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\title{Formatting instructions for NIPS 2016} | |
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David S.~Hippocampus\thanks{Use footnote for providing further | |
information about author (webpage, alternative | |
address)---\emph{not} for acknowledging funding agencies.} \\ | |
Department of Computer Science\\ | |
Cranberry-Lemon University\\ | |
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 \\ | |
\texttt{hippo@cs.cranberry-lemon.edu} \\ | |
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\begin{document} | |
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\maketitle | |
\begin{abstract} | |
The abstract paragraph should be indented \nicefrac{1}{2}~inch | |
(3~picas) on both the left- and right-hand margins. Use 10~point | |
type, with a vertical spacing (leading) of 11~points. The word | |
\textbf{Abstract} must be centered, bold, and in point size 12. Two | |
line spaces precede the abstract. The abstract must be limited to | |
one paragraph. | |
\end{abstract} | |
\section{Submission of papers to NIPS 2016} | |
\textbf{There is a new style file for papers submitted in 2016!} | |
NIPS requires electronic submissions. The electronic submission site | |
is | |
\begin{center} | |
\url{https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2016/} | |
\end{center} | |
Please read carefully the instructions below and follow them | |
faithfully. | |
\subsection{Style} | |
Papers to be submitted to NIPS 2016 must be prepared according to the | |
instructions presented here. Papers may only be up to eight pages | |
long, including figures. Since 2009 an additional ninth page | |
\emph{containing only acknowledgments and/or cited references} is | |
allowed. Papers that exceed nine pages will not be reviewed, or in any | |
other way considered for presentation at the conference. | |
The margins in 2016 are the same as since 2007, which allow for | |
$\sim$$15\%$ more words in the paper compared to earlier years. | |
Authors are required to use the NIPS \LaTeX{} style files obtainable | |
at the NIPS website as indicated below. Please make sure you use the | |
current files and not previous versions. Tweaking the style files may | |
be grounds for rejection. | |
\subsection{Retrieval of style files} | |
The style files for NIPS and other conference information are | |
available on the World Wide Web at | |
\begin{center} | |
\url{http://www.nips.cc/} | |
\end{center} | |
The file \verb+nips_2016.pdf+ contains these instructions and | |
illustrates the various formatting requirements your NIPS paper must | |
satisfy. | |
The only supported style file for NIPS 2016 is \verb+nips_2016.sty+, | |
rewritten for \LaTeXe{}. \textbf{Previous style files for \LaTeX{} | |
2.09, Microsoft Word, and RTF are no longer supported!} | |
The new \LaTeX{} style file contains two optional arguments: | |
\verb+final+, which creates a camera-ready copy, and \verb+nonatbib+, | |
which will not load the \verb+natbib+ package for you in case of | |
package clash. | |
At submission time, please omit the \verb+final+ option. This will | |
anonymize your submission and add line numbers to aid review. Please | |
do \emph{not} refer to these line numbers in your paper as they will | |
be removed during generation of camera-ready copies. | |
The file \verb+nips_2016.tex+ may be used as a ``shell'' for writing | |
your paper. All you have to do is replace the author, title, abstract, | |
and text of the paper with your own. | |
The formatting instructions contained in these style files are | |
summarized in Sections \ref{gen_inst}, \ref{headings}, and | |
\ref{others} below. | |
\section{General formatting instructions} | |
\label{gen_inst} | |
The text must be confined within a rectangle 5.5~inches (33~picas) | |
wide and 9~inches (54~picas) long. The left margin is 1.5~inch | |
(9~picas). Use 10~point type with a vertical spacing (leading) of | |
11~points. Times New Roman is the preferred typeface throughout, and | |
will be selected for you by default. Paragraphs are separated by | |
\nicefrac{1}{2}~line space (5.5 points), with no indentation. | |
The paper title should be 17~point, initial caps/lower case, bold, | |
centered between two horizontal rules. The top rule should be 4~points | |
thick and the bottom rule should be 1~point thick. Allow | |
\nicefrac{1}{4}~inch space above and below the title to rules. All | |
pages should start at 1~inch (6~picas) from the top of the page. | |
For the final version, authors' names are set in boldface, and each | |
name is centered above the corresponding address. The lead author's | |
name is to be listed first (left-most), and the co-authors' names (if | |
different address) are set to follow. If there is only one co-author, | |
