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Abstract
This is a working template for the research paper to be presented at the IOE Graduate Conference. The
template has been typeset in LATEX. You have to replace certain sections of this template by your content
and produce a pdf file as final output. Format for different types of elements that could occur in the paper
are already defined in this template. The authors are to strictly follow the style/formatting as defined in this
template for consistencies in a single paper and across different papers. The contents of the paper appears in
a two column format, with a few exceptions. Your paper should be limited to 8 pages and abstract should not
exceed 300 words. Each of the keywords need to be separated by commas as given in the example below.
Keywords
keyword-1, keyword-2, keyword-3, ...

1. Introduction 2. What is LATEX?

In the past, the papers for IOE Graduate Conference LATEX is a document preparation system for the TEX
were submitted as Microsoft Word document. typesetting program. It offers programmable desktop
Although standard templates were created for the publishing features and extensive facilities for
submission, there used to be a lot of technical automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop
problems in the submitted documents. Only a few publishing, including numbering and
papers seemed to follow proper guidelines. This cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout,
resulted in difficulty in compiling the final conference bibliographies, and much more.
proceeding. To overcome this, the IOE Graduaet
Conference has been using LATEX as the standard and • A family of programs designed to produce
only tool for preparing the manuscript, starting from publication-quality typeset documents.
the year 2015. In word processing softwares like • Particularly good at working with mathematical
Microsoft Word, it is very likely that people create symbols.
unorganized document, whereas in typesetting • WYSIWYM1 rather than WYSIWYG2 .
software environment like LATEX, one has to create a
document in an organized fashion. The history of LaTeX begins with a program called
TEX. In 1978, a computer scientist by the name of
On the other hand, LATEX is being adapted as the
Donald Knuth grew frustrated with the mistakes that
standard tool for producing technical documents by
his publishers made in typesetting his work. He
most of the top class universities and institutions. This
decided to create a typesetting program that everyone
means that if the graduate students do not learn LATEX
could easily use to typeset documents, particularly
at the right time, they will poise some limitations on
those that include formulae, and made it freely
themselves. So, it should be taken as an opportunity
available.
to learn LATEX. A lot of resources for learning LATEX
can be found online. It would take 10–20 hours of Knuth’s product is an immensely powerful program,
learning for getting started with LATEX and would be but one that does focus very much on small details. A
beneficial for life long. 1 What You See Is What You Mean
2 What You See Is What You Get

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mathematician and computer scientist by the name of 5. Sections

Leslie Lamport wrote a variant of TEX called LATEX
that focuses on document structure rather than such Paragraphs within a document can be separated just
details. by leaving one blank line between them.
LATEX supports section headings upto 3 levels via the
3. Getting the LATEX Software following commands:

There are two major standard distributions of LATEX:

• \section{...}
• \subsection{...}
• TeXLive
• \subsubsection{...}
https://www.tug.org/texlive/
• MikTeX
https://miktex.org/ These have been illustrated properly in section 9 of
this example. You can use their starred variants given
These are freely downloadable from the internet. below to suppress section numbering which has been
TeXLive works in all the major PC platforms like demonstrated in the Acknowledgment section.
Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac. Whereas, MikTeX
is for Windows only. When you install these, you also
• \section*{...}
get the TeXWorks editor as your frontend. More than
• \subsection*{...}
a dozen other frontend GUIs are available for LATEX.
• \subsubsection*{...}
Some of these are:

• TeXMaker 6. Typesetting Mathematics

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
• TeXnic Center LATEX has very rich features for typesetting
http://www.texniccenter.org/ mathematics. Please refer to LATEX and AMSmath
manuals or online resources for further information.
Here are a few examples.
4. Template Structure
The formula given in equation 1 can be used to
This LATEX template resides on a folder with the determine the roots of a quadratic equation of the
following files/folder: form:
ax2 + bx + c = 0
example.tex The main LATEX source file of this
document (example.pdf). Working Example on Here, a, b, and c are constants/coefficients and x is a
using the template with some description. variable.

article.tex A minimal alternate of example.tex. Numbered equation:

√
pagenum.tex Contains the code for starting page −b ± b2 − 4ac
x= (1)
number which will be edited during final 2a
compilation.
Equation without a number
IOEGC.cls LATEX class file for managing the styles
√
and formats of the document. Prohibited to edit. −b ± b2 − 4ac
x=
refs.bib File for placing the bibliography data in 2a
BibTeX format.
Graphics Folder for keeping all the final graphics 7. Creating Tables
files (.jpg, .png, etc.) used in the document.
Table 1 is an example of a simple table in LATEX. To
Assets Folder for keeping all the codes/source files create complex tables, please refer to LATEX manuals
(.xls, .xlsx, .m, .doc, .docx, etc.) used to or online resources. Use \begin{table*} to take
generate graphs. up the entire page width. However, the use of tables

