114pt Arial for Title(centered)

For Preparation of Manuscript― Format of a Camera-Ready Manuscript ―10pt Arial for Author(s) (centered)
Mitsutoshi JIKEI* and Kazuya MATSUMOTO*(centered)
9pt Times New Roman(Following Roman) for Affiliation(s) (centered)* Department of Materials Science, Applied Chemistry Course, Graduate School of Engineering Science,
Akita University, Akita 010-8502, Japanjikei@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp 9pt Roman for E-mail address, italic, underline (centered)
All manuscripts must be produced clearly on good quality plain white sheets of A4-size (210mm x297mm) or letter size (8 1/2”x11”), and accurately within the dimensions as shown on these pages.
Manuscripts should be submitted as a pdf file in its camera-ready form with no photographic reduction/Title(centered)uthor(centered)enlargement. Authors are asked to read these instructions carefully for quick acceptance of your manuscript tothe proceedings by editorial board.
9pt Roman for abstract
9pt Roman for Keywords
Keywords: Camera-ready form, Writing style of the proceedings

10pt Arial Bold for First-order

Title(centered)
1 headings
INTRODUCTION

qualifications, should include first and middle (if any) nameuthor(centered)initial, and surname. It should be written centered, in 10pt size
Arial face letter, one and half line (18pt) below the title.
This document provides some instructions for
authors of theuthor(centered)
2.3.3 Affiliation(s): Author's affiliation should be written
manuscripts to be included in the Proceedings Volume of thecentered, in 9pt size Times New Roman with one line (11pt)
Eighth International Conference on Materials Engineering forspace below the list of authors.
Resources 2017 in Akita. Authors are kindly requested to follow
2.3.4 E-mail Address: E-mail address of authors should be
the instructions given below in order to publish qualified
centered, in 9pt size italic with underline.
bonding volumes with the uniform layout and style. Each page
Title(centered)
2.3.5 Abstract:
The abstract has to be composed of no more thanmust be typed on white paper sheets of A4 size (210mm x200words.
Setup
additional 15mm left and right margins so the297mm) or letter size (8 1/2’’ x 11’’). The manuscript
should beTitle(centered)abstract width is 140mm. The abstract should be typed in 9pt size
prepared with electronic text processing system. Publisher
letter with two-line space below the E-mail address.
recommends the use of the Microsoft Word, or some other word
2.3.6 Keywords: Write Keywords no more than five. The 12pt
processing software to produce fine quality manuscript. It is
space should separate the keywords line from the abstract. This
important to ensure the quality of language presentation of yourline should be written left aligned to the margin of abstract andpaper.
must begin with words ‘Keywords:’ written in the bold normal
9pt size letter. Keywords should be written in 9pt size letter.

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FOR A CAMERA-READY MANUSCRIPT

9pt Roman Bold for Second-order
2.1 Arrangement
headings
The contents of a paper
should be arranged as follows:
Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), E-mail address, Abstract,
Keywords, Main body of paper, Acknowledgments (if any),
References (if any) and Appendices (if any). The typeface fonts
recommended for the manuscript are Times New Roman andArial, only.
2.2 Typed area and margins
The printing area is 170mm x 241mm of A4 sheet. Each pageshould have 20mm top and 20mm left margins. Main text is
separated into two columns with 8mm space between them. The
list of margins is shown in Table 1. For letter size, bottom margin
should be set in 18mm.
9pt Roman Bold Italic for Third-order headings
2.3 Layout and Fonts
2.3.1 Title: The first line of title is located 3rd line from the topof printing box. This space is reserved for Editorial Headings.
Please do not write anything at that place. The title of the paper
should be written centered, single space, in 14pt size Arial faceletters. The title must not exceed three lines.
2.3.2 Author(s): The author's name, without degrees or

