Preparation of Papers - Paper Title

First A. Author, Second B. Author, Jr., and Third C. Author

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version, prepare it in two-column format, including figures
Abstract—These instructions give you guidelines for preparing and tables.
papers for conferences or journals. Use this document as a template if
you are using Microsoft Word. Otherwise, use this document as an B. Figures
instruction set. The electronic file of your paper will be formatted All tables and figures you insert in your document are only
further at WASET. Define all symbols used in the abstract. Do not to help you gauge the size of your paper, for the convenience
cite references in the abstract. Do not delete the blank line of the referees, and to make it easy for you to distribute
immediately above the abstract; it sets the footnote at the bottom of
this column. Page margins are 1,78 cm top and down; 1,65 cm left
preprints.
and right. Each column width is 8,89 cm and the separation between C.Document Modification
the columns is 0,51 cm.
If you modify this document for use with other WASET,
Keywords—About four key words or phrases in alphabetical journals or conferences, you should save it as type “Word -
order, separated by commas. RTF (*.doc)” so that it can be opened by any version of Word.
D.Copyright Form
I. INTRODUCTION
A WASET copyright form should accompany your final

T HIS document is a template for Word (doc) versions. If

you are reading a paper version of this document, so you
can use it to prepare your manuscript.
submission. You can get a .pdf, .html, or .doc version at
http://www.waset.org/downloads/copyright.doc or from the
first issues in each volume of the WASET. Authors are
If your paper is intended for a conference, please contact responsible for obtaining any security clearances.
your conference editor concerning acceptable word processor
formats for your particular conference. III. MATH
When you open template.doc, select “Page Layout” from
the “View” menu in the menu bar (View | Page Layout), If you are using Word, use either the Microsoft Equation
which allows you to see the footnotes. Then type over sections Editor or the MathType add-on (http://www.mathtype.com)
of template.doc or cut and paste from another document and for equations in your paper (Insert | Object | Create New |
then use markup styles. The pull-down style menu is at the left Microsoft Equation or MathType Equation). “Float over text”
of the Formatting Toolbar at the top of your Word window should not be selected.
(for example, the style at this point in the document is “Text”).
IV. UNITS
Highlight a section that you want to designate with a certain
style, then select the appropriate name on the style menu. The Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units are
style will adjust your fonts and line spacing. Do not change strongly encouraged.) English units may be used as secondary
the font sizes or line spacing to squeeze more text into a units (in parentheses). This applies to papers in data
limited number of pages. Use italics for emphasis; do not storage. For example, write “15 Gb/cm2 (100 Gb/in2).” An
underline. exception is when English units are used as identifiers in trade,
To insert images in Word, position the cursor at the such as “3½ in disk drive.” Avoid combining SI and CGS
insertion point and either use Insert | Picture | From File or units, such as current in amperes and magnetic field in
copy the image to the Windows clipboard and then Edit | Paste oersteds. This often leads to confusion because equations do
Special | Picture (with “Float over text” unchecked). not balance dimensionally. If you must use mixed units,
