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Title of Research / Poster Project :
Category*
: Secondary School / Other Institutions of Higher Learning /
INTI (Undergraduate / Postgraduate)
Item of Submission
:  Research Paper Only  Poster Only  Research Paper AND Poster
Campus / School / Institution
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NO.
NAME
Course / Stream and
Level Of Study
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*Circle the appropriate category.
**A team can consist of maximum 5 participants.
*** Kindly read the rules and regulations attached.
The registration form should be filled in and sent to inti.5thsbc@gmail.com.
The closing date is on 3rd August 2012.
Note:
Please attach the registration forms (each members’ particulars) and an abstract of your research paper and / or
poster proposal together with this form. (The abstract should be not more than 300 words).
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Name
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H/P No.
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E-mail
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Program
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Team Supervisor / Teacher
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Registration process:
Write an abstract / poster proposal
Submit abstract / poster proposal &
registration – deadline 3/8/12
Pre workshop for Supervisory Teachers
- on 28/7/12
Notification will be given to those teams chosen to
write the full research paper through email.
Submit full research paper – deadline
24/8/12
Announcement of selected research
papers - 10/9/12
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1. It must be in the size of A3 (International Paper Size Standard).
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2. It can either be a printed poster
3. It can be either in full colour or black and white only.
4. Your topic must be an idea in which contributes to the society and falls within the scope of:
a. Business & IT
b. Science
c. Engineering and Technology
d. Art, Humanities and Holistic Development
Guidelines for Paper Writing
Conference Proceedings Author's Guide
Copyright © 1996 - 2010, American Society of Civil Engineers
Preparing Your Submission
The corresponding author for each paper is responsible for sending the following items to your editor
by the deadline set for this project. Material provided will not be returned.
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An electronic version of your paper is required.
Anything else required by your editor.
Submit your materials as directed by your editor and within the deadline. Attention to the following
items will ensure that nothing delays the publication of your paper.
Permissions
Authors/editors are responsible for (1) identifying materials in their work that require permission, (2)
obtaining permission from the copyright owner, and (3) verifying that the owner is properly credited
for granting permission.
A note about Internet sources: Materials published on Web sites are under copyright, including such
popular sources of information and images as Google, Yahoo, and Mapquest. Other sites, such as
Wikipedia, contain some materials that have been copyrighted; please check the fine print. Internet
sources must be credited like any other reference source, and the credit or reference must include the
complete URL and the date you accessed the material.
Approvals
Before submitting a paper, authors must obtain approvals from such interested parties as the authors'
employers, clients, project owners, and government agencies. Once a paper has been uploaded,
reviewed by the author, and officially submitted, it is not possible to edit the document.
Format
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a title; an author byline and affiliation; an abstract; the text with
optional tables, figures, and mathematics; a conclusion; and references. Acknowledgments,
appendixes, and notations are optional.
Length
Length is determined by your editor. The total paper length includes all text, graphics, and
appendices. Suggested length would be no more than 10 pages.
Point size and font
Use 12 point type for text, captions, and author contact information. For type within figures or tables,
the 12 point size is preferred. We recommend selecting a serif text font such as Times Roman. Italics,
bold, and bold italics may be used.
Abstract
Your abstract should be about 300 words long (1 page); it must never exceed one page or contain
artwork. The abstract should present a concise statement of the scope, principal findings, and
conclusions of the paper.
Headers and footers
Do not put any information in the header. The only acceptable content in the footer is a single page
number.
Layout
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All text must be single-spaced.
Page design should be consistent throughout the paper.
Margin settings (see table) must contain all elements of the paper that will be reproduced
(text, figures, tables, captions). Imagine a “box” whose width does not exceed 5.75 in. (14.5
cm) and depth does not exceed 9 in. (22.5 cm).
Short pages are unsightly and waste space; try to “fill” the imaginary box on each page.
Leave at least 1 in. (3 cm) top and bottom margins.
The title of your paper should fall approximately 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) below the standard margin.
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Margins
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Bottom
Left
Right
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Letter (8.5 in. x 11 in.)
1 in.
1 in.
1.375 in.
1.375 in.
A4 (210 mm x 297 mm)
35 mm
35 mm
32.5 mm
32.5 mm
Figures and tables
All graphics (photos, line art, and tables) must be included electronically (embedded) within the
document and fit within the margin settings. If some graphics require scanning, you should have
them scanned yourself and embed them in the document. Please note: for book (print) proceedings
all material must be in black and white.
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Numbering. Illustrations should be numbered consecutively as they are presented (Figure 1,
Figure 2, etc., and Table 1, Table 2, etc.). Each figure should be mentioned or “called out”
before it appears. More than one figure may appear on a page.
Captions and legends. A descriptive caption, including figure number, should be placed
directly below the illustration. A descriptive legend, including table number, should be placed
immediately above the table.
Placement. Figures may be placed in the text or in a “gallery” at the end of the paper. More
than one figure may appear on a page. If figures are placed in the text, we recommend
placement at the top or bottom of a page. Do not wrap text around the figure, even to save
space. Landscape orientation is acceptable.
