TITLE OF PAPER
Rossini, M.L., Civil Enginnering Ph. D. – HOL - Italy - mlrossini@hol.it
Azevedo, L.P., Civil Enginnering. – LAM - Portugal - lpazevedo@lam.pt
ABSTRACT
The following text intends to provide authors a guideline for drafting papers. The authors are encouraged to
follow these drawing instructions. The word file already contains the text styles needed for paper drafting. These
styles are mentioned in text below between square brackets.
The title of paper should be in Times New Roman 14pt font, bold [Title].
The title of abstract text should be “ABSTRACT”, Times New Roman 12pt font, bold [Title 1].
The paper should contain an abstract of 300-500 words, Times New Roman 10pt font, fully justified
[Normal].
Keywords: congress, guidelines for authors.
INTRODUCTION
The 9th International Technical on Waste organizing committee would appreciate your cooperation in
following the guidelines included in this document. This format is suitable for really close to the final
format of the papers presented at the conference. This document can serve as a Microsoft Word template.
Full papers must be submitted by 10 July, 2015 as word and Adobe PDF™ files. Instructions for the
submission process will be provided on the conference’s website (http://www.jornadasresiduos2015.org). All received manuscripts will be reviewed for format prior to publication. Please name
the file with the name of the conference (9JTIRpaper) followed by an underscore and the first author’s
last name (for example: 9JTIRpaper_surname_name.pdf and 9JTIRpaper_surname_name.docx).
FORMAT
This section discusses your manuscript’s format to assure that the conference proceedings have a
uniform appearance.
GENERAL MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
Papers must be written in English Spanish or Portuguese. Please use A4 page layout. Margins should
be set to 4.0cm on top edge and 3.0cm on all remaining edges of the paper. All pages must be numbered
consecutively at the bottom (footer), using Times New Roman 9pt font.
First Page
Start the manuscript with the paper title centred in capital letters for the first ones and small capital
letters for the remaining ones, using Times New Roman 14pt bold font [Title]. The paper title should be
located directly below the top margin and no more than two lines in length if possible.
The authors’ names should be placed one line below the title, using Times New Roman 10pt font,
[Normal]. Each author's title, affiliation, country and email address are required, different Authors' data
should be separated by one line.
The abstract of the paper (fully justified) and the beginning text should be placed two lines below the
authors’ names. The abstract should be followed by appropriate keywords. [Normal]
Second page
A first-level heading should appear on the top of second page. The main body of the manuscript
should be Times New Roman 10pt font with a line spacing of 1.15. All paragraphs should start with an
indentation of 0.5cm. The text should be fully justified. There should be no hyphenation (cutting words).
The authors are discouraged from highlighting text with the use of bold or underlined fonts. [Normal]
Headings
A maximum number of three levels of headings are recommended.
First-level headings should start in the left margin and must be in bold capital letters, Times New
Roman 12pt font. It should have a spacing of 12pt before and a spacing of 3pt after. [Title 1].
Second-level headings should start in the left margin and must be in bold small capital letters, with
only the first letter of major words capitalized, Times New Roman 12pt font. It should have a spacing of
6pt before and a spacing of 3pt after. [Title 2].
Third-level headings should start in the left margin and must be in bold with only the first letter of
major words capitalized, Times New Roman 11pt font. It should have a spacing of 6pt before and a
spacing of 3pt after. [Title 3]
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Figures and Tables
Figures must be original, computer-generated or drafted, and placed near the text area where they are
discussed. Figures and photographs can be in colour because the proceedings will be distributed on DVD.
They should be numbered consecutively (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc., or Table 1, Table 2, Table 3,
etc.) and pasted directly onto the page. It should have a spacing of 6pt before and no spacing after.
[Figure]. Figures and text may appear on the same page, and a centred caption should appear directly
beneath the figure.
The figure caption should be centred in Times New Roman 9pt font.
It is preferable that figures be mounted in portrait style and figure captions be no longer than two
lines. On figures showing graphs, both axes must be clearly labelled (including units if applicable). Font
sizes within figures that are smaller than 8pt are discouraged. Figure 1 is an example of an acceptable
figure. The figure caption it is centred and it has a spacing of 3pt before and a spacing of 9pt after [Figure
Caption].
If a figure or photograph has been published previously, it will be necessary for the author to obtain
written approval from the original publisher for reprinting.
Figure 1 Illustration of the output potential gradient displays
Tables should be centred and numbered consecutively with a title centred at the top. The first letter of
each major word in the title is capitalized. If possible, the text of tables should be in Times New Roman
9pt font with a spacing of 9pt before and a spacing of 3pt after [Table Caption]. Use the following
example for the format of tables.
Table 1 Operating Speed Profile
Maximum
Minimum
Average
Hypothetical Real Speed
Distance
Speed
[m]
[km/h]
1280
71
190
54
64
Operating Speed
Distance
Speed
[m]
[km/h]
1540
60
1790
41
56
Provide a single line between the previous table and the following text.
Within the text, when a specific table or figure is mentioned, the first letter of the word “Table” or
“Figure” should be capitalized (for example “as can be seen in Figure 1”, “results depicted in Table 1”).
EQUATIONS
All equations and mathematical symbols should appear in italics. Equations should be positioned
around 0.5cm from the left margin, (see Equation 1) and numbered consecutively with the equation
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number in parentheses located along the right margin. Mathematical notation should be defined in the text
directly after it is introduced and be written in italics (also positioned 1.0cm from the left margin, fully
justified if possible). For example,
 1
1

