Technical Paper Format
Technical Paper Format
3. PAGE STYLE
All paragraphs must be indented. All
paragraphs must be justified, i.e. both left-
justified and right-justified.
B. Text Font of Entire Document
The entire document should be in Times New
Roman or Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be
used. Other font types may be used if needed for
special purposes.
Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1.
All title and author details must be in single-
C. Title and Author Details column format and must be centered.
Title must be in 24 pt Regular font. Author Every word in a title must be capitalized
name must be in 11 pt Regular font. Author except for short minor words such as “a”, “an”,
“and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”, “from”, “if”, “in”, stipple fill patterns because they may not be
“into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”. reproduced properly. Please use only SOLID
Author details must not show any professional FILL colors which contrast well both on screen
title (e.g. Managing Director), any academic title and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in
(e.g. Dr.) or any membership of any professional Fig. 1.
organization (e.g. Senior Member IEEE).
To avoid confusion, the family name must be
written as the last part of each author name (e.g.
John A.K. Smith).
Each affiliation must include, at the very least,
the name of the company and the name of the
country where the author is based (e.g. Causal
Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
Email address is compulsory for the
corresponding author.
D.Section Headings
No more than 3 levels of headings should be
used. All headings must be in 10pt font. Every Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which
word in a heading must be capitalized except for contrast well both on screen and on a black-and-
short minor words as listed in Section III-B. white hardcopy
1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must
be in Small Caps, centered and numbered using Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution
uppercase Roman numerals. For example, see image which would not be acceptable, whereas
heading “III. Page Style” of this document. The Fig. 3 shows an example of an image with
two level-1 headings which must not be adequate resolution. Check that the resolution is
numbered are “Acknowledgment” and adequate to reveal the important detail in the
“References”. figure.
Please check all figures in your paper both on
2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy.
be in Italic, left-justified and numbered using an When you check your paper on a black-and-
uppercase alphabetic letter followed by a period. white hardcopy, please ensure that:
For example, see heading “C. Section Headings” the colors used in each figure contrast well,
above. the image used in each figure is clear,
3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must all text labels in each figure are legible.
be indented, in Italic and numbered with an F. Figure Captions
Arabic numeral followed by a right parenthesis.
The level-3 heading must end with a colon. The Figures must be numbered using Arabic
body of the level-3 section immediately follows numerals. Figure captions must be in 8 pt
the level-3 heading in the same paragraph. For Regular font. Captions of a single line (e.g. Fig.
example, this paragraph begins with a level-3 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions
heading. must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with
figure numbers must be placed after their
E. Figures and Tables associated figures, as shown in Fig. 1.
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 the CDROM. Graphics must not use
I. Links and Bookmarks
All hypertext links and section bookmarks will
be removed from papers during the processing of
papers for publication. If you need to refer to an
Internet email address or URL in your paper, you
must type out the address or URL fully in
Regular font.
J. References
The heading of the References section must
not be numbered. All reference items must be in
8 pt font. Please use Regular and Italic styles to
distinguish different fields as shown in the
References section. Number the reference items
Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low- consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).
resolution image When referring to a reference item, please
simply use the reference number, as in [2]. Do
not use “Ref. [3]” or “Reference [3]” except at
the beginning of a sentence, e.g. “Reference [3]
shows …”. Multiple references are each
numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3],
[4]–[6]).
Examples of reference items of different
categories shown in the References section
include:
example of a book in [1]
example of a book in a series in [2]
example of a journal article in [3]
example of a conference paper in [4]
example of a patent in [5]
example of a website in [6]
example of a web page in [7]
Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable example of a databook as a manual in [8]
resolution example of a datasheet in [9]
example of a master’s thesis in [10]
example of a technical report in [11]
G. Table Captions example of a standard in [12]
Tables must be numbered using uppercase
Roman numerals. Table captions must be centred
and in 8 pt Regular font with Small Caps. Every
word in a table caption must be capitalized
except for short minor words as listed in Section
III-B. Captions with table numbers must be
4. CONCLUSIONS
placed before their associated tables, as shown in
Table 1. The version of this template is V2. Most of
the formatting instructions in this document have
been compiled by Causal Productions from the
H. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers IEEE LaTeX style files. Causal Productions
Page numbers, headers and footers must not be offers both A4 templates and US Letter templates
used. for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX
templates depend on the official IEEEtran.cls and
IEEEtran.bst files, whereas the Microsoft Word measurements with coherent OFDR,” in Proc.
templates are self-contained. Causal Productions ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
has used its best efforts to ensure that the [5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn,
templates have the same appearance. “High-speed digital-to-RF converter,” U.S.
Causal Productions permits the distribution Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.
and revision of these templates on the condition [6] (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available:
that Causal Productions is credited in the revised http://www.ieee.org/
template as follows: “original version of this [7] M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN.
template was provided by courtesy of Causal [Online]. Available: http://www.ctan.org/tex-
Productions (www.causalproductions.com)”. archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEEtran
/
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Motorola, 1996.
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