Shading. Do not use shading, grayscale, or screens in your illustrations, especially as a
background to type.
Style
The paper must be written in best possible technical and grammatical English. Titles should be
concise and should describe the content of the paper. If you have a long title, please consider a Title:
Subtitle format.
System of units
We encourage the use of SI units for conference proceedings papers. For more information about SI
units, visit the Web sites of the U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. or the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) or consult the book, Metric Units in Engineering: Going SI.
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A sample of author contact information is shown in the box below. The following information may
be provided for all authors of the paper: author’s full name; Society membership grade; academic
degrees or honorifics; current employment affiliation; postal and electronic mailing addresses;
telephone and fax numbers.
I. M. Author,1 and C. O. Author2
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Hard Knocks Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research State
University, P.O. Box 98765, City, ST 99999-1111; PH (666) 911-1234; FAX (666) 911-1235; email:imauthor@esu.edu
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Everlasting Company, Mail Stop LC 444, 2233 West 32nd Avenue, Township, ST 88888; PH (999)
777-6666; FAX (999) 777-6667; e-mail: co.author@everco.com
References
All factual material that is not original with the author must be accompanied by a reference to its
source. ASCE prefers the author–date system of referencing. We strongly discourage the use of
superscripts to refer to references, because the numbers often become unreadable when the pages are
reproduced.
The author–date system has two parts, the text citation and the reference list.
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The text citation appears where the material to be cited is presented and it refers readers to a
source in the reference list by the author's last name and the year of publication. Often, the
author and date appear in parentheses; a comma is not placed between them.
The reference list appears at the end of each chapter or gathered in a separate section at the
end of a book. The reference list should be single-spaced and list each reference
alphabetically by the last name of the first author. When two or more references by the same
author are listed, year of publication is taken into account, and the earliest work is listed first.
All sources in the reference list must be cited in text, and all text citations must refer to a source in
the reference list. Additional material that is not cited in the text may be presented in a section or
appendix called "Additional Information" or "Related Material."
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1. Introduction
The details of the references cited in the text, published or unpublished should be located in the List
of References. The list should be placed at the end of the conference paper, a listing of sources
actually cited, compiled either alphabetically (Harvard System) or numerically (Number System).
The style selected must be used consistently throughout the paper.
1.2 Author and Year System
This system is also known as Harvard System.
1.2.1 Citing in the Text
The references cited in the text should be indicated using the name of the author and the date of
publication. Examples are as follow:
(a) If the name of an author is written as part of a sentence, the year published should be written in
parentheses.
“Works by Yao (1993) have shown that in order to maintain the behavioral link between the
offspring and their parents, the use of crossover operator should be avoided.”
(b) If the name of an author is not written as part of a sentence, both the name and year published
should be written in parentheses. “ANN offers useful properties and capabilities such as non-linearity,
input and output mapping, adaptability and fault tolerance among others (Haykin, 1999).”
(c) If there are two authors for a cited reference, both names should be written.
“In designing the model for non-linear system, the parsimonious principle (Soderstrom and Stoica,
1989) is critical because a nonlinear model involves an excessive number of parameters.”
“Syu and Chang (1999) successfully used neural networks to adaptively control Penicillin acylase
fermentation.”
(d) If there are more than three authors for a cited reference, use et al. after the name of the first
author.
“The algorithm can be calculated by applying Gram-Schmidt procedures as described by Korenberg
et al. (1988).”
(e) If more than one reference materials by the same author in a same year are cited, use small letter
alphabets (a, b, c, and so on) to distinguish them. “Some of the basic principles widely used by
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many researchers are Lagrange-Euler
(LE) equations (Uicker, 1965; Bejczy and Paul, 1981),
Newton-Euler (NE) equations (Luh et al., 1980a) and d’Alembert (GD) equations (Lee et al., 1983).”
“Luh et al. (1980b) presented an example of an acceleration control of robot arm/manipulator.”
(f) Cross referencing in not allowed. Only primary sources should be used.
1.2.2 List of References
All references cited should be listed in the List of References at the end of the paper. List the
references alphabetically. If more than one published materials by the same author are cited, these
materials should be listed chronologically. For example, an article by Scholfield published in 1964
should be listed before the one published in 1967.
1.2.3 Writing Style for Authors’ Names in the List of References
Generally authors’ names are listed using surname followed by their initials. The followings are
examples of writing style according to the name of the author:
(i) Single and multiple authors
Example (single author):
Veres, S. M. (1990). Structure Selection of Stochastic Dynamic Systems. New York: Gordon and
Breach Science Publishers.
Example (two or more authors):
Soderstrom, T., and Stoica, P. (1989). System Identification. United Kingdom: Prentice Hall
International Ltd. Luh, J. Y. S., Walker, M. W., and Paul, R. P. (1980b). Resolved-Acceleration
Control of Mechanical Manipulators. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. 25(3): 468-474.
(ii) Editor
Example:
Martin, A. M. (Ed.) (1991). Peat as an Agent in Biological Degradation of Waste. London: Elsevier
Lees, R. H. and Thomas T. R. (Eds.) (1974). Chemical Nomenclature Usage. Chichester: Ellis
Horwood.
