SECOND SINO-AMERICAN WORKSHP ON ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING IN HYDROSCIENCE &
ENGINEERING,
November 25-26 , 2006, Beijing, China
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE
SECOND SINO-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL
MODELING IN HYDROSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Sam S.Y. Wang1 and Mustafa S. Altinakar2
ABSTRACT
Typing instructions given below are provided to authors for the preparation of Full-Length
Manuscripts to be included in the Proceedings CD-ROM of the Second Sino-American Workshop
on Advanced Computational Modeling in Hydroscience and Engineering. The Full-Length
Manuscripts submitted by the Authors will be directly converted into PDF documents before being
incorporated in the Proceedings on CD-ROM. It is therefore extremely important for the Authors to
edit their manuscripts following these typing instructions.
An ABSTRACT of 100 to 200 words approximately should be included in the beginning of
the Manuscript.
1.
INTRODUCTION
The Full-Length Manuscript should be written in best possible technical and grammatical English. It
must be prepared and submitted as a Microsoft Word Document file. The total length of the
manuscript, including text, figures, tables, references etc., should be within 10 pages. The total
amount of disk space for each contribution (including manuscript text in PDF format, and the
accompanying multi-media documents) is limited to 3Mb.
The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published on CD-ROM in which the Full-Length
Manuscripts will be reproduced as PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. The authors are
invited to take advantage of various multimedia presentations offered by CD-ROM Proceedings,
modern computers and informatics. They are encouraged to present color illustrations, and photos,
as well as animations of their scientific results. The Microsoft Word document containing the Full
Manuscript, and other accompanying documents (such as animations), if any, should be submitted
electronically as attachment to an email and send to Ms. Tong Yuling, tongyl@iwhr.com. The FullLength Manuscripts should be received on or before September 30, 2006, for inclusion in the
Proceedings.
This document has been typed following the instructions for preparing Full-Length
Manuscripts using Microsoft Word. It can be used as a template by the Authors to prepare their FullLength Manuscript.
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Frederic A.P. Barnard Professor and Director, Center for Computational Hydroscience and Enginering, The University
of Mississippi, MS 38677, USA (wang @ ncche.olemiss.edu)
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Research Professor, , Center for Computational Hydroscience and Enginering, The University of Mississippi, MS
38677, USA (altinakar @ ncche.olemiss.edu)
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2.
TYPING INSTRUCTIONS
The text, figures, and tables must be placed within a rectangular area of 171mm x 244mm (or 6.73”
x 9.61”). Margin settings on your word processor will depend on the paper size type used (A4 or
Letter). The Figure 1 shows the margins settings for “A4” and “Letter” paper types. The text, tables
and illustrations should be arranged in a way to avoid large blank spaces at the end of the pages. The
Authors should not write anything in the header or the footer, and should not number the pages.
Figure 1 Manuscript layout for Letter and A4 type papers.
In order to maintain a uniform appearance for all manuscripts, please use Times New Roman
12 pt. typeface fonts or equivalent. Fonts that are not commonly available on IBM-PC computers
should be avoided as symbols for denoting variables. It is permitted to use bold, italic or bold-italic
typefaces whenever necessary, for example, in order to draw attention to a specific part of the text.
All text must be single spaced. The paragraphs must be fully justified (aligned left and right),
and should not have any spacing before and after. The first paragraph of main sections and
subsections do not have any indentation. The first line of second and subsequent paragraphs must be
indented by 10mm or 0.38”. Do not leave any blank lines between the paragraphs.
2.1
Section Headings
Only two levels of section headings are allowed. Main sections have 1st-level headings whereas
subsections have 2nd-level headings.
First-level section headings are typed with capital letters using Times New Roman 12 pt. bold
typeface fonts. They are numbered sequentially starting from 1. The 1st-level heading is left aligned
with a “hanging” indent of 10mm. A “Left Tab” is placed on the ruler at a distance of 10mm from
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the left boundary of the text area. The section number and the text are separated by a (hidden) “tab”
character. Leave two blank lines before a 1st-level heading. Leave 1 blank line before starting to type
the main-section text.
Second-level section headings are typed using Times New Roman 12 pt. bold typeface fonts.
The first letter of nouns should be typed with capital letters. The 2nd-level section heading number
is preceded by the 1st-level section heading number followed by a dot. Within a main section,
second-level section headings are numbered sequentially, starting from 1. The 2nd-level heading is
also left aligned with a “hanging” indent of 10mm. A “Left Tab” is placed on the ruler at a distance
of 10mm from the left boundary of the text area. The section number and the text are separated by a
(hidden) “tab” character. Leave one blank line before a 2nd-level heading. Leave 1 blank line before
starting to type the subsection text.
If a main section does not have text, the 1st-level heading may be directly followed by a 2ndlevel heading. An example for this situation is given in Sect. 4, where the subsection heading for
Sect. 4.1 follows immediately the main section heading.
It is important to note that the sections “ABSTRACT”, “ACKNOWLEDGMENTS”, and
“REFERENCES” are not numbered.
3.
FIRST PAGE
On the first page skip 6 lines from the top of the typing area. Type the Title of the Paper in bold
capitals using Times New Roman 12 pt. typeface. All lines of the Title should be centered similar to
the title of these instructions. After the last line of the Title, skip two lines and type only the name(s)
of the Author(s) as centered. The title and affiliation of each Author should be given as separate
footnotes designated by numeric superscripts. After the name(s) of Author(s), skip two lines before
typing the ABSTRACT section heading.
