PAPER FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS/TEMPLATE FOR 3RD INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
John Author1 and Mary A. Author2
ABSTRACT
These instructions are formatted to resemble a final paper and to ensure uniformity. A
proceedings will be produced from the presented papers. Your abstract should be one paragraph
of no more than 150 words and should contain no artwork or references. The abstract should be a
concise statement of the scope, principal findings, and conclusions of the paper.
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE AND PAPER LENGTH
Your paper should be 8–10 pages when formatted according to the instructions below. The
PEER published proceedings comprising the submitted papers will include only full papers, not
abstract-only submissions or PowerPoint presentations. Please submit a version of your paper
in Microsoft Word and in PDF.
PERMISSIONS
It is the author’s responsibility to obtain any necessary permission from his/her organization or
from any other person or organization for the publication of a paper or any material in it.
Previously published material may be submitted; however, it is the author's responsibility
entirely to obtain permission for us to republish material. By submitting the paper for
publication, authors warrant that all permissions to publishing issues have been resolved and that
appropriate acknowledgments have been incorporated in the work. By submitting the paper for
publication, authors are granting permission to PEER to publish and distribute their paper in
electronic or hard-copy format in-perpetuity. It will not be possible to edit a paper after
submission.
GENERAL FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS
Paper size: 8.5" x 11" (“letter size”)
Length: 8–10 pages, including abstract, all illustrations, references, and appendices.
Font: 12-point Times New Roman for all text, except for footnotes.
Layout: Single spaced, single column; fully justified; do not indent paragraphs or text following
heads.
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Margins: Top and sides: 1", bottom: .75". Illustrations should therefore not extend
beyond the margins.
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Page number: Bottom center of each page, Arabic numbering.
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Heads: Do not have a head at the bottom of a page unless at least 2 lines of text
follow it on the same page.
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Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University; Stanford, CA
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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MAIN HEADS
Main headings should be bold, upper case, centered, with single blank line above and below.
Second-Level Heads
Second-level heads should be bold with title-style capitalization (as here), and should begin at
the left hand margin. A single blank line is required before and after a second-level subheading.
Third-level heads. If a third-level subheading is required, it should be bold with sentence-style
capitalization. Text is “run in,”or follows, the head, as shown here. Use a single blank line
before the head.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION/FOOTNOTE
Place in footnote, as shown on the first page of this template, using 10-point type.
ILLUSTRATIONS
As previously stated, illustrations should fit within the margins. The proceedings will be
published in black and white, so use colors that print with enough distinction; if necessary,
incorporate patterns on line and bar graphs (e.g., alternating dashes and dots, hatch marks, etc.).
Landscape orientation is acceptable.
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Numbering: Number illustrations consecutively, as they are presented: Figure 1,
Table 1, etc. The caption should be boldfaced.
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A reference in text should precede the illustration. Figure captions go below the
figure, table captions above the table.
Fig. 1. Graphic of steps in PBEE (Moehle 2003).
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Table 1. U.S./Japan frame brace schedule.
Story
Brace
(b-2t)/t
1
2
3
4
5
6
6x6x1/2
6x6x1/4
6x6x1/4
5x5x1/4
4x4x3/16
4x4x3/16
10
22
22
18
19.3
19.3
kl/r
(approx.)
57
34
34
49
61
61
MATHEMATICS
Embed mathematics in text. Number equations if they are referred to more than once.
REFERENCES
A list of references should be placed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. (See below.)
Set hanging indent at .25" as below. The examples below are for, respectively, a book, a paper in
a proceedings, a published report, and a journal paper.
Chopra, A. K. 2001. Dynamics of structures: theory and applications to earthquake engineering.
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Fenves, G. L., et al. 2004. An object-oriented software environment for collaborative network
simulation. Proceedings, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Vancouver,
B.C., Canada.
Rodgers, J. E., and Mahin, S. A. 2004. Effects of connection hysteretic degradation on the
seismic behavior of steel moment-resisting frames. PEER Report 2003/13. Pacific
Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Berkeley, Calif.
Takahashi, Y., and Fenves, G. L. 2006. Software framework for distributed experimental–
computational simulation of structural systems. Earthquake Engineering & Structural
Dynamics 35(3):267–291.
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