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Guidelines for Paper Preparation
Name and surname(s) of the first author
Position, Company or institution, Country
Name and surname(s) of the second author
Position, Company or institution, Country
SUMMARY
These guidelines describe the format required for all papers for the 12th Conference on
Transport Engineering (CIT2016) held in Valencia on 7-9 June, 2016. It may also be used
as a template for authors, since it gives all the required criteria.
1. BASIC INFORMATION
1.1 Publishing the Conference Proceedings
The proceedings for CIT2016, which include the full papers, will be only published in
electronic format (with ISBN).
1.2 Sending a paper
The paper will be sent via OCS, as it was done with the abstracts already sent.
All the instructions regarding submission of paper are available on the website:
www.cit2016.es/en/articulos.html
The deadline for us to receive the files is 29 February 2016.
Papers may be written in Spanish or English.
In the event of difficulties or enquiries, please contact to: cit2016@upv.es
2. FORMAT INSTRUCTIONS
2.1 Length of the paper
Papers must be between 3 and 8 pages. This includes everything: the title, abstract, body of
the text, tables, figures and bibliographical references.
2.2 Page size
Each page of a paper must be written inside a 157 mm by 247 mm frame. This Guidelines is
already formatted to those dimensions. The margins are: 3 cm left and 2.5 cm for all other
margins.
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2.3 Font
The font for the entire text is 12 point Times New Roman. The only exceptions are: (1) the
paper's title, which is 16 point bold, and (2) the headings, titles of tables and titles of figures,
whose basic size is 12 point, but in bold. Table 1 summarizes the specified fonts.
Text element
Font style
Paper's title
Times New Roman
Headings
Times New Roman
Table titles
Times New Roman
Figure titles
Times New Roman
Text in paragraphs
Times New Roman
Tabla 1 – Summary of font specifications
Font size
16 point
12 point
12 point
12 point
12 point
Appearance
Bold
Bold
Bold
Bold
Not bold
The space between two lines throughout the paper must be 1.2; i.e. 120% of the font size
used.
2.4 Punctuation
Standard punctuation is used, always leaving a single space after each full stop, comma,
colon and semi-colon.
2.5 Parts of the paper
The main parts of a paper are the title and the list of authors, the abstract, the main text, the
acknowledgements (optional) and the references.
2.5.1 Title and list of authors
The title must be centered in the first line of the paper. Use 16 point bold. Write the name of
the main author on the second line. Right the main author's affiliation and country on the
third line. Write the names of the remaining authors on the following lines. Group together
the names of the authors that share the same affiliation data.
2.5.2 Abstract
Abstracts must be concise and clear, define the text and purpose of the paper, describe the
methodology followed and set out the principal results and conclusions.
It is best to avoid equations, abbreviations and references to sentences, figures, tables and
illustrations in the body of the paper or in other documents.
The size of the abstract must allow it to be read right on the first page of the paper. This
abstract does not necessarily need to coincide with the abstract enclosed as the document to
be printed in the Abstracts Book handed out during the conference.
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2.5.3 Main text
The paper's main text needs to be organized into logical sections, with sufficiently
descriptive headings. Figure 1 gives the criteria for numbering and the style of headings for
the various sections.
5. FIRST LEVEL HEADING
5.1 Second level heading
5.1.1 Third level heading
Fig. 1 – Numbering and style for headings
All the paragraphs must be justified. Make the lines of a paragraph single spaced, and the
lines between two paragraphs double spaced. Begin all paragraphs with no tabulation, so
they will start at the left margin.
Start the first paragraph of all first level sections with a single space in relation to the title or
heading for that section.
2.5.4 Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements are optional. Authors use this section to acknowledge the support
received in the course of the study or research, or any other contribution to their work. Use
the acknowledgement section after the paper's main text, as these Guidelines template shows.
2.5.5 References
Use the reference section at the end of these Guidelines as a template.
2.6 Tables
Integrate the tables into the text, in their proper position and numbered consecutively by
order of appearance. Always write the titles of tables under the table, justified to the left,
with the left margin, and in bold, as the example of Table 1 shows. Leave one line of space
between the preceding text and the table, and between the table's title and the text
immediately below it.
