Author Guidelines (Do’s and Don’ts)
General Instructions
1. Prepare the paper in Latex/ MS word and submit the complete source files
(.tex/.doc/.docx), associated style files, special fonts, .eps or .bib files and
final pdf in .zip or .tar.
2. Check the spelling mistakes using spell check.
1 Title of the Paper
1. Title of the paper should be in Title Case with 17 point, Bold. The first letter in the
paper title should be capitalized. (i.e., nouns, verbs and all other words except articles,
prepositions and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital).
2. Use 13pt type for name(s) of the author(s). Give space between author’s initials.
3. Email of the contact author should follow the affiliation and font size set to 10 points.
Example:
Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Venugopal K. R.1, Patnaik L. M.2
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001
2
Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India.
1
[email protected]
2 Abstract
1. Abstract should be one paragraph and should contain atleast 70 and atmost 150 words.
It should be set in 10-point font size.
2. There should be two blank (10-point) lines before and after the abstract.
3 Keywords
1. List five keywords in alphabetical order.
2. It should be set in 10-point font size.
3. Avoid general and plural terms like and of, is, . . .
Example:
Keywords: Attacks, Key Predistribution, Resilence, Sinkhole, Wormhole
4 Paper Preparation
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The printing area should be 140mm x 185mm.
The text should be justified to occupy the full line width.
Avoid words hyphenation.
Fill the pages so that the length of the text is no less than 185 mm, if possible.
The main text should be in 11-point and single-line spacing and Times New Roman
font.
6. Indicate the emphasized text in italics.
7. Bold type and underlining should be avoided in the running text.
5 Abbreviations
1. Whenever there is an abbreviation place a period and comma
2. Italicize the abbreviation.
Example: et al., viz., e.g.,
6 Headings
1. Headings should be in Title case.
2. The subtitles should be aligned to the left except the title of the paper.
3. Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule. If the first word can stand
alone, the second word should be capitalized.
Examples of headings:
“Criteria to Disprove Context-Freeness of Collage Languages”,
“A User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System”,
“Multi-flip Network”: Parallelization GenSAT”,
4. Use decimal numbers for numbering the sections.
5. Leave three blank spaces between number and section names.
6. The font sizes are given in Table 1.
7 Tables
1. Table captions should be positioned above the tables, as shown in Table 1 in the
Template.
2. If notations are used, alignment should be done properly as shown in Table 2.
3. When multiple columns are to be used in the table, the data should be entered
properly and should be clear and visible as shown in Table 3.
4. Do not abbreviate Table.
5. Number the Tables and it should be referred in the text.
Example :
Table 1. Font sizes of headings. Table captions should always be positioned above the tables.
Heading
Level
Alignment Nomenclature Examples
Font Size
and Style
Title
Centered
Left
Left
Left
Title
Section
Sub-Section
Headings
Secure Routing
1 Introduction
17 point, bold
10 point, italic
Left
Remarks
2.1 Printing Area
Headings. Text follows
…
Remark. Text follows …
1st-level
heading
2nd-level
heading
3rd-level
heading
4th-level heading
Table 2. Notations
α - is a constant ranging between 0 and 1.
 - Signal to noise ratio.
' - Average Signal to noise ratio.
λ - Lagrange Multiplier.
C - Channel Capacity.
l - Link Spectral Efficiency.
r - Data rate of transmission
Rx - data transmission rate.
tn - Time required to transmit bn
bits by the nth node.
T - Network lifetime
11 point, bold
10 point, bold
10 point, bold
Table 3. Recognition accuracy for varying dimensions of feature vectors
Number of
Training faces
Number
of Test
faces
300
260
220
180
200
240
280
320
% of Recognition accuracy for varying
dimensions of feature vectors
6
8
10
12
14
16
96.5
95.53
92.00
73.32
96.5
95.66
92.10
75.33
96.5
95.23
92.80
70.68
96.5
95.03
92.54
72.61
94.8
95.11
92.58
71.60
94.8
95.13
92.58
82.11
8 Lemmas, Propositions and Theorems
1. The numbers accorded to lemmas, propositions and theorems etc. should appear in
consecutive order, starting with Lemma 1 .
9 Figures
1. Figures should be saved as .eps and .jpg.
2. Figures should be clear and figure labels should be legible and visible as shown
in Figure 1. in the template .
3. Line drawings should have a resolution of at least 800 dpi (preferably 1200 dpi).
4. Figure caption should be placed below the figure and set them to 10 point.
5. The lettering inside the graphs/figures should have a height of 2 mm(10-point)
6. Number the Figures and it should correspond to the text reference.
7. The distance between text and figure should be about 9 mm; the distance between
figure and caption about 4 mm; the distance between caption and following text
should be 9mm.
8. If screenshots are necessary, make sure that the print quality is clear.
9. Graphs should be plotted using either gnuplot or MATLAB.
10. Graphs should be clear and sharp, legends should be clear.
11. Label the axis of the graphs and avoid symbols.
Example : Write voltage or voltage V, not just V.
13. Do not download the figures and graphs from other works.
14. Do not send colored figures because the figures will be printed in black
and white, make sure that they really are legible in black and white.
15. The contrast should be as pronounced as possible.
Figure 1. Deployment of Sensor Nodes.
10 Formulas
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2.
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4.
Use italics for emphasis for both equations and mathematical variables.
Use either SI(MKS) or CGS units. Avoid mixing of SI and CGI units.
Number the mathematical expressions.
The numbers should be consecutive within each section with numbers enclosed in
parentheses and set on the right margin.
5. Equations should be punctuated in the same way as ordinary text but with a small
space before the end punctuation mark.
Example :
u+v=w.
(1)
11 Footnotes
1. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the normal text area, with a line of about
5cm set immediately above them.
2. The footnote numeral is set flush left and the text follows with the usual word
spacing as shown in the given template.
12 Citations
1. Ensure that the citation is specified by number(s) in square brackets.
2. Arrange the citations in ascending order in the text.
Example:
The three types of Key Distribution Schemes are : (i) The trusted server scheme depends on a trusted
server for key distribution between nodes. (ii) The self-enforcing scheme depends on
asymmetric cryptography[1]. (iii) The third type of key agreement scheme is key pre-distribution [2-7],
in which the key information is distributed among all sensor nodes prior to deployment by knowing
which nodes are more likely to be the same neighbors before deployment [4]. A number of key predistribution schemes exists in the field of sensor networks [8].
13 Page Numbering and Running Heads
1. If your paper title is too long to serve as a running head, it will be shortened.
2. Your suggestion as to how to shorten the title would be most welcome.
14 Algorithms
1. Place the algorithm within a table with Font Size 10 and Font Times New Roman.
2. If the length of the algorithm is large place them in two columns.
Table 4. Algorithm: Energy scheduling
Input: W
Output : rate of transmission
Nodes are deployed randomly ; Execute the following code in each nodes;
begin
Broadcast HELLO packet
start timer.
while(not timeout).
if(packet is received from j Є X)
N(i) = j
else
N(h) =Ø ;
end
end
Compute rn = αWlog2 ( γ/W)
end
15 The References Section
1. The reference section will increase the visibility of publications and facilitate
academic research considerably.
2. Base your references on the examples below.
3. Check your references thoroughly.
4. Reference Section must be complete.
5. You should not omit the references.
6. The references should be written using Times New Roman.
7. Bibliography and Reference should be in ascending order.
8. Font Size should be 9 points.
9. The following Four components shall be included in the Reference :
Author, Title, Publisher, Year.
Examples:
1. Journal Articles
[1] Zink, M. and Bamler, R.: X-SAR Radiometric Calibration and Data Quality. IEEE Tansactions on
Ceoscience and Remote Sensing, 33(4), 840-847, (July 1995).
2. Chapter in a Book
[2] May, P., Ehrlich, H.C. and Steinke, T.: ZIB Structure Prediction Pipeline: Composing a Complex
Biological Workflow through Web Services. In: Nagel, W.E., Walter, W.V., Lehner, W. (eds.)
Euro-Par 2006. LNCS, vol. 4128, pp. 1148 -1158. Springer, Heidelberg (2006).
3. Book
[3] Foster, I. and Kesselman, C.: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. Morgan
Kaufmann, San Francisco (1999).
4. Conference Proceedings without editors
[4] Manza, R., Gornale, S. S., Humbe, V. And Kale, K. V.: Noisy and Noiseless Fingerprint Image
Compression Using Wavelet Packet. In Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive
Recognition, 885-890 (2005).
5. Technical Reports
[5] Foster, I., Kesselman, C., Nick, J. and Tuecke, S.: The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services
Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration. Technical Report, Global Grid Forum, (2002).
6. Web Reference
[6] BRAT Segmentation Challenge 2012, http://challenge.kitware.com/midas/folder/102.
7. Patent
[7] Chen, S. and Grant, P. M.: A Remedy for Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks, US
Patent 3624 12, (July 1990).
General rules to be followed for References
1. Bold face are not to be used.
2. Authors’ and editors’ names are to be structured as follows: “Surname, Initials of First
Names”.
Author name, comma, space, initial, period, initial, period, comma, space followed
by next author . . . Final author ends with period.
Example : Venugopal, K. R., Patnaik, L. M.
3. A colon is to be inserted between the authors’ names and the title. The title should be
followed by a period. The title should be in Title Case i.e., the first letter should be in
uppercase and articles, prepositions and conjunctions are in lower case.
4. The abbreviations (ed.) or (eds.) should follow the Editors’ names.
5. If a contribution from an edited volume is being cited, then the authors’ names and the
title of the paper are given first. This is followed by “In:” and then the details of the
book.
6. The volume number of a book in a series should be given as vol. XXX, where XXX is
the volume number. It should be separated from the name/abbreviation of the series
by a comma. The volume number of a journal should appear directly after the
abbreviated title of the journal. The issue number should appear directly next to it in
brackets.
7. The page number of the article should include starting page followed by hypen and
the ending page followed by a comma.
8. The name and town of the publisher, separated by a comma, should appear before the
copyright year.
9. The copyright year should be given at the end, in brackets. In non-standard
publications (e.g., technical reports) also require a month, then this should be included
between the brackets, as should the appendages (to be published) or (to appear).
16 Copyright Forms
1. The copyright form should be signed and sent to the Contact Volume Editor as
a scanned pdf and sent to [email protected].
2. One author can sign on behalf of all the other authors of a paper.
3. Digital signatures are acceptable.