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User Manual
ACM MS Word Template
(Windows version)
By Aptara Technology
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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 3
2. Prerequisites and Installation ........................................................................................................... 3
a. Software requirements .................................................................................................................... 3
b. Operating system requirements ....................................................................................................... 3
c. ACM Font set .................................................................................................................................. 3
d. Enabling Macros .............................................................................................................................. 3
3. Document Design and Layout ......................................................................................................... 3
4. Workflow ......................................................................................................................................... 4
5. HOW TO ATTACH A TEMPLATE IN MS-WORD FILE .................................................................... 4
6. STYLES DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................. 6
e. Paragraph style ............................................................................................................................... 6
f. Character style ................................................................................................................................ 6
7. Styling/Markup of All Elements ........................................................................................................ 7
g. How to apply styles on respective elements through ACM Template ............................................... 8
Head Elements ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Body Elements ................................................................................................................................................ 13
Reference Elements........................................................................................................................................ 19
Cross Linking .................................................................................................................................................. 26
Document History ........................................................................................................................................... 27
ACM Templates .............................................................................................................................................. 28
8. Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 31
9. Document History .......................................................................................................................... 32
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1. INTRODUCTION
This user manual provides all essential information about how to prepare a manuscript using the ACM Word-
based template. This manual includes a description of ACM Word template functions, contingencies, alternate
modes of operation, and step-by-step procedures for system access and use. Using the Word template one can write
and generate the manuscript as per ACM’s requirements. The ACM Word template contains all necessary styles with
formatting and macros to validate markup.
Please note that the content used in this document to present the style examples may vary from the ACM original
format. It is created only for demonstration purpose. Please follow the ACM journal or Proceedings guidelines for
specific styles.
2. Prerequisites and Installation
The prerequisites for the templates usage are as follows:
Software requirements
MS-Word 2007, 2010 (recommended),
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2013 and 2016, Word Equation Editor
Operating system requirements
Windows 7, 8.1, 10
ACM Font set
The ACM Font set (provided in “fonts” folder) must be used for all submissions to ACM publications. In order
to ensure that you have all ACM Fonts on your machine, copy all fonts from the "ACM Fonts" folder to the following
path: "C:\Windows\Fonts".
Enabling Macros
When you add the template, a security warning might appear on the screen to enable content. Just click on
'Enable Content'.
3. Document Design and Layout
While preparing your manuscript for ACM submission, consider working in draft mode.
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In draft mode the
file does not appear in the layout that is required for submission. However, once you apply the correct design
template (see the next section for the Workflow), the document will automatically appear in the required layout
design. A draft version of your document will be saved with the name <file_name>_backup.docx.
Although one can make minor layout changes in the final document, for any textual modifications it is
recommended to use the “backup” file copy, rename it as current file and again apply the design layout (as per the
suggested workflow) to get the final output for PDF creation and submission.
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MS Word 2010 screen shots used in this document.
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The sample documents (DOC version) provided (in sample folder) are also in draft mode. In order to view the final output, please
apply the correct design layout on these documents. Their accompanying PDFs are generated in the same way.
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4. Workflow
The following steps should be followed to generate a manuscript:
ACM Template Attachment
Markup of Head/Body/Reference Elements
Cross Linking of Citations
Apply ACM Template and PDF Generation
5. HOW TO ATTACH A TEMPLATE IN MS-WORD FILE
Open your Conference or Journal Paper/Manuscript to attach the ACM template.
Attach the template for the appropriate version of MS-Word as shown below:
Word 2007
Word 2010 and above
Press the windows button from the top of
Ms Word and click 'Word Options'
Press the File tab, click on 'Options' command,
which opens the Word Options dialog box.
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Select Add-Ins in Word Options dialog box.
Click on Manage Drop Down list and Select Templates.
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Click the Go button. The Templates and Add-Ins dialog box appears.
To select the relevant template, click on the Attach button. Word will display the Attach Template dialog
box, which works like the Open dialog box.
Select the template from the respective location where you have downloaded the template from ACM Portal
and click on the Open button.
In Templates and Add-Ins dialog box, click OK. The styles (including macros) stored in the selected
template are now available in your document. (Note: If you get the security warning “Macros have been
disabled”, just click on 'Enable Content').
6. STYLES DESCRIPTION
Styles are predefined text attributes applied to a paragraph or a character. There are assigned
nomenclatures that should make it easier to recognize their intended use. A paragraph style applies to every
character within a paragraph. A character style applies only to specified characters within a paragraph
and
remaining
paragraph retains its underlying paragraph style.
