1. Text
should be in English, typewritten or printed at a resolution of at least 300
DPI, on one side only of 8.5-inch x 11-inch paper (if A4 paper is used, the text
should be limited to 6.5-inch x 9.5-inch).
2. Text
should be formatted in landscape mode,
in 10-point single-spaced type (preferably in Times Roman font),
in two columns of 4.5-inch width each, with a 0.5-inch margin in
between. This applies to the main body text as well as references and
appendices. The text may be either left-justified or fully justified. Section
and subsection headings may be in 12-point type if desired. A sample page
is available in PDF-format and in MS-Word format. Make sure to examine the sample page before
you format your document.
3. The
title of the paper should be centered across the left column on the first page,
in bold type. Author names and affiliations should appear below the title, also
centered. Authors should include their addresses and email addresses.
4. An
abstract of the paper should be included on the first page. It should be in
10-point type, and less than 150 words in length.
5. A
short biographical sketch, limited to 150-200 words per author, should appear
at the end of the paper (after the references) in 8-point single-spaced
type.
6. Figures
and tables should be numbered and cited in the text, and should have a short
caption below. Each figure should be formatted so that relevant features are
legible and neat.
7. Each
page should be numbered on the back in the format "page x of
y", where "x" is the page number, and "y" is the total
number of pages in the paper.
8. The
conference proceedings page limit for each complete paper is 35 formatted
pages. Special permission has to be granted by the technical program
chair to exceed this limit.
9. References
must be numbered and ordered alphabetically by author name. In the text, they
should be cited by a bracketed number (e.g. [1]). The references should be
numbered and sorted by author names (and chronologically within authors).
Examples:
For a paper in a journal or proceedings:
[1] King, A. B. and Y. M. Smith, "Packet Switching Networks on Cyclic
Graphs", Queueing Journal, vol. 6,
no. 3, 391-404 (1993).
For a paper in a contributed volume:
[2] Boxworth, O. J., "Models of Internet
Malls", in: Electronic Commerce, eds. A. K. Jones and B. Thomas,
North Holland, Amsterdam, 665-668 (1998).
An electronic version of the complete formatted paper
(prepared for printing on 8.5x11 inch paper) has also to be submitted, in (pdf) format.
The
electronic file should be attached to an E-mail, to arrive by August 1, 2009: Due to a tight printing schedule, manuscripts
arriving after August 1, 2009 can’t be included in the proceedings.
Professor
Bezalel Gavish (Administrative assistant)
Cox School of Business
Southern Methodist University
Tel:
Email:
Conference Program Chairman
Instructions to
Latex authors:
If you use Latex, there is no need to use a
style file. All what you should do is to include packages "twocolumn" and "landscape" that are part of
the default Latex distribution. The commands are as follows:
\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{landscape}
Moreover, you may need to "fine
tune" the appearance of its document, by changing by hand the "columnsep", "textheight",
and "textwidth" environment variables. Using
the following values:
\columnsep 12mm
\textheight 159mm
\textwidth 229mm
Led to the correct layout, however you can
change the parameters if needed.