min   MAX :  i  ( w1 d1  w1 d1 ) ,  ( w2 d 2  w2 d 2 ) 
  t2

 t1
(1)
subject to
1  

 ( w1 d1  w1 d1 )   
 t1

(2)
1  

 ( w2 d 2  w2 d 2 )   
 t2

(3)
d1  
(4)

1
(5)

2
d 
...
(6)
d i  
(7)
d 
where:
Θi:
Ω:
ti :
weighted percentage deviation from the target values for the goals
minimax objective function
Target value for goal i
wi , wi :
Numeric constants that can be assigned values to weight the deviational variables
d i , d i :
Deviational variables that represent the amount by which each goal deviates from its
target values
Abbreviations
All acronyms should be defined the first time they appear. Thereafter, use only the acronym and do
not revert to the full name.
References
References should appear together at the end of the paper, listed alphabetically by the last name of the
first author. If two or more references by the same author are listed, the earliest dated work appears first.
References in the text consist of the author(s) name and publication year in parentheses, for example:
Surname1 (2009), Surname1 and Surname2 (2010), Surname1 et al. (2009). If several references are cited
collectively, they are enclosed in parentheses with no additional parentheses around dates, and separated
by semicolons (SurnameA, 2002; SurnameB et al., 2008; SurnameC, 2008; SurnameD1 and SurnameD2,
2012). All references listed should be cited in the text. Example reference citations are provided at the end
of this paper. References should be listed in alphabetical order and separated with blank lines between
individual entries. References should not be in superscript.
Clearances and Copyright Material
Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to profile the project or subject matter in
their papers from any and all clients, owners or others who contracted for the work.
If a figure, table or photograph was previously published, the author must obtain written approval
from the original publisher before it can be reprinted in the conference proceedings.
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The conference organizers assume that you have obtained the proper permission(s) as applicable. The
conference organizers assume no liability for failure by the authors to gain proper permissions.
The source of previously published material should be included in the caption of the table, figure or
photograph.
Commercialism
All commercialism must be avoided.
CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions must be clearly stated in a separate section appearing at the end of the paper.
Acknowledgements, if any, follow the conclusions as a separate section. All manuscripts should be
checked carefully before forwarding. Manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines may be returned to
the authors for revision. [Normal].
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The local arrangements committee would like to thank all authors for their contribution to the quality
of the conference. We look forward to your full paper. [Normal]
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Surname A, N., Surname B, N. and Surname C, N. (2011). “Title of paper”. Proceedings of
Conference…. Rome, Italy.
Surname A, N., Surname B, N., Surname C, N. and Surname D, N. (2014). “Title of paper”, Name of
Journal n., pp.-pp.
Surname A, N., Surname B, N. and Surname C, N. “Title of paper”, Name of Report, Name of Editor,
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Surname A, N. and Surname B, N. (2013). “Title of paper”, Name of Journal, n., pp.-pp.
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