1 GENERAL INFORMATION

Follow the specification in this document for the layout of

your pages. If you follow the instructions included here, the

basic layout of your paper should look like this document.

Please use this page as the template for your manuscript. The

paper should not less than 4 pages or exceed more than 10

pages in total length, including appendix and references.

2 GETTING STARTED

2.1 Paper Title

The “Title” should be 14 pt. bold typeface in all capital

letters and center justified. Please space 2 lines between title

and the Author(s).

2.2 Author(S)

Author name should consist of first name, middle initial and

surname. It should be 12 pt. bold and center justified.

Author(s) affiliation in 10 pt. normal typeface should contain

the following: company/institute/university, city, country

2.3 Abstract

Please begin your abstract 3 lines spaces from the last line in

the author list. Abstract in 10 pt should be no more than 7

lines

2.4 Key Words

Key words will be 3 to 5 words in Times Roman Italic 10 pt.

This should be begin 1 line space from abstract.

3 LAYOUT OF TEXT

Please use an A4 (297 X 210 mm) white standard bond

paper for preparing a paper of the 4th CECAR. Set the left

and right margins at 15mm, top margins at 15mm, bottom

margins at 40 mm and center margins at 8 mm in double

column. The paper should be prepared in Times Roman with

100% word spacing. Detailed pt is as described above.

3.1 Footnotes and remarks

Avoid using footnotes and/or remarks. If any, try to explain

it in the text, or in appendix

3.2 Heading

Capital letters in 11pt should be used for main headings

(chapter title). The sub-headings for sections, in 10pt. with

PREPARING A CAMERA-READY PAPER FOR THE 4th CECAR

Yin-Wen CHAN¹, Jenn-Chuan CHERN¹, Yung-Bin LIN², and Chen-Yuan LIN¹

¹ National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan² National Center of Research for Earthquake Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract : Authors of each paper have to type their papers in a form suitable for proceedings publication. For the uniform style book throughout the volume, all the papers have to be prepared strictly according to the instruction set below. This proceedings will be published in black only and template files for MS Word are provided for the authors.

Key words : Times Roman, Italic, 10pt, 3 to 5 words, one black line below ABSTRACT

their initial letters capitalized, are preceded by sub section

number with point like 5.1.

3.3 Equation

Use equation editor for special high quality fonts for all

mathematical equations in the text. Some equations may be

placed off the text as:

For simple equations in the text always use superscript and

subscript (select Font in the menu) instead of the equation

editor. Never use the equation editor between text on same

line.

3.4 Tables

Tables should locate close to the first reference to them in

the text and number them consecutively. Explanations

should be given at the foot of the table, not within the table

itself. Type the caption above the table to the same width as

table. See sample tables as follows:

Table 1 Caption should be centered, but if it is long, it

should be indented like this.

Specimen No. Heights (cm) Width (cm)

1 145.5 25.0

2 175.5 40.0

3 190.0 65.0

3.5 Figure

Place the caption underneath the figure. Type as below for

the caption. Leave about two lines of space between the

figure caption and the text of the paper

Fig. 2 Place caption below the drawing

3.6 Photographs

Figures, tables and photographs should be inserted at the

upper part of the page where reference is first made to them.

Do not place them altogether at the end of the manuscript.

Figures, tables and photographs should occupy the whole

width of a column

Do not use too small characters in figures and tables. The

letters should be bold 9 or 10 pt. Captions should be

centered, but long captions must be indented like an example

of Table 1.

3.7 Conclusion

Conclusions should state concisely the most important

propositions of the paper as well as the author’s view of the

practical implications of the results.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Acknowledgment should follow conclusions and its text

should be preceded by bold face heading directly.

APPENDIX  

Appendix should be placed between acknowledgment and

References.

REFERENCES

Duncan, J.M. and Chang, C.Y. (1970). Nonlinear analysis of

stress and strain in soils. Journal of the Soil Mechanics

G = Σ∞ n=0

bn(t) (1a)

F = ʃsinzdz(1b)

and Foundation Division, ASCE, Vol. 96, No. SM5,

pp.1629-1653

Hegazy, Y. A., Mayne, P. W., and Rouhani, S. (1997). “Three

dimensional geostatistical evaluation of seismic piezocone

data.” Proc., XIVth Int. Conference on Soil Mechanics

and foundation Engineering, Hamburg, Vol I, Balkema,

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 683-686.

Reese, L. C. and Wright, S. J. (1977). “Drilled shaft

manual:Vol. I :Construction Procedures and design for

axial loading.” Rep. No. IP77-21, FHWA, U.S. Dept. of

Transportation, Washington D.C.

Lunne, T., Robertson, P. K., and Powell, J. J. M. (1997).

Cone penetration testing in geotechnical practice, Blackie

Academic and Professional, Chapman and Hall, London