A Sample Technical Paper in LATEXFormat

First Author Second Author

Author Affliation Author Affliation
Author Address Author Address
abc@xyz.com abc@def.ac.in
October 29, 2010

ABSTRACT on the page,specified size of margins top and

This paper provies a sample of LATEXdocument bottom and left and right: specified column width
which conforms to the formatting guidelines and gutter size.
for publications in Proceedings of Confer-
ence/Journals. This source file has been written2. THE BODY OF THE PAPER
with the intention of being compiled under Typically,the body of as paper is organised
LATEXand BibTeX. into a hierarchical structure,with numbered or
unnumbered headings for sections,subsections,sub-
The sample paper includes most of the im- subsections,and even smaller sections.LATEXhandles
portant features of LATEXlike mathematical the numbering and placement of these headings
equations,theorms,tables and figres. for you,when you use the appropriate headings
command around the titles of the headings.If you
want a sub-section or smaller part to be unnmbere
Categories and Subject Descriptors in your output,simply append an asterisk to the
H.4[Information System Applications]: Miscella- comand name.Examples of both numberd and
neous; unnumberd headings will appear throughout the
D.28[Software Engineering]: Metrics– Complexi- balance of this sample document.
tyMeasues,performance measures
Because the enire article is contained in the
document environment, you can indicate the start
of a new paragraph with a blank line in your
General Terms
input file; thats why this sentence frms a seperate
Theory
paragraph.
Keywords
Proceedings,LATEX
2.1 Type changes and Special Characters
1. INTRODUCTION We have already seen several typeface changes in
The proceedings are the records of a confer- this sample.You can indicate italicized words or
ence.ACM/IEEE seeks to give the conference phrases in your text with the command ;embold-
by-products a uniform,high quality appearance.To ening with the command and typewriter style(
do this,there are some rigid requirements for the for instance,for computercode) with .But remem-
format of the procceding documents: there is a ber,you do not have to indicate typestyle changes
specified format (balanced double collumn), a when such changes are part of the structural
specified set of fonts(Arial or Helvetica and Times elements of your article for instance,tje heading of
Roman) in certain specified sizes(for instance,9 this sub-section will be in a san serif typeface,but
point for copy body),a specified live area centered that is handled by the document class file. Take

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care with the use of the curly braces in typeface unnumbered equation:
changes,thy mark the begining and end of the text ∞
X
that is to be in the different typeface. x+1
i=0
You can use whatever symbols,accented charac-
ters,or non-English characters you need anywhere and follow it with another unnumbered equation:
in your document;you can find a complete list of ∞ Z π+2
X
what is available in the LATEXUser’s Guide[5]. xi = f
ki=0 0

just to demonstrate LATEX’s able handling of

2.2 Math Equations numbering.
You may want to display math equation in thre
distinct styles: inline,numbered or non-numbered
display.Each of the three are discusse in next sec- 2.3 Citation
tion. Citation to article[1,2,3,4],conference prceeding[3]
or boks[6,5] listed in Bibliography section of your
2.2.1 Inline(In-text) Equations article will occur throughtout the text of your
A formula that appears in the running text is called article. You should use BibTeX to automatically
an in-line or in-text formula. It is produced bt produce this bibliography; you simply need to
math environment,which can be invoked with the insert one of the several citation commands with
usual costruction or withthe short form $ . . . . a key of the item cited in the proper location
$. You can use any of the symbol and structures in the .tex fie[5]. The key is a short reference
from α to ω,available in LATEX[5]; this section will you invent to uniquely identify each work; inthis
simply show a few examples of in-text equations in sample document, the key is the first author’s
context.Notice how this equation: surname and a word from the title.This identify
key is inclued with each item in the .bib file for
lim x = 0 your article.
x→∞

. Set here in in-line math style,looks slightly differ- The details of the construction of the .bib file are
ent when set in display style.(See Next section) beyond the scope of this sample document, but
2.2.2 Display Equations mre information vcan be found in the Author’s
A numbered display equation – one set off by ver- Guide, and exhaustive details in the LATEXUser’s
tical space from the text and centered horizontally Guide[5].
– is produced by the equation environment. An
This article shows only the planet plainest form of
unnumbered display equation is displayed by the
the citation command using cite. This is what is
displaymath environment.
stipulated in the SIGS style specification.No other
citation format is endorsed.
Again,in either environment,you can use any of the
symbols and structures available in LATEX; this sec-
2.4 Tables
tion will just give a couple of examples of display
Because table can not split across pages, the best
equations in context. First,consider the equation,
placement for them is typically the top of the pag
shown as an inline equation above:
nearest their initial cite. To ensure thi proper
”floating” placement oftables, use the environment
lim x = 0 table to enclose the table’s content andthe table
x→∞
caption. The contents of the table itself must go in
(1) the tabular environment, to be aligned properly
Notice how it is formtted somewhat differently in in rows and columns, with the desired horizontal
this displaymath environment.Now,we’ll enter an and vertical rules. Again, detailed instructions on

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tabular material found in the LATEXUser’s Guide. This uses the theorem environment, created by
the newtheorem command:
Immediately followinf this sentence is the point
at which Table 1 is included in the input file;
comparethe placement of the table here with the Theorem 1 Let f be continous on [a,b]. If G is
table in the printddvi output of this document. an antiderative for f on [a,b], then
Table 1: Frequency of Special Characters
Non-Eng or Math Frequency Comments
Z b

φ 1 in 1,000 For Swedish Names f (t)dt = G(b) − G(a).

a
π 1 in 5 Common in math
$ 4 in 5 Used in business
ψ i in 40,000 Unexplained usage
Figure 1: A sample graphics (.eps format).
To set a wider table, which takes up the whole The other uses the definition environment,
width of the pages’s live area, use the enironment created by the newdef command :
table* to enclose the table’s contents and the
table caption. As with a single-column table, this Definition 1. If z is irrational, ten by ez we mean
widetable will ”float” to a location deemed more the unique number which has logarithm z:
desirable.Immediately following this sentence isthe
point at which Table 2 is included in the input file logez = z
; again, it is instructive to compare the placement
of the table here with the table in the printed dvi
output of the document.
Table 2: Some Typical Commands
Command A Number Comments
alignauthor 100 Author Alignment
2.5 Figures numberof author 200 Author Enumeration
Like tables, figures cannot be split across [ages; table 300 For tables
the best placement for then is typically the top or table* 400 For wider tables
the bottom of the page nearst their initial cite. To There is naother similar construct environment,
ensure this proper ”floating” placement of figures, which is already set up for you; i.e. you must not
use the environment figure to enclose the figure use a newdef command to create it: the proof
and caption. environment. Here is a example of its use:
PROOF: Suppose on the contrary ther exists a
real number L such that
This sae documents contains an example of Figure
1. to be displayed with LATEX. Here you may use f (x)
any figure of your choice. It would be better if you lim =L
x→∞ g(x)
draw a figure using xfig and convert it ino .eps file.
Then

2.6 Theorem-like Constructs

Ohter common cinstructs thtat may occur your
article are the forms for logical constructs like
theorems,axioms,corollaries and proofs. There
are two forms, one produced by the command
newtheorem and the other by the command
newdf ; perhaps the clearest and easiest way to
distinguish them is to comapre the two in the
output of this sample document: