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International Journal on Robotics,

Automation and Sciences

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This paragraph will contain support information, including sponsor
and financial support acknowledgement.
F. A. Author is with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Boulder, CO 80305 USA (corresponding author to
provide phone: 303-555-5555; fax: 303-555-5555; e-mail: author@
boulder.nist.gov).
S. B. Author, Jr., was with Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
USA. He is now with the Department of Physics, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA (e-mail: author@lamar.
colostate.edu).
T. C. Author is with the Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from the
National Research Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan (e-mail:
[email protected]).

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Template for Preparation of Papers for International Journal on
Robotics, Automation and Sciences
First A. Author, Second B. Author, and Third C. Author

Abstract - These instructions provide you the an independent document. Please do not revise any of
guidelines for preparing the papers for International the current designations.
Journal on Robotics, Automation and Sciences
(IJORAS). The various components of your paper [title,
text, heads, etc.] are already defined on the style sheet,
III. MATH
as illustrated by the portions given in this document. Before you begin to format your paper, first write
and save the content as a separate text file. Keep your
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert text and graphic files separate until after the text has
(include up to 5 keywords) been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of
I. INTRODUCTION a paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination
anywhere in the paper. Do not number text heads-the
This template, modified in MS Word 2003 and saved
template will do that for you.
as “Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 – RTF” for the PC, provides
authors with most of the formatting specifications Finally, complete content and organizational editing
needed for preparing electronic versions of their before formatting. Please take note of the following
papers. All standard paper components have been items when proofreading spelling and grammar:
specified for reasons: (1) ease of use when formatting
individual papers, (2) automatic compliance to A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
electronic requirements that facilitate the concurrent or Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time
later production of electronic products. Margins, column they are used in the text, even after they have been
widths, line spacing, and type styles are built-in; defined in the abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI,
examples of the type styles are provided throughout MKS, CGS, sc, dc, and rms do not have to be defined.
this document and are identified in italic type, within Do not use abbreviations in the title or heads unless
parentheses, following the example. Some they are unavoidable.
components, such as multi-leveled equations, graphics,
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and tables are not prescribed, although the various
table text styles are provided. The formatter will need to
create these components, incorporating the applicable
 Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units.
(SI units are encouraged.) English units may be
criteria that follow.
used as secondary units (in parentheses). An
exception would be the use of English units as
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A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)
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 Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as
A4 paper size. current in amperes. This often leads to
confusion because equations do not balance
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10 pages. Additional USD 50 per page will be charged clearly state the units for each quantity that you
for extra pages. use in an equation.
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be provided to the author.  Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations
of units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”,
not “webers/m2”. Spell out units when they
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications appear in text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few
H”.
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the text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and
text fonts are prescribed; please do not alter them. You
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not
may note peculiarities. For example, the head margin in “.25”. Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)
this template measures proportionately more than is C. Equations
customary. This measurement and others are
The equations are an exception to the prescribed
deliberate, using specifications that anticipate your
specifications of this template. You will need to
paper as one part of the entire proceedings, and not as
determine whether or not your equation should be
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typed using either the Arial or the Symbol font (please
no other font). To create multileveled equations, it may  Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
be necessary to treat the equation as a graphic and
insert it into the text after your paper is styled. Number  The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be
equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within joined to the word it modifies, usually without a
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using hyphen.
a right tab stop. To make your equations more
compact, you may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function,  There is no period after the “et” in the Latin
or appropriate exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for abbreviation “et al.”.
quantities and variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a
long dash rather than a hyphen for a minus sign.
Punctuate equations with commas or periods when
 The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
they are part of a sentence, as in
An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
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Note that the equation is centered using a center tab IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
stop. Be sure that the symbols in your equation have
been defined before or immediately following the After the text edit has been completed, the paper is
equation. Refer to “(1)”, not “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, ready for the template. Duplicate the template file by
except at the beginning of a sentence: “Equation (1) is . using the Save As command, and use the “IJORAS” for
. .” the name of your paper. In this newly created file,
highlight all of the contents and import your prepared
D. Some Common Mistakes text file. You are now ready to style your paper; use the
scroll down window on the left of the MS Word
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. Formatting toolbar.

 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, A. Authors and Affiliations
and other common scientific constants, is zero The template is designed so that author affiliations
with subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter are not repeated each time for multiple authors of the
“o”. same affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate
 In American English, commas, semi-/colons, among departments of the same organization). This
periods, question and exclamation marks are template was designed for two affiliations.
located within quotation marks only when a For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
complete thought or name is cited, such as a change the default, adjust the template as follows.
title or full quotation. When quotation marks are
used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should affiliation lines.
appear outside of the quotation marks. A Change number of columns: Select the Columns
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then
a sentence is punctuated outside of the closing select “1 Column” from the selection palette.
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
is punctuated within the parentheses.) the second affiliation.
For author/s of more than two affiliations: To
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an change the default, adjust the template as follows.
“insert”. The word alternatively is preferred to
Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
the word “alternately” (unless you really mean
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icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean select “1 Column” from the selection palette.
“approximately” or “effectively”. Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
and copy this selection.
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize after the last character of the last affiliation line. Then
the “u”; if not, keep using lower-cased. paste down the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as
necessary for each additional affiliation.
 Be aware of the different meanings of the Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to
homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” the right of the last character of the last affiliation line of
and “compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, an even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five
“principal” and “principle”. affiliations, place your cursor at end of fourth affiliation).
Drag the cursor up to highlight all of the above author and
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affiliation lines. Go to Column icon and select “2 Columns”. If Figure Labels: Use 8 point Arial for Figure labels.
you have an odd number of affiliations, the final affiliation will Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
be centered on the page; all previous will be in two columns. writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader.
B. Identify the Headings As an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or
Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that “Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
guide the reader through your paper. There are two label, present them within parentheses. Do not label
types: component heads and text heads. axes only with units. In the example, write
“Magnetization (A/m)” or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not
Component heads identify the different components
of your paper and are not topically subordinate to each just “A/m”. Do not label axes with a ratio of quantities
other. Examples include Acknowledgments and and units. For example, write “Temperature (K)”, not
References and, for these, the correct style to use is “Temperature/K.”
“Heading 5”. Use “figure caption” for your Figure
captions, and “table head” for your table title. Run-in
heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you to apply a
V. CONCLUSION
style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style provided A conclusion section is not required. Although a
by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from conclusion may review the main points of the paper, do
the text. not replicate the abstract as the conclusion. A
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, conclusion might elaborate on the importance of the
hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the work or suggest applications and extensions.
primary text head because all subsequent material
relates and elaborates on this one topic. If there are two APPENDIX
or more sub-topics, the next level head (uppercase
Appendixes should appear before the
Roman numerals) should be used and, conversely, if
there are not at least two sub-topics, then no subheads acknowledgment.
should be introduced. Styles named “Heading 1”,
“Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and “Heading 4” are ACKNOWLEDGMENT
prescribed. The preferred spelling of the word
C. Figures and Tables “acknowledgment” in America is without an “e” after the
“g”. Avoid the stilted expression, “One of us (R. B. G.)
Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and thanks . . .” Instead, try “R. B. G. thanks”. Put sponsor
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing acknowledgments in the unnumbered footnote on the
them in the middle of columns. Large figures and first page.
tables may span across both columns. Figure captions
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