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S-38.030 Postgraduate Course on Networking Technology
Structure
Your paper should contain a 100-150 word abstract, followed by a short
but adequate introduction to subject and the related issues. After that
you may deal with your topic as you see fit. In the end you should summarize
your work and draw conclusions on what you have said. You may wish to study
some conference papers or journal articles to get a hold on the structure
of the papers in general.
References
Your paper must contain the references that you have used during your work.
All references in any form be that books, conference papers, journal papers,
other research work, Internet drafts, RFCs, and WWW-sites should be referred
to in the references section.
Format of the paper
As mentioned earlier if a sufficient amount of quality papers emerge they
will be published in the laboratory series as one edited book. The basic
requierement for a paper even to be considered for publication is the correct
format. Please use standard A4 paper and comply to the instructions below.
Do not hesitate to contact the course
assistant if you need help.
Fonts
Use standard fonts (Times New Roman etc.) where possible. If you
choose to use some exotic fonts please include them in the Postscript or
in the PDF file.
Title
The title should be in 18pt CAPITAL LETTERS centered to the top of the
text. Author information in 11pt centered under the title, containing also
contact information.
Headings
Headings in 14pt bold aligned to the left. All the headings (excluding
the Abstract, Introduction and References) should be numbered accordingly.
Use as little nesting as possible, preferably no deeper than two levels,
i.e. 1.1.1 should be the lowest level of heading you use. Drop 2pt off
for each subheading, i.e. 14pt to the first level, 12pt to the second and
10 pt to the third, all bold.
Text
The text should be in two-column format using 10pt text. A column
should be 80mm wide and there should be 8mm between the columns. Left and
right marginals should be 20 mm each. You should leave 30mm to the top
and bottom of the page.
Tables and Figures
Use simple tables and number them. Your figures should be clear enough,
use big fonts and try to make the figures also as clear and simple as you
can. When picking up colours and textures for your figures please bare
in mind that the if published, the papers will be printed in B&W-format.
References
List your references in the order of their appearance and use numbers when
referring to them.
MSWord example document
You can find an example file here written with
MSWord97. Use this document as the base on which you build your paper.
Please do not add any additional logos or any non-relevant material and
do not change the outline of the document. By complying to the document
layout you will avoid additional work if and when your paper is published.
Thank you!
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