Please note that the Page Setup of the document has the “Different First Page” option checked.
This allows defining a special header and footer for the first page. If you are using the present
document as template, you should not tamper with these settings.
4.
SPECAIL FORMATTING ISSUES
4.1
Figures
Illustrations must be directly pasted into the Manuscript using the layout option “In line with text”.
They must be placed as closely as possible to the paragraph in which they are first referenced.
Letterings on illustrations must be legible. Color illustrations and color photos are encouraged for
the Proceedings on CD-ROM. Please note that if the Author(s) uses figures or photographs taken
from references rather than produced by the author(s), it is the Author’s responsibility to obtain a
written permission from the original publisher.
The figure and its caption should be centered. The paragraph settings for the figure caption are
set to “Centered” without any indentation. Leave a blank line between the upper boundary of the
figure and the text. At the bottom of the figure, leave a blank line and type the caption of the figure.
The figure caption is typed using Times New Roman 12 pt. typeface fonts. The caption is composed
of three distinct parts separated by a space: the keyword “Figure”, the figure number, and the figure
title. The Figure 1, which shows the margins settings for “A4” and “Letter” paper types, can be used
as an example. Please note that, regardless of its type (drawing, photo, bitmap, etc), all illustrations
are referenced by the same keyword “Figure”. The figures are numbered sequentially throughout the
entire manuscript. In the text the figures should be cited as “Figure 1”.
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4.2
Tables
The table must be placed as closely as possible to the paragraph in which it is first referenced. The
table and its caption should be centered. The caption should appear at the top of the table. After a
paragraph leave a blank line before typing the table caption. Leave another blank line after the
caption and place the table. Leave also a blank line between the bottom of the table and the
following text.
Table 1 Margin widths for the Extended Abstract.
Paper type
“Letter”-size
“A4”-size
Left Margin
mm
in
22.45
0.884
19.50
0.768
Right Margin
mm
in
22.45
0.884
19.50
0.768
Top Margin
mm
in
22.70
0.894
31.50
1.240
Bottom Margin
mm
in
12.70
0.500
21.50
0.846
The table caption is typed using Times New Roman 12 pt. typeface fonts. It is composed of
three distinct parts separated by a space: the keyword “Table”, the table number, and the table title.
The tables are numbered sequentially throughout the entire manuscript. The paragraph settings for
the table caption are set to “Centered” without any indentation. The Table 1, which lists the left,
right, top, and bottom margins for “A4” and “Letter” size papers, can be used as an example. The
tables should be referred to as “Table 1”.
4.2
Equations
All equations should be typed using Microsoft Equation Editor or an equivalent math typesetting
program. Equations should be centered in the line and sequentially numbered starting from 1. The
equations are numbered sequentially throughout the entire manuscript. The equation numbers should
be written in parenthesis and they must be aligned flush with the right boundary of the typing area.
As an example, please see the computation of right and left margin widths given in eq. 1.
left and right m arg in width 
210mm  171mm
 19.50mm
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(1)
The line containing an equation is set to “Justified” without any indentation. A “Center Tab” is
placed at the center of the line (85.7mm from the left). A “Right Tab” is placed flush with the right
boundary (171mm from the left). Blank lines should separate the equation from the preceding and
following text.
5.
ACCURACY
The Manuscripts should be checked for accuracy prior to submission. The submitted Full-Length
Manuscripts will be peer reviewed before they are accepted for publication in the Proceedings on
CD-ROM.
6.
REFERENCES TO OTHER PAPERS
All references should appear together at the end of the manuscript under the main section heading
“REFERENCES”. References are listed alphabetically by the last name of the first author without
any blank line in between. When there are two or more references by the same author(s), they
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should be listed in chronological order from the earliest to the latest. If several papers of the same
Author from the same year need to be referenced, they can be distinguished by adding a character
suffix to the year of publication, such as (1996a), starting with a and continuing in alphabetic order.
All references must be cited in the text, by the author’s name and the year of publication. The year is
given in parentheses. For example if Chow (1959) and Holly and Preissmann (1977) are cited in the
text, these two references should be listed in the references section as below. Please note that titles
of referenced books and papers are written by capitalizing the words. Only the titles of referenced
papers are put between quotation marks.
Each reference should be written on a separate paragraph, using Times New Roman 12 pt.
typeface fonts. The paragraph should be justified with a “hanging” indent of 10mm.
7.
ACCOMPANYING ANIMATION FILES
The authors are encouraged to submit the animations of their scientific results for inclusion in the
Proceedings on CD-ROM. The animations should be prepared as AVI files and submitted together
with the Full-Length Manuscript. AVI files prepared with “MPEG-4 Video Codec” or “DivX Video
Codec” are preferred; however, other video codec’s may also be used. The Authors should note that
the total amount of disk space for each contribution (including manuscript text in PDF format, and
the accompanying multi-media documents) is limited to 3Mb.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgments should be positioned at the end of the manuscript and before the REFERENCES
section. The section heading for the acknowledgments is not numbered. The acknowledgement text
is typed as a regular text paragraph.
REFERENCES
Chow, V.T. (1959). Open Channel Hydraulics, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York.
Holly, F.M., Jr. and Preissmann, A. (1977). “Accurate Calculation of Transport in Two
Dimensions”, Journal of the Hydraulics Division, ASCE, Vol. 103, No. 11, pp. 1259-1277.