Paper Title (use style: paper title)

Subtitle as needed (paper subtitle)

[ Author Names Only ]

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template.

The various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.]
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the
are already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the Specifications
portions given in this document. (Abstract)
The template is used to format your paper and style the
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts
(key words) are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
peculiarities.
For example, the head margin in this template measures
I. Introduction (Heading 1) proportionately more than is customary. This measurement
This template, created in MS Word 2000 and saved as and others are deliberate, using specifications that anticipate
“Word 97-2000 & 6.0/95 – RTF” for the PC, provides your paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and not as
authors with most of the formatting specifications needed an independent document. Please do not revise any of the
for preparing electronic versions of their papers. All current designations.
standard paper components have been specified for three
reasons: (1) ease of use when formatting individual papers,
(2) automatic compliance to electronic requirements that III. Prepare Your Paper Before
facilitate the concurrent or later production of electronic
products, and (3) conformity of style throughout a
Styling
conference proceedings. Margins, column widths, line Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
spacing, and type styles are built-in; examples of the type save the content as a separate text file. Keep your text and
styles are provided throughout this document and are graphic files separate until after the text has been formatted
identified in italic type, within parentheses, following the and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and limit use of hard
example. Some components, such as multi-leveled returns to only one return at the end of a paragraph. Do not
equations, graphics, and tables are not prescribed, although add any kind of pagination anywhere in the paper. Do not
the various table text styles are provided. The formatter will number text heads-the template will do that for you.
need to create these components, incorporating the
Finally, complete content and organizational editing
applicable criteria that follow.
before formatting. Please take note of the following items
when proofreading spelling and grammar:
II. Ease of Use
A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your are used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
US-letter paper size. If you are using A4-sized paper, please and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
close this file and download the file for “MSW A4 format”. in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.

B. Units
Authors Name/s per Affiliation (Author)
 Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
line 1 College / University Name
line 2: Country units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
line 4: e-mail address if desired secondary units (in parentheses). An exception
would be the use of English units as identifiers in
trade, such as “3.5-inch disk drive”.

Authors Name/s per Affiliation (Author)

 Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
line 1 College / University Name
in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This
line 2: Country often leads to confusion because equations do not
line 4: e-mail address if desired balance dimensionally. If you must use mixed units,
clearly state the units for each quantity that you use
in an equation.
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in
text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.

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  Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined
to the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
C. Equations
 There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
The equations are an exception to the prescribed abbreviation “et al.”.
specifications of this template. You will need to determine
whether or not your equation should be typed using either  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
the Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
font). To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary
An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
to treat the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text
after your paper is styled.
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, IV. Using the Template
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
using a right tab stop. To make your equations more for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the
compact, you may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or Save As command, and use the naming convention
appropriate exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for prescribed by your conference for the name of your paper.
quantities and variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long In this newly created file, highlight all of the contents and
dash rather than a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate import your prepared text file. You are now ready to style
equations with commas or periods when they are part of a your paper; use the scroll down window on the left of the
sentence, as in MS Word Formatting toolbar.

  A. Authors and Affiliations

The template is designed so that author affiliations are
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. Be not repeated each time for multiple authors of the same
sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not possible (for example, do not differentiate among
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a departments of the same organization). This template was
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” designed for two affiliations.

D. Some Common Mistakes 1) For author/s of only one affiliation

(Heading 3): To change the default,
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. adjust the template as follows.
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all
a)
and other common scientific constants, is zero with
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. author and affiliation lines.
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, Change number of columns: Select
b)
periods, question and exclamation marks are located
within quotation marks only when a complete the Columns icon from the MS Word
thought or name is cited, such as a title or full Standard toolbar and then select “1
quotation. When quotation marks are used, instead
of a bold or italic typeface, to highlight a word or Column” from the selection palette.
phrase, punctuation should appear outside of the
quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase or statement c) Deletion: Delete the author and
at the end of a sentence is punctuated outside of the affiliation lines for the second affiliation.
closing parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical
sentence is punctuated within the parentheses.) 2) For author/s of more than two
affiliations: To change the default, adjust
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. the template as follows.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that a) Selection: Highlight all author and
alternates).
affiliation lines.
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
“approximately” or “effectively”. Change number of columns: Select
b)
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can the “Columns” icon from the MS Word
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the Standard toolbar and then select “1
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased.
 Be aware of the different meanings of the
Column” from the selection palette.
homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement”
and “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”,
“principal” and “principle”.

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 Highlight author and affiliation
c) Figure captions should be below the
figures; table heads should appear above
lines of affiliation 1 and copy this the tables. Insert figures and tables after
selection. they are cited in the text. Use the
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the
Formatting: Insert one hard return
d) beginning of a sentence.
immediately after the last character of TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
the last affiliation line. Then paste down Table Table Column Head
the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead
copy More table copya
necessary for each additional affiliation.
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
Reassign number of columns: Place
e)
your cursor to the right of the last We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic
character of the last affiliation line of an (which is ideally a 300 dpi TIFF or EPS file, with all fonts
embedded) because, in an MSW document, this method is
even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there somewhat more stable than directly inserting a picture.
are five affiliations, place your cursor at To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the
end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box >
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line.
up to highlight all of the above author Figure 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
and affiliation lines. Go to Column icon Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for
and select “2 Columns”. If you have an Figure labels. Use words rather than symbols or
abbreviations when writing Figure axis labels to avoid
odd number of affiliations, the final confusing the reader. As an example, write the quantity
affiliation will be centered on the page; “Magnetization”, or “Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If
including units in the label, present them within parentheses.
all previous will be in two columns. Do not label axes only with units. In the example, write
“Magnetization (A/m)” or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not
B. Identify the Headings just “A/m”. Do not label axes with a ratio of quantities and
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide units. For example, write “Temperature (K)”, not
the reader through your paper. There are two types: “Temperature/K”.
component heads and text heads.
Component heads identify the different components of Acknowledgment (Heading 5)
your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
Examples include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
and, for these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use expression, “One of us (R. B. G.) thanks . . .” Instead, try
“figure caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” “R. B. G. thanks”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
for your table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will unnum-bered footnote on the first page.
require you to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to
the style provided by the drop down menu to differentiate
the head from the text. References
Text heads organize the topics on a relational,
hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the primary [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
text head because all subsequent material relates and Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub- (references)
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals) [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
“Heading 4” are prescribed. New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
C. Figures and Tables Stand. Abbrev., in press.
Positioning Figures and Tables:
1) [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
Place figures and tables at the top and interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
the middle of columns. Large figures and [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer's Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
tables may span across both columns. University Science, 1989.

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