Author Guidelines for IEEE 8.

5x11 2 Column Proceedings Formats

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 Abstract a two-column format. respective names. 0.17-inch or 0.422 cm).
Columns are to be 3-1/4 Affiliations are centered Be sure your text is fully
The abstract is to be inches (8.25 cm) wide, below each author name, justifiedthat is, flush
in fully-justified italicized with a 5/16 inch (0.8 cm) italicized, not bold. left and flush right.
text, at the top of the left- space between them. Include e-mail addresses Please do not place any
hand column as it is here, Text must be fully if possible. Follow the additional blank lines
below the author justified. A format sheet author
with the margins and information by For I = 1 to 10 do
information. Use the
placement guides is two blank Print this figure
word Abstract as the
available in both Word lines before End;
title, in 12-point Times,
boldface type, centered and PDF files as main text.
relative to the column, <format.doc> and
Figure 1. Example figure.
initially capitalized. The <format.pdf>. It contains 5. Second
lines and boxes showing between paragraphs. You
abstract is to be in 10- and Following can use courier for source
point, single-spaced type, the margins and print Pages
areas. If you hold it and code.
and may be up to 3 in.
(7.62 cm) long. Leave your printed page up to The second and 7.1. Figure and Table
two blank lines after the the light, you can easily following pages should
check your margins to see Captions
abstract, then begin the begin 1.0 inch (2.54 cm)
main text. All if your print area fits from the top edge. On all Captions should be
manuscripts must be in within the space allowed. pages, the bottom margin 10-point Helvetica (or a
English. should be 1-1/8 inches similar sans-serif font),
3. Main Title (2.86 cm) from the boldface. Callouts should
1. Introduction The main title (on the
bottom edge of the page be 9-point Helvetica,
for 8.5 x 11-inch paper; non-boldface. Initially
These guidelines first page) should begin for A4 paper,
1-3/8 inches (3.49 cm) capitalize only the first
include complete approximately 1-5/8
from the top edge of the word of each figure
descriptions of the fonts, inches (4.13 cm) from the
page, centered, and in caption and table title.
spacing, and related bottom edge of the page.
Times 14-point, boldface Figures and tables must
information for producing
type. Capitalize the first be numbered separately.
your proceedings 6. Type-style and
letter of nouns, pronouns, For example: Figure 1.
manuscripts. Please Fonts
verbs, adjectives, and Example figure., Table
follow them and if you
adverbs; do not capitalize 1. Table example..
have any questions, direct Wherever Times is
articles, coordinate Figure captions are to be
them to the production specified, Times Roman,
conjunctions, or below the figures (see
editor in charge of your or New Times Roman
prepositions (unless the Figure 1). Table titles are
proceedings at the IEEE may be used. If neither is
title begins with such a to be centered above the
Computer Society Press: available on your word
word). Leave two blank tables (see Table 1.
Phone (714) 821-8380 or processor, please use the
Fax (714) 761-1784. lines after the title. font closest in appearance Table 1. Table example.
to Times that you have
2. Formatting Your 4. Author Name(s) access to. Please avoid One Two Three
Paper and using bitmapped fonts if
Affiliation(s) possible. True-Type 1
All printed material, fonts are preferred.
including text, Author names and
illustrations, and charts, affiliations are to be 7. Main Text
must be kept within a centered beneath the title 8. First-order
print area of 6-7/8 inches and printed in Times 12- Type your main text in
Headings
(17.5 cm) wide by 8-7/8 point, non-boldface type. 10-point Times, single-
inches (22.54 cm) high. Multiple authors may be spaced. Do not use For example, 1.
Do not write or print shown in a two- or three- double-spacing. All Introduction, should be
anything outside the print column format, with their paragraphs should be Times 12- point boldface,
area. All text must be in affiliations below their indented 1 pica initially capitalized, flush
(approximately 1/6- or
left, with one blank line 11. References
before, and one blank line
after. Use a period (.) List and number all
after the heading number, bibliographical references
not a colon. in 9- point Times, single-
spaced, at the end of your
8.1. Second-order paper. When referenced
Headings in the text, enclose the
citation number in square
As in this heading, brackets, for example [2-
they should be Times 11- 4], [2, 5], and [1].
point boldface, initially
capitalized, flush left, [1] Briand, L. C., Daly, J.,
with one blank line and Wst, J., "A unified
before, and one after. framework for coupling
measurement in
objectoriented systems",
8.1.1. Third-order
IEEE Transactions on
Headings. Third-order Software Engineering, 25, 1,
headings, as in this January 1999, pp. 91-121.
paragraph, are
discouraged. However, if [2] Maletic, J. I., Collard, M.
L., and Marcus, A., "Source
you must use them, use
Code Files as Structured
10-point Times, boldface, Documents", in Proceedings
initially capitalized, flush 10th IEEE International
left, preceded by one Workshop on Program
blank line, followed by a Comprehension (IWPC'02),
period and your text on Paris, France, June 27-29
the same line. 2002, pp. 289-292.
[3] Marcus, A., Semantic
9. Footnotes Driven Program Analysis,
Kent State University, Kent,
Use footnotes1 OH, USA, Doctoral Thesis,
sparingly (or not at all!) 2003.
and place them at the
[4] Marcus, A. and Maletic,
bottom of the column on J. I., "Recovering
the page on which they Documentation-to-Source-
are referenced. Use Code Traceability Links
Times 8-point type, using Latent Semantic
single-spaced. To help Indexing", in Proceedings
your readers, avoid using 25th IEEE/ACM
footnotes altogether and International Conference on
include necessary Software Engineering
(ICSE'03), Portland, OR,
peripheral observations in
May 3-10 2003, pp. 125-
the text (within 137.
parentheses, if you prefer,
as in this sentence). [5] Salton, G., Automatic
Text Processing: The
Transformation, Analysis
10. Acknowledgeme and Retrieval of Information
nts by Computer, Addison-
Wesley, 1989.
This work was
supported in part by a
grant from the National
Science Foundation.
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