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IFAC Workshop on Control Aspects of Multi-Satellite Systems

Authors Instructions

This guide has been written in order to provide assistance to authors submitting papers to IFAC meetings. Using this guide you will be able to prepare your paper in the appropriate form for inclusion in the event Proceedings. The .pdf version can be downloaded here.

Please note that the workshop has a strict policy "no presentation without a paper". Hence the papers must be submitted in PDF format to the organising committee before the deadline of 14th September 2025, otherwise the presentation will be automatically cancelled.

 

Templates and support

The simplest way to get the proper format for your paper is to use one of the templates available on the IFAC web site. Templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available. If you want to use another text processor, please refer to the detailed format specifications and make sure that your file complies with them.

All papers submitted to IFAC technical meetings must comply with the IFAC paper layout. Template files are also available for some common word processing tools. A summary of the main layout characteristics follows.

Paper length and file size

Regular papers must be between 4 (minimum) and 6 (maximum) pages in the final version. PDF files will be limited to 2 MB in size.

Page size and margins

  • A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
  • Margins for the first page: top 35 mm, bottom 25 mm, left/right 15 mm.
  • Margins for the other pages: top 25 mm, bottom 25 mm, left/right 15 mm.
  • Main text is two columns, with a 5 mm gap between columns.
  • No headers, footers, or page numbers.

Title page

The title page must contain the following items, centred on the page with a left and right margin of 30 mm (i.e. a maximum width of 150 mm):

  • Title, with a maximum of 10 words, 14 pt Times boldface.
  • Author names, 10 pt Times boldface.
  • Author affiliations, 10 pt Times italic.
  • An abstract with 50-100 words.
  • A list of 5-10 keywords, preferably taken from the official IFAC keyword list.

The abstract and keywords should be separated from the previous and following text by a pair of full width (150 mm) horizontal lines and an 8 pt vertical space.

The rest of the title page is body text, formatted in two columns as detailed below.

Text format

  • Times Roman 10 pt, or equivalent font, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
  • All paragraphs must be justified, if possible.
  • Single line spacing.
  • The first line of a paragraph should not be indented.
  • 8 pt additional vertical space between paragraphs.
  • Avoid hyphenation at the end of a line.

Section headings

  • Section headings must be centred, in capital letters, and numbered consecutively, starting with 1.
  • Sub-section headings should be in capital and lower-case italic letters, numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc, and left justified, with second and subsequent lines indented.

Tables

  • All tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals.
  • Headings should be placed above tables, underlined and centred.
  • Leave one line space between the heading and the table.

Illustrations

  • All photographs, schemas, graphs and diagrams are to be referred to as figures.
  • Lettering and symbols should be clearly defined either in the caption or in a legend provided as part of the figure.
  • Figures should be placed at the top or bottom of a column wherever possible, as close as possible to the first reference to them in the paper.
  • Figures should be restricted to single-column width unless this would make them illegible.
  • The figure number and caption should be typed below the illustration, left justified, with subsequent lines indented.

Equations

  • Equations should be numbered with Arabic numerals.
  • SI units should be used for physical magnitudes. All non-standard abbreviations or symbols must be defined when first mentioned, or a glossary provided.

References

  • In the text the surname of the author and the year of publication of the reference should be given.
  • Two or more references by the same authors published in the same year should be differentiated by letters a,b,c etc.
  • For references with more than two authors, text citations should be shortened to the first name followed by et al.
  • Only essential references, which are directly referred to in the text, should be included in the reference list.
  • References must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. References to the same author(s) should be in chronological order.

  • Journal references should include:

    • author's surname and initials;
    • initials and surnames of remaining authors;
    • year of publication (in brackets);
    • article title (where provided);
    • abbreviated journal title (in italics);
    • volume number and page numbers.

  • References to books should include:

    • author's surname and initials;
    • initials and surnames of remaining authors;
    • year of publication (in brackets);
    • book title (in italics);
    • name of the publisher and place of publication.

  • References to multi-author works should include after the year of publication:

    • chapter title (where provided);
    • "In:" followed by book title (in italics);
    • initials and name(s) of editors(s) in brackets;
    • volume number and pages;
    • name of the publisher and place of publication.

 

Please refer to this official IFAC guide for more information.

 

 

Ethics Statement

All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored Workshop must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences will abide by the highest standard of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the Elsevier webpage, and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines.

 

Copyright Statement

All the accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect. To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).