(iii) Corporate author/editor
Example:
Engineers Joint Council (1969). Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms. New York:
Engineers Joint Council.
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1.2.4 Writing Style for Various Types
Frequently, different types of publication materials are cited in a conference paper. The style of
writing details on cited publication in the List of References should be as follows:
(i) Book
Author (Year). Title. (Edition). Placed published: Publisher.
Example:
Theusen, G. J. and Fabrycky, W. J. (1984). Engineering Economy. (6th ed.) Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:
Prentice Hall.
(ii) Article in a book
Author of the article (Year). Title of the article. In author or editor of the book. Title of the book.
(page). Place published: Publisher.
Example:
Hussein, S. B., Jamaluddin, H., Mailah, M. and Zalzala, A. M. S. (2000). An Evolutionary Neural
Network Controller for Intelligent Active Force Control. In Parmee, I. C. (Ed.) Evolutionary Design
and Manufacturing (pp. 351 –362). London: Springer-Verlag.
(iii) Journal articles
Print format
Author (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal. Volume (Issue no.), page.
Example:
Billings. S. A. (1980). Identification of Nonlinear Systems: A survey. Proc. IEE, Part D. 127(6),
272-284. Electronic format Author (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal. Volume (Issue
no.), page. Publisher
Example:
Borman, W. C. (1993). Role of Early Supervisory Experience in Supervisor Performance. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 78, 443 – 449. American Psychology Association.
(iv) Conference articles
Author (Year). Title of the article. Name of the conference. Date of the conference. Place, page.
Example:
Sheta, A. F. and De Jong, K. (1996). Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Systems in Noisy
Environments Using Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium
on Intelligent Control. 15-18 September. Dearborn, Michigan: IEEE, 360 - 365.
(v) Thesis
Author (Year). Title of the thesis. Thesis award. Place published.
Example:
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Adnan bin Hassan (2002). On-line
Philosophy, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai.
1.3 Number System
1.3.1 Citing in the Text
All references cited in the text must be assigned numbers using Arabic numeric. The first cited
reference should be assigned with number 1. Subsequent cited references should be given
consecutive numbers. One of the methods below can be used when citing:
(i) If the name of an author is written as part of a sentence, the reference number should be inserted
in parenthesis or square brackets or superscript after the author’s name, for example:
“Genetic algorithm was introduced by Holland (1) and was extensively explored by Goldberg (2).”
OR
“Genetic algorithm was introduced by Holland [1] and was extensively explored by Goldberg [2].”
OR
“Genetic algorithm was introduced by Holland1 and was extensively explored by Goldberg2.”
(ii) If the name of an author is not part of a sentence, the reference number should be inserted in
parenthesis or square brackets or superscript at the appropriate location; for example:
“Recently, evolutionary programming has been applied to various optimization problems (1) and it
offers many advantages such as having global search characteristics.”
OR
“Recently, evolutionary programming has been applied to various optimization problems [1] and it
offers many advantages such as having global search characteristics.”
OR
“Recently, evolutionary programming has been applied to various optimization problems1 and it
offers many advantages such as having global search characteristics.”
1.3.2 Writing Style for Various Types of Publication Materials in the List of References
In the list of references, the numbers assigned to the source of references cited in the text are listed in
incremental order. The style of writing details on cited publication in the List of References is as
follows:
(i) Book
Author. Title of the book. Edition (if not the first). Place published: Publisher. Year
Example:
Theusen, G. J. and Fabrycky, W. J. Engineering Economy. 6th. ed. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: PrenticeHall. 1984
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(ii) Article in a book
Author. Title of the article. In: Author of the book. Title of the book. Place published: Publisher. page;
Year.
Example:
Hussein, S. B., Jamaluddin, H., Mailah, M. and Zalzala, A. M. S. An Evolutionary Neural Network
Controller for Intelligent Active Force Control. In: Parmee, I. C. ed. Evolutionary Design and
Manufacturing. London: Springer-Verlag. 351-362; 2000
(iii) Journal articles
Author. Title of the article. Title of the Journal. Year. Volume (number): page.
Example:
Billings. S. A. Identification of Nonlinear Systems: A Survey. Proc. IEE Part D, 1980. 127(6): 272284.
(iv) Conference articles
Author. Title of the article. Name of the conference. Date of the conference. Place published:
Publisher. Year. page.
Example:
Sheta, A. F. and De Jong, K. Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Systems in Noisy Environments
Using Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent
Control. September 15-18, 1996. Dearborn, Michigan: IEEE. 1996. 360-365.
(v) Thesis
Author. Title of the thesis. Thesis award. Name of Institution; Year
Example:
Adnan bin Hassan. On-line Recognition of Developing Control Chart Patterns. Ph.D. Thesis.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; 2002
1.4 Reference from Internet
Although internet provides a large source of references, the information from internet is not
permanent and is up-dated periodically. Thus these are unreliable sources of reference. Internet
should only be used to retrieve primary sources of reference.
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