ICER 2009: formatting requirements

All submissions are required to conform to the ACM SIGCSE formatting requirements, as described below. Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG Proceedings website. LaTeX users should use option #2 (tighter alternate style).

Title:  The title should be centered, Arial or Helvetica, bold, 18 point, and Initial Letters Capitalized Like This.

Author information:  The author's name(s) should be centered using Arial or Helvetica 12 point. The affiliation and address should be Arial or Helvetica 10 point, and email should be Arial or Helvetica 12 point. Two or more authors may be listed side by side. If co-authors are at the same institution and share most information, you may choose to use only one address. Please see the templates for examples.

Paper size:  You should format your submission for 8.5 x11-inch (US Letter) paper.

Margins:  Top and bottom margins should be 1 inch, left and right margins should be 0.75 inch. This is for every page including the first.

Columns:  Text should be presented in two columns each 3.33 inches wide. There should be a 0.33 inch space between the columns.

Section heads:  Section heads are flush left, Times Roman, bold, 12 point, ALL CAPITALS, and numbered starting at 1. There should be an additional 6 points of white space above the section head.

Subsection heads:  If your paper has subsections, they are flush left, Times Roman, bold, 12 point, and subnumbered (for example, 1.1). Initial letters of the subsection heading should be capitalized. There should be an additional 6 points of white space above the subsection head unless it immediately follows a section head. (Please see the templates for examples.)

Subsubsections:  If your paper has subsubsections, they are flush left, Times Roman, italics, 11-point, with initial letters capitalized, and subnumbered (for example, 1.1.2 or 1.2.3.4). There should be an additional 6 points of white space above the subsubsection heading, unless it immediately follows a subsection heading.

Text: All text including abstract should be single spaced, full justification, Times Roman, and 9 point.

References:  Use the standard Communications of the ACM format for references. That is, references should be a numbered list at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by first author, and referenced by numbers in square brackets, like this [1]. Use commas for multiple citations, like this [3,4].  The reference section has a regular section head (ie numbered, ALL CAPITALS, Times Roman, bold, 12 point), and the references are 9 point Times Roman but not right justified.

Copyright Space:  1.5" of blank space at the bottom of the left column of the first page must be left for the copyright notice.  (A placeholder copyright notice with the number X-XXXXX-XX-X/XX/X is also acceptable.)

Required Sections:  The following unnumbered sections are required at the beginning of the document in the following order:

Other:  Do NOT use page numbers or headers/footers. Separate successive paragraphs with a blank line.


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