  Conclusions
 References
This article specifies the instructions for authors of
engineering disciplines for scientific articles to be
3. STYLE FORMAT
presented and/or published at the academic activities
in UNTREF. It also brings some recommendations 3.1 Font and margines
for writing a scientific paper. This is a template that
The paper layout is a two-column format on A4 paper
fits the style and layout of conference proceedings.
size. The top and the right margins should be 2.5 cm
Please carefully read the instructions below. The best
and the left and the bottom margins should be 2 cm.
way to follow a given format is overwriting the
The space between columns should be 1 cm. The font
format with your contents. Then, the font, font size,
of the main text is Times New Roman, with size of
margins, subheading styles are all correctly
10pt.
formatted.
The Introduction section usually consists of three
3.2 First page
parts as paragraphs, not to be structured into multiple
headings. The first part deals with the background of The first page must contain a predefined area for
the work and describes the field of research. It should basic paper (headers and the title), author related
also elaborate on the general problem statement and information (author’s name, affiliation, and e-mail
the relevance. The second part describes the literature address), and abstract. The text of the abstract should
review of prior related studies. This part is important be written in italic. These items should be formatted
to differentiate your investigation from the previous in a one-column layout.
ones. Try referring to reviewed journal articles. It is
not recommended to refer online articles and 3.3 Subsections
materials which were not achieved. At the end of the
Titles for sections and subsection should look like
second part, the limitation of the previous studies to
this. Space between titles of sections and subsections
clarify the gap which you want to fill by your
and the following paragraph should be of 1.5. At the
investigation is described as a conclusion of the
end of a Section or subsection a blank line of space 1
literature review. The last part describes the aim of
must be left.
the study, typically the paragraph starts with a phrase
like “The aim of this study is to ...” or “This study
4. FIGURES AND TABLES
aims to …”.
If the manuscript is extensive and the structure is To illustrate topics, numbered figures and tables can
not simple, the fourth part can describe the outlines of be included within the text. Figures and tables should
the manuscript structure. always be referenced and explained in the text, for
example: Figure 1 shows the SPL over the surface of
2. STRUCTURE OF YOUR PAPER a non uniform room with columns all over the
audience; Table 1 shows diverse SPL measurements
Your paper could be possibly structured as follows:
at several points. A figure caption should be placed
 Introduction
immediately below the figure with a font size of 9pt
 Methods
(Figure 1).
 Results
 Discussion
1
 (2)

being IIR the weighted total energy impulse value

[1].
Applying the reverse theorem to Eq. (2), it is quite
straightforward to see that:

(3)

Figure 1: Room and SPL distribution [dB]. The caption is

Use parentheses to avoid ambiguities in
justified (text is aligned at both sides of text area). Use
centering only if the caption is one line. denominators. All parameters in the equations should
be defined immediately after the equation appears,
Do not copy and paste a window/output of using a “where” clause or a phrase starting with
software by the “print screen” function. It usually “being”.
includes too small fonts for the ticks and the labels of
the x- and y-axes if it is reduced in the size of two- 6. CONCLUSIONS
column format. Edit each figure by yourself so that The conclusion should briefly summarize the
every element is enough readable. Remember that problem statement and the general content of the
figure could be printed in grayscale so it should be work and emphasize it is main contribution. You
clear enough even after being printed and copied that should not cite some in your conclusion which you
way. Thus, if you used color in your figures, do not have not mentioned before.
refer it to the “blue” line in the text. If you cite the
figure from other articles, provide the citation. 7. REFERENCE FORMAT
A table caption should be placed above the table
with a font size of 9pt (Table 1). Do not copy and All the citation appeared in the main text should be
paste the excel table. Use the table generation listed in the References section, and all the articles
function of the software. listed in the References should be cited in the main
text. The citation style in the main text is a number in
brackets (e.g., [1]) if several articles are cited in one
Table 1: Measured SPL with different weighting filters description, use [2,3], [4-5], or [6,8-10] style. The
[dBA]. citation in the main text always starts from [1], not
from other number. The order of the articles in the
Filter References follows the order of appearance in the
Position A-weighting C-weighting main text.
No weighting
filter filter The format of the reference shall follow as below.
1 56.8 67.3 77.1 Do not just copy and paste from the References of
2 55.9 65.0 75.3 other articles because each journal introduces
3 56.2 69.2 74.0
4 56.5 67.9 78.9
different format. The style below is the same as the
UNTREF thesis format. Thus, the order of each item
shall strictly follow these examples. Be careful with
5. EQUATIONS the punctuation (period, comma, and space).
Regardless of the number of the author, all authors
Mathematical equations should be generated by using shall be listed, with fully spelled family name
Equation Editor included in MS Word or software followed by the initial(s) of the first (and the middle)
with equivalent function. Do not copy and paste the name(s). The title (Dr., Prof., etc.) is not necessary.
equation from textbooks as bitmap format. Equations Every reference is ended with a period.
should be placed on separate lines and numbered with [1] indicates examples for journal articles. [2] is
Arabic numbers as below: an example for conference proceedings. [3] and [4]
are examples for a book and a standard, respectively.
[5] is an example for a thesis for Bachelor, Master, or
(1) Ph.D. degree in a university. [6] and [7] are the
format for an internal report. Especially [7] is the
where x(t) is the input signal. format for the report of Acoustic Laboratory. [8] is
the format for a website but a citation of a website is
not recommended because the contents may change.
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If you refer to a website, provide the date of last
viewed.

8. PROOFREADING
Before submitting the manuscript, check whether the
contents and style are appropriate, and whether there
are no grammatical errors and typing mistakes.

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