2.7 Figures
Figures may be diagrams, photographs, charts or any other illustrative material. In the
electronic file, they must occupy the precise place where they are to appear in the published
paper. Number the figures by the order in which they are referred to in the text. The same
criteria described for the tables applies to the figures, as Figure 1 shows. Likewise, leave a
space before and after the figures with regard to the main text.
2.8 Equations
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Centre equations with their order indicator aligned to the right, as Equation (1) shows.
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  x1    x2
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(1)
Subscripts and superscripts must be clearly positioned and the mathematical symbols
properly aligned. Make sure to make a clear distinction between upper case and lower case
letters. Leave a blank space above and below the equations.
2.9 Metric units
Use only metric units. Certain criteria to take into consideration are:
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Unit symbols do not change in the plural: 3 km, not 3 kms.
Leave a space between a number and its symbol: 4 m, 4 g.
Only use symbols when the units accompany a number (2 mm). Otherwise, write the full
word (the measurements were taken in milimetres).
Time units or angular units are h, min and s.
Unit symbols are not followed by a dot, unless they are at the end of a sentence.
2.10 Footnotes
Do not use footnotes, except for the marks in tables, which are placed below the tables and
are referred to with one or more asterisks: *.
2.11 Citations
To cite a paper published by another author, you may add the citation between quotation
marks as a continuation of the text, providing it is no longer than 20 words. Otherwise, it is
best to put it in a separate paragraph, below the text, between quotation marks and indented
10 mm from the left margin. An example would be:
“xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xx xxxxx xxx xxx xxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxx xxx xx xxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxx xxx xx xxx xx xxxx
xxxx xxxx”
2.12 Appendices
Do not use appendices. Include the full content directly in the paper or cite other publications
that serve as support or give further details in the final list of references.
ACKNOLEDGEMENTS
These Guidelines is based on the “Guidelines for Paper Preparation” for the 2nd International
Symposium on Highway Geometric Design, organized by the Transportation Research
Board (TRB) and Forschungsgesellschaft fur Strassen-und Verkehrswesen (FGSV), held on
14-16 June 2000 in Mainz, Germany.
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REFERENCES
References in a paper's text give the author's first surname and the year the work was
published. Some examples are:
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For one author: “Adams (1948) developed a technique for...” or “... as previously
established (Brown, 1987).”
For two authors: “Charles and Davis (1978) recommended…” or “... as previously
developed (Charles and Davis, 1978).”
To cite one of the works of a single author published in the same year: (Evans, 1985a)
or Evans (1985a).
For one or more references cited together: (Ford, 1987; George, 1986) or Ford (1987),
and George (1986).
Place all the references cited in the text at the end of your paper. It is important for the list
to be very complete, accurate and detailed so anyone interested may find each individual
source cited. The list of references should include only the references cited in the text.
List the references in alphabetical order by the authors' first surname and in descending
chronological order for each author. The surname is written first in upper case, followed by
the name and then the year published between parentheses.
When you add the letters a, b, c, etc. to make a distinction between works by a single author
published in the same year, include them in the list of references in the same order in which
they are cited in the text. For instance, do not read the text on Smith (1976b) before Smith
(1976a).
When an author has several references as a single author and as a co-author, place the single
works before the joint works, although all the works are listed as written by the same author.
List co-authored works by alphabetical order of the second author's name.
Please use the style given below as reference for different types of work:
Book
HOYLE, B.S. and KNOWLES, R.D. (1992). Modern Geography. Belhaven Press, London.
Magazine article
SOLOMON, K.T. (1978). Sand in concrete mixes. Australian Road Research 7(3), pp. 2730.
A chapter by one author in a book published by other authors
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EULER, G.W. (1992). Intelligent vehicle-highway systems. In: J.L. PLINE (ed.) Traffic
Engineering Handbook, 4th edition. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. pp. 448-463.
Conference paper
O’BRIEN, A. (1992). Safety audit for rural intersections. Workshop on Road Safety Audit,
14-16 April 1993, ponencia 6. Monash Transport Group, Clayton, Victoria.
Series
DEMPSEY, B. Climatic Effects of Airport Pavement Systems: State of the Art. Report
DOT-RD-75-196. FHWA. U.S. Department of Transportation, 1976.