Paragraph style
A paragraph style includes everything that a character style contains, but it also controls all aspects of a
paragraph's appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders. In draft mode, paragraph style
can be viewed on the left-hand side style panel of MS-Word.
Click anywhere in a paragraph to apply the style to the entire paragraph.
Character style
Character styles do not include formatting that affects paragraph characteristics, such as line spacing, text
alignment, indentation, and tab stops.
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Click anywhere in a word to apply the style to the entire word. Or you can select more than one word to
apply the style. We can view character style by selecting the text and using the key combination of Ctrl + shift + s.
Recommendations:
1. To apply any paragraph style, move the cursor to the beginning of the respective element and click on the
required style.
2. Certain elements are color coded (for example, figure captions and table captions) to identify whether
they are correctly tagged in the template.
3. Ctrl+Break can be used to get rid of any processing error that interferes with the styling process of the
document.
7. Styling/Markup of All Elements
Consider working in draft view [Click View menu and select Draft option in "View" ribbon] for your
document so that you can simultaneously see and verify the applied styles for an environment.
A panel will appear on the left-hand side of the Word File. In case it does not appear on the screen even
after applying the draft view, it is likely that the style width area is not defined in the Microsoft Word setting. You
can enable this feature with the following options:
Go to File Tab > Navigate to Options > Advanced > Display > Style area pane width in Draft and Outline
views.
Set the Style Area Width setting to your preferred width (1.0 inch is a good starting value).
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To apply the styles, one needs to use certain tabs, which are defined in the template to markup appropriate
styles for different elements:
How to apply styles on respective elements through ACM Template
This section describes the template menu and its specific functions in the ACM template.
Head Elements
Head Elements is the first menu item of the ACM Word template, which allows you to identify and mark the
front matter of the manuscript. Following are three categories used to mark the front matter:
FRONT PART: This includes all the required elements such as Main Title, Subtitle, Author/Title Note,
Abstract, CCS description, Keyword etc. to markup the front matter of a manuscript.
AUTHOR MARKUP: This includes all the required sub-elements used to identify each part of an author’s
name, such as Prefix, First Name, Surname, etc.
AFFILIATION MARKUP: This includes all the required elements used to identify each part of an author’s
affiliation, such as Organization, Division, City, State, Zip code, Country, etc.
The Head Elements style bar contains various content classification environments. Short description of
each classification environment used in front matter markup is defined as follows:
Doc Title and Subtitle: Paragraph style is used to identify the main title and subtitle of the manuscript. Once
you mark it in the text of the manuscript, it appears with "Title document" and 'Subtitle' styles as shown below:
Authors: A paragraph style is used to identify groups of authors. After applying the 'Authors' style, a
template automatically identifies First Name and Surname and marks the author names accordingly.
Auto-styling of marked up author names is based on some logical patterns. Sometimes the template fails to
identify author names properly. In such cases, the "AUTHOR MARKUP" section can be used to manually mark
author names.
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Manual Author Marking: In the below-mentioned author name, 'Fin' is the 'First Name' and 'Gubbiotti' is
the 'Surname'. In this case, select the text and press the defined button from the 'AUTHOR MARKUP' group to apply
the appropriate style.
Once the author field is marked, select the complete author name and group using the 'Auth group' option.
A dotted border will be generated around the author name.
Note: a) When there are multiple authors with multiple affiliations, each author should be linked to his/her
affiliation.
b) Affiliation linking symbols/variables should be unique and must be set in superscript within the
author group.
c) More than one symbol used for linking affiliations of the same author must have a comma separator
between symbols.
Affiliation: A paragraph style is used to identify the affiliation and address of the author.
Each affiliation is a form of address. Different character styles are used for various elements of the affiliation,
such as 'Organization Name', 'Division Name', 'Address', 'City', 'State', 'Zip Code', 'Country' etc. The "AFFILIATION
MARKUP" section can be used to mark each part of the address.
Affiliation markup: In the following address, 'Computer Science Dept.' is the Organization's
Division/Department and 'University of Nevada Las Vegas' is the University/Institution Name. To apply the style,
select the text and press the appropriate button from 'AFFILIATION MARKUP' section. In the same way, you can
apply the style for City, State, Zip Code, Country and Email.
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Author and Title Notes: Additional information/notes given in the manuscript for the Title or Author should
be marked with a unique symbol. The Author Notes style should be applied to the author note and Title Notes style
should be applied to the title note.
