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AUHTOR NAME
AUTHOR EMAIL
AFFILIATION NAME AND ADDRESS

ACM Subject Categories

  • ACM CATEGORIES

Keywords

  • KEYWORD 1
  • KEYWORD 2

Abstract

The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Abstracts are often presented and read as stand-alone text. Avoid the use of references and abbreviations.

Introduction

This document is a template to submit a paper to Journal of Simulation Engineering (JSimE) (Consortium for True Open Access in Modeling and Simulation, 2017). The use of this template will enable the conversion of your article into the (X)HTML document to publish in JSimE.

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The Title of the paper should be formatted using the Title Font Style. Subtitle is supported and should be formatted using the Subtitle Font Style and placed below the Title.

Each author information should be placed in separate lines and formatted using the AuthorInfo Font Style. The author information line should contain the author’s full name, email address, and affiliation. These fields should be separated using || (two pipe symbols). If an author is affiliated to more than one institution, each institution should be provided separated by ||.

ACM Categories should be provided after the authors information and formatted using the Categories Font Style. The categories should be separated by ||. Please refer to The 2012 ACM Computing Classification System to select the proper terms to classify your work.

Keywords should be provided after the ACM categories and formatted using the Keywords Font Style. Keywords should be separated by ||. Please provide between 3 to 5 keywords.

The Abstract heading should be formatted using the Heading 1 Font Style and the abstract text should be formatted using the Normal Font Style.

The manuscript text should be formatted using the Normal Font Style.

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Equation

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Figure 1. Insert – Equation menu option.

Example of Equation.

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Illustrations

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Figure 2. Insert – Pictures menu option.

Figure 3. Example of a Figure.

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NOTE 2: Cross-references in the Figure’s caption is not supported.

Tables

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Figure 4. Insert – Table menu option.
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Table 2. Example of a Table.

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Code

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IF sd.waitingCustomers.length = 1
THEN SCHEDULE CustomerDeparture( sd) @ (t + sd.serviceDuration())

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Footnotes

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Figure 5. References – Insert Footnotes menu option.

Cross-References

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Figure 6. References – Cross-reference menu option.

Figure 7. Check box Insert as hyperlink.

Citation and Bibliography

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All bibliographic entries should be first registered in the Microsoft Word using the Managed Source feature (see Figure 8).

Figure 8. Manages all bibliography entries

The citations in the manuscript should use the References – Insert Citation menu option (see Figure 9).

Figure 9. References – Insert Citation menu option.

The manuscript author is responsible to identify and solve any citation ambiguity. If the same list of authors, and in the same order, publish more than one paper in the same year, then a lowercase letter should be inserted after the year. For instance, the following two ambiguous entries

Author1, F.N. & Author2, F. N. (2010) Article 1

Author1, F.N. & Author2, F. N. (2010) Article 2

should be changed to

Author1, F.N. & Author2, F. N. (2010a) Article 1

Author1, F.N. & Author2, F. N. (2010b) Article 2

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Figure 10. References – Bibliography menu option.

Acknowledgements

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Footnotes

  1. The Insert Footnote is located at the References menu option in MS Word 2016.[back]

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