1. All papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically.

2. The final paper submission deadline is June 25, 2009.

3. IEEE ICAL 2009 paper is typically limited to six (6) pages in the standard IEEE conference double-column format. IEEE conference two-column format margin settings are as follows:

- Paper Size: Letter size, (8.5x11.0)in or (21.59x27.94)cm

- Top margin: 0.75in or 1.9cm

- Left margin: 0.625in or 1.59cm

- Right margin: 0.625in or 1.59cm

- Bottom margin: 1.0in or 2.54cm

- Text width: 7.25in or 18.41cm

- Text height: 9.25in or 23.5cm

- Column width: 3.5in or 8.89cm

- Column gap: 0.25in or 0.635cm
 

IEEE conference two-column format font size settings:
 

- Font recommendation: Times New Roman or Arial
- Title: 22pt

- Author List: 11pt

- Section Titles: 10pt

- Regular Text: 10pt

- Table/Figure captions: 8pt

- Sub-scripts: 8pt

- Sub-Sub-scripts: 7pt

- Footnotes: 8pt
 

Download paper template in Word or in PDF or in LaTeX.

4. Please make sure that all the fonts (including those in the figures/pictures/tables/equations) are embedded in your paper's PDF file.
 

5. Every accepted paper submission must be accompanied by a one-page Digest PPT. Please prepare one-page Digest PPT, which will be used for the conference Program Digest booklet. Please follow the Digest PPT template strictly.

Download paper digest PPT template here.

6. If you are not sure if you will be able to attend the conference to present your paper in an oral presentation session, you are can choose to have your paper presented in the Poster Session by preparing a Poster PPT of your paper strictly following the Poster PPT templates and submit your Poster PPT file of your paper.

There is no difference when included in the IEEE Explore and when indexed by EI for papers presented in the Poster Sessions and papers presented in Oral Presentation Sessions.

For the Poster PowerPoint files, you have the option to adopt one of the following two templates:

Download the Poster1 PPT template or Poster2 PPT template.

7. By submitting your paper to IEEE ICAL 2009, we assume that the research work reported in the paper manuscript is original and the authors own the intellectual properties of the contents of the paper manuscript. It is the authors' responsibility to make sure that all the IEEE copyright issues are taken care of.

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