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 and the kind) 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 14pt CAPITAL LETTERS centered to the top of the text. Author information in 12pt centered under the title, containing also contact information.

Headings

Headings in 16pt 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. 16pt to the first level, 14pt to the second and 12 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.

LaTex style

In the preamble you may use

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\parindent0pt 
\setlength{\headheight}{.46cm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0cm}% top and bottom margin at 30 mm,
\setlength{\headsep}{0cm} 
\setlength{\textwidth}{17cm}% textwidth 8,1 cm per column 
\setlength{\columnsep}{.8cm}% with 8 mm gutter
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-.54cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{23.7cm}
\setlength{\footskip}{4cm}
\setlength{\parskip}{0cm}

In the beginning of your article there should be the title and the abstract like:

\begin{document}
\title{{\large TITLE OF YOUR ARTICLE}}
\author{{\normalsize authorname} \\ {\normalsize Author Affiliation} \\ {\Author Affiliation} \\ {\normalsize Address} \\ {\normalsize ZIP-CODES, COUNTRY} \\ {\normalsize Email: $\{$your.emailaddress$\}@$somewhere.in.net}}
\date{}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
In this work we discuss the...
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
Your text here...

And finally at the end of the article

\section{Acknowledgements}
N.N wishes to thank...
\bibliography{your_bibliography_file}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\end{document}

MSWord example document

Here you find a zipped example file 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 !