Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

line 1: 1st Given Name Surname line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, spelling and grammar.
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols,
Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
Abstract. (Abstract) text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
words) the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
for you.
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
with most of the formatting specifications needed for used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
preparing electronic versions of their papers. All standard abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
paper components have been specified for three reasons: (1) and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
ease of use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the B. Units
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3)
 Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings.
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
this document and are identified in italic type, within be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
prescribed, although the various table text styles are in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
provided. The formatter will need to create these leads to confusion because equations do not balance
components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow. dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
state the units for each quantity that you use in an
II. EASE OF USE equation.
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)  Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the “webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file.
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
The template is used to format your paper and style the C. Equations
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note The equations are an exception to the prescribed
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template specifications of this template. You will need to determine
measures proportionately more than is customary. This whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat
proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your
not revise any of the current designations. paper is styled.
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers,
III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using
Before you begin to format your paper, first write and a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you
save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate
and organizational editing before formatting. Please note exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.

XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.00 ©20XX IEEE

a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas A. Authors and Affiliations
or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in: The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
ab  conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. is the author sequence that will be used in future citations and
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate among
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” departments of the same organization).
D. Some Common Mistakes 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for
more than 8 authors.
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and
other common scientific constants, is zero with 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. default, adjust the template as follows.
a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
 In American English, commas, semicolons, periods,
question and exclamation marks are located within b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
quotation marks only when a complete thought or icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When correct number of columns from the selection palette.
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation the extra authors.
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing B. Identify the Headings
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
punctuated within the parentheses.) the reader through your paper. There are two types:
component heads and text heads.
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”.
The word alternatively is preferred to the word Component heads identify the different components of
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
alternates). Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean
caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
“approximately” or “effectively”.
table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased. from the text.
 Be aware of the different meanings of the Text heads organize the topics on a relational,
homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the primary
“compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” text head because all subsequent material relates and
and “principle”. elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub-
topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals)
 Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen. named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and
“Heading 4” are prescribed.
 There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
abbreviation “et al.”. C. Figures and Tables
 The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”. tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
An excellent style manual for science writers is [7]. across both columns. Figure captions should be below the
IV. USING THE TEMPLATE figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the
After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence.
for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the
Save As command, and use the naming convention TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
prescribed by your conference for the name of your paper. In
this newly created file, highlight all of the contents and Table Table Column Head
import your prepared text file. You are now ready to style Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead
your paper; use the scroll down window on the left of the MS copy More table copy a

Word Formatting toolbar. a.

Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)

Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)

 Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As proper nouns and element symbols.
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or
For papers published in translation journals, please give
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes
language citation [6].
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)”
or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
(references)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5)
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the
unnumbered footnote on the first page. [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
REFERENCES Stand. Abbrev., in press.
[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
The template will number citations consecutively within spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
[2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...” University Science, 1989.

Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the

IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list. composing and formatting conference papers. Please
Use letters for table footnotes. ensure that all template text is removed from your
conference paper prior to submission to the
Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’ conference. Failure to remove template text from
names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been your paper may result in your paper not being
published, even if they have been submitted for publication, published.
should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been