Research paper, you will be discussing an IT-related topic in greater detail by composing a 8-10 page (IEEE) or 15-18 page (APA), single spaced research paper. Like the other papers, some examples are provided for you. You can gather some topics from your classmates or the topics can be suggested by your professor. The primary emphasis is to do research and perform an elaborate discussion, along with sharing your views towards a current or emerging IT-related technology, challenge or platform. The papers must have eight or more references, dated 2012 to 2020. Paper will have an cover page, with an outline, abstract and reference page. Cover page, outline and reference page do not count toward the 8-10pg (IEEE) standard paper or 15-18pg APA standard paper.

SampleIEEE Paper for A4 Page Size

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Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for

authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of

an IEEE conference. The authors must follow the instructions

given in the document for the papers to be published. You can

use this document as both an instruction set and as a template

into which you can type your own text.

Keywords— Put your keywords here, keywords are separated by

comma.

I. INTRODUCTION

This document is a template. An electronic copy can be

downloaded from the conference website. For questions on

paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications

committee as indicated on the conference website.

Information about final paper submission is available from the

conference website.

II. PAGE LAYOUT

An easy way to comply with the conference paper

formatting requirements is to use this document as a template

and simply type your text into it.

A. Page Layout

Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4

which is 210mm (8.27″) wide and 297mm (11.69″) long. The

margins must be set as follows:

• Top = 19mm (0.75″)

• Bottom = 43mm (1.69″)

• Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56″)

Your paper must be in two column format with a space of

4.22mm (0.17″) between columns.

III. PAGE STYLE

All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be

justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified.

A. Text Font of Entire Document

The entire document should be in Times New Roman or

Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types

may be used if needed for special purposes.

Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1.

B. Title and Author Details

Title must be in 24 pt

Regular font.

Author name must be

in 11 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 10 pt Italic.

Email address must be in 9 pt Courier Regular font.

TABLE I

FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS

Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times) Font

Size Regular Bold Italic

8 table caption (in

Small Caps),

figure caption,

reference item

reference item

(partial)

9 author email address

(in Courier),

cell in a table

abstract

body

abstract heading

(also in Bold)

10 level-1 heading (in

Small Caps),

paragraph

level-2 heading,

level-3 heading,

author affiliation

11 author name

24 title

All title and author details must be in single-column format

and must be centered.

Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short

minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”,

“from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.

Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.

Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any

membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior

Member IEEE).

To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the

last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).

Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of

the company and the name of the country where the author is

based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).

Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.

C. Section Headings

No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All

headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must

be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in

Section III-B.

1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small

Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman

numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this

document. The two level-1 headings which must not be

numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”.

2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must be in Italic,

left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic

letter followed by a period. For example, see heading “C.

Section Headings” above.

3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented,

in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a

right parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon.

The body of the level-3 section immediately follows the level-

3 heading in the same paragraph. For example, this paragraph

begins with a level-3 heading.

D. Figures and Tables

Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large

figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table

or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be

positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.

Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on

the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns

because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use

only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen

and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in

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Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which

would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of

an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution

is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure.

Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on

a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on

a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that:

• the colors used in each figure contrast well,

• the image used in each figure is clear,

• all text labels in each figure are legible.

E. Figure Captions

Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure

captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single

line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions

must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers

must be placed after their associated figures, as shown in

Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image

Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable resolution

F. Table Captions

Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman numerals.

Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular font with

Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be capitalized

except for short minor words as listed in Section III-B.

Captions with table numbers must be placed before their

associated tables, as shown in Table 1.

G. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers

Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.

H. Links and Bookmarks

All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be removed

from papers during the processing of papers for publication.

If you need to refer to an Internet email address or URL in

your paper, you must type out the address or URL fully in

Regular font.

I. References

The heading of the References section must not be

numbered. All reference items must be in 8 pt font. Please

use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as

shown in the References section. Number the reference items

consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).

When referring to a reference item, please simply use the

reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or

“Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g.

“Reference [3] shows …”. Multiple references are each

numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3], [4]–[6]).

Examples of reference items of different categories shown

in the References section include:

• example of a book in [1]

• example of a book in a series in [2]

• example of a journal article in [3]

• example of a conference paper in [4]

• example of a patent in [5]

• example of a website in [6]

• example of a web page in [7]

• example of a databook as a manual in [8]

• example of a datasheet in [9]

• example of a master’s thesis in [10]

• example of a technical report in [11]

• example of a standard in [12]

IV. CONCLUSIONS

The version of this template is V2. Most of the formatting

instructions in this document have been compiled by Causal

Productions from the IEEE LaTeX style files. Causal

Productions offers both A4 templates and US Letter templates

for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX templates

depend on the official IEEEtran.cls and IEEEtran.bst files,

whereas the Microsoft Word templates are self-contained.

Causal Productions has used its best efforts to ensure that the

templates have the same appearance.

Causal Productions permits the distribution and revision of

these templates on the condition that Causal Productions is

credited in the revised template as follows: “original version

of this template was provided by courtesy of Causal

Productions (www.causalproductions.com)”.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The heading of the Acknowledgment section and the

References section must not be numbered.

Causal Productions wishes to acknowledge Michael Shell

and other contributors for developing and maintaining the

IEEE LaTeX style files which have been used in the

preparation of this template. To see the list of contributors,

please refer to the top of file IEEETran.cls in the IEEE LaTeX

distribution.

REFERENCES

[1] S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko, Laser Assisted Microtechnology, 2nd ed.,

R. M. Osgood, Jr., Ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

[2] J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series:

Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in

Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.

[3] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin

elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron Device

Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
[4] M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High

resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in

Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
[5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed digital-

to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.

[6] (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee.org/
[7] M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN. [Online]. Available:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-

archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEEtran/

[8] FLEXChip Signal Processor (MC68175/D), Motorola, 1996.

[9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.

[10] A. Karnik, “Performance of TCP congestion control with rate feedback:

TCP/ABR and rate adaptive TCP/IP,” M. Eng. thesis, Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1999.

[11] J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, and D. Towsley, “A stochastic model of TCP
Reno congestion avoidance and control,” Univ. of Massachusetts,

Amherst, MA, CMPSCI Tech. Rep. 99-02, 1999.

[12] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specification, IEEE Std. 802.11, 1997.