Formatting Instructions for ESCOM 2015 Authors:
Typing a Paper Directly on This Template Would Be Easiest
First Author,*1 Second Author,#2 Third Author*3
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First-Third Dept., First-Third University, Country Name
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Second Dept., Second University, Country Name
1first.author@first-third.ac.uk, 2second.author@second.edu, 3third.author@first-third.edu
ABSTRACT
Congratulations on the acceptance of your submission! We are
looking forward to seeing you this summer in Manchester for ESCOM
2015. It will once again be an exciting conference, and we hope to
make the Proceedings as useful and attractive as possible. For your
paper to be published in the conference proceedings, please use this
document as both an instruction set and as a template into which you
can type your own text. If your paper does not conform to the required
format, you may be asked to fix it. The abstract here may be the short
abstract you submitted for the Abstracts Booklet. It should be in the
form of a single paragraph of no more than 250 words. The abstract
heading uses the “ESCOM Abstract Heading” style, which is 12 point
Times New Roman, Bold, Centred. The body of the abstract uses the
“ESCOM Abstract Body” style, which is 9 point Times New Roman.
There should be no headings, figures, or references in the Abstract
section.
I.
A. Text Font of Entire Document
The entire document should be in Times New Roman or
Times font. Other font types may be used if needed for special
purposes. Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1. The
font size of the main text (paragraph) should be 10pt.
Table 1. Font sizes used in this template. Table caption should be
placed above the table.
Font
Size
9
10
Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)
Regular
author email
address (in
Courier font),
abstract body,
cell in a table,
reference item
paragraph
Bold
abstract heading,
table caption,
figure caption
Italic
reference item
(partial)
level-2 heading
level-3 heading,
author affiliation
INTRODUCTION
This document is a template. The paper needs to be
submitted as a Word file entitled Abstract ID (as in the email
you were sent in February notifying you that your submission
had been accepted), name of first author and short version of the
title (e.g., 267 Phillips Psychological Time) attached to an
email that you must send to escom2015@gmail.com with the
same information in the subject line. The deadline for
submitting your paper is 15 May 2015.
Before submitting the final draft of your paper, please check
that the format conforms to this template. Specifically, check
the appearance of the title and author block, the appearance of
section headings, document margins, column width, column
spacing and other features. Full papers should be between 4 and
10 pages.
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. Your paper must use a page size
corresponding to A4, 210 mm (8.27") wide and 297 mm
(11.69") long, with the following margins:
 Top = 22 mm (0.87")
 Bottom = 25.4 mm (1")
 Left = Right = 14 mm (0.55")
Your paper must be in two-column format with a space of 5
mm (0.2") between columns.
III. PAGE STYLE
All paragraphs must be indented and justified, i.e., both leftand right-justified.
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author name
level-1 heading
(all upper-case)
title
B. Title and Author Details
The paper title is in 14 pt Bold font. Author name is in 11 pt
Regular font. Author affiliation is in 10 pt Italic. Email address
is in 9 pt Courier Regular font.
The paper title and author details must be in single-column
format and centred. There should be no full stop after the title.
Every word in a title should 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 should not show any academic title (e.g., Dr.),
or professional title (e.g., Managing Director). To avoid
confusion, the family name should be written as the last part of
each author name (e.g., John A. K. Smith). Do not split an
author’s name into two lines.
Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of
the institution/company and the name of the country where the
author is based (e.g., Royal Northern College of Music, UK).
The email address is optional for any of the authors.
Separate multiple email addresses with a comma followed by a
space. Do not split an email address into two lines.
C. Section Headings
No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. The words
in the headings should be either capitalized or be in upper-case
only (see below), although short minor words as listed in
Section III-B are exceptions to the former.
1) Level-1 Heading. A level-1 heading must be in 12pt Bold,
upper case only, centred, and numbered using upper-case
Roman numerals (as in the headings of sections I~IV).
“ACKNOWLEDGMENT” and “REFERENCES” are two
exceptional cases and should not be numbered.
