Template and Guidelines for Preparing a Paper Submission to
ICRE2015
A. Alpha†* and B. Beta‡
† Department of Alpha, University of Alpha, Alpha Country
‡ Department of Beta, University of Beta, Beta Country
* Corresponding author, email: a.alpha@alphas.org
Abstract: This document serves as a word template and it also provides guidelines on h
ow
to prepare a draft manuscript for submission to the CLAWAR Journal. Please read and use the
instructions.
Keywords: CLAWAR, support technologies, locomotion, navigation, guidelines, manuscript,
submission.
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INTRODUCTION
This document provides guidelines to potential
authors and serves as a template for preparing a
draft paper manuscript for consideration to be
published in the CLAWAR Journal. Please read
the instructions carefully, as this will make the
review process much faster and easier.
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PAGE AND PARAGRAPH SETUP AND
MARGINS
Please format paper A4 with margins, top = bottom
= left = right = 2cm. Use Times New Roman 11pt
font.
Use Times New roman 14pt boldface for the
paper title, and place on centred paragraph with
1cm indentation on left and right.
Use Times New roman 12pt for authors’
names, affiliations, and corresponding authors
email address, and place on centred paragraph with
1cm indentation on left and right.
Use Times New Roman 11pt for abstract and
keywords, and place on justified paragraph with
1cm indentation on left and right. Place 12pt and
24pt paragraph spacings before and after keywords
respectively.
Apart from paper title, authors names and
affiliations, abstract and keywords, which are on
single column, all other parts of the paper should
be in double-column format (8cm each column
width and 1cm space between the columns).
Type text on at-least 12pt line spacing, leftflash first paragraph of a section/sub-section, and
indent first line of second and subsequent
paragraphs by 0.6cm. Justify paragraphs on both
side.
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SECTION AND SUBSECTION HEADINGS
Use uppercase Times New Roman 11pt font for
section heading, place on left 0.7pt hanging
paragraph. Place 12pt paragraph spacing before
and 6pt paragraph spacing after the section
heading. An exception to this is that no paragraph
spacing is needed before Section 1
3.1 Subsection Heading
Use uppercase and lowercase Times New Roman
11pt italic font for subsection heading, place on
left 0.8cm hanging paragraph. Place 12pt
paragraph spacing before the subsection heading.
3.1.1 Sub-subsection heading
Use uppercase and lowercase Times New Roman
11pt font for sub-subsection heading, place on left
1cm hanging paragraph. Place 12pt paragraph
spacing before the sub-subsection heading.
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TABLES
Centre tables and use the paragraph text style for
the inline text of the table. Use Times New Roman
10pt for table caption. Place the caption at top of
the table on centre paragraph with 12pt paragraph
spacing before and 3pt paragraph spacing after the
caption. Please refer to tables as Table 1, Table 2,
etc.
Table 1: Population data from research
Name
John
Linda
Gender
Male
Female
Height (m)
1.72
1.6
Weight (kg)
75
65
Leave a paragraph spacing of 12pt between a
table and text following the table.
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FIGURES
Centre figures and use Times New Roman 10pt for
figure caption. Place the caption at bottom of the
figure on centre paragraph with 3pt paragraph
spacing before and 12pt paragraph spacing after
the caption. Leave 12pt paragraph spacing before
the figure and after the figure caption. Please refer
to figures as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
Figure 1: Humanoid model
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EQUATIONS
Use the equations editor to type in equation and
associated symbols appearing in the text. Place
equation on justified paragraph with number on the
right using right tab.
y t   b0u t   b1u t  1  a1 y t  1
(1)
Leave 6pt paragraph spacing before and after
the equation. Refer to equations as, equation (1),
equation (2), etc.
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REFEREMCES
Cite references like [1]. For multiple citations you
can use concatenated formats, e.g. [1-3]. Separate
individual citations by comma, e.g. [1, 3, 4].
References should be written in the references
section in the order they firstly appear in the
document.
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FOOTNOTES
Although footnotes are not preferred (use inline
parentheses instead), there are cases that you might
need them. An example of using a footnote is
given as this1.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Add any acknowledgements after the conclusions
section. The section title should not be numbered,
and use the heading style, but non-hanging left
paragraph.
APPENDIX A
Include any appendix before references section.
The section title should not be numbered, and use
the heading style, but non-hanging left paragraph.
1
This is an example of a footnote.
REFERENCES
List of references should appear last in the paper.
The section title should not be numbered, and use
the heading style, but non-hanging left paragraph.
Use 0.8cm hanging paragraphs with 3pt spacing
between successive references. Use the following
style formats
[1] Foxtrot FP, Golf G and Hotel H, Title of
journal publication, Journal Title, vol. 1, no.
3 pp. 1-16, 2011.
[2] India I and Juliet J, Title of conference
publication, in Proceedings of the Conference
Title, London, UK, pp. 45-51, 06-08
September 2010.
[3] Kilo K, Book Title, Publisher’s Name,
London, UK, 2010.
[4] Lima L and Mike M, Title of chapter/paper in
book or collection, in Book/Collection Title,
eds. John N, Oscar O and Papa P, Publisher’s
Name, New York, USA, pp. 55-77, 2011.