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ABSTRACT
This document gives formatting instructions for authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of an IEEE
conference. The authors 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 comma.

I. INTRODUCTION
This document is a template. An electronic copy can be TABLE I
downloaded from the conference website. For questions on FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS
paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications Font Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)
committee as indicated on the conference website. Size Regular Bold Italic
Information about final paper submission is available from the 8 table caption (in reference item
conference website. Small Caps), (partial)
figure caption,
II. PAGE LAYOUT reference item
9 author email address abstract abstract heading
An easy way to comply with the conference paper (in Courier), body (also in Bold)
formatting requirements is to use this document as a template cell in a table
and simply type your text into it. 10 level-1 heading (in level-2 heading,
Small Caps), level-3 heading,
A. Page Layout paragraph author affiliation
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 11 author name
which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. The 24 title
margins must be set as follows:
 Top = 19mm (0.75") All title and author details must be in single-column format
 Bottom = 43mm (1.69") and must be centered.
 Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56") Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short
Your paper must be in two column format with a space of minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”,
4.22mm (0.17") between columns. “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.
Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.
III. PAGE STYLE Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any
membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be
Member IEEE).
justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified.
To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the
B. Text Font of Entire Document last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).
The entire document should be in Times New Roman or Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of
Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types the company and the name of the country where the author is
may be used if needed for special purposes. based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1. Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.

C. Title and Author Details D. Section Headings

Title must be in 24 pt Regular font. Author name must be No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All
in 11 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 10 pt headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must
Italic. Email address must be in 9 pt Courier Regular font. be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in
Section III-B.

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1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure
Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single
numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions
document. The two level-1 headings which must not be must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers
numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”. must be placed after their associated figures, as 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.
E. Figures and Tables
Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table
or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.
Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image
the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use
only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable resolution

Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy

G. Table Captions
Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman
would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular
an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be
is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure. capitalized except for short minor words as listed in Section
Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on III-B. Captions with table numbers must be placed before
a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on their associated tables, as shown in Table 1.
a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that:
 the colors used in each figure contrast well, H. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers
 the image used in each figure is clear, Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.
 All text labels in each figure are legible.
I. Links and Bookmarks
F. Figure Captions All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be removed
from papers during the processing of papers for publication.

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If you need to refer to an Internet email address or URL in Causal Productions permits the distribution and revision of
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Regular font. References credited in the revised template as follows: “original version
The heading of the References section must not be of this template was provided by courtesy of Causal
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use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as
shown in the References section. Number the reference items ACKNOWLEDGMENT
consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]). The heading of the Acknowledgment section and the
When referring to a reference item, please simply use the References section must not be numbered.
reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or Causal Productions wishes to acknowledge Michael Shell
“Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. and other contributors for developing and maintaining the
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in the References section include: distribution.
 example of a book in [1]
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Productions from the IEEE LaTeX style files. Causal [9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.
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