2) Level-2 Heading. A level-2 heading must be in 10pt Bold,
left-justified, and ordered using an upper-case alphabetic letter
followed by a full stop. For example, see heading “C. Section
Headings” above.
3) Level-3 Heading. A level-3 heading must be indented, in
10pt Italic and ordered with an Arabic numeral followed by a
right parenthesis. Make sure that the level-3 heading ends with a
full stop. 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 centred in the column. Large
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table or
figure that takes up more than 1 column width should be
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.
Graphics may be in full colour. All colours will be retained
on the CD-ROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use only
SOLID FILL colours which contrast well both on screen and on
a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image that
would not be acceptable, whereas Figure 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 colours used in each figure contrast well;
 the image used in each figure is clear;
 all text labels in each figure are legible.
Label your axes, include units
E. Figure Captions
Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure
captions are in 9 pt font. Captions of a single line (e.g., Figure 2)
should be centred, whereas multi-line captions should be
justified (e.g., Figure 1). Captions with figure numbers have to
be placed after their associated figures, as shown in Fig. 1.
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Label your axes, include units
Figure 1. A sample line graph using colours which contrast well
both on screen and on a black-and-white hard copy. The figure
caption should be placed below the figure.
Figure 2. Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image
Figure 3. Example of an image with acceptable resolution
F. Table Captions
Tables must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Table
captions should be centred and in 9 pt Bold font. Only the first
word in a table caption is capitalized unless the caption consists
of separate phrases (e.g., Table 1 caption). Captions with table
numbers should be placed above their associated tables, as
shown in Table 1.
G. Page Numbers, Headers, and Footers
Please do not use page numbers, headers, or footers.
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 should not be
numbered. All reference items are in 9 pt font. This template
uses APA style for references (American Psychological
Association, 2001). List references in alphabetical order of the
first author, and use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish
different fields (see examples in the References section).
Examples of reference items of different categories are
shown in the following.
 example of a book whose author is also its publisher
(American Psychological Association, 2001)
 example of a chapter in an edited book (Bharucha, 1991)
 example of a music piece from a CD (Chopin, 1988)
 example of a film (Himes & King, 2005)
 example of an article from a web page (Huizenga, 2007)
 example of a book (Huron, 2006)
 example of a journal article (Korenman & Peynirchioglu,
2004)
 example of a doctoral dissertation (Mastropieri, 1996)
 example of a conference paper (Mito & Miyazaki, 1994)
 example of an entire edited book (Parncutt & McPherson,
2002)
 example of a television program (Shears, 1993)
 example of a patent (Sorace, Reinhardt, & Vaughn, 1997)
IV. CONCLUSION
This template was generated by modifying the
ICMPC-ESCOM2012 template, which used templates by
Causal Productions (www.causalproductions.com) and
ICMPC8 provided by Scott Lipscomb.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We thank everybody who has shown interest in Ninth
Triennial Conference of ESCOM 2015 and has submitted an
interesting presentation for our programme. We look forward to
seeing you in Manchester.
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American Psychological Association (2001). The publication manual
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Bharucha, J. J. (1991). Pitch, harmony, and neural nets: A
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Connectionism (pp. 84-99). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chopin, F. (1988). No. 1 g-moll op. 23 [Recorded by K. Zimmerman].
4 Balladen [CD]. Hamburg: Polydor International GmbH.
Himes, A. (Producer), & King, R. (Director). (2005). Voices in
wartime [Documentary film]. United States: Cinema Libre
Studio.
Huizenga, T. (2007, September 16). Maria Callas, the legend who
lived for her art. Retrieved October 7, 2007, from
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Huron, D. (2006). Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of
expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Korenman, L. M., & Peynirchioglu, Z. F. (2004). The role of
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Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30,
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Mastropieri, D. P. (1996). The influence of prenatal experience on
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Mito, H., & Miyazaki, K. (1994). Detection of modified tones in well
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Parncutt, R., & McPherson, G. E. (Eds.) (2002). The science and
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Shears, G. (Executive Producer). (1993). La Boheme [Television
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Sorace, R. E., Reinhardt, V. S., & Vaughn, S. A. (1997). High-speed
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