clearly state the units for each quantity in an equation.
II. PROCEDURE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION The SI unit for magnetic field strength H is A/m. However,
if you wish to use units of T, either refer to magnetic flux
A. Review Stage
density B or magnetic field strength symbolized as µ 0H. Use
Please submit your manuscript electronically for review as the center dot to separate compound units, e.g., “A·m2.”
e-mail attachments. When you submit your initial full paper
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F. A. Author is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, V. HELPFUL HINTS
Boulder, CO 80305 USA (phone: 303-555-5555; fax: 303-555-5555; e-mail:
author@ boulder.nist.gov). A. Figures and Tables
S. B. Author, Jr., was with Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA. He Large figures and tables may span both columns. Place
is now with the Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, CO 80523 USA (e-mail: author@lamar. colostate.edu). figure captions below the figures; place table titles above the
T. C. Author is with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of tables. If your figure has two parts, include the labels “(a)” and
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from the National Research “(b)” as part of the artwork. Please verify that the figures and
Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan (e-mail: author@nrim.go.jp).
tables you mention in the text actually exist. Please do not TABLE I
UNITS FOR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
include captions as part of the figures. Do not put captions
Conversion from Gaussian and
in “text boxes” linked to the figures. Do not put borders Symbol Quantity
CGS EMU to SI a
around the outside of your figures. Use the abbreviation  magnetic flux 1 Mx  108 Wb = 108 V·s
“Fig.” even at the beginning of a sentence. Do not abbreviate B magnetic flux density, 1 G  104 T = 104 Wb/m2
“Table.” Tables are numbered with Roman numerals. magnetic induction
The paper is only printed in black-white color. Figure H magnetic field strength 1 Oe  103/(4) A/m
m magnetic moment 1 erg/G = 1 emu
axis labels are often a source of confusion. Use words rather  103 A·m2 = 103 J/T
than symbols. As an example, write the quantity M magnetization 1 erg/(G·cm3) = 1 emu/cm3
“Magnetization,” or “Magnetization M,” not just “M.” Put  103 A/m
4M magnetization 1 G  103/(4) A/m
units in parentheses. Do not label axes only with units. As in
 specific magnetization 1 erg/(G·g) = 1 emu/g  1 A·m2/kg
Fig. 1, for example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or j magnetic dipole 1 erg/G = 1 emu
“Magnetization (A ¿ m1),” not just “A/m.” Do not label moment  4  1010 Wb·m
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write J magnetic polarization 1 erg/(G·cm3) = 1 emu/cm3
 4  104 T
“Temperature (K),” not “Temperature/K.” ,  susceptibility 1  4
Multipliers can be especially confusing. Write  mass susceptibility 1 cm3/g  4  103 m3/kg
“Magnetization (kA/m)” or “Magnetization (103 A/m).” Do  permeability 1  4  107 H/m
not write “Magnetization (A/m)  1000” because the reader = 4  107 Wb/(A·m)
r relative permeability   r
would not know whether the top axis label in Fig. 1 meant w, W energy density 1 erg/cm3  101 J/m3
16000 A/m or 0.016 A/m. Figure labels should be legible, N, D demagnetizing factor 1  1/(4)
approximately 8 to 12 point type.
No vertical lines in table. Statements that serve as captions for the entire
table do not need footnote letters.
a
Gaussian units are the same as cgs emu for magnetostatics; Mx =
maxwell, G = gauss, Oe = oersted; Wb = weber, V = volt, s = second, T =
x2 Z2
tesla, m = meter, A = ampere, J = joule, kg = kilogram, H = henry.