list both author and co-author side by side. | |
Please pay special attention to the instructions in Section \ref{others} | |
regarding figures, tables, acknowledgments, and references. | |
\section{Headings: first level} | |
\label{headings} | |
All headings should be lower case (except for first word and proper | |
nouns), flush left, and bold. | |
First-level headings should be in 12-point type. | |
\subsection{Headings: second level} | |
Second-level headings should be in 10-point type. | |
\subsubsection{Headings: third level} | |
Third-level headings should be in 10-point type. | |
\paragraph{Paragraphs} | |
There is also a \verb+\paragraph+ command available, which sets the | |
heading in bold, flush left, and inline with the text, with the | |
heading followed by 1\,em of space. | |
\section{Citations, figures, tables, references} | |
\label{others} | |
These instructions apply to everyone. | |
\subsection{Citations within the text} | |
The \verb+natbib+ package will be loaded for you by default. | |
Citations may be author/year or numeric, as long as you maintain | |
internal consistency. As to the format of the references themselves, | |
any style is acceptable as long as it is used consistently. | |
The documentation for \verb+natbib+ may be found at | |
\begin{center} | |
\url{http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/natnotes.pdf} | |
\end{center} | |
Of note is the command \verb+\citet+, which produces citations | |
appropriate for use in inline text. For example, | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\citet{hasselmo} investigated\dots | |
\end{verbatim} | |
produces | |
\begin{quote} | |
Hasselmo, et al.\ (1995) investigated\dots | |
\end{quote} | |
If you wish to load the \verb+natbib+ package with options, you may | |
add the following before loading the \verb+nips_2016+ package: | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\PassOptionsToPackage{options}{natbib} | |
\end{verbatim} | |
If \verb+natbib+ clashes with another package you load, you can add | |
the optional argument \verb+nonatbib+ when loading the style file: | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\usepackage[nonatbib]{nips_2016} | |
\end{verbatim} | |
As submission is double blind, refer to your own published work in the | |
third person. That is, use ``In the previous work of Jones et | |
al.\ [4],'' not ``In our previous work [4].'' If you cite your other | |
papers that are not widely available (e.g., a journal paper under | |
review), use anonymous author names in the citation, e.g., an author | |
of the form ``A.\ Anonymous.'' | |
\subsection{Footnotes} | |
Footnotes should be used sparingly. If you do require a footnote, | |
indicate footnotes with a number\footnote{Sample of the first | |
footnote.} in the text. Place the footnotes at the bottom of the | |
page on which they appear. Precede the footnote with a horizontal | |
rule of 2~inches (12~picas). | |
Note that footnotes are properly typeset \emph{after} punctuation | |
marks.\footnote{As in this example.} | |
\subsection{Figures} | |
All artwork must be neat, clean, and legible. Lines should be dark | |
enough for purposes of reproduction. The figure number and caption | |
always appear after the figure. Place one line space before the figure | |
caption and one line space after the figure. The figure caption should | |
be lower case (except for first word and proper nouns); figures are | |
numbered consecutively. | |
You may use color figures. However, it is best for the figure | |
captions and the paper body to be legible if the paper is printed in | |
either black/white or in color. | |
\begin{figure}[h] | |
\centering | |
\fbox{\rule[-.5cm]{0cm}{4cm} \rule[-.5cm]{4cm}{0cm}} | |
\caption{Sample figure caption.} | |
\end{figure} | |
\subsection{Tables} | |
All tables must be centered, neat, clean and legible. The table | |
number and title always appear before the table. See | |
Table~\ref{sample-table}. | |
Place one line space before the table title, one line space after the | |
table title, and one line space after the table. The table title must | |
be lower case (except for first word and proper nouns); tables are | |
numbered consecutively. | |
Note that publication-quality tables \emph{do not contain vertical | |
rules.} We strongly suggest the use of the \verb+booktabs+ package, | |
which allows for typesetting high-quality, professional tables: | |
\begin{center} | |
\url{https://www.ctan.org/pkg/booktabs} | |
\end{center} | |
This package was used to typeset Table~\ref{sample-table}. | |
\begin{table}[t] | |
\caption{Sample table title} | |
\label{sample-table} | |
\centering | |
\begin{tabular}{lll} | |
\toprule | |
\multicolumn{2}{c}{Part} \\ | |
