The papers presented at ASRU97 will be included in a 6"x9" size bounded volume. The proceedings will be printed by photo-offset from the camera-ready copy you provided. Please adhere to the style specifications given below.

SIZE--each manuscript should be 6 to 8 pages (minimum 6 pages, maximum 8 pages). The text should be printed on normal good bond paper and the length should be 7 3/8 in for the first page and 7 5/8 in for the following pages. The text width should be 4 5/8 in. The top margin should not be less than 1.5 in.

TYPE STYLE--the first line of each Section and Subsection, as well as that of the Abstract should be indented 3/16 in (or 1~pica). All the other lines should be justified (flush left and flush right).The text should be typed single-space in 10pt Times Roman. DO NOT use all capital letters in paper or in section, and subsection titles. Numbering is required for each section and subsection.

ABSTRACT--the abstract should be typed 9pt Times Roman bold, at 0.3 in from both the Author and Affiliation field and the Introduction Section.

TITLES, HEADINGS, AND CAPTIONS

MAIN TITLE--the main title of the paper should be 14ptTimes Roman, all capitals and centered.

AUTHOR NAME(S) AND AFFILIATION(S)--the author name(s) should be 10pt Times Roman bold, initially capitalized. The affiliation should be placed directly under the corresponding name(s).

ABSTRACT TITLE--the word "Abstract" should appear at the beginning of the abstract text, indented, bold.

SECTION HEADINGS--section headings should be 12pt Times Roman bold, numbered, initially capitalized, flush left, one blank line before, one blank line after.

SUBSECTION HEADINGS--subsection headings should be 11pt Times Roman bold, numbered, initially capitalized, flush left.

SUBSUBSECTION HEADINGS--subsubsection headings should be at the same level of the text, boldface 10pt, flush left.

CAPTIONS--captions should be set in 10pt Times Roman and centered beneath the corresponding figure or table. Allow at least 1/2 line space above the caption to the illustration or table and 1 line below the caption to the text.

FIGURES AND TABLES--please position the figures and tables at the appropriate place within the paper. Please make sure that the font size in the figures and tables are legible, no smaller than 9 pt. For a better reproduction quality, you are encouraged to attach glossy prints of images rather than postscript prints from a laser printer. You should carefully paste your photos in the correct position.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS--the Acknowledgment Section should appear after the paper body and before the References Section (or the Appendices), and treated as a regular Section.

APPENDICES--appendices, if any, should be placed right before the References Section and treated as regular Sections.

REFERENCES--the References Section should be the last Section of the paper. In the References Section, please introduce a blank line between items.In the text, the citations should have the form of a bracketed number e.g., [13], or [3,4], and should follow the IEEE citation styles, as illustrated in the sample paper.

Please mark using a pencil at the back of each page of the submitted camera-ready copy, the paper No and the page number.

Sample papers conforming to the above format are given below:

Postscript

Latex style file, LaTex file, AND corrections to original Latex file

The above instructions and sample papers are provided by MMSP97.