To help you get started writing your conference paper in the ieee.cls way, here are the required files and a short skeleton file which you can modify to create your own paper. Example files showing the possible combinations of options To give you a quick flavor of the formatting that can be done automatically by ieee.cls by changing only a single line in the paper , see the following examples. Each row of the following table contains examples for a given main-mode of ieee.cls . Each column is the sub-mode. Note that not all combinations are legal.
Examples are present for all the legal combinations.
There are two societies of the IEEE which format their journals differently from the other societies. The IEEE Signal Processing Society centers figure captions instead of making them left-justified. The IEEE Computer Society has a very different format. This is a very good guide for how to use EPS graphics in a LaTeX2e document. The IEEE author's info web page.