Abstract: Mark the Abstract Head and the Abstract separately
CCS Concept: Mark the CCS (ACM 2012 Computing Classification System) Head and the CCS description
separately.
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Note: To insert the ACM article Word template, copy and paste the formatted text from the CCS tool
(http://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm) using the “view CCS display” link into the “Categories and Subject Descriptors” section:
An additional step is necessary to ensure that the proper CCS terms are added to the Digital Library citation
page:
From the “view CCS TeX Code” listing, click on “Show the XML Only”Highlight and copy the XML code from
the window
If you are using Microsoft Word 2010 or higher you must insert the XML code into your word document’s
properties:
o From your word document, click on “File”, then click on the “Info” tab on the left-hand side panel,
then click “Properties” and select “Show Document Panel”.
o Click within the “Tags” metadata field and paste the XML data.
o Paste the data into the “Comments” metadata field as well.
Keywords: Mark Keyword Head and Keywords separately.
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ORCID: To insert the ORCID value of a particular author, use the following process:
a) Copy OCRID value (e.g. 0000-0001-1234-5678)
b) Select the author name and Press the 'ORCID' button from 'Head Elements'
c) Once the popup appears on your screen, insert the ORCID value.
d) A specific bookmark will be generated with the ORCID number to author.
Note: Although the ORCID value will not appear in the manuscript, it can be cross-verified using the bookmark
utility. It will have a naming convention like ORCID_X. where X denotes sequence number of ORCID.
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Body Elements
The Body Elements style bar contains various content classification environments. A short description of
each classification environment used in the body matter markup is defined below. After clicking the Body Elements
menu, you will get the following window to structure the manuscript using defined styles.
There are different sections such as Section Headings, Paragraphs, Equation, Extract/Quotation, Math
Equations, Table/Figure etc. You can click and apply the desired style on the manuscript and the cursor will
automatically jump to the next environment.
Each environment has its own formatting, which is required in terms of template creation and XML
generation (next stage). For error-free validation and manuscript generation, one needs to mark each and every
part of the content with the appropriate style, which is available in the template and suggested as follows:
Heading 1: A paragraph style is used to mark section head level 1 and style as Head1.
Heading 2: A paragraph style is used to mark section head level 2 and style as Head2.
Heading 3: A paragraph style is used to mark section head level 3 and style as Head3.
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Heading 4: A paragraph style is used mark section head level 4 and style as Head4.
Paragraph and Para Continue: Paragraph of any section head should be marked as 'Para' and its
continuation part, either after Display Math / Quotation / Listing, should be marked as 'Para Continue'
Math: A paragraph style used to mark display numbered math equation with style DisplayFormula.
Note: Please insert one tab space between math equation and number.
Un-Math: A paragraph style is used to mark display unnumbered math with style DisplayFormulaUnnum.
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List Paragraph: A paragraph style is used to mark text with style "List Paragraph".
Note: One can also use the Microsoft Word standard process to generate the listing.
Enunciation: To mark enunciations, e.g. Theorem, Definition, Proposition etc. with style "Statements":
Extract/Quotation: A paragraph style is used to mark text with style "Extract".
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Algorithm: To mark the AlgorithmCaption and Algorithm text (computer code can also be marked using same
style):
Acknowledgments: To mark Acknowledgments, or Ack Head, and the Acknowledgement paragraph style:
Grant Sponsor and Grant Number: A character style to identify and mark Grant Sponsor and Grant
Number
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Ref Head and Reference: Paragraph styles used to mark the bibliography section head and bibliography entry
Appendix Heads: Specific paragraph styles are used to mark the appendix section heading levels, in the same
manner as we did for body section heads
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Table: A paragraph style is used to mark the table caption of a table with style TableCaption.
Note: Select the table heading row(s) and press 'Table Head'. It will apply a grey color to the respective
rows.
Table Note: A paragraph style that is used to identify a table footnote and style it as TableFootnote.
Figure: A paragraph style is used to mark the caption of a figure with style FigureCaption. Position the cursor
on the figure caption, and mark it with the FigureCaption tag.
For graphics, use the style Image. Images are not displayed in "Draft View" mode. To see graphic, you must
switch to "Print View" mode in order to properly tag images. Position the cursor on the figure, and mark it with the
Image tag. Change back to "Draft View" mode, and continue tagging.
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Note: For graphics, use the style Image. Graphics do not appear in draft view mode. To see a graphic, change
to “Print” mode.
