Author’s Guide for Papers Preparation for Baltic Olympiad on Automatic Control

First A. Author, Second B. Author, Jr., and Third C. Author

 To insert images in Word, position the cursor at the Abstract—These instructions give you guidelines for insertion point and either use Insert | Picture | From File preparing papers for Baltic Olympiad on Automatic or copy the image to the Windows clipboard and then Control. Use this document as a template if you are using Edit | Paste Special | Picture (with “float over text” Microsoft Word 6.0 or later. Otherwise, use this document as an instruction set. The electronic file of your paper will be unchecked). formatted further at BOAC. Define all symbols used in the abstract. Do not cite references in the abstract. Do not delete II.PROCEDURE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION the blank line immediately above the abstract; it sets the footnote at the bottom of this column. A. Document layout Please use this document as a “template” to prepare your manuscript. Note that BOAC submission rules I. INTRODUCTION impose strict page limits no more than 6 pages. Do not HIS document is a template for Microsoft Word change the font sizes or line spacing to squeeze more text Tversions 6.0 or later based on IEEE conference into a limited number of pages. Do not number the pages template. If you are reading a paper or PDF version of of your paper. this document, please download the electronic file, In formatting your original 210 mm x 297 mm page BOAC_template.DOC, from the BOAC Web site at (A4 format), set top and bottom margins to 25 mm, and http://boac.ifmo.ru/--data/BOAC_template.doc so you can left and right margins to about 20 mm. The column width use it to prepare your manuscript. If you would prefer to is 86 mm. The space between the two columns is 5 mm. use LATEX, download BOAC’s LATEX style and Use either one or two spaces between sections, and sample files from the link http://boac.ifmo.ru/-- between text and tables or figures, to adjust the column data/BOAC_TeX_template.zip. Use these LATEX files length. for formatting, but please follow the instructions in On the last page of your paper, try to adjust the BOAC_template.DOC or BOAC_template.PDF. lengths of the two-columns so that they are the same. If your paper is intended for a conference, please Use automatic hyphenation and check spelling. Either contact your conference editor concerning acceptable digitize or paste your figures. word processor formats for your particular conference. Send PDF with complete contact information for all When you open BOAC_template.DOC, select “Page authors. Include full mailing addresses, telephone Layout” from the “View” menu in the menu bar (View | numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. In addition, Page Layout), which allows you to see the footnotes. designate one author as the “corresponding author.” This Then, type over sections of BOAC_template.DOC or cut is the author to whom proofs of the paper will be sent. and paste from another document and use markup styles. Proofs are sent to the corresponding author only. The pull-down style menu is at the left of the Formatting Toolbar at the top of your Word window (for example, the B. Figures style at this point in the document is “Text”). Highlight a section that you want to designate with a certain style, Format and save your graphic images using a suitable then select the appropriate name on the style menu. The graphics processing program that will allow you to create style will adjust your fonts and line spacing. Do not the images as PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript change the font sizes or line spacing to squeeze more (EPS), or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), sizes them, text into a limited number of pages. Use italics for and adjusts the resolution settings. If you created your emphasis; do not underline. source files in one of the following you will be able to submit the graphics without converting to a PS, EPS, or This work was supported in part by any organization (sponsor and TIFF file: Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, financial support acknowledgment goes here). Paper titles should be written in uppercase and lowercase letters, not all uppercase. Do not Microsoft Excel, or Portable Document Format (PDF). write “(Invited)” in the title. Full names of authors are preferred in the author field, but are not required. Put a space between authors’ initials. F. A. Author is with the Saint-Petersburg State University of C. Electronic Image Files (Optional) Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (e-mail: [email protected]). Import your source files in one of the following: S. B. Author, Jr. and T. C. Author, is with the Saint-Petersburg State Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (e-mail: [email protected], or Portable Document Format (PDF); you will be able to [email protected]). submit the graphics without converting to a PS, EPS, or figures. Do not put captions in “text boxes” linked to TIFF files. Image quality is very important to how yours the figures. Do not put borders around the outside of graphics will reproduce. Even though we can accept your figures. Use the abbreviation “Fig.” even at the graphics in many formats, we cannot improve your beginning of a sentence. Do not abbreviate “Table.” graphics if they are poor quality when we receive them. If Tables are numbered with Roman numerals. your graphic looks low in quality on your printer or monitor, please keep in mind that cannot improve the quality after submission. If you are importing your graphics into this Word template, please use the following steps: Under the option EDIT select PASTE SPECIAL. A dialog box will open, select paste picture, then click OK. Your figure should now be in the Word Document. If you are preparing images in TIFF, EPS, or PS format, note the following. High-contrast line figures and tables should be prepared with 600 dpi resolution and saved with no compression, 1 bit per pixel (monochrome), with file names in the form of “fig3.tif” or “table1.tif.” Photographs and grayscale figures should be prepared with 300 dpi resolution and saved with no compression, 8 Fig. 1. Magnetization as a function of applied field. Note that “Fig.” is bits per pixel (grayscale). abbreviated. There is a period after the