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Your abstract should be up to 10 lines.
Please use Times New Roman 11pt; Single Line Spacing and No Spacing before or after.
The text should be justified.
Try to keep the extent of your abstract between 10-12 lines.
Avoid if possible using references and/or figures in the abstract of the paper.
Keywords: Times New Roman 10pt; Single Line; Spacing Before: 12pt, After:6pt; up to 10 words.
The general pattern of the manuscript is following the Maney Online Instructions for Authors that can be found here: http://www.maneyonline.com/ifa/mnt
In more details:
The main headers (Heading 1) must be Times
New Roman 13pt; Bold; Line Spacing: Single;
Spacing Before: 6pt and After: 6pt.
The first paragraph of each section starts with no indent. The next paragraph should have an indent on the first line of 0.7cm. Please leave no space line between the paragraphs.
The main body text should be Times New
Roman 11pt; Justified; Single Space Line.
The affiliation information below should be
Times New Roman 9pt; Line Spacing: Single and indicate all the information as displayed in the example.
1 Institute for Mining and Special Civil Engineering, TU
Bergakademie Freiberg, Fuchsmuehlenweg Str. 9, 09599
Freiberg, Germany
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Institute for Mining and Special Civil Engineering, TU
Bergakademie Freiberg, Fuchsmuehlenweg Str. 9, 09599
Freiberg, Germany
* Corresponding author, email: youremail@institute.com
The paper size should be set to Letter . The margins of the page should be set as indicated below:
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Top: 2.5cm
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Left: 2.5cm
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Bottom: 2cm
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Right: 2.5cm
Use two columns in the page layout and adjust the width of each column to 7.79cm (equal column width) and the spacing between the columns to 1cm.
None of the headers or sub-headers has to be numbered.
The sub-headers (Heading 2) should be
Times New Roman 12pt; Bold; Line Spacing:
Single; Spacing Before: 6pt and After: 6pt.
In the main body text you may indicate your references as stated here in the template. For a single author (author, 2015), for 2-3 authors
(author, author & author, 2015) and for more than
3 authors (author et al ., 2015). If for the same reference you want to address more than 1 source then the reference should be like the following
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Author, Author & Author (Author et al., if more than 3) Short Title of Paper, Not bigger than 50 characters
(author, 2010; author et al ., 2013; author & author, 2015). Concluding the paper please note down all your references following the APA
Citation format.
When you want to insert figures (Fig 1) or diagrams on the paper you should set the width of the figures up to equal to the width of the column (7.79cm). If you need to have a figure in bigger dimensions then you should place it on the top or bottom of the page using a layout of 1 column (Fig.2)
The figures should have resolution of at least
300dpi . Please provide all the files of figures included in your paper separately as well in a .jpg
format. All the figures and diagrams must be bordered with a black colored line with a width of
1.5pt. Spacing for the figure should be Before:
6pt and After: 6pt .
1 Example figure (Source, 2015)
The label of the figures and diagrams should be
Times New Roman 10pt; Bold; Justified; Single
Line Spacing; Spacing After: 12pt; Hanging: By
0,4cm
When you want to insert tables (Table 1) on the paper you should as well set the width of the tables up to equal to the width of the column
(7.79cm) or if you need to have a table in bigger dimensions then you should place it on the top or bottom of the page using a layout of 1 column, similarly with the figures.
The label of the tables should be Times New
Roman 10pt; Bold; Justified; Single Line
Spacing; Spacing Before: 6pt and After: 6pt;
Hanging: By 0,4cm.
Table 1 Example Table (Source, 2015)
Elements
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Others
Percentages (%)
78,0
21,0
1,0
When you want to insert equations use the
Equation tool of Microsoft Word: 𝑑𝜃
∫
1+𝜃 2
= 𝑡𝑎𝑛 −1 𝜃 + 𝐶 (1)
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The main sections of your paper should end up with a Conclusions section where you summarize the main contributions of your paper and introduce a discussion session as well as what can be done further on to continue the research.
Here you may write your statement that recognizes individuals and institutions that contributed to your work or acknowledge financial support of the research.
Boshkov, S. H. and Wright, F. D. 1973. Basic and parametric criteria in the selection, design and development of underground mining systems, SME Mining Engineering
Handbook , SME-AIME, 12.2-12.13.
Hartman, H. L. 1987. Introductory Mining
Engineering, 1 st Edition, John Wiley , New
York.
Laubscher, D. H. 1981. Selection of mass underground mining methods, Design and operation of caving and sublevel stoping mines , SME-AIME, 23-38.
Miller-Tait, L., Pakalnis, R. and Poulin, R. 1995.
UBC mining method selection, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection , Balkerma, Netherlands,
163-168.
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Boshkov, S. H. and Wright, F. D. 1973. Basic and parametric criteria in the selection, design and development of underground mining systems, SME Mining Engineering
Handbook , SME-AIME, 12.2-12.13.
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