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A FBMIS SAMPLE DOCUMENT (12-POINT BOLD UPPER-CASE)

JOHN D. SMITH1, TOM BROWN1 and SARAH JONES2 (9-POINT NOT-BOLD CAPS) Computer Science Section, Mathematics Department, Smith University, 45 Sparrow St., MA, USA. [jsmith, Tom.Brown@smith.edu] (9-Point Not-Bold Title Case) 2 Forestry Department, Oxbridge University, Steep Hill, Oxford, UK. SBrown@oxford.ac.uk.

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(Submitted, 1st Sept. 2002; Accepted, 15th Feb. 2003; Published, 26th May 2003) ABSTRACT. This abstract should summarize the main points, novelties and conclusions of the paper. It should not replicate a paragraph of the Introduction or Conclusions of the paper. This Abstract is in 10-point not-bold sentence case. See MS Word/Format/Change Case for examples of the cases. The Abstract should be preceded and followed by two blank lines, both at 10-point. The Abstract should be indented by 0.8cm, both L and R, from the main text. Ideally, the Abstract would be just one paragraph. However, if this is not possible, then no paragraph spaces or indents should be used inside the abstract, as in this example. The abstract (including Keywords) should not normally extend beyond the first page of the paper. This document is the MASTER format specification for FBMIS. Though it is modelled on the format specification for the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing, there are several major differences from the JMMSC standard which is LaTeX based. The main of these are: British A4 paper size is used, and not US; Upper and lower margins differ and are given in cm. rather than inches; referencing follows Harvard Author (Date) / (Author1, date1; Author2, date2; ) and should NOT use a numbering system. This document also tries to eliminate a number of inconsistencies in the JMMSC specifications for various means of ms preparation, and to do so by adoption of a simple standard. Keywords: FBMIS, forest, biometry, modelling, information sciences. 1 INTRODUCTION

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37 Each main section, such as INTRODUCTION, should be given a number, without a trailing full 38stop. There should be four spaces between the all section numbers and the section title. The Main 39Section heading should be in UPPER-CASE. The main section heading should be 10-point bold, 40with no trailing full stop, and be followed by a blank line at 10-point. Main Headings should be 41preceded by two blank lines (10-point). 42 The first line of each paragraph in the main text should be indented by 0.5cm. Note that there is no 43paragraph indentation for the Abstract. 44 451.1. First level of sub-section headings, (10-point bold sentence-case left-justified ). Just carry on 46the text from the sub-heading. 471.1.2 Second level of sub-section headings, (10-point italic bold sentence-case left justified) . These 48are indicated by the next level of numeric decimalisation and the sub-sub heading being italicised. If 49further section nesting is required, use nested bullets points: 50 point 1 51 point 2 52 531.2 Paper Size and Margins. A standard size is required fro uniformity on the web site. However, 54the hardcopy archival version will need to follow British norms to ease the printing process. 55 56 Paper size is A4(British) : Width 21cm., Height 29.7cm. 57 Top and Bottom margins are 2.54 cm. (i.e. 1 inch). 58 Left and right Margins are 3.17 cm. (i.e. 1.25 inches). 59

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11.3 The Running Header. A running header is used which will appear on all pages of the paper. It 2includes a URL for the published article. This is so that a printed version of the paper, or a copied page 3can be tracked back to the publication source. The header is 8-point. The volume number will 4increment with each new number, not within year. There may be one or more volumes per year. The 5page numbers are given without use of the pp notation. The article file name at the end of the article 6URL consists of : year number, volume number, surname of the corresponding author, with 7initials, index for the paper, all joined by underscores. The index for the paper will be 1 unless 8the corresponding author has more than one article published in the same volume. 9 The Paper title is preceded by two blank lines at 12 point. 10 Authors may prepare the Header as far as they are able. The Editor will complete the details, or 11indicate them to the author before publication. 12 13 14 2 TEXT FORMAT

