PHILIPPINE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL.

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2008

A Sample Paper Format for Journals and Proceedings

Rafael P. Saldaña
Editor-in-chief, Philippine Information Technology Journal
Rm. 317, SEC Bldg. A, Ateneo de Manila University
Tel. +63 2 4266125, +63 2 7090907
raffysaldana@gmail.com

ABSTRACT paragraph should be indented .25”. The goal is to have a 9-point

text, as you see here. Please use sans-serif or non-proportional
In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for the fonts only for special purposes, such as distinguishing source
Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) journals and code text. If Times Roman is not available, try the font named
proceedings: Philippine Computing Journal (PCJ), Philippine Computer Modern Roman. On a Macintosh computer, use the
Information Technology Journal (PITJ), and Proceedings of the
font named Times. Right margins should be justified, not
Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC). This template
ragged.
is based on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
guidelines. 3.2 Title and Authors
The Philippine Computing Journal is the official publication of The title (Helvetica 18-point bold), authors' names (Helvetica 12-
the CSP while the Philippine Information Technology Journal is point) and affiliations (Helvetica 10-point) run across the full
a joint publication of the CSP and the Philippine Society of width of the page – one column wide. We also recommend phone
Information Technology Educators (PSITE). The PCSC is an number (Helvetica 10-point) and e-mail address (Helvetica 12-
annual research conference organized by the CSP. point). If only one address is needed, center all address text. For
Keywords two addresses, use two centered tabs, and so on. For more than
three authors, you may have to improvise.6
Guides, instructions, authors’ kit, conference publications,
proceedings, CSP, PSITE, ACM, PCJ, PITJ, PCSC. 3.3 Subsequent Pages
For pages other than the first page, start at the top of the page,
1. INTRODUCTION and continue in double-column format.
The proceedings and journals are the records of conferences and
research papers. The Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP)
aims to give these publications a single, high-quality appearance. Table 1. Table captions should be placed above the table
To do this, we ask that authors follow some simple guidelines
based on the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Year X Y Z
publications. In essence, we request the authors to make their 2005 100 200 300
paper look exactly like this document. The easiest way to do this
is for authors to download a template from [6] (in Microsoft 2006 200 100 200
Word Document format) or [2] (in Latex format), and replace the 2007 300 300 100
content with their material.

2. PAGE SIZE
All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18 x
23.5 cm (7" x 9.25"), centered on the page, beginning 2.54 cm
(1") from the top of the page and ending with 2.54 cm (1") from
the bottom. The right and left margins should be 1.9 cm (.75”).
The text should be in two 8.45 cm (3.33") columns with a .83 cm
(.33") gutter.
3.TYPESET TEXT
3.1Normal or Body Text
Please use a 9-point Times Roman font, or other Roman font
with serifs, as close as possible in appearance to Times Roman in
which these guidelines have been set. Also, the first line of a
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3.4 References and Citations
Footnotes should be Times New Roman 9-point, and justified to
the full width of the column.
Use the standard Communications of the Association of
Computing Machinery format for references – that is, a
numbered list at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by
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If necessary, you may place some address information in a
footnote, or in a named section at the end of your paper.
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first author, and referenced by numbers in brackets [1]. See the 5.3.1.2 Sub-subsections 3
examples of citations at the end of this document The heading for sub-subsections 3 should be in Times New
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Within this template file, use the style Roman 11-point italic with initial letters capitalized.
named references for the text of your citation.The references are
also in 9 pt., but that section (see Section 7) is ragged right.
6 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
For the sake of readers not familiar with highly specialized
References should be published materials accessible to the
terminologies, abbreviations used in the paper should be spelled
public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they are
out at the first instance of usage. For example: Computing
easily accessible (i.e. you can give the address to obtain the
Society of the Philippines (CSP), Philippine Society of
report within your citation) and may be obtained by any reader.
Information Technology Educators (PSITE), Philippine
Proprietary information may not be cited. Private
Computing Journal (PCJ), Proceedings of the Philippine
communications should be acknowledged, not referenced (e.g.,
Computing Science Congress (PCSC) and the Association for
“[Robertson, personal communication]”).

3.5 Page Numbering, Headers and Footers

Do not include headers, footers or page numbers in your
submission. These will be added when the publications are
assembled.

4 FIGURES/CAPTIONS
Place Tables/Figures/Images in text as close to the reference as
possible (see Figure 1). It may extend across both columns to a
maximum width of 17.78 cm (7”).

Captions should be Times New Roman 9-point bold. They

should be numbered (e.g., “Table 1” or “Figure 2”), please note
that the word for Table and Figure are spelled out. Figure
captions should be centered beneath the image or picture, and
Table captions should be centered above the table body.

5 SECTIONS
The heading of a section should be in Times New Roman 12-
point bold in all-capitals flush left with an additional 6-points of
white space above the section head. Sections and subsequent
sub- sections should be numbered and flush left. For a section
head and a subsection head together (such as Section 3 and Figure 1. Insert caption below the figure.
subsection 3.1), use no additional space above the subsection
head.

5.3 Subsections
The heading of subsections should be in Times New Roman 12-
point bold with only the initial letters capitalized. (Note: For
subsections and subsections, a word like the or a is not
capitalized unless it is the first word of the header.)
Computing Machinery (ACM). Authors are advised not to use
abbreviations in the title of their papers.
7 LATEX FORMAT
A sample paper format in Latex is available for download in [2].

5.3.1 Sub-subsections 1 8 OTHER INSTRUCTIONS

The heading for sub-subsections should be in Times New Roman Columns on the last page should be made as close as possible to
11-point italic with initial letters capitalized and 6-points of
equal length.
white space above the sub-subsection head.

5.3.1.1 Sub-subsections 2 9 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The heading for sub-subsections 2 should be in Times New We thank the ACM for the original format which is the main
Roman 11-point italic with initial letters capitalized. source for this paper format.

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http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
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