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First Author#, Second Author*, Third Author#
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Department, University, Address, City, ZIP Code, Country
E-mail: [email protected]

*Second Institution, Address, City, ZIP Code, Country


E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for author(s) preparing papers for publication in the Malaysian Journal of
Science, Health and Technology (MJoSHT). Author(s) must follow the instructions given in the document for the papers to be
published. You can use this document as both an instruction set and as a template into which you can type your own text.

Keywords— Put your keywords here, keywords are separated by semicolon.

I. INTRODUCTION The entire document should be in Times New Roman or


PAGE LAYOUT This document is a template. For Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types
questions on paper guidelines, please contact the managing may be used if needed for special purposes. Recommended
editor as indicated on the journal website. Information about font sizes are shown in Table 1.
final paper submission is available from the journal website. B. Title and Author Details
Authors are suggested to present their articles in the
Title must be in 18 pt Regular font. Author name must be
section structure: INTRODUCTION - THE MATERIAL AND
in 12 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 9 pt
METHOD/ALGORITHM - RESULTS AND DISCUSSION –
Italic. Email address must be in 9 pt Italic.
CONCLUSION. Please be sure that the manuscript is up to
All title and author details must be in single-column
date. Reference minimal its 10 reference. It is expected that
format and must be centered.
30% of references are to recent papers. The minimum
Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short
number of pages is as much as 7 pages.
minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”,
“for”, “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”,
II. PAGE LAYOUT
“with”.
An easy way to comply with the journal paper formatting Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.
requirements is to use this document as a template and Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any
simply type your text into it. membership of any professional organization.
To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as
A. Page Layout
the last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name
which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. of the company and the name of the country where the
The margins must be set as follows: author is based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
 Top = 19mm (0.75") Email address is compulsory for all authors.
 Bottom = 28mm (1.1")
TABLE I
 Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56") FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS
Your paper must be in two column format with a space of
8.5mm (0.33") between columns. Font Appearance (in TimesNew Roman or Times)
Size Regular Bold Italic
8 table caption (in reference item
III. PAGE STYLE Small Caps), (partial)
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be figure caption,
justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified. reference item, cell
in a table
A. Text Font of Entire Document 9 author email address, abstract abstract heading
cell in a table body (also in Bold),
author affiliation
10 level-1 heading (in level-2 heading, of an image with adequate resolution. Check that the
Small Caps), level-3 heading resolution is adequate to reveal the important detail in the
paragraph figure.
12 author name Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and
18 title on a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper
on a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that:
C. Section Headings  the colors used in each figure contrast well,
 the image used in each figure is clear,
No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All
headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must  all text labels in each figure are legible.
be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in E. Figure Captions
Section III-B.
Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure
1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single
Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line
numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this captions must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure
document. The two level-1 headings which must not be numbers must be placed after their associated figures, as
numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”. shown in Fig. 1.
2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must be in Italic,
left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic
letter followed by a period. For example, see heading “C.
Section Headings” above.
3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented,
in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a
right parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon.
The body of the level-3 section immediately follows the
level-3 heading in the same paragraph. For example, this
paragraph begins with a level-3 heading.

Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image

Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable resolution

D. Figures and Tables


Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large F. Table Captions
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman
or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page. Regular font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption
Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on must be capitalized. Captions with table numbers must be
the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns placed before their associated tables, as shown in Table 1.
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use
only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen G. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers
and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1. Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.

Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which H. Links and Bookmarks


would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example
All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be x length co-ordinate m
removed from papers during the processing of papers for
publication. If you need to refer to an Internet email address Greek letters
or URL in your paper, you must type out the address or URL  heat transfer coefficient Wm-2K-1
fully in Regular font.  residence time s
I. Equations
Subscripts
Equations should be placed flush-left with the text i inlet
margin. Equations are centered and numbered consecutively e equilibrium
starting from 1 as follows
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
(1)
We would like to thank Causal Productions for permits to
use and revise the template provided by Causal Productions.
J. References Original version of this template was provided by courtesy
The heading of the References section must not be of Causal Productions (www.causalproductions.com).
numbered. All reference items must be in 8 pt font. Please
use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as REFERENCES
shown in the References section. Number the reference [1] S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko, Laser Assisted Microtechnology, 2nd
ed., R. M. Osgood, Jr., Ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998.
items consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).
[2] J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series:
When referring to a reference item, please simply use the Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in
reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.
“Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. [3] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin
elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron
“Reference [3] shows …”. Multiple references are each Device Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [1], [2][7], [4]–[6]). [4] M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High
Examples of reference items of different categories shown resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in
in the References section include: Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
[5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed
 example of a book in [1] digital-to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.
 example of a book in a series in [2] [6] (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee.org/
 example of a journal article in [3] [7] M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN. [Online]. Available:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEE
 example of a conference paper in [4] Etran/
 example of a patent in [5] [8] FLEXChip Signal Processor (MC68175/D), Motorola, 1996.
 example of a website in [6] [9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.
[10] A. Karnik, “Performance of TCP congestion control with rate
 example of a web page in [7] feedback: TCP/ABR and rate adaptive TCP/IP,” M. Eng. thesis,
 example of a databook as a manual in [8] Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1999.
 example of a datasheet in [9] [11] J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, and D. Towsley, “A stochastic model of
TCP Reno congestion avoidance and control,” Univ. of
 example of a master’s thesis in [10] Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, CMPSCI Tech. Rep. 99-02, 1999.
 example of a technical report in [11] [12] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical
 example of a standard in [12] Layer (PHY) Specification, IEEE Std. 802.11, 1997.

IV. CONCLUSIONS Please be sure that the manuscript is up to date.


The paper will not be reformatted, so please strictly keep
Reference minimal its 10 reference. It is
the instructions given above, otherwise it will be returned for expected that 20 to 30% of references are to
improvement. recent papers. English (United Kingdom)
standard is used as guidance.
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