11th International Colloquium of Logistics and Supply Chain Management LOGISTIQUA 2018

April, 26-27
FST, Tangier, Morocco

Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

Subtitle as needed (paper subtitle)

Authors Name/s per 1st Affiliation (Author) Authors Name/s per 2nd Affiliation (Author)
line 1 (of Affiliation): dept. name of organization line 1 (of Affiliation): dept. name of organization
line 2-name of organization, acronyms acceptable line 2-name of organization, acronyms acceptable
line 3-City, Country line 3-City, Country
line 4-e-mail address if desired line 4-e-mail address if desired

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Examples include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
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“Heading 5.” Use “figure caption” for your Figure captions, “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
and “table head” for your table title. Run-in heads, such as sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...”
“Abstract,” will require you to apply a style (in this case,
italic) in addition to the style provided by the drop down menu Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the
to differentiate the head from the text. actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical table footnotes.
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
subheads should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1,” accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
“Heading 2,” “Heading 3,” and “Heading 4” are prescribed. Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for proper
nouns and element symbols.
C. Figures and Tables For papers published in translation journals, please give
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in language citation [6].
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the (references)
abbreviation “Fig. 1,” even at the beginning of a sentence. [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.
TABLE I. TABLE STYLES [3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
Table Table Column Head York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
copy More table copya [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
b.
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].

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[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:

University Science, 1989.