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spanning the entire page width is discouraged as it 9.2 Nested Lists

needs extra caution.
Lists can be nested upto three levels in LATEX.
Table 1: No. of papers presented in IOEGC
9.2.1 Numbered Nested List
SN Year No. of papers
1 2013 42 Here is a nested numbered list:
2 2014 79
3 2015 46 1. Fruits
4 2016 49
(a) Apple
5 2017 83
Total 299 (b) Orange
2. Vegetables
8. Placing Figures (a) Spinach
(b) Carrot
One can generate technical graphs or diagrams from
LATEX also, but this requires another level of expertise.
9.2.2 Bulleted Nested List
Another alternate is to use R-programming code to
generate graphs on the fly thus producing reproducible Here is a nested bulleted list:
documents, which requires S-Weave. However, it is
very common to include figures generated from other • Fruits
sources or programs. Here are a few examples on – Apple
placing figures with proper captioning and label for – Orange
cross referencing. The most suitable format for figure
• Vegetables
files to produce final output in raster format as pdf are:
– Spinach
1. PNG – Carrot
2. PDF
3. JPG 9.2.3 Mixed Nested List
Here is a mixed nested list:

1. Fruits
• Apple
• Orange
2. Vegetables
• Spinach
• Carrot

9.3 Description List

Figure 1: Figure taking up 95% width of the column This is for dictionary-like word and description list.

Word Definition ...

Figure 1 takes up 95% of the width of a column and
Figure 2 takes the width of the entire width of the page. Concept Explanation ...
Idea Text ...
9. Lists

9.1 Simple Lists 10. Paragraphs with heading

Simple Bulleted and Numbered lists have already been Hello Place your paragraph heading inside the curly
presented in Section 3 and Section 8 respectively. braces and your paragraph text here.

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Figure 2: Placing a wide picture (Discouraged! as it always appears at the top of a page.)

11. Referencing Do not worry, if there is an extra blank page at the end
of the paper, this is an intended behavior. It happens
The list of references should be produced using to make the number of pages of the paper even, if
BibTeX. The BibTeX entries should be placed in the the paper ends in an odd-numbered page. This is to
”refs.bib” file. Please refer BibTeX manuals or online make sure that every other article always starts with
resources on creating bibliography databases using an odd-numbered page.
BibTeX and citation. You can easily create
bibliography database files using the GUIs like
TeXMaker or JabRef. You can even search for 13. Submission
BibTeX entries for a majority of publications at
Google Scholar in the following url: Before submitting the paper, the source file must be
compiled without any error. The files that need to be
http://scholar.google.com submitted are:
Examples: This is citation one[1] and these are two
citations in one [2, 3]. • article.tex (with your content)
• article.pdf (with your content)
• pagenum.tex (as-is)
12. Compilation • paperinfo.tex (with your content)
• refs.bib (with your content)
Since, this template contains citations and cross • IOEGC.cls (as-is)
referencing along with reference list generated via • Graphics folder (with your content)
BibTeX, the LATEX source file should be processed • Assets folder (with your content)
four times in the following sequence to generate the
final pdf output.
All these should be placed in compressed / zipped
folder and submitted electronically.
1. PDFLatex

2. BibTeX 14. Review

3. PDFLatex Your paper will be peer reviewed in blind by expert(s)

before the conference. Comments may be provided
4. PDFLatex in the submitted pdf file. You have to re-submit your

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paper by recompiling the LATEX source file as described documents. Thus, you are highly encouraged to adapt
in section 12 and submit as described in section 13. this philosophy starting from this edition of IOEGC.
This template has undergone a few iterations of
Still Having Problem? improvement over the past few years and is constantly
evolving. Please feel free to send in your valuable
There are a lot of online tutorials on LATEX available comments/suggestions and/or feature requests via
for free download. One of them being LaTeX Tutorials email to the primary author of this template.
– A Primer by Indian TEX Users Group [4].
Further, there are websites like sharelatex.com,
overleaf.com, etc., which are very helpful in Acknowledgments
finding out how to perform a specific task in LATEX .
The authors are grateful to Institute of Engineering
If you still face technical problems in compiling your [IOE], Center for Applied Research and Development
document in LATEX using this template, please feel free [CARD], and Pulchowk Campus for this wonderful
to contact the primary author of this template via the opportunity in the standardization of Conference Paper
following email address: Format.
jayandra@ioe.edu.np

Future Enhancements References

Lately, there has been a lot of demand for the creation [1] Leslie Lamport. LaTeX: A document preparation
system, User’s guide and reference manual. Addison-
of reproducible documents in research. One of the Wesley Professional, 2nd edition, 1994.
alternates in producing publication quality
reproducible documents is the combination of LATEX [2] Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth
Schlegl. The not so short introduction to latex 2ε. 2001.
and R-programming called S-weave. [3] H Kopka and PW Daly. A guide to {\LaTeX}–
document. 1995.
In the near future, IOEGC is planning to adapt this
mechanism to support reproducibility of research [4] Indian TEXUsers Group. LATEX Tutorials – A Primer.