Paper Title (use style: paper title)

Subtitle as needed

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: [email protected] line 4: e-mail: [email protected]

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I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) The template is used to format your paper and style the
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MARGINS. Some components, such as multi-leveled when proofreading spelling and grammar:
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the various table text styles are provided. The formatter will A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
need to create these components, incorporating the Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
applicable criteria that follow. used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
II. TYPE STYLE AND FONTS and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
Wherever Times is specified, Times Roman or Times in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
New Roman may be used. If neither is available on your B. Units
word processor, please use the font closest in appearance to
Times. Avoid using bit-mapped fonts if possible. True-Type  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
1 or Open Type fonts are preferred. Please embed symbol units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
fonts, as well, for math, etc. secondary units (in parentheses). An exception
would be the use of English units as identifiers in
trade, such as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current  In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can
in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the
leads to confusion because equations do not balance “u”; if not, keep using lower-cased.
dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly  Be aware of the different meanings of the
state the units for each quantity that you use in an homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement”
equation. and “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”,
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of “principal” and “principle”.
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in  The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to
text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”. the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
abbreviation “et al.”.
C. Equations  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
The equations are an exception to the prescribed abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
specifications of this template. You will need to determine An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
whether or not your equation should be typed using either
the Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other V. USING THE TEMPLATE
font). To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
to treat the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the
after your paper is styled. Save As command, and use the naming convention
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, prescribed by your conference for the name of your paper. In
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using this newly created file, highlight all of the contents and
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you import your prepared text file. You are now ready to style
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate your paper.
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather A. Authors and Affiliations
than a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with The template is designed so that author affiliations are
commas or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in not repeated each time for multiple authors of the same
affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as succinct as
  possible (for example, do not differentiate among
departments of the same organization). This template was
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. designed for two affiliations.
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined 1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not change the default, adjust the template as follows.
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
affiliation lines.
D. Some Common Mistakes b) Change number of columns: Select Format >
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. Columns >Presets > One Column.
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
other common scientific constants, is zero with the second affiliation.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”.
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, d) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To
periods, question and exclamation marks are located change the default, adjust the template as follows.
within quotation marks only when a complete e) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
thought or name is cited, such as a title or full f) Change number of columns: Select Format >
quotation. When quotation marks are used, instead Columns > Presets > One Column.
of a bold or italic typeface, to highlight a word or
g) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
phrase, punctuation should appear outside of the
and copy this selection.
quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase or statement
at the end of a sentence is punctuated outside of the h) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
closing parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste the
sentence is punctuated within the parentheses.) copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each additional
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. affiliation.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word i) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that the right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an
alternates). even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations,
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean place your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the
“approximately” or “effectively”. cursor up to highlight all of the above author and affiliation
lines. Go to Format > Columns and select “2 Columns”. If writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As
you have an odd number of affiliations, the final affiliation an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or
will be centered on the page; all previous will be in two “Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
columns. label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization
B. Identify the Headings (A/m)” or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide not label axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For
the reader through your paper. There are two types: example, write “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”.
component heads and text heads.
D. Footnotes
Component heads identify the different components of
your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Use footnotes sparingly (or not at all) and place them at
Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, the bottom of the column on the page on which they are
for these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure referenced. Use Times 8-point type, single-spaced. To help
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your your readers, avoid using footnotes altogether and include
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you necessary peripheral observations in the text (within
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style parentheses, if you prefer, as in this sentence).
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
from the text. VI. COPYRIGHT FORMS AND REPRINT ORDERS
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, You must submit the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form
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text head because all subsequent material relates and FORM MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ORDER TO PUBLISH
elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub- YOUR PAPER.
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals) Please see Step 9 for ordering reprints of your paper.
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two Reprints may be ordered using the form provided as
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named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and
“Heading 4” are prescribed. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in
C. Figures and Tables
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and expression, “One of us (R.B.G.) thanks . . .” Instead, try
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them “R.B.G. thanks”. Put applicable sponsor acknowledgments
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span here; DO NOT place them on the first page of your paper or
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the as a footnote.
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. REFERENCES
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES List and number all bibliographical references in 9-point
Times, single-spaced, at the end of your paper. When
Table Table Column Head referenced in the text, enclose the citation number in square
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead brackets, for example [1]. Where appropriate, include the
copy More table copy a name(s) of editors of referenced books. The template will
number citations consecutively within brackets [1]. The
a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2]. Refer simply to
the reference number, as in [3]—do not use “Ref. [3]” or
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence:
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Shading > Select “None”. Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
Figure 1. Example of a ONE-COLUMN figure caption. should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
Please see last page of this document for AN EXAMPLE Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
of a 2-COLUMN Figure. proper nouns and element symbols.
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
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the English citation first, followed by the original foreign- spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
language citation [6]. 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
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Figure 2. Example of a TWO-COLUMN figure caption: (a) this is the format for referencing parts of a figure.