2.4 Main Text
The paper should be typed using 9pt size letter with single
spacing between text lines. New paragraphs are to be indented
6mm from the left-hand margin, with no extra space between
paragraphs.
The citation of figure(s), photograph(s), reference(s) andequation(s) have to be abbreviated as Fig.i; Photo i; Ref. [i];Eq.(i) or, in plural form, as Figs i, j; Photos i, j; Refs [i, j]; Eqs(i, j)-where i, j stand for a numbers. Above phrases are typed infull word when they appear as the first word of sentence. Citationof table(s) is always written in full word -Table i, and Tables i, j.
Please be consistent in the use of capital letters, abbreviations
and punctuation.
2.4.1 Headings: Do not use more than three level depths ofheadings.
First-order headings: these are typed in bold normal 10pt size
upper-case letter of Arial. One line of space is inserted before
and after each the heading. They are typed left aligned.
Second-order headings: these are typed left aligned, innormal 10pt size of Times New Roman. Put one line of space
before them.
Third-order headings: typeset in 9pt italics, with capital2
initial letters. The text that follows the heading is written in thesame line. There is no additional space before such headings.
2.4.2 Equations: Equations are numbered and written inparentheses. Equation should be left aligned with 6mm indent
from the left margin. Leave a 6pt space above and below toseparate it from the surrounding text. The equation number
should appear at the extreme right of the line. Please payattention that all variable references in text must be written thesame style as in displayed equations.
2.4.3 Tables: Tables must be set as part of the text. All tables
must have a caption centered over the table and should benumbered sequentially and start with ‘Table i:’ (i stands fora number). Leave one line space above and below tables. The
caption of tables should be written in letters of 9pt size.
9pt Roman for Table Caption (centered)
Table 1. Summary of margins for A4 sheet to be used
Item
Margin (mm)(Top marginof the first page(centered)36

Top margin of the subsequent pages

20

Bottom margin36

Left & right margin of main body text

20

Left & right margin of abstract and keywords

35

2.4.4 Figures and Photographs: All figures and photographs
should be numbered sequentially and captioned. The caption
should be written centered below them and start with ‘Figure i:’and Photo i (i stands for a number). Figures andphotographs should be embedded in the document. It should be
avoided to group them at the end of a paper. Instead, the figuresand photographs should be placed as close as possible to their
invocation in text. The caption of figures and photographs
should be written in 9pt size letter.
2.4.5 Acknowledgment(s): It should be typed with normal 9pt
size letter.
2.4.6 References: The references are numbered in the order ofcitation in the text body. They should be given at the end of paperin numerical order. It should be typed with normal 9pt size letter.
The arrangement of reference items is shown below for
examples. Be sure surname first rule applied. For the case ofJapanese journals published not in English, the formal English
title should be written with comment “(in Japanese)”. When
there is no formal English title, their phonetic expression should
be given.

10pt Arial for Reference Heading(centered)
References(centered)[1] Jikei M.; Kakimoto M., “ Hyperbranched polymers: A
promising new class of materials”Prog. Polym. Sci. 26, 12331285 (2001).
[2] Jikei M.; Itoh H.; Yoshida N.; Inai Y.; Hayakawa T.;
Kakimoto M.-A., “ Synthesis of hyperbranched poly(ethernitrile)s by one-step polycondensation of an AB2 monomer”J.
Title(centered)
Polym. Sci.
Part A: Polym. Chem. 47, 5835-5844 (2009).
[3] Jikei M., Suzuki M., Itoh K., Matsumoto K., Saito Y.;
Kawaguchi S. “Synthesis of hyperbranched poly(l-lactide)s by
self-polycondensation of AB2 macromonomers and theirstructural characterization by light scattering measurements”

Macromolecules, 45, 8237-8244 (2012).
[4] Jikei M.; Yamaya T.; Uramoto S.; Matsumoto K.,“ Conductivity enhancement of pedot/pss films by solvent
vapor treatment”Int. J. Soc. Mater. Eng. Resour. 20, 158-162(2014).
[5] Matsumoto K.; Takahashi T.; Ishi S.; Jikei M.,“ Investigation of dispersibility of multi-walled carbon
nanotubes using polysulfones with various structures”Int. J. Soc.
Mater. Eng. Resour. 20, 77-81 (2014).
[6] Jikei M.; Takeyama Y.; Yamadoi Y.; Shinbo N.; MatsumotoK.; Motokawa M.; Ishibashi K.; Yamamoto F., “Synthesis andproperties of poly(l-lactide)-poly(-caprolactone) multiblock
copolymers by the self-polycondensation of diblock
macromonomers”Polym. J. 47, 657-665 (2015).
[7] Matsumoto K.; Nishi K.; Ando K.; Jikei M., “Synthesis andproperties of aromatic polyamide dendrimers with polyhedraloligomeric silsesquioxane cores”Polym. Chem. 6, 4758-4765(2015).
[8] Jikei M.; Nishigaya K.; Matsumoto K., “ Synthesis of
hyperbranched poly(ether nitrile)s as supporting polymers forpalladium nanoparticles”Polym. J., 48, 941-948 (2016).
2.5 Submission of Manuscript
Send a Word-file or PDF-file of your manuscript by E-mailto:

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