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Formatting Instructions

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Author 1

Study ID author 1

Author 2

Study ID author 2

Author 3

Study ID author 3

Author 4

Study ID author 4

Abstract

The abstract goes here. Please read this document carefully

before preparing your manuscript.

To ensure that all reports have a uniform appearance corre-

sponding to published papers at the major AI conferences

(like IJCAI and AAAI), authors must adhere to the follow-

ing instructions.

1 Introduction

This document details the requirements necessary to get

your report formatted using L

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crosoft Word, instructions are provided in a different doc-

ument.

All authors must comply with the following:

•Use the provided author kit.

•Prepare your paper by modifying this file

(formatting-instructions-latex.tex) if

using L

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•Adhere to the stated page limitations.

•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.

2 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, Au-

thor, and Author 2015; Power 2015). All references to

be cited should be included in BibTeX format in the file

bibliography.bib.1

3 Using L

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Make sure that the AAAI style file aaai.sty and the bibli-

ography file aaai.bst are in the same folder as your L

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source files.

1Almost 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.

3.1 Paper Size, Margins, and Column Width

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:

•Top margin: .75 inches

•Left margin: .75 inches

•Right margin: .75 inches

•Bottom margin: 1.25 inches

This is ensured by the following commands in the preamble

(assuming you use PDFL

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\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in}

\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}

Column Width and Margins. To ensure maximum read-

ability, 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.

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 bibli-

ography.

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 re-

ducing the size of your graphics or cutting text instead.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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 Mod-

ern or Palatino or some other font as the text or heading type-

face. 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.

4 Tables and Figures

Normally a figure only spans a single column, like in Fig-

ure 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.

A B

1 2

3 4

Figure 2: A figure containing a table.

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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 proceed-

ings/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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