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Formatting Instructions
for Authors Using LATEX
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3.1

Abstract

Papers must be formatted to print in two-column format on
8.5 x 11 inch US letter-sized paper. The margins must be
exactly as follows:

The abstract goes here. Please read this document carefully
before preparing your manuscript.
To ensure that all reports have a uniform appearance corresponding to published papers at the major AI conferences
(like IJCAI and AAAI), authors must adhere to the following instructions.

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• Top margin: .75 inches
• Left margin: .75 inches
• Right margin: .75 inches

Introduction

• Bottom margin: 1.25 inches

This document details the requirements necessary to get
your report formatted using LATEX. If you are using Microsoft Word, instructions are provided in a different document.
All authors must comply with the following:

This is ensured by the following commands in the preamble
(assuming you use PDFLATEX to compile the document):
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}

• Use the provided author kit.
• Prepare your paper by modifying this
(formatting-instructions-latex.tex)
using LATEX.
• Adhere to the stated page limitations.

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Column Width and Margins. To ensure maximum readability, your paper must include two columns. Each column
should be 3.3 inches wide (slightly more than 3.25 inches),
with a .375 inch (.952 cm) gutter of white space between
the two columns. The aaai.sty file will automatically create
these columns for you.

• Check every page of your report before submitting it.
• Remember to put your names and study IDs in the
\author{} field, and include your group name in the
\title{} field.

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3.2

Overlength Papers

If your paper is too long, try to shrink the size of
your graphics. Use \centering instead of \begin{center}
in your figure environment. If these two methods don’t
work, you may minimally use the following. For floats
(tables and figures), you may minimally reduce \floatsep,
\textfloatsep, \abovecaptionskip, and \belowcaptionskip.
For mathematical environments, you may minimally reduce
\abovedisplayskip, \belowdisplayskip, and \arraycolsep.
You may also alter the size of your bibliography by inserting
\fontsize{9.5pt}{10.5pt} \selectfont right before the bibliography.
Commands that alter page layout are forbidden. These
include \columnsep, \topmargin, \topskip, \textheight,
\textwidth, \oddsidemargin, and \evensizemargin (this list
is not exhaustive).
The title sec package is not allowed. Before using every
trick you know to make your paper a certain length, try reducing the size of your graphics or cutting text instead.

Bibliography

Your bibliography should be formatted using aaai.bst
as this document. Citations are included like so (Great
2015). Multiple citations appear like this (Author, Author, and Author 2015; Power 2015). All references to
be cited should be included in BibTeX format in the file
bibliography.bib.1

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Paper Size, Margins, and Column Width

Using LATEX to Format Your Paper

Make sure that the AAAI style file aaai.sty and the bibliography file aaai.bst are in the same folder as your LATEX
source files.
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Almost anything ever published can be found in BibTeX
format via Google Scholar, but if using this method, you need
to check the BibTeX entry for sanity before including it in the
bibliography.bib file.

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Figure 1: A figure containing a wide table.

3.3

Type Font and Size

Your paper must be formatted in Times Roman or Nimbus.
We will not accept papers formatted using Computer Modern or Palatino or some other font as the text or heading typeface. Sans serif, when used, should be Courier. Use Symbol
or Lucida or Computer Modern for mathematics only.
Formatting Author Information If the authors (group
members) don’t fit in a single “row”, use \AND to start a
new row:
\author{Author 1 \\ Study ID 1
\AND
Author 2 \\ Study ID 2
\And
Author 3 \\ Study ID 3 \\
}

If the title and author information does not fit in the
area allocated, place \setlength\titlebox{height} after the
\documentclass line where {height} is something like 2.5in.

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Tables and Figures

Normally a figure only spans a single column, like in Figure 2. But it is possible to have figures that span both
columns, like in Figure 1. Wide figures can be helpful for
benchmark tables and for visualisations of big levels. Levels
can be included by taking a screen shot and including the
produced file using \includegraphics.
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Figure 2: A figure containing a table.
LATEX Overflow. LATEX users please beware: LATEX will
sometimes put portions of the figure or table or an equation
in the margin. If this happens, you need to scale the figure or
table down, or reformat the equation. Check your log file!

References
Author, F.; Author, S.; and Author, P. 2015. This is the title
of a conference paper. In This is the title of the proceedings/conference, 1–100.
Great, A. 2015. This is the book title. This is the name of
the publisher.
Power, M. 2015. This is the title of a journal article. This is
the name of the journal 8(1):2–3.

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