Instructions for Writing Your Technical Paper

Instructions for Writing Your Technical Paper

For your Technical Paper to be published in the Congress Proceedings (e-version), it must adhere to APAC19’s Technical Paper Template and have the correct margins, font, layout etc. Please follow these instructions closely, and check your paper carefully before uploading it. The organizer will review the technical paper mainly on language.If your paper is not prepared using the correct layout and format, or if it is not in accordance with your abstract in technical content, it may not be included in the Congress Proceedings(e-version).

Template:Use the Technical Paper Template (available at to format your Technical Paper

Language:English only.

Length: Suggested length: 6-8 pages. Maximum length: 10 pages.

Margins: 2.5 cm top, bottom, left, right. The text width and text height are determined by the

page settings of the Template.

Justification:Left.

Font Sizes:Normal (Text): Times New Roman 10 point, single column

Heading = Title (first level), Times New Roman 14 point, bold, capital letters

Subheading (second level): Times New Roman 10 point, capital letters

Sub-Subheading (third level): Times New Roman 10 point, title case, underlined

Sub-Sub-heading (fourth level): Times New Roman 10 point, title case

Caption: Times New Roman 10 point

References: Times New Roman, 10 point

Images:All illustrations, photos, graphics, tables etc. must be embedded into the text.

Separate graphic files are not accepted! Line art must be professionally drawn and photos must behigh quality with adequate contrast. Each of them should be labelled with atitle and a number, under the image, e.g. Figure 1: Title (Use 10 point text).

Format: Microsoft Word

Layout

Your Paper Number: 2017APAC-XXXNNN(see your acceptance email from us)

TITLE (must be in CAPITAL LETTERS, TIMES NEW ROMAN, 14 POINT, BOLD)

Author Name/s (Last Name, First Name. Use asterisk (*) after name to indicate presenting author. Use semicolon (;)between authors)

Author Affiliations (Organisation, Country. Use index (1) to show different affiliations of authors Use semicolon (;)between authors.)

E.g.：

1Last Name, First Name*; 1Last Name, First Name; 2Last Name, First Name

1Organization, Country; 2Organization, Country (Use 12 point text)

KEYWORDS – keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword(Give five (5) keywords that describe the content of the technical paper. Use 10 point text.)

ABSTRACT (either the extended abstract you’ve submitted or a normal abstract is acceptable)

TECHNICAL PAPER

(Type your Technical Paper here. including any illustrations / diagrams. Do not use more than one column. Use 10 point text, single line spacing.)

Leave one line of space between paragraphs.

Do not use paragraph indentation.

Left justify all text.

Font: Use Times New Roman only

REFERENCES (each reference should be indicated at the appropriate point in the text by an Arabic numeral in brackets e.g. (1). At the end of the paper, under the heading “References”, detailed listings should be given as follows :)

[1] Name of Author/s.“Title of Paper / Article etc” [J]. Publisher, Year of Publication, Volume (Issue Number): Page Numbers. (Use 10 point text.)

E.g.:

[1] Hiroo Kanamori.Shaking without Quaking [J].Science, 1988, 279(5359): 2063-2064.

[2] Name of Author/s. “Title of Book etc” [M].Location of the Publisher: Publisher, Year of Publication. (Use 12 point text.)

E.g.:

[2] Peyton Z. Peebles. Probability, Random Variable, and Random Signal Principles [M]. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001.

IMPORTANT: Use the template to ensure the correct layout of your Technical Paper