figure number, followed by two spaces. It is good practice to explain the significance of the figure in the caption. III. MATH If you are using Word, use either the Microsoft Table 1. Units for magnetic properties Conversion from Gaussian and Equation Editor or the MathType add-on Symbol Quantity CGS EMU to SI a (http://www.mathtype.com) for equations in your paper 8 8 (Insert | Object | Create New | Microsoft Equation or  magnetic flux 1 Mx  10 Wb = 10 V·s 4 4 2 MathType Equation). “Float over text” should not be B magnetic flux density, 1 G  10 T = 10 Wb/m magnetic induction selected. H magnetic field strength 1 Oe  103/(4) A/m m magnetic moment 1 erg/G = 1 emu IV. UNITS  103 A·m2 = 103 J/T Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units Vertical lines are optional in tables. Statements that serve as captions are strongly encouraged.) English units may be used as for the entire table do not need footnote letters. secondary units (in parentheses). This applies to papers in data storage. For example, write “15 Gb/cm2 (100 B. References Gb/in2).” An exception is when English units are used as Number citations consecutively in square brackets [1]. identifiers in trade, such as “3½-in disk drive.” Avoid The sentence punctuation follows the brackets [2]. combining SI and CGS units, such as current in amperes Multiple references [2], [3] are each numbered with and magnetic field in oersteds. This often leads to separate brackets [1]–[3]. When citing a section in a book, confusion because equations do not balance please give the relevant page numbers [2]. In sentences, dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly state refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Do not use the units for each quantity in an equation. The SI unit for “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a magnetic field strength H is A/m. However, if you wish to sentence: “Reference [3] shows ... .” Please do not use use units of T, either refer to magnetic flux density B or automatic endnotes in Word, rather, type the reference list magnetic field strength symbolized as µ0H. Use the center at the end of the paper using the “References” style. dot to separate compound units, e.g., “A·m2.” Number footnotes separately in superscripts (Insert | Footnote).1 Place the actual footnote at the bottom of the V. HELPFUL HINTS column in which it is cited; do not put footnotes in the reference list (endnotes). Use letters for table footnotes A. Figures and Tables (see Table 1). Large figures and tables may span both columns. Place Please note that the references at the end of this figure captions below the figures; place table titles above document are in the preferred referencing style. Give all the tables. If your figure has two parts, include the labels authors’ names; do not use “et al.” unless there are six “(a)” and “(b)” as part of the artwork. Please verify that the figures and tables you mention in the text actually 1It is recommended that footnotes be avoided (except for the exist. Please do not include captions as part of the unnumbered footnote with the receipt date on the first page). Instead, try to integrate the footnote information into the text. authors or more. Use a space after authors’ initials. Papers spellings and abbreviations of units: use “Wb/m2” or that have not been published should be cited as “webers per square meter,” not “webers/m2.” When “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been accepted for expressing a range of values, write “7 to 9” or “7-9,” not publication, but not yet specified for an issue should be “7~9.” cited as “to be published” [5]. Papers that have been A parenthetical statement at the end of a sentence is submitted for publication should be cited as “submitted punctuated outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). for publication” [6]. Please give affiliations and addresses (A parenthetical sentence is punctuated within the for private communications [7]. parentheses.) In American English, periods and commas Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for are within quotation marks, like “this period.” Other proper nouns and element symbols. For papers published punctuation is “outside”! Avoid contractions; for in translation journals, please give the English citation example, write “do not” instead of “don’t.” The serial first, followed by the original foreign-language citation comma is preferred: “A, B, and C” instead of “A, B and [8]. C.” If you wish, you may write in the first person singular or plural and use the active voice (“I observed that ...” or C. Abbreviations and Acronyms “We observed that ...” instead of “It was observed Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they that ...”). Remember to check spelling. If your native are used in the text, even after they have already been language is not English, please get a native English- defined in the abstract. Abbreviations such as BOAC, SI, speaking colleague to carefully proofread your paper. ac, and dc do not have to be defined. Abbreviations that incorporate periods should not have spaces: write VI. CONCLUSION “C.N.R.S.,” not “C. N. R. S.”. A conclusion section is not required. Although a conclusion may review the main points of the paper, do D. Equations not replicate the abstract as the conclusion. A conclusion Number equations consecutively with equation might elaborate on the importance of the work or suggest numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in applications and extensions. (1). First use the equation editor to create the equation. Then select the “Equation” markup style. Press the tab APPENDIX key and write the equation number in parentheses. To Appendixes, if needed, appear before the make your equations more compact, you may use the acknowledgment. solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. Use parentheses to avoid ambiguities in denominators. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Punctuate equations when they are part of a sentence, as The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in in American English is without an “e” after the “g.” Use the singular heading even if you have many r2 F(r,) dr d  [ r2 / (20 )] 0 acknowledgments. Avoid expressions such as “One of us  (1) 1 (S.B.A.) would like to thank ... .” Instead, write “F. 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