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THE PAPER TEMPLATE (REPLACE WITH YOUR TITLE)
FirstName LastName1 1, FirstName LastName2 2 & FirstName LastName3 1
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Dept. of This and That, University of PDQ, City, State, Country
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XYZ Corp., City, State, Country
lastname1@updq.edu (email address of first author)
ABSTRACT
This template paper provides instructions on the format for submissions for the CD-ROM and
World Wide Web publication of the proceedings of “From Sound to Sense, Fifty+ Years of
Discoveries in Speech Communication.” The abstract for the paper should be concise but at the
same time useful. It should be a single paragraph, no more than 250 words in length. Replace
the text in this paragraph with your abstract, retaining the word “ABSTRACT” as the heading.
PAGE SETUP (MAIN SECTION HEADINGS ARE IN BOLD CAPITALS – HEADING STYLE 1)
Page Size (Sub-section headings are in bold upper and lower case – Heading Style 2)
The formatting is designed to fit on “letter” sized paper, 8.5 x 11 inches (212 x 275 mm). The
left and right margins are 1 inch (25 mm). The margin at the top is 1.2 inches (30 mm) and at
the bottom is 1.5 inches (37 mm). The total length of contributed papers must not exceed 6
pages, formatted according to these instructions. If you are an invited speaker for the History or
Current Work oral presentations, refer to communications with the Organizing Committee for
your page length information.
Please be sure to spell check the final version of your document before submitting it. Also, note
that a space appears automatically between two headings, as shown above.
Header and footer (Sub-sub-section headings are lower-case italics - Heading Style 3)
The header and footer formats should not be altered in any way. Enter the first author’s last
name into the header. If there is only one author, then delete “et al.” Enter a short running
heading of 5 words or less into the header. The entire header must not take up more than one
line. Do not alter the page numbering in the footer. The numbers will be set by the meeting
staff when the proceedings are assembled.
PARAGRAPH FORMAT
This is a “Normal” style text paragraph. Normal text paragraphs are left and right justified.
There is no need to insert blank lines between paragraphs, headings, etc. The template should
take care of vertical spacing automatically provided that you use the paragraph styles correctly.
The spacing between paragraphs is 11 points.
FONT
All text, headings, captions, etc should be Arial font. If you don’t have Arial then use a similar
proportionally-spaced sans-serif font, such as Helvetica. If you wish to emphasize words then
use italic or underline sparingly. The font size is 11 point for all text, headings, captions, etc
except for the title of the paper, which uses 14 point bold capitals.
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Embedding Phonetic Fonts
If you are using phonetic symbols, use the SIL IPA font, which you can download from
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/ipareadme.html. You must use MS Word and embed the
symbols into your Word document to ensure they are converted correctly. To embed text in your
Word document, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab. Select the
Embed TrueType fonts check box. Save the document.
FILE FORMATS
Authors are requested to submit their paper as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file. Other formats will
only be accepted with the prior agreement of the meeting organizers. If you are uncertain about
the appearance of inserted symbols, figures or equations, please convert your file to PDF format
(using Adobe Acrobat) and send the PDF version along with the .doc file. Each file will be
converted to a secure PDF format for the meeting proceedings after the insertion of page
numbers by the proceedings editors.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
Tables and figures
The overall layout of your paper is your responsibility, not the responsibility of the editors.
Figures and tables should be placed close to the relevant section of text, not at the end of the
document.
Table1. Table captions should appear above the table. They should be justified
and indented equally from each margin by at least .5 inches (12 mm).
Col 1
Col 2
Col 3
Col 4
Col 5
Row 1
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7
10
Row 2
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Row 3
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North
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1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
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Figure 1. The figure caption should be placed below the figure. It should be
justified and indented by at least .5 inches (12 mm) from each margin. Figures
may be in color, but the unnecessary use of color is not recommended.
Equations
Equations should be inserted using the Word equation editor, centered and numbered as in the
following example:
    ( xi ) 2
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Do not insert any additional line feeds either above or below equations. Useful help can be
found at http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/ec/equations/equation.html.
CITATIONS
When citing a reference in the text with two authors, use the form (LastName1 & Lastname2,
2000) and when citing a reference with more than two authors, use the form (LastName1 et al.,
2001). References should be listed in alphabetical order as illustrated in the References section
below, and referred to by name of author and year of publication in the text. References should
include all relevant information in full as in the examples below. Do not abbreviate names of
journals. If the journal is an electronic journal or electronic document available on the web, you
are encouraged to insert a direct link to the reference. If you have any questions about the
information in this template, please contact us at speech50@speech.mit.edu.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgements (if any) should be placed at the end of the text, before the references.
Please acknowledge the major source(s) of funding, relevant ethics committees, and any
individuals or organizations that have contributed to the research described in your paper.
REFERENCES
Author1, A., Author2, M. & Author3, J. (Year of publication) Title of journal paper, with capitals
only on first word, Journal Name in Italics with First letters of Main Words in Capitals,
Volume # also in italics, first-last page.
Author1, A. & Author2, M. (Year of publication) Title of Book in Italics with First Letter of Main
Words in Capitals, City: Publisher.
Author1, J. (Year of publication) Title of chapter in an edited book with capitals only on first
word, In Title of Book in Italics with First Letter of Main Words in Capitals (edited by B. T.
Author and P. S. Coauthor), City: Publisher, first-last page.
Stevens, K. N. & House, A. S. (1963) Perturbation of vowel articulations by consonantal context:
An acoustical study, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 6, 111-128.
Stevens, K. N. (1998) Acoustic Phonetics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Stevens, K. N. (1972) The quantal nature of speech: Evidence from articulatory-acoustic data,
In Human Communication: A Unified View (edited by P. B. Denes & E. E. David, Jr.), New
York: McGraw Hill, 243-255.
Stevens, K. N. (2003). Acoustic and perceptual evidence for universal phonological features.
Proc. XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 33-38.
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