\cmidrule{1-2} | |
Name & Description & Size ($\mu$m) \\ | |
\midrule | |
Dendrite & Input terminal & $\sim$100 \\ | |
Axon & Output terminal & $\sim$10 \\ | |
Soma & Cell body & up to $10^6$ \\ | |
\bottomrule | |
\end{tabular} | |
\end{table} | |
\section{Final instructions} | |
Do not change any aspects of the formatting parameters in the style | |
files. In particular, do not modify the width or length of the | |
rectangle the text should fit into, and do not change font sizes | |
(except perhaps in the \textbf{References} section; see below). Please | |
note that pages should be numbered. | |
\section{Preparing PDF files} | |
Please prepare submission files with paper size ``US Letter,'' and | |
not, for example, ``A4.'' | |
Fonts were the main cause of problems in the past years. Your PDF file | |
must only contain Type 1 or Embedded TrueType fonts. Here are a few | |
instructions to achieve this. | |
\begin{itemize} | |
\item You should directly generate PDF files using \verb+pdflatex+. | |
\item You can check which fonts a PDF files uses. In Acrobat Reader, | |
select the menu Files$>$Document Properties$>$Fonts and select Show | |
All Fonts. You can also use the program \verb+pdffonts+ which comes | |
with \verb+xpdf+ and is available out-of-the-box on most Linux | |
machines. | |
\item The IEEE has recommendations for generating PDF files whose | |
fonts are also acceptable for NIPS. Please see | |
\url{http://www.emfield.org/icuwb2010/downloads/IEEE-PDF-SpecV32.pdf} | |
\item \verb+xfig+ "patterned" shapes are implemented with bitmap | |
fonts. Use "solid" shapes instead. | |
\item The \verb+\bbold+ package almost always uses bitmap fonts. You | |
should use the equivalent AMS Fonts: | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\usepackage{amsfonts} | |
\end{verbatim} | |
followed by, e.g., \verb+\mathbb{R}+, \verb+\mathbb{N}+, or | |
\verb+\mathbb{C}+ for $\mathbb{R}$, $\mathbb{N}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. You | |
can also use the following workaround for reals, natural and complex: | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\newcommand{\RR}{I\!\!R} %real numbers | |
\newcommand{\Nat}{I\!\!N} %natural numbers | |
\newcommand{\CC}{I\!\!\!\!C} %complex numbers | |
\end{verbatim} | |
Note that \verb+amsfonts+ is automatically loaded by the | |
\verb+amssymb+ package. | |
\end{itemize} | |
If your file contains type 3 fonts or non embedded TrueType fonts, we | |
will ask you to fix it. | |
\subsection{Margins in \LaTeX{}} | |
Most of the margin problems come from figures positioned by hand using | |
\verb+\special+ or other commands. We suggest using the command | |
\verb+\includegraphics+ from the \verb+graphicx+ package. Always | |
specify the figure width as a multiple of the line width as in the | |
example below: | |
\begin{verbatim} | |
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} ... | |
\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{myfile.pdf} | |
\end{verbatim} | |
See Section 4.4 in the graphics bundle documentation | |
(\url{http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/graphics/grfguide.pdf}) | |
A number of width problems arise when \LaTeX{} cannot properly | |
hyphenate a line. Please give LaTeX hyphenation hints using the | |
\verb+\-+ command when necessary. | |
\subsubsection*{Acknowledgments} | |
Use unnumbered third level headings for the acknowledgments. All | |
acknowledgments go at the end of the paper. Do not include | |
acknowledgments in the anonymized submission, only in the final paper. | |
\section*{References} | |
References follow the acknowledgments. Use unnumbered first-level | |
heading for the references. Any choice of citation style is acceptable | |
as long as you are consistent. It is permissible to reduce the font | |
size to \verb+small+ (9 point) when listing the references. {\bf | |
Remember that you can use a ninth page as long as it contains | |
\emph{only} cited references.} | |
\medskip | |
\small | |
[1] Alexander, J.A.\ \& Mozer, M.C.\ (1995) Template-based algorithms | |
for connectionist rule extraction. In G.\ Tesauro, D.S.\ Touretzky and | |
T.K.\ Leen (eds.), {\it Advances in Neural Information Processing | |
Systems 7}, pp.\ 609--616. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | |
[2] Bower, J.M.\ \& Beeman, D.\ (1995) {\it The Book of GENESIS: | |
Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation | |
System.} New York: TELOS/Springer--Verlag. | |
[3] Hasselmo, M.E., Schnell, E.\ \& Barkai, E.\ (1995) Dynamics of | |
learning and recall at excitatory recurrent synapses and cholinergic | |
modulation in rat hippocampal region CA3. {\it Journal of | |
Neuroscience} {\bf 15}(7):5249-5262. | |
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