x1
z1
published should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that
have been submitted for publication should be cited as
Z3
“submitted for publication” [5]. Papers that have been
accepted for publication, but not yet specified for an issue
Fig. 3 Mapping nonlinear data to a higher dimensional feature space should be cited as “to be published” [6]. Please give
affiliations and addresses for private communications [7].
B. References Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
proper nouns and element symbols. For papers published in
Number citations consecutively in square brackets [1]. The
translation journals, please give the English citation first,
sentence punctuation follows the brackets [2]. Multiple
followed by the original foreign-language citation [8].
references [2], [3] are each numbered with separate brackets
[1]–[3]. When citing a section in a book, please give the C.Abbreviations and Acronyms
relevant page numbers [2]. In sentences, refer simply to the Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
reference number, as in [3]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or used in the text, even after they have already been defined in
“reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence: the abstract. Abbreviations such as IES, SI, ac, and dc do not
“Reference [3] shows ....” Unfortunately the WASET have to be defined. Abbreviations that incorporate periods
document translator cannot handle automatic endnotes in should not have spaces: write “C.N.R.S.,” not “C. N. R. S.”
Word; therefore, type the reference list at the end of the paper Do not use abbreviations in the title unless they are
using the “References” style. unavoidable (for example, “WASET” in the title of this
Number footnotes separately in superscripts (Insert | article).
Footnote).1 Place the actual footnote at the bottom of the
column in which it is cited; do not put footnotes in the D.Equations
reference list (endnotes). Use letters for table footnotes (see Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in
Table I). parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1). First use the
Please note that the references at the end of this document equation editor to create the equation. Then select the
are in the preferred referencing style. Give all authors’ names; “Equation” markup style. Press the tab key and write the
do not use “et al.” unless there are six authors or more. Use a equation number in parentheses. To make your equations more
space after authors' initials. Papers that have not been compact, you may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or
appropriate exponents. Use parentheses to avoid ambiguities
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It is recommended that footnotes be avoided (except for the unnumbered in denominators. Punctuate equations when they are part of a
footnote with the receipt date on the first page). Instead, try to integrate the sentence, as in
footnote information into the text.
 composition NixMn1-x.
r2 Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones
∫0 F(r , ϕ ) dr dϕ=[ σr 2 ¿ (2 μ0 )] “affect” (usually a verb) and “effect” (usually a noun),
∞ “complement” and “compliment,” “discreet” and “discrete,”
⋅∫ 0 exp (−λ|z j−z i| ) λ−1 J 1 ( λ r 2 ) J 0 ( λ r i ) dλ .
(1) “principal” (e.g., “principal investigator”) and “principle”
(e.g., “principle of measurement”). Do not confuse “imply”
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined and “infer.”
before the equation appears or immediately following. Prefixes such as “non,” “sub,” “micro,” “multi,” and
Italicize symbols (T might refer to temperature, but T is the “"ultra” are not independent words; they should be joined to
unit tesla). Refer to “(1),” not “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” the words they modify, usually without a hyphen. There is no
except at the beginning of a sentence: “Equation (1) is ... .” period after the “et” in the Latin abbreviation “et al.” (it is also
italicized). The abbreviation “i.e.,” means “that is,” and the
E. Other Recommendations
abbreviation “e.g.,” means “for example” (these abbreviations
Use one space after periods and colons. Hyphenate complex are not italicized).
modifiers: “zero-field-cooled magnetization.” Avoid dangling An excellent style manual and source of information for
participles, such as, “Using (1), the potential was calculated.” science writers is [9]. A general WASET style guide,
[It is not clear who or what used (1).] Write instead, “The Information for Authors, is available at the web site.
potential was calculated by using (1),” or “Using (1), we
calculated the potential.” VII. EDITORIAL POLICY
Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25,” not “.25.” Use
Submission of a manuscript is not required for participation
“cm3,” not “cc.” Indicate sample dimensions as “0.1 cm  0.2
in a conference. Do not submit a reworked version of a paper
cm,” not “0.1  0.2 cm2.” The abbreviation for “seconds” is
you have submitted or published elsewhere. Do not publish
“s,” not “sec.” Do not mix complete spellings and
“preliminary” data or results. The submitting author is
abbreviations of units: use “Wb/m 2” or “webers per square
responsible for obtaining agreement of all coauthors and any
meter,” not “webers/m 2.” When expressing a range of values,
consent required from sponsors before submitting a paper.
write “7 to 9” or “7-9,” not “7~9.”
WASET strongly discourages courtesy authorship. It is the
A parenthetical statement at the end of a sentence is
obligation of the authors to cite relevant prior work.
punctuated outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A
The WASET does publish papers related to conferences
parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the parentheses.)
that have been recommended for publication on the basis of
In American English, periods and commas are within
peer review. As a matter of convenience and service to the
quotation marks, like “this period.” Other punctuation is
technical community, these topical papers are collected and
“outside”! Avoid contractions; for example, write “do not”
published in one issue of the WASET.
