ICSE 2001 Conference Proceedings Format

First Author	Second Author	Third N. Lastauthor

First author's affiliation	Advanced Research Group	Dipartimento di Elettronica

1st line of address	Kiwi Computers	Politecnico di Milano

2nd line of address	99 Hard Drive	P.za Leonardo da Vinci, 32

Last line, including country	Mountain Foo, CA 95030 USA	20133 Milano, Italia

Telephone number, incl. country code	+1 408 555 1212	+39 2 555 93540

1st author's email address	author2@netaddress	author3@netaddress

ABSTRACT

This is a sample paper using the format and guidelines required for the ICSE 2001 Conference Proceedings. It includes instructions for preparing a camera-ready copy of your accepted submission.

Keywords

Guide, formatting, author’s kit, conference publications

INTRODUCTION

The Proceedings of ICSE 2001 represent the final archival records of the conference. To give the book a high quality appearance, we ask that authors follow these guidelines. In essence, we ask you to make your document look as much like this document as possible. The easiest way to do this is simply to replace the text in this document with your own.

This Word document defines a style sheet to help you format your text. Style sheet names include Normal, Author Name, Heading 1, etc. An electronic copy of this file, as well as files for FrameMaker and LaTeX formats, may be downloaded from the ICSE 2001 web site [2].

Page Limit and Page Size

Submissions in different categories have page limits that must be adhered to. Technical papers, for example, should be no longer than 10 pages. Submissions that exceed the limit for their category will not be reviewed.

All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18 x 23.5 cm (7” x 9.25”), centered on the page, beginning 1.9 cm (.75”) from the top of the page, with a .85 cm (.33”) space between two 8.4 cm (3.3'') columns. Use either US Letter or A4 paper. Right margins should be justified, not ragged.

LEAVE BLANK THE LAST 2.5 cm (1”)

OF THE LEFT COLUMN ON THE FIRST PAGE

FOR THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE.

Preserve these six lines in some

cases, but make their contents

blank in your text.

TYPESET TEXT

Submissions should be prepared on a typesetter or word processor. Use a 10-point Times Roman font, or other Roman font with serifs, as close as possible in appearance to Times Roman (in which these guidelines have been set). Note that different components (such as title, authors, and headings -- see below) use the same font, but with different sizes and styles. The target is to have a 10-point text, as you see here. Please do not use sans-serif or non-proportional fonts except for special purposes, such as distinguishing source code text (e.g., #include <iostream.h>). Fonts similar to Times Roman include Times, Computer Modern Roman, and Press.

If you do not have a laser printer, you may be able to arrange for a business to print your document for you. If no laser printer is available, then please ask the conference office for assistance.

Title and Authors

The title (18-point bold), authors' names (12-point bold), and affiliations (12-point) run centered across the full width of the page--one column 17.8 cm (7'') wide. Please also include phone numbers and e-mail addresses. See the top of this page for three names with different addresses. If only one address is needed, center all address text in a single column. For two addresses, use two columns, and so on. For more than three authors, you may have to improvise (if necessary, you may place some address information in a footnote).

Abstract and Keywords

Every submission (except summaries of workshops) should begin with an abstract of no more than 200 words, followed by a short list of keywords. The abstract and keywords should be placed in the top left column of the first page. The abstract should be a concise summary of the work and resulting conclusions. Keywords should help readers determine if the paper contains topics they are interested in.

First Page Copyright Notice

Leave at least 2.5 cm (1”) of blank space at the bottom of the left column of the first page only. This space is reserved for the copyright notice that will be added during final printing.

Subsequent Pages

For pages other than the first page, start at the top of the page, and continue in double-column format. It is preferable (but not required) that the two columns on the last page are of approximately equal length.

References and Citations

Use the standard Communications of the ACM format for references―that is, a numbered list at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by first author, and referenced in the text by numbers in brackets (e.g., “[1]”). See the examples of citations at the end of this document.

References should be published materials accessible to the public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they are easily accessible (i.e., you can give the address to obtain it within your citation) and may be obtained by any reader. Proprietary information may not be cited. Private communications should be acknowledged, not referenced (e.g., [Robertson, personal communication]).

Page Numbering, Headers and Footers

Page numbers should be included in your submission for review. This document includes page numbers on all but the first page. Do not add other headers or footers. Final submission of accepted papers should not include any page numbers; they will be added when the publications are assembled.

SECTIONS

The title of a section should be in Times Roman 10-point bold in all capitals (style sheet name: Heading 1). Please number the sections. Do not number abstract, acknowledgements, or references section. (Use the Heading 0 style for those headings.)

Subsections

The title of subsections should be in Times Roman 10-point bold with only the initial letters of each word capitalized (style sheet name: Heading 2). For subsections and subsubsections, a word like the or a is not capitalized unless it is the first word of the heading.

Subsubsections

The heading for subsubsections should be in Times Roman 10-point italic with initial letters of each word capitalized (style sheet name: Heading 3).

FIGURES

Figures should be inserted at the appropriate point in your text. Figures may extend over the two columns up to 17.8 cm (7”) if necessary. Black and white photographs (not Polaroid prints) may be mounted on the camera-ready paper with glue or double-sided tape. (To avoid smudges, attach figures by paste or tape applied to their back surfaces only.)

Language, style and Content

The written and spoken language of ICSE 2001 is English. Spelling and punctuation may consistently follow any dialect of English (e.g., British, Canadian or US). Please write for an international audience:

•	Write in a straightforward style. Use simple sentence structure. Try to avoid long sentences and complex sentence structures. Use semicolons carefully.

•	Use common and basic vocabulary (for example, use the word “unusual” rather than the word “arcane”).

•	Briefly define or explain all technical terms.

•	Explain all acronyms when they first appear in your text, such as, “World Wide Web (WWW)”.

•	Explain “insider” comments. Be sure that your whole audience will understand any reference whose meaning you do not explain (e.g., do not assume that everyone has used a Macintosh or MS-DOS).

•	Use unambiguous forms for representing culturally localized concepts, such as times, dates, and currencies. (e.g., 1/5/98 could be either January 5th or 1 May, and 7:00 could be 7 am or 1900).

Authors are responsible for making sure that their work is conducted in a professional and ethical manner [1], including (but not limited to) fully informed consent of participants in studies, protection of personal data (e.g., [3]), and permission to use others’ copyrighted materials.

information and questions

For more information, contact icse2001@csr.uvic.ca.

AcknowledgEments

This document has been adapted from past ICSE Conference Proceedings Format specifications. The ICSE 97 format was in turn adapted from the Style Sheet defined for CHI 96 by Michael J. Muller, Bonnie Nardi, Michael J. Tauber, and numerous people in the CHI community. Their contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

REFERENCES

1.	Anderson, R.E. Social impacts of computing: Codes of professional ethics. Social Science Computing Review 10, 2 (Winter 1992), 453-469.

2.	ICSE 2001 Web Site. On-line at http://www.csr.uvic.ca/icse2001/.

3.	Mackay, W.E. Ethics, lies and videotape... in Proc. CHI'95 (Denver CO, May 1995), ACM Press, 138-145.

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Debra J. Richardson

1999-05-16

Department of Computer Science

CMU