Reference Elements
The Reference Elements menu is used to mark each bibliography element such as Authors, Editors, Year,
Article Title, Journal Title, Book Title, Volume, Issue, Publisher, Publisher Location, Edition, Pages, DOI, Proceedings,
Report, Thesis, Patent, ISBN, ISSN etc.
With the help of the above buttons, you can mark the required information with appropriate character style.
Reference Numbering: This is the first step to start the bibliography marking (it should be clicked while
keeping the cursor at the beginning of the reference list). This option is used to generate the reference IDs based on
the reference sequence. When we select the 'Reference Numbering', it generates a start <BIBL> tag at the
beginning of Reference Section and end tag </BIBL> at the end of Reference Section to verify the reference area.
If the end position is OK/verified press 'Yes' otherwise press 'No' to change the position of </BIBL> tag. You
can simply cut the </BIBL> tag and paste it after the last reference.
After pressing 'Yes' it will ask you to 'Choose Reference Type'. Based on your requirement you can select
the options; if it is 'Numbered' write '1'(default value) and for 'Name date' style write '2' and press 'OK'
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Now a start tag '<bib id="bib1">' will be inserted at the beginning of the reference and an end tag '</bib>' at
the end of the reference.
After this function, you can mark all the fields of reference as defined in the following 'REFERENCE
MARKUP' panel. In addition, a short description of all these styles is available below.
Auth Group | Surname | First Name | Mid Name: Character styles works similar to the Front Part author
group to mark the author name. Firstly, one should mark author's First Name, Mid Name and Surname, then select
the complete author name and press 'Auth Group'. A dotted border will be generated around the author name.
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Editor Group | Ed Surname | Ed First Name |Ed Mid Name: Character styles work similar to author group
styles to mark the editor name. Firstly, one should mark editor’s First Name, Mid Name and Surname, then select
the complete editor’s name and press 'Editor Group'. A dotted border will be generated around the editor’s name.
Role | Prefix | Suffix | Degree: These Character styles are also a part of Author Group or Editor Group.
Collab: A character style used to mark the institution or collaboration name that is appearing instead of
author names.
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Year: A character style used to mark the reference publication year.
Article Title: A character style used to mark the reference Article Title.
Journal Title: A character style used to mark the reference Journal Title.
Volume: A character style used to mark the reference Volume number.
Issue: A character style used to mark the reference Issue number.
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Pages: A character style used to mark the reference Page numbers.
Book Title: A character style used to mark the reference Book Title.
Edition: A character style used to mark the Edition of Book in references.
City | State | Country: Character styles used to mark the reference Publisher and conference location.
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Publisher: A character style used to mark the Publisher of book reference.
Proceeding: A character style used to mark the Proceeding/Conference title.
Thesis: A character style used to mark the Thesis/Dissertation title.
Note: Text 'Master/PhD thesis' should be marked as Miscellaneous
Report: A character style used to mark the Report title.
Patent: A character style used to mark the Patent information.
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ISBN: A character style used to mark the ISBN information.
Note: Text 'ISBN' before the ISBN information should be marked as Miscellaneous
DOI: A character style used to mark the DOI information.
Note: Text 'DOI' before the DOI information should be marked as Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous: A character style used to mark the non-specific text.
Article Number: A character style used to mark the Article/Chapter Number.
URL: A character style used to mark the Web Address.
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Cross Linking
The Cross-Linking menu is used to hyperlink all float elements (figures, tables), bibliography, equations, funding data etc. with
their citations. Under the Cross Linking menu there are three different sub-sections:
Body elements
Bibliography
Fundref data
Body elements
It helps in marking all float, equations, sections citations automatically based on defined patterns.
Bibliography
It helps in marking all bibliography citations automatically based on defined patterns.
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Fundref data
It helps in marking all funding sponsor information with its specific number. For this purpose, click on
'Fundref data', a Funding Linking window will appear on screen. Grant sponsors list will show in this window.
You just need to select the Grant sponsor against selected Grant number to crosslink the funding data.
Manual Cross-Linking
In case the cross-linking does not work as per the requirement, MS Word cross-references feature can be
used to hyperlink referenced text, including footnotes, table footnotes, figures, sections etc.
You can also follow the below link to create manual cross-linking:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-or-delete-bookmarks-f68d781f-0150-4583-a90e-a4009d99c2a0
Example of Bookmarks:
ELEMENT
Bookmark name
Table
tb[table number] e.g. tb1
Figure
fig[figure number] e.g. fig1
Equation
eq[equation number] e.g. eq1
Document History
Document history identifies all the required elements used to represent the milestones of a manuscript, such
as Received Date, Revised Date, and Accepted Date.