instead of “don’t.” The serial comma is preferred: “A, B, and
At least two reviews are required for every paper submitted.
C” instead of “A, B and C.”
For conference-related papers, the decision to accept or reject
If you wish, you may write in the first person singular or
a paper is made by the conference editors and publications
plural and use the active voice (“I observed that ...” or “We
committee; the recommendations of the referees are advisory
observed that ...” instead of “It was observed that ...”).
only. Undecipherable English is a valid reason for rejection.
Remember to check spelling. If your native language is not
Authors of rejected papers may revise and resubmit them to
English, please get a native English-speaking colleague to
the WASET as regular papers, whereupon they will be
proofread your paper.
reviewed by two new referees.
VI. SOME COMMON MISTAKES
VIII.PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES
The word “data” is plural, not singular. The subscript for
The contents of WASET are peer-reviewed and archival.
the permeability of vacuum µ0 is zero, not a lowercase letter
The WASET publishes scholarly articles of archival value as
“o.” The term for residual magnetization is “remanence”; the
well as tutorial expositions and critical reviews of classical
adjective is “remanent”; do not write “remnance” or
subjects and topics of current interest.
“remnant.” Use the word “micrometer” instead of “micron.” A
Authors should consider the following points:
graph within a graph is an “inset,” not an “insert.” The word
1) Technical papers submitted for publication must advance
“alternatively” is preferred to the word “alternately” (unless
the state of knowledge and must cite relevant prior work.
you really mean something that alternates). Use the word
2) The length of a submitted paper should be commensurate
“whereas” instead of “while” (unless you are referring to
with the importance, or appropriate to the complexity, of
simultaneous events). Do not use the word “essentially” to
the work. For example, an obvious extension of
mean “approximately” or “effectively.” Do not use the word
previously published work might not be appropriate for
“issue” as a euphemism for “problem.” When compositions
publication or might be adequately treated in just a few
are not specified, separate chemical symbols by en-dashes; for
pages.
example, “NiMn” indicates the intermetallic compound
3) Authors must convince both peer reviewers and the
Ni0.5Mn0.5 whereas “Ni–Mn” indicates an alloy of some
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University Science, 1989.
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papers submitted for publication must provide sufficient digital communications channel equalization using radial basis function
information to allow readers to perform similar networks,” IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 570–578, July
experiments or calculations and use the reported results. 1993.
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example, a specimen's chemical composition need not be Conference Proceedings style),” in Proc. 4th Annu. Allerton Conf.
reported if the main purpose of a paper is to introduce a Circuits and Systems Theory, New York, 1994, pp. 8–16.
[14] G. R. Faulhaber, “Design of service systems with priority reservation,”
new measurement technique. Authors should expect to be in Conf. Rec. 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. Communications, pp. 3–8.
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5) Papers that describe ongoing work or announce the latest
technical achievement, which are suitable for presentation
at a professional conference, may not be appropriate for First A. Author (M’76–SM’81–F’87) and the other authors may include
biographies at the end of regular papers. Biographies are often not included in
publication in WASET. conference-related papers. This author became a Member (M) of IEEE in
1976, a Senior Member (SM) in 1981, and a Fellow (F) in 1987. The first
IX. CONCLUSION paragraph may contain a place and/or date of birth (list place, then date). Next,
the author’s educational background is listed. The degrees should be listed
A conclusion section is not required. Although a conclusion with type of degree in what field, which institution, city, state or country, and
may review the main points of the paper, do not replicate the year degree was earned. The author’s major field of study should be lower-
cased.
abstract as the conclusion. A conclusion might elaborate on The second paragraph uses the pronoun of the person (he or she) and not
the importance of the work or suggest applications and the author’s last name. It lists military and work experience, including
extensions. summer and fellowship jobs. Job titles are capitalized. The current job must
have a location; previous positions may be listed without one. Information
concerning previous publications may be included. Try not to list more than
APPENDIX three books or published articles. The format for listing publishers of a book
within the biography is: title of book (city, state: publisher name, year) similar
Appendixes, if needed, appear before the acknowledgment.
to a reference. Current and previous research interests ends the paragraph.
The third paragraph begins with the author’s title and last name (e.g., Dr.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Smith, Prof. Jones, Mr. Kajor, Ms. Hunter). List any memberships in
professional societies other than the IEEE. Finally, list any awards and work
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in for IEEE committees and publications. If a photograph is provided, the
American English is without an “e” after the “g.” Use the biography will be indented around it. The photograph is placed at the top left
singular heading even if you have many acknowledgments. of the biography. Personal hobbies will be deleted from the biography.
Avoid expressions such as “One of us (S.B.A.) would like to
thank ... .” Instead, write “F. A. Author thanks ... .” Sponsor
and financial support acknowledgments are placed in the
unnumbered footnote on the first page.

