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Academic Paper Formatting Guide

The document provides formatting guidelines for submitting a paper to a conference proceedings. It specifies that the paper should include an abstract between 200-300 words, 5 maximum keywords, section headings in Arial font, the main text in Times New Roman 10 point font, and references listed numerically at the end in the specified format. Tables and figures should be centered with captions and referenced numerically in the text. Equations should be preceded and followed by a blank line.

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Academic Paper Formatting Guide

The document provides formatting guidelines for submitting a paper to a conference proceedings. It specifies that the paper should include an abstract between 200-300 words, 5 maximum keywords, section headings in Arial font, the main text in Times New Roman 10 point font, and references listed numerically at the end in the specified format. Tables and figures should be centered with captions and referenced numerically in the text. Equations should be preceded and followed by a blank line.

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Paper Title in Arial 18-

point, Bold and Centered

Author-1
Author-2
Affiliation of author(s) from the first institution

Author-3
Affiliation of the author(s) from the second institution
in TimesNewRoman10 italic

ABSTRACT

The first section of the manuscript should be an abstract, where the aims,
scope and conclusions of the papers are shortly outlined, normally between
200 and 300 words. TNR-10 italic

Keywords: maximum 5 keywords.

Title of First Section (Arial 11 Bold)

Leave one blank line between the heading and the first line of the text. No
indent on the first para after the title; 10 mm indent for the subsequent para.
At the end of the section, leave two blank lines before the next section
heading.
The text should be right and left justified. The recommended font is
Times New Roman, 10 points. In 152 mm x 277 mm paper size, the margins
are: left and upper: 22 mm each; right: 20 mm, lower: 25 mm.

Secondary headings (Arial 10 Bold)


The text starts in the immediately following line. Leave one blank line before
each secondary heading.

Tertiary headings (Arial 10)


If they are required, the tertiary headings shall be underlined. Leave one
blank line before tertiary headings. Please, do not use more than three levels
of headings, try to keep a simple scheme.
Tables and illustrations should be numbered with arabic numbers.
Tables and illustrations should be centred with illustration numbers written
one blank line, centered, after the relevant illustration. Table number written
one line, centered, before the relevant table. Leave two blank lines before the
table or illustration. Beware that the proceedings will be printed in black and
white. Make sure that the interpretation of graphs does not depend on colour.
In the text, tables and figures should be referred to as Figure 1 and Table 1.

The International System of Units (SI) is to be used; other units can be used
only after SI indications, and should be added in parenthesis.

Equations should be typed and all symbols should be explained within the
manuscript. An equation should be proceeded and followed by one blank
line, and should be referred to, in the text, in the form Equation (1).
y  A  Bx  Cx 2 (1)
Last point: the references. In the text, the references should be a number
within square brackets, e.g. [3], or [4]–[6] or [2, 3]. The references should be
listed in numerical order at the end of the paper.

Journal references should include all the surnames of authors and their
initials, year of publication in parenthesis, full paper title within quotes, full
or abbreviated title of the journal, volume number, issue number and pages.
Examples below show the format for references including books and
proceedings.

Examples of references:

[1] M. K. Ghosh and A. Nagraj, “Turbulence flow in bearings,” Proceedings


of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 218 (1), 61 - 64 (2004).
[2] H. Coelho and L. M. Pereira, “Automated reasoning in geometry
theorem proving with Prolog,” J. Automated Reasoning 2 (3), 329-390
(1986).
[3] P. N. Rao, Manufacturing Technology Foundry, Forming and Welding,
2nd ed. (McGraw Hill, Singapore, 2000), pp. 53 – 68.
[4] Hutchinson, F. David and M. Ahmed, U.S. Patent No. 6,912,127 (28
June 2005).

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