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16 The font used for the main text should be 10-point Times New Roman, or something very similar. 17Use Left and Right justification. Leave two spaces after a full stop. In the draft submitted for review, 18pages should be numbered, bottom centre, and line number should be inserted (Page Setup / Layout), 19restarting on each page. This will assist the reviewers in referring to the manuscript. These page and 20line numbers will of course be eliminated on publication. 21 222.1 MS Word or LaTeX/pdf submission forms. Sections should be started on a new page rather 23than having just the section/sub-section heading on the previous page. 24 Manuscripts may only submitted in Word or pdf obtained from LaTeX. The Word specification 25provided here is considered the master specification. 26 Note that the LaTeX format submission specification is still that taken from JMMSC, and has a 27number of internal inconsistencies, and does not correspond exactly with the master Word specification 28given here. Also, the JMMSC pdf example document is inconsistent with the WORD TEMPLATE 29guide-lines. Attempts are being made to eliminate such inconsistencies in this example document. 30Choices are made based on simplicity and the look of the final text. Authors are requested to model 31their Latex submissions on this Word model. 32 33 34 3 FIGURES AND TABLES 35 36 Tables and computer listing may be in Courier font if necessary to retain alignments. The Courier 37point-size should be chosen to make the size of tabulated numbers comparable to main text numbers. 38 Captions for Figures and Tables should be in 10-point, with the Table # or Figure # in bold, 39but with the rest of the caption not-bold. 40 Table/Figure captions should appear above/below the Table/Figure. Refer to Tables and Figures 41using a capitalized first letter. Captions should normally be centred. However, if the caption is fairly 42long then it may be neater to relate the placement and width of the caption to the Figure/Table 43concerned and to use L/R justification. 44 Captions should be made fairly self-explanatory, so that the reader may be able to get the main 45concepts of the paper from scanning the Abstract and Figures & Tables. Each Figure and Table must 46be referred to from the manuscript text. 47 In preparing your Figures for publication in FBMIS, please make liberal use of colour to enliven 48and clarify your figures. However, please bear in mind that there will be hard-copy Black/White print49offs for archival purposes, and hence light colours should be avoided. 50 51 52 4 EQUATIONS

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5 6 Equations should be referred to simply by their equation number. Hence, (2) is the variance of the 7ratio estimator of a two stage sample. Math-type may be used.

REFERENCES

12 The REFERENCES section should not be given a section number. Note this is a main 13section about referencing style, and not the REFERENCES section. Use Harvard referencing. 14Hanging indented with 0.5cm after first line. 15 16References Style: 17 Citations: 18Author (1990) claims that or It has been claimed that .(Author, 1990), and (Author, 191989a,b; 1990) and (Smith, 1985; Abbott, 1990) 20Where there are three or more authors, use Author et al. (1990) or (Author et al., 1990) 21 Personal communications should not be included in the reference list: in text they should be 22cited thus: (P.R. Smith, Oregon, 1990, personal communication) (i.e., who, where and when) 23 Use 1990a,b etc., where there is more than one reference to a publication by the same author, 24same date, and also where there is more than one publication with three or more authors and 25the same date but the same first author 26 Order the references alphabetically by the first author. Where there are a number of 27references with three or more authors but the same first author, place in date order 28Please follow the following style: 29Franklin, T.L. and Smith, K.L. (1989) Title of article in full. Journal Name in Full 20, 67-69. 30Franklin, T.L. and Smith, K.L. (1990) Title of chapter in full. In: Smith, O. (ed.) Title of Book 31in Full. Publisher, Place, pp. 34-45. 32Franklin, T.L. and Smith, K.L. (1991) Title of Book in Full, 4th edn. Publisher, Place, 340pp. 33Franks, T.L. and Smith, K.L. (1989) Title of chapter in full. In: Smith, O.P. (ed.) Proceedings 34of Some Conference. Publisher, Place, pp. 34-45. 35Smith, K.P. (1989) Title of unpublished thesis in full. MSc thesis, The University of 36Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 37Smith, K.P. (1996) Title of article in full. Journal Name in Full (in press). 38NB: 39 Both book and journal titles should be italic 40 Names of all authors should be given (not just the first three) 41 Please ensure that all references cited in the text are listed in the References, 42 and vice versa 43 Do not use a numbered system of references 44 45 46 6 DISCUSSION 47 48 There may be a DISCUSSION section, a CONCLUSION(S) section, or both, separately or 49combined, at the discretion of the author. 50 Please bear in mind the possibilities for a wider and deeper sharing of your models, and the data on 51which they are based. Authors are encouraged to make hyperlink references to their own web sites

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1where operational models and test data can be obtained. However, please bear in mind that such 2hyperlinks will tend to get outdated fairly rapidly unless the site is archival. Authors are encouraged to 3place their models and test data into the Forest Model Archive if they do not have their own archival 4site, (and even if they do!). 5 6 7 REFERENCES 8 9Bastin, L., Edwards, M. and Fisher, P. ,(2000) Tracking the positional uncertainty in ground truth. In: 10 Heuvelink, J. and Lemmens, R. (eds) Spatial Accuracy 2000, Holland Press, Amsterdam, pp39-42. 11Congalton, R.G (1991) A review of assessing the accuracy of classification of remotely sensed data. 12 Remote Sensing of the Environment, 37, 35-46. 13 14

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1 APPENDIX 1 2 3 Numbered appendices may be used to include supplementary information, such as extended 4detailed mathematical derivations, or extra tables of results. No number should be given if there is only 5one appendix. Code listings and data should not be put in appendices, but rather in archival web sites 6as mentioned in Section 6.