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Abstract (SCIRPUnnumberedHeading)
Thiselectronicdocumentisa “live” template. Thevariouscomponentsofyourpaper (title, text, heads, etc.) arealreadydefinedonthestylesheet, asillustratedbytheportionsgiveninthisdocument. (SCIRPText)
Keywords (SCIRPUnnumberedHeading)
Component; Formatting; Style; Styling; Insert (SCIRPText)
ListofSymbols (SCIRPUnnumberedHeading)
αangleofattack
γflightpathangle
θpitchattitude
A. Lastname1 etal.
Introduction (SCIRPHeadingLevel1)
ThistemplatewascreatedinMicrosoftWord 2003 (*.doc) andsavedalsoinWord 2007 (*.docx) forthePC. Itispossibletousethetemplateinbothversions. Thetemplateprovidesauthorswithmostoftheformattingspecificationsneededforpreparingelectronicversionsoftheirpapers. ThistemplatehasitsrootsintemplatesusedbyIEEE ( foritsjournals. Allstandardpapercomponentshavebeenspecifiedforthreereasons: 1) easeofusewhenformattingindividualpapers, 2) automaticcompliancetoelectronicrequirementsthatfacilitatethegenerationofelectronicproducts, and 3) conformityofstylethroughoutajournalpaper. Margins, columnwidths, linespacing, andtypestylesarebuilt-in; examplesofthetypestylesareprovidedthroughoutthisdocument. Namesofthe “SCIRPStyles” areidentifiedthroughoutthistext. See “SCIRPStyles”. Somecomponents, suchasmulti-leveledequationsandgraphics, andtablesarenotprescribedindetail, althoughthevarioustabletextstylesareprovided. Theformatterwillneedtocreatethesecomponents, incorporatingtheapplicablecriteriathatfollow. Thefirstparagraphoftextfollowingaheadingisformattedwith “SCIRPText”. Startingwiththesecondparagraphformattingisdonewith “SCIRPTextIdent”. Thelastparagraphbeforeanewheadingisfinishedwithanextraline.
EaseofUse
2.1SelectingaTemplate (SCIRPHeadingLevel2)
First, confirmthatyouhavethecorrecttemplateforyourpapersize. Thistemplatehasbeentailoredforoutputonthecustompapersize (21cmx 28.5cm). ThisisnotastallasA4 (21cmx 29.7cm).
2.2MaintainingtheIntegrityoftheSpecifications
Thetemplateisusedtoformatyourpaperandstylethetext. Allmargins, columnwidths, linespaces, andtextfontsareprescribed; pleasedonotalterthem. Youmaynotepeculiarities. Forexample, thepapersizeisdifferentfromA4. Thesemeasurementsandothersaredeliberate, usingspecificationsthatanticipateyourpaperasonepartoftheentirejournal, andnotasanindependentdocument. Pleasedonotreviseanyofthecurrentdesignations. Thestylesaredefinedinahierarchy. Pleasereferto
PrepareYourPaperbeforeStyling
Beforeyoubegintoformatyourpaper, firstwriteandsavethecontentasaseparatetextfile. Keepyourinitialtextandyourgraphicfilesseparate. Limittheuseoftabs, blanksandreturnsinanattempttopre-styleyourmanuscript. Donotaddanykindofpaginationanywhereinthepaper. Youmaypreliminarilynumbertextheads, butnotethetemplatewilldothatforyoulater. Numberequations, tablesandfigures; thepresenttemplatedoesnotdothisforyou. Neverrefertosometextbyapagenumberbutbythesectionnumber. Neverrefertoafigureortableasbeinglocated “below” or “above”, butbythenumber. Alwaysconsiderthepossibilitiesinwhichwayyourtextcouldstillchangeduringfinaltypesettingbythepublisher. Completecontentandorganizationaleditingbeforestyling. Pleasetakenoteoftheitemsasexplainedinthefollowingsubchapterswhenproofreadingspellingandgrammar.
3.1AbbreviationsandAcronyms
Defineabbreviationsandacronymsthefirsttimetheyareusedinthetext, evenaftertheyhavebeendefinedinthebeginningofyourmanuscript. AbbreviationsthatcanbeconsideredverycommonsuchasSI, kg, dcoracdonothavetobedefined. Donotuseabbreviationsinthetitleorheadsunlesstheyareunavoidable.
3.2Units
- UseSIunits (m, kg, s) asprimaryunits. Englishunitsmaybeusedassecondaryunits (inparentheses). AnexceptionwouldbetheuseofEnglishunitswheretheyareacceptedstandards. Examplesaree.g. inaviationftandNMusedinspecialcircumstances.
- AvoidcombiningSIandEnglishunits. Thisoftenleadstoconfusionbecauseequationsdonotbalancedimensionally.
- Avoiddimensionalequationsinwhichthequantityontheleftsideresultsinacertainunitbasedontheinputincertainotherunitsontherightside. Ifyoumustusedimensionalequations, clearlystatetheunitsforeachquantitythatyouuseintheequation.
- Donotmixcompletespellingsandabbreviationsofunits: “Wb/m2” or “weberspersquaremeter”, not “webers/m2”. Spelloutunitswhentheyappearintext: “... afewhenries”, not “... afewH”.
- Useazerobeforedecimalpoints: “0.25”, not “.25”. Use “cm3”, not “cc”.
3.3Equations
Equationsshouldbeeditedbyusing an EquationEditor, notastextandnotasgraphics. Youaresuggestedtouse for Word the MicrosoftEquationEditor which is a cut-down version ofMathtype. Use 6.0 raboveversion. For Libre Office you will use LibreOffice Math. Some compatibility to Mathtype is given. ItalicizeRomanandGreeksymbolsforquantitiesandvariables. Donotitalicizeconstantsasπ, etc. Usealongdashratherthanahyphenforaminussign.
Equationsarecentered, usingacenteredtabstopinthemiddleofthepage. Numberequationsconsecutively. Equationnumbers, withinparentheses, arepositionedflushright, asin (1), usingtherighttabstop. Punctuateequationswithcommasorperiodswhentheyarepartofasentence, asin
.(1)
Besurethatthesymbolsinyourequationhavebeendefinedinthebeginningofyourmanuscript, beforeorimmediatelyfollowingtheequation. Torefertoanequationuse “Equation (1)”, not “Eq. (1)” orusesimply “(1)”. Usethelongerform “Equation (1) ...” atthebeginningofasentence.
3.4SomeCommonMistakes
- Theword “data” isplural, notsingular. Theword “aircraft” ispluralandsingular. Donotwrite “aircrafts”, itiswrong.
- InAmericanEnglish, commas, semicolons, periods, questionandexclamationmarksarelocatedwithinquotationmarksonlywhenacompletethoughtornameiscited, suchasatitleorfullquotation. Whenquotationmarksareused, insteadofaboldoritalictypeface, tohighlightawordorphrase, punctuationshouldappearoutsideofthequotationmarks. Aparentheticalphraseorstatementattheendofasentenceispunctuatedoutsideoftheclosingparenthesis (likethis). (Aparentheticalsentenceispunctuatedwithintheparentheses.)
- Agraphwithinagraphisan “inset”, notan “insert”. Thewordalternativelyispreferredtotheword “alternately” (unlessyoureallymeansomethingthatalternates).
- Donotusetheword “essentially” tomean “approximately” or “effectively”.
- Beawareofthedifferentmeaningsofthehomophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” and “principle”.
- Donotconfuse “imply” and “infer”.
- Theprefix “non” isnotaword; itshouldbejoinedtotheworditmodifies, usuallywithoutahyphen.
- Thereisnoperiodafterthe “et” butaperiodafterthe “al” intheLatinabbreviation “etal.”.
- Theabbreviation “i.e.” means “thatis”, andtheabbreviation “e.g.” means “forexample”.
UsingtheTemplate
AfterbasictexteditinghasbeencompletedinyouroriginalfileandallhintsfromSection3 areobserved, thepaperisreadyforstylingwiththistemplate. Duplicatethetemplatefilee.g. byusingtheSaveAscommand. Inthisnewlycreatedtemplatefileexchangethetemplatetextbyyourtext. Copythetextfromyouroriginalfileandpasteitintothetemplatefilesectionbysectionasunformattedtext. Inthisway, thepastedtexttakesonthevariousformatsofthetemplatefile. Ifthestyleisnotwhatyouexpect, clickinthetextandselecttheappropriateSCIRPStyle.
4.1AuthorsandAffiliations
Thetemplateisdesignedsothatauthoraffiliationsarenotrepeatedeachtimeformultipleauthorsofthesameaffiliation. Pleasekeepyouraffiliationsassuccinctaspossible. Providethenameofyourunit (department), yourorganization (university), yourcity, andyourcountry. DoNOTforexample, postyourjobtitles, positions, academicdegrees, zipcodes, namesofbuilding, street, district, province, orstate.
4.2IdentifytheHeadings
Headings, orheads, areorganizationaldevicesthatguidethereaderthroughyourpaper. Therearetwotypes: componentheadsandtextheads.
Componentheadsidentifythedifferentcomponentsofyourpaperandarenottopicallysubordinatetoeachother. ExamplesincludeAbstract, AcknowledgementsandReferencesand, forthese, thecorrectstyletouseis “SCIRPUnnumberedHeading”. Use “SCIPRTableFigureCaption” foryourfiguresubtitles (belowthefigure) andforyourtableheading (abovethetable).
Textheadsorganizethetopicsonarelational, hierarchicalbasis. Forexample, thepapertitleistheprimarytextheadbecauseallsubsequentmaterialrelatesandelaboratesonthisonetopic. Iftherearetwoormoresub-topics, thesecondlevelheadshouldbeusedand, conversely, iftherearenotatleasttwosub-topics, thennosub-headsshouldbeintroduced. Stylesnamed “SCIRPHeadingLevel1”, “SCIRPHeadingLevel2”, and “SCIRPHeadingLevel3” areprescribed. Donotusemorethanthesethreelevels. Capitalizeeachwordinatexthead, exceptforfunctionwords: articles, pronouns, prepositions (in, with, ...), andconjunctions (and, but, ...).
4.3Equations
Thelinewithanequationisformattedwith “SCIRPEquation”. Theequationiscentered. Useonetabinfrontandonetabaftertheequation. Afterthesecondtab, placetheequationnumberrightaligned.
4.4FiguresandTables
Positionfiguresandtablesleftalignedinthetext. Thisiseasytocoordinatewiththefiguresubtitlesandtableheadings. Figuresubtitlesshouldbebelowthefigures; tableheadingsshouldappearabovethetables. Hereinthistextheadingandsubtitlearecalled “caption” iftheyarereferredtogether. Formatthecaptionasshown, with “Figure 1” and “Table1” boldandcoloredinRGB: 49/132/155 (Turquoise6 for LibreOffice). Therestofthecaptionfollowsafteratabinnormalfontandnormalblackcolor (pleaseeditmanually). Thefigureandtablecaptionsareleftandrightalignedindependentofthewidthofthefigureorthetable.
Tablesconsistoftablecolumnheads, subheads, andnormaltabletext. ThebackgroundoftablecolumnheadsandsubheadsiscoloredwithRGB: 182/221/232 (Blue 8 for LibreOffice). Eachtablehasthreelinesof 1 ½ ptwidth. Thesethreelinesareframingthetopandbottomofthetableandthebottomofthetableheads. TheselinesarecoloredwithRGB 49/132/155. Thetableheadsandsubheadsareseparatedfromeachotherwithahorizontallineof 1 ptwidth. Nolinesareusedinthemainbodyofthetable. SeeTable 1asanexample.
Trytoinsertfiguresandtablesaftertheyarecitedinthetextforthefirsttime. Use “Figure 1” and “Table1” torefertoeachfigureandtoeachtableatleastonce. “Figure 1” and “Table1” areinboldfaceandarecoloredwithRGB: 49/132/155. SCIRPwilladdlinksto “Figure 1” and “Table1” duringtypesetting. Theauthordoesnotneedtoprovidetheselinks.
Table 1Exampleofatableheading. Thetableheadingisindispensable. (SCIRPTableFigureCaption)
TableColumnHead / TableColumnHead (SCIRPTableColHead)Tablecolumnsubhead (SCIRPTable
ColSubhead) / Subhead / Subhead / Subhead / Subhead
TableText / TableText
(SCIRPTableText)a / TableText / TableText / TableText / TableText
TableText / TableText / TableText / TableText / TableText / TableText
aSampleofatablefootnote. Atablefootnoteisdispensable. (SCIRPTableFootnote)
FigureLabels: UsewordsratherthansymbolsorabbreviationswhenwritingFigureaxislabelstoavoidconfusingthereader. Asanexample, writethequantity “MachNumber”, or “Thrust”, notjust “M” or “T”. Ifincludingunitsinthelabel, presentthemwithinparentheses. Donotlabelaxesonlywithunits. Intheexample, write “Thrust (N)” notjust “N”. Donotlabelaxeswitharatioofquantitiesandunits. Forexample, write “Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. SeeFigure1asanexample.
Figure 1Exampleofafiguresubtitle. Thefiguresubtitleisindispensable. Thisisanexampleofaverylongfiguresubtitle. Itbecomesvisiblehowthetextisindentedandleftandrightaligned. Colorthestartofthesubtitlenamedhere “Figure 1” inRGB: 49/132/155.
4.5Footnotes
Numberfootnotesinsuperscripts[1]. Thefootnote[2]isautomaticallyplacedatthebottomofthepageonwhichitwascited. Use “SCRIPFootnote” toformatthefootnoteandtheidentifier. Donotputfootnotesinthereferencelist. Uselettersfortablefootnotes (seeTable1) andformatthemwith “SCIRPTableFootnote”.
Conclusions
Thefirstvisualimpressionofyourpapermaydetermineifapotentialreaderwillreadyourtextornot. Goodtextformattingisthefirststeptohelpyourreadertounderstandyourscientificcontent. Properlabelingandreferencingshouldbeself-evidentforanyscientist.
Acknowledgments
Theauthorsacknowledgethefinancialsupportof ... (institution) whichmadethisworkpossible. Theauthorsgratefullyacknowledgethecontributionsfrom ... (persons). Theauthorsdeclarethatnoconflictofinterestexistswiththeresultsandconclusionspresentedinthispaper. Publicationethicshavebeenobserved. Note: Thelasttwosentencesmustalwaysbeincluded. Referto AnICMJE-PDF-Formcanbeusedtoautomaticallygenerateaconflictofintereststatement. Thisstatementshouldbecopiedhere. Ifthetextaboutpossibleconflictsofinterestbecomestoolong, anewsectioncalled "ConflictsofInterest" shouldbeusedandshouldfollowthesection “Acknowledgments”.
References
Allreferencesshouldbeformattedaccordingtotheauthor-datesystemapplyingtheHarvardsystemaspresentedinISO690, AppendixA.2, BandC. Pleaseconsultalsothedetailsgivenunder
Throughoutthetextauthor-datein-textcitationhastobeused. Ifthecreator'snameoccursnaturallyinthetext, theyearfollowsinparentheses. Example: Malik (2001)showsthat ... Ifthecitationisonlyaddedattheendofasentence, bothnameandyearareinparentheses. Example: Thisisconsideredalargedeformation (Hu2004). Incitationstoparticularpartsofaninformationresource, thelocationofthatpart (e.g. thepagenumber) maybegivenaftertheyearwithintheparentheses. Example: Thiscanbecausedbyrobotmanipulation (Ortega 1995, p. 1434). Pleasenotefromtheexamplegiven, howthein-textcitationiscolored. RGB 49/132/155 isusedagain. SCIRPwilladdlinkstocoloredin-textcitationsduringtypesetting. Theauthordoesnotneedtoprovidetheselinks.
Whenpreparingthereferencelist, giveallauthors’ namesasfaraspossible; donotuse “etal.”. Papersthathavenotbeenpublished, eveniftheyhavebeensubmittedforpublication, shouldbecitedas “[unpublished]”. Papersthathavebeenacceptedforpublicationshouldbecitedas “[inproduction]”. Capitalizeeachwordinapapertitle, exceptforfunctionwords: articles, pronouns, prepositions (in, with, ...), andconjunctions (and, but, ...). Forpaperspublishedintranslationjournals, pleasegivetheEnglishcitationfirst, followedbytheoriginalforeign-languagecitation.
Pleasecompletelynormalizeyourreferencesasthefollowingformat. Pleaseregisteryouremailat andretrieveDigitalObjectIdentifiers (DOIs) forjournalarticles, books, andchaptersbysimplycuttingandpastingthelistofreferenceandinsertthemat Ifthatdoesnotworkyoumaywanttotryaformbasedqueryat PreservehyperlinksandunderlinesinDOIsasforMalik 2001andOrtega1995.
Theexamplesbelowmayhelpyoutoformatyourreferencelist. Malik 2001isanexampleforajournalpaper, Hu2004isanexampleforconferenceproceedings, Ortega 1995isanexamplefortransactions, Wit 2004isanexampleforabook, Prasad 1982isanarticleorchapterinaneditedbook, Giambastiani 2007isanexampleforathesis, Wu1994isanexampleforanarticleinproceedings, Auld 2013isanexampleforanarticlefromtheInternet, Wright1906isanexampleforapatent.
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AbouttheAuthors
FirstA. AuthorandtheotherauthorshavetheopportunityintheSCIRPjournalAASTtoincludetheirveryshortandstrictlyformattedbiographyattheendoftheregularpaper. ThisisinlinewithIEEEpapersbutotherwisestillanunusualpractice. AtAASTthebiographiesareshorterthanatIEEE. Theadvantageofbiographiesistomakethepublicationmoreopen. Biographiesa) putthetextofthepaperinperspectivetotheexperienceoftheauthors, b) provideasmallplatformfortheauthorstomakethemselvesbetterknowninthecommunity, c) maysatisfyalsothecuriosityofthereaders. Thefirstparagraphcontainstheauthor’seducationalbackground. Thedegree, itstypeandfieldofstudyshouldbelistedtogetherwiththeinstitution, city, state, countryandyearthedegreewasearned. Theauthor’smajorfieldofstudyshouldbelower-cased.
Thesecondparagraphusesthepronounoftheperson (heorshe) andlistsworkexperienceinchronologicalorder. Jobtitlesarecapitalized. Thecurrentjobshouldbegivenwithalocation. Previouspositionsmaybelistedwithoutmuchdetail. Currentresearchinterestsendtheparagraph.
Thethirdparagraphbeginswiththeauthor’stitleandlastname (e.g., Dr. Smith, Prof. Jones, Mr. Kajor, Ms. Hunter). ItisincludedonlyiftheauthorcanstateactivitiesatSCIRP. TheseactivitiesmaybeworkasareviewerormemberofanEditorialBoardatSCIRP. Biographiesnotfollowingthesestrictruleswillbereformattedbythepublisherordeleted. SCIRPhaslittlemeansofcheckingtheaccuracyofbiographiesandcannottakeanyresponsibilityoftheircorrectness. Followingaretwoexamplesofanauthor’sbiography.
SecondB. AuthorreceivedtheB.S. andM.S. degreesinaerospaceengineeringfromtheUniversityofVirginia, Charlottesvillein 2004 andthePh.D.degreeinmechanicalengineeringfromDrexelUniversity, Philadelphia, PA, in 2011.
From 2004 to 2007, hewasaResearchAssistantwiththePrincetonPlasmaPhysicsLaboratory. Since 2012, hehasbeenanAssistantProfessorwiththeMechanicalEngineeringDepartment, TexasAMUniversity, CollegeStation. Hisresearchinterestsincludeplasmapropulsionandinnovativeplasmaapplications.
Prof. AuthorisaregularreviewerforSCIRPjournals.
ThirdC. AuthorreceivedtheB.S. degreeinmechanicalengineeringfromNationalChungChengUniversity, Chiayi, Taiwanin 2007 andtheM.S. degreeinmechanicalengineeringfromNationalTsingHuaUniversity, Hsinchu, Taiwanin 2009. HeiscurrentlypursuingthePh.D. degreeinmechanicalengineeringatTexasAMUniversity, CollegeStation.
From 2011 to 2012, hewasaResearchAssistantwithTexasAMUniversity. Hisresearchinterestincludesfundamentalstudiesofplasmasources.
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[1]Thisisanexampleofafootnote. (SCIRPFootnote)
[2]Thisisanexampleofanotherfootnote. (SCIRPFootnote)