History: A paragraph style that is used to apply on history information. Authors may also include additional details
through apply character styles on three publication dates (Received, Revised, and Accepted).
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ACM Templates
This menu is used to validate the manuscript, apply the respective template layout, and to save the files as
PDFs.
Manuscript Validation: This menu validates the manuscript based on the rules defined in the template to
create a correct layout. When you click on Manuscript Validation button, error alerts or warnings will appear on
the screen based on pre-defined rules.
Define Template Style: All ACM templates are defined/attached under this section. After successfully
validating the manuscript, you can generate the final layout of the document as per the respective
journal/proceeding requirement after selecting one of the following options:
Metadata (Bibstrip generation and Copyright text display)
You can add the required metadata for generating Bibstrip as well as adding the copyright text for the paper
as shown in the below screenshot. This information is provided by ACM’s rights management system. After you have
chosen the required template from the provided template list, a form will appear on the screen, where the required
information will need to be provided. Please note this metadata information differs for journals and proceeding
papers.
Journal Metadata
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Note: Write the journal name code in 'Journal Name' field. Journal Title, ISSN and price will be filled
automatically. You need to fill other information and select the correct Copyright Statement option from the
dropdown list. ACM’s Journal code list can be found on ACM’s website.
Proceeding Metadata
Once the metadata is submitted, the system will autogenerate the ACM reference format and permission
block text in the paper. If you have manually inserted the ACM reference format in the file, it needs to be verified
and removed from the manuscript to avoid repetition.
NOTE: All the metadata fields should be filled (blank fields are not allowed). If the user does not have any
field value to place in the metadata form, then he/she should fill a dummy value for that specific field. Some of the
specific data fields are:
1:- ISBN value contains a combination of the ISBN, year (numeric 2 digit, e.g. 18 for 2018) and month
(numeric) data values (e.g. 978-1-4503-0000-0/18/04).
2:-DOI value should be filled, e.g. 10.1145/1234567890.
3: Date value contains month and day, where day may be optional (e.g. Month day or Month).
4: Year and copyright Year value should be in numeric.
iw3c2w3 and iw3c2w3g are two copyright statements that do not include the price value.
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After applying the template option, a layout is created as per the defined styles in templates. You can also
adjust the layout or reduce the image size to set the page layout manually in the Word file before saving to PDF.
Save As PDF: This option is used to convert a Word template layout into a PDF file as per ACM’s
specifications. Before executing this function, you should consider the following guidelines mentioned below:
File --> Save As in Word 2010 to 2016 with PDF as the file type
There is an Options button that displays the dialog
Under PDF options, select "ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)" and press 'OK'
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Now you can save the file as PDF using below option
If you wish to submit an anonymous version of the paper, click on the below-mentioned prompt while
generating the PDF.
PDF will be generated on the same location.
Open the file in Acrobat Reader/Professional and check for embedded fonts by using the shortcut Ctrl + D.
8. Notes
The above-mentioned process demonstrates document preparation for submission to ACM Journals and
Proceedings from scratch.
One can also use the sample documents provided along with the template file as a base to prepare the
manuscript. The sample documents are provided in “Draft” mode and to view them in the final layout format apply
the required template.
Please use the following steps to prepare your document using the sample documents as base:
Use the sample file and paste your data in the required area.
Make sure not to remove any of the applied styles in the existing document.
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If you are adding any new data, please make sure to style it as per the instructions provided in previous
sections. Use of any unrecognized and incorrect styles may affect the font embedding in the final PDF output.
Carry out the steps for Cross-linking, Fundref data, adding Document History (specific to
Journal submission) and finally Manuscript validation and placing the respective
metadata (Bibstrip/copyright text)
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while applying the required template.
The document will now become visible in the final layout format and you can create the
PDF (as per the instructions provided in previous section) for submission.
9. Document History
Serial no.
Version
Date
Changes
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Ver. 1.0
10 Oct 2016
Creation of user manual
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Ver. 2.0
3 Nov. 2016
Modified interface and related screenshots for template.
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Ver. 2.1
11 Nov 2016
Inserted some tips regarding metadata usage.
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Ver. 2.2
03 July 2017
Changed layout and added some screenshots based on the
updated template
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Ver 2.3
06 Feb 2018
Modified metadata form and releted screenshot for template.
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The existing Bibstrip data, copyright text and permission block in the sample file are dummy values, so the user needs to provide the
correct values required for the submission in the metadata dialog box.
