MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES

All submissions are done online through: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/apnoms2011

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INITIAL PAPER SUBMISSION

SIMPLE STEPS

There are 3 items in your submission checklist:

1. Make sure you write your paper according to one of the 2 formats below, depending on whether you submit Technical or Innovation paper. Each has a distinct format.
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2. When done writing your paper, register it at JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/apnoms2011) by April 22, 2011. If you do not have an account with JEMS, you have to create one. During registration, take a minute to select APNOMS topics which are closest to the contents of your paper. You are encourage to select several topics when applicable. This will help us to provide good quality reviews to your paper.
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3. Upload PDF file of your manuscript. Regardless of the kind of paper and the software you use to make it, the end result should be in form of a PDF file.

TECHNICAL PAPER FORMAT

Technical papers are indexed by IEEE Xplore which has strict format standards.. It is best if you write your manuscript based on of these style files:

Templates
Microsoft Word (DOC format)	LaTeX (class and bib file)
MS Word File	Linux (.tar.gz)
	Windows (.zip)
	BIB style (.tar.gz)

NOTE: When using LaTeX, make sure you start with \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} which will set the format to IEEE Conference Paper.

NOTE 2: Remember, that you paper cannot exceed 8 double-column pages in the above format.

If you write your paper in MS Word and have no means to convert the file from DOC to PDF, consider using IEEE eXpress service, which takes a variety of formats as input and converts them to PDF.. In fact, accepted papers will have to be validated through this service for successful camera-ready submission.

INNOVATION PAPER FORMAT

Innovation papers are not published in IEEE Xplore and use a simpler format.. Authors should format their manuscript as slide-and-notes presentations. Each page of the manuscript should be split into upper and lower halves, upper half given to a presentation slide and lower half to textual description of the slide. This PPT SAMPLE can be used as example. Remember that PPT files have to be converted to PDF before uploading through JEMS.

Although there is no official page limit to Innovation Papers, one should probably reasonably stay within about 20 pages.

 

Paper Submission:
Both technical and innovation session papers must be submitted online through JEMS at the following URL https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/apnoms2011
Please refer to the APNOMS homepage for detailed paper preparation and submission instructions.

Technical Session:
The APNOMS 2011 proceedings of technical session papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in EI. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers in English, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Submission should be in form of a PDF file up to 8 pages, prepared in accordance with IEEE author guidelines (see Manuscript Guidelines page for details). The copyright of accepted papers will be transferred to IEEE. IEEE will own the copyright of each paper.

Innovation Session:
APNOMS 2011 will include innovation sessions to present and discuss ongoing research, work-in-progress ideas, practical solutions, and experimental studies. Authors are requested to submit PDF documents up to 8 pages long in a special format. The sample file can be obtained at http://www.apnoms.org/apnoms-sample.ppt (see Manuscript Guidelines page for details). Innovation papers will be included in conference proceedings but will NOT be indexed by IEEE Xplore. The copyright of accepted papers will belong to the author(s).The author(s) may transfer the copyright to a journal publisher if the same content or its extended version is submitted separately to a journal.