TITLE (style: ECATS-Title)

A. Author1, B. Author2 & C. Author1 (Style: ECATS-Authors)

1 Department, Institute or Company, Country, email (Style: ECATS-Affiliations)

2 Department, Institute or Company, Country, email (Style: ECATS-Affiliations)

Abstract. The abstract of your paper should be located here. It should be a single paragraph and complete in itself (no references or equations). Your abstract should explain the background to the work, a brief summary of the work completed, the results, followed by conclusions and the relevance to other researchers. (Style: ECATS-Abstract, maximum 250 words)

Keywords: keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3 … (Style: ECATS-Keywords, up to 5 keywords)

Introduction (STYLE: ECATS-Heading 1)

The book of extended abstracts of the 2nd ECATS Conference will be published electronically in Adobe PDF format. (Style: ECATS-Text)

The extended abstracts should be formatted strictly according to this template. Please use styles as indicated in parentheses.

The abstracts are expected to have a length of 4 pages, including tables and figures

text Formatting

The manuscripts should be written in English, in A4 size pages, using font Times New Roman, size 11pt, except for the title (12pt), authors’ affiliation, abstract and keywords (10pt). Single space between lines is to be used throughout the text.

Please do not number the pages of your paper.

All the symbols and notation must be defined in the text. Physical quantities must be expressed in the SI (metