The paper title: Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold. No space before and after. Leave two blank lines of 14 pt before. Indent 1.5 cm left and right.

Authors: 1Name SURNAME, 2Name SURNAME

1affiliation Author #1,

2affiliation author #2

1email first author, 2email second author

Abstract: Place here the abstract of the paper. From this point forward, the paper is written using two equal columns format, spaced at 0.5 cm. Use for the abstract the style named ‘Abstract’ in the style gallery. No space before and after abstract paragraphs, the spaces will be added automatically by using the recommended styles.

Keywords – Some keywords that are relevant for the paper content, separated by comma. Use the style named ‘Keywords’. Additional spaces will be inserted before and after the paragraph. The paper must be organized in sections. Section titles are numbered in Upper Case Roman Style, using SMALL CAPS format for the font. Font size is 10 pt and the font name is Times New Roman. Use the built-in style named Heading1 from the Style gallery in this template to apply to all section titles. First section is an Introduction

Introduction

In the introduction preliminary consideration should be made regarding the topic or topics of the paper. Additionally, a preliminary description of the main objectives of the paper should be indicated.

Preferably, after the Introduction section, a, separate section presenting known results, which are subsequently used in the paper should be included. It may have the title Known Results or Previous Results and Definitions. Any known concept should have a proper citation unless it is a new concept introduced by the authors.

The paper should normally end with an unnumbered paragraph Conclusions in which the main results of the paper are presented. If further research of the subject matter is envisaged, then a phrase or two related to it is recommended.

If necessary, a separate unnumbered paragraph on Acknowledgements may be added whenever necessary, at the end of the paper, before References paragraph.

A section may contain subsections which are numbered with Latin Upper Case letters, starting with A in each section.

Subsection title

Use the Heading 2 Style form the gallery of styles in this template. A space of 10 pt will be automatically added between the Subsection Title and the previous paragraph. Restart numbering subsection in each document section.

Section Title two

For each type of text in this template there is a style defined in such way you can easily find and use it. For the regular text the name of the style is ‘Normal’, for the Abstract and Keywords the name is ‘Abstract’ and ‘Keywords’ respectively, and so on. Normal paragraphs have the first line left indented by 0.35 cm.

Figures and Tables

Figure and tables are always placed on the top and on the bottom of text columns. They should fit the column width and must be readable. Lines and colors must provide a good contrast and the labels of axis as well as the values embedded in the graphs must be easily readable. The figures and tables must be numbered and referred in the text.

Fig. 1 A short explanation about the figure

The captions of figures are placed bellow the figures and centered, while the captions of tables are placed above the tables and left-aligned. Always leave a blank line before the captions of tables and after the captions of figures.

Use for Table label the style named ‘tabcaption’.

The font for data in tables is Times New Roman, 8 pt. height. A sample of table is shown in table I.

Avoid using pictures instead of Word Tables.

For large tables or/and figures it is allowed to break the document in sections and place those large objects on that sections formatted “single-column”.

The single-column sections must be placed at the end or in the top of pages, excepting the first page.

Equations

Table I. Short explanations about the table content

Col 1	Col 2	Col 3	Col 4	Col 5	Col 5
Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data
Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data
Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data	Cell data

Fig. 2 A sample of figure inserted into a single column section. Source: M. P. Hentschel et al. New development in X-Ray Topography of advanced non-metallic materials http://www.ndt.net/article/wcndt00/papers/idn258/idn258.htm

TABLE II. Font size and appearance in main parts of the paper

Size	Appearance
Regular	Bold	Italic	Comment
14 pt	Paper title
12 pt	Author names
10 pt	Authors’ affiliation, main text, section titles,	Subsection title, equations, symbols	For section titles use ‘Small Caps’
9 pt	Abstract, Keywords
8 pt	Table data, captions	For table caption use ‘Small Caps’

The equations must be equation objects, inserted with Equation Editor or MathType if you use Word 2003 to write your paper. If you use Word 2007 or later, use insert equation tool from Insert ribbon. Equations inserted as images are not allowed.

Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1).

(1)

Use right align button to align the equation number and insert spaces between the end of the equation and its number to center the equation. To make your equations more compact, you may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents.

For small, inline equations or symbols, you may use symbols from Insert menu/ribbon, as bellow:

After replacing, x+y=ζ becomes x+y=(α+β)/2

For your convenience, table II contains a summary of font size and type for the main parts of the paper.

Conclusions

Do not insert blank lines before and after section titles. Use the appropriate style for each type of text. One single exception exists for the Paper Title which must have to blank lines of 14 pt before the text. Use ‘Title’ style to apply the right format for the Title.

For References and Conclusions section use ‘Ref-Conclusions’ style.

References

References are numbered in square brackets. Font size is usually 10 pt but may be reduced up to 8 pt in order to fit the number of pages, so the last page must be at least 50% filled.

All references should be cited in the text of the paper in a clear and unambiguous manner. Non-cited references should be removed.

D. Knuth. The Art of Programming. Addison-Wesley, pp. 82-86, 1973.

I.F. Akyildiz and Albrecht Sieber (1988), Approximate Analysis of Load Dependent General Queueing Networks, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 11,pp. 1537-1545.

S. P. Binguac, On the compatibility of adaptive controllers (Published Conference Proceedings style), in Proc. 4th Annu. Allerton Conf. Circuits and Systems Theory, New York, 1994, pp. 8–16. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1011/sp.1994.312

Short Biography - a short biography of each author is mandatory at the end of the paper. It should include the name and surname of each author in bold characters. This section in single-column formatted. Two blank lines of 10 pt. must be left before this section.