Formatting Instructions for ICMPC 10 Authors:
Typing a Paper Directly on This Template Would Be Easier
First Author,*1 Second Author,#2 Third Author*3
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ABSTRACT
Congratulations on the acceptance of your submission! We are
looking forward to seeing you this summer in Sapporo for ICMPC10.
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 (CD-ROM), 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 should consist of
approximately 200 words. The abstract heading uses the “ICMPC
Abstract Heading” style, which is 12 point Times New Roman, Bold,
Centered. The body of the abstract uses the “ICMPC Abstract Body”
style, which is 9 point Times New Roman. There should be no
headings, figures, or references in the Abstract section.
I.
INTRODUCTION
This document is a template. An electronic copy can be
downloaded from <http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/icmpc10/>.
The paper needs to be submitted directly to the CD-ROM
publisher, Causal Productions. The instruction for the paper
submission is available on the same website. The deadline for
final paper submission is 15 May 2008.
Before submitting your final paper, 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 at least 4 pages, and
not exceeding 10 pages. Papers under 4 pages will not be
included in the Proceedings.
If you would like to accompany your paper with multimedia
files (e.g., sound/video samples), you can do so with Causal
Productions who will charge Australian dollars $35.00 per
paper (also see III-I.). The author’s multimedia files will be
included as far as space is available.
A fee of Australian dollars $100.00 will apply to each
additional page exceeding the 10-page limit, charged by Causal
Productions. The author’s payment to Causal Productions must
be made by VISA or MASTERCARD.
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, 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm
(11.69") long, with the following margins:
• Top = 22mm (0.87")
• Bottom = 25.4mm (1")
• Left = Right = 14mm (0.55")
Your paper must be in two-column format with a space of
5mm (0.2") between columns.
III. PAGE STYLE
All paragraphs must be indented and justified, i.e., both leftand right-justified.
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
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10
11
12
14
Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)
Regular
author e-mail
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
author name
Level 1 heading
(in uppercase)
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 centered. There should be no period 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 name into 2 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., Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
The E-mail 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 2 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, centered, and numbered using uppercase
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 uppercase alphabetic letter
followed by a period. For example, see heading “C. Section
Headings” above.
Figure 2. Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image
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 period. 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 centered 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 color. All colors 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 colors 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 colors 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 centered, 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 Figure 1.
F. Table Captions
Tables must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Table
captions should be centered 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 e-mail address or URL in your
paper, you must type out the address or URL fully in Regular
font.
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Figure 1. A sample line graph using colors which contrast well
both on screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy. The figure
caption should be placed below the figure.
I. Multimedia Files
The author’s multimedia files will be included in the
CD-ROM in their original format. Each multimedia file will be
made accessible from its associated abstract and full paper by
links and bookmarks.
The author needs to provide a 1-sentence description for
each multimedia file, which will be used for indexing purposes.
The author must send this description together with the
multimedia file, preferably together with the paper submission.
The detailed instruction for how to submit the multimedia files
is available from <http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/icmpc10/>.
J. 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 up 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 integrating two templates:
The original version provided by courtesy of Causal
Productions (www.causalproductions.com) and the version
used for ICMPC8 provided by Scott Lipscomb.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
ICMPC 10 Organizers wish to acknowledge Yuzuru Hiraga
for developing and maintaining the ICMPC 10 Submission
website, which will continue to provide information for the
authors and the audience of ICMPC 10.
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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. Zimerman].
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
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14404970
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
learned musical pieces by absolute pitch possessors. In I. Deliege
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Parncutt, R., & McPherson, G. E. (Eds.) (2002). The science and
psychology of music performance: Creative strategies for
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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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