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SUMMARY and CHECK LIST
Wadsworth, 1993, pp. 123–135.
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York: Springer-Verlag, 1985, ch. 4. 1) Please download template paper to your computer.
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style),” unpublished. Then “save as” with a different name (Ex:
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Electron., submitted for publication.
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interfaces(Translation Journals style),” IEEE Transl. J. Magn.Jpn., vol.
2, Aug. 1987, pp. 740–741 [Dig. 9th Annu. Conf. Magnetics Japan, 1982, To solve this font problem:
p. 301].
 1st Step: Copy- paste the paragraph from your paper to i. Paragraph - Line Spacing- Multiple 1.05.
notepad. ii. Alignment: Justified
nd
2 Step: Copy- paste the paragraph from notepad to iii. Special: First Line: 0.36 cm
mytemplate.doc iv. Font: Times New Roman, 10 pt.

2) Do not delete the blank line immediately above the

abstract; it sets the footnote at the bottom of this
column.

IMPORTANT:
Before submitting your paper via
http://www.waset.org/submit.php, please check the following
instructions on your final paper.

3) Paper Size: Letter

4) Page margins are 1,78 cm top and down; 1,65 cm left
and right.
5) Each column width is 8,89 cm and the separation
between the columns is 0,51 cm.
6) Paper Title: Times New Roman, 24 pt., Centered,
Fig. 1 Values for text
Title Case (Capitalize Each Word), NOT Bold
11) Heading 1: Times New Roman, 10 pt, Centered
7) Authors’ Names: Times New Roman, 11 pt.,
Centered, Title Case (Capitalize Each Word) 1st Step: Capitalize each word. Example: Steps in
Modeling and Simulation
IMPORTANT: Do NOT write your institution address 2nd Step: Choose and Right click - Font- Effects -
below your name. See “Affiliation” Small caps

8) Abstract— : Times New Roman BOLD, 10 pt. X.STEPS IN MODELING AND SIMULATION

i. Text should be written Times New Roman 9 pts. 12) Heading 2: Times New Roman Italic, 10 pt, Capitalize
ii. The abstract should be self-contained. Do not cite each word. Example:

references in the abstract. A. Definition of Parallel Manipulator

iii. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.

Choose Paragraph: Values should be as in Fig. 1:
iv. Paragraph - Line Spacing- Single

9) Keywords— : Times New Roman BOLD, 10 pt.

i. Text should be written Times New Roman 9 pts

ii. Add about four keywords or phrases in alphabetical
order, separated by commas.
iii. Paragraph - Line Spacing- Single
10) Except abstract, keywords, figure & table captions, for
the whole text:
 i. Figures should be centered.
ii. All figures should be captioned. Captions should be
written “Times New Roman, 9 pt., centered”
iii. Please do not include captions as part of the figures.
iv. Do not put captions in “text boxes” linked to the
figures.
v. Do not put borders around the outside of your
figures.
vi. Use the abbreviation “Fig.” even at the beginning of
a sentence.

WRONG: Figure 2.1 represents... CORRECT: Fig. 2 represents…

Fig. 2 Values for Heading 2

COMMON MISTAKES: 1.1 Definition of Parallel

Manipulator, 2.3 Definition of Parallel Manipulator etc…

13) Heading 3: Times New Roman, 10 pt, Capitalize each

word. Values should be as in Fig. 1. Example:

1. Mobility Equation

14) Introduction Part: First letter should be Times New

Roman 28 pts. Whole word should be written in
“Upper Case”.

15) Affiliation: Times New Roman, 8 pt. Affiliation part

should be written at the bottom of the first page on the
left as:
Fig. 3 Values for figures
Sponsor and financial support acknowledgments can be written here.
Name Surname is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 17) Tables: Large tables may span both columns.
Boulder, CO 80305 USA (corresponding author to provide phone: 505-555-
5555; fax: 505-555-5555; e-mail: author@ boulder.nist.gov).
i. Tables should be centered.
16) Figures: Large figures may span both columns. If your
figure has two parts, include the labels “(a)” and “(b)” ii. All tables should be captioned. Captions should be
as part of the artwork. (Ex: Fig. 3 (a) Mapping written “Times New Roman, 8 pt., centered”
nonlinear data...)
iii. Please do not include captions as part of the tables.

iv. Word “TABLE”: Upper case, Number: Tables are

numbered with Roman numerals

v. Caption: Capitilize each word: Units for Magnetic

Properties THEN Font-Effects-Small Caps

Result:
TABLE I
UNITS FOR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
 Prefer: “It is possible to ..” than to say “One could ...”.
24) Avoid using above (“the above method,” “mentioned
COMMON MISTAKES: Table 1, Table 2.1 etc..
above,” etc.) or below (in the figure below). Be
18) Equations:
specific.
i. Number equations consecutively with equation 25) The following link includes some of the troublesome
numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin,
words, terms, and expressions most frequently found in
as in (1).
Experiment Station journal paper and bulletin
ii. Refer to “(1),” not “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except
manuscripts:
at the beginning of a sentence: “Equation (1) is ... .”
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/aginfo/checklist.php
Ru =K w LW σ c (1)
(Align equation to the right)

19) References:

i. Number citations consecutively in square brackets

[1].
ii. The sentence punctuation follows the brackets [2].
iii. Multiple references [2], [3] are each numbered with
separate brackets [1]–[3].
iv. When citing a section in a book, please give the
relevant page numbers [2].
v. In sentences, refer simply to the reference number, as
[3].
vi. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the
beginning of a sentence: “Reference [3] shows ....”

COMMON MISTAKES: ……. load carrying capacity of the

weld (Mellor, 99).

20) Acknowledgment:

COMMON MISTAKES: Acknowledgement

Correct form: ACKNOWLEDGMENT (No “e” after “g”)

Avoid expressions such as “One of us (S.B.A.) would like to

thank ... .”

21) Do not change the font sizes or line spacing to squeeze

more text. There is no page limitation.
22) Use italics for emphasis; do not underline.
23) Text should be written in the third person to avoid
sounding like an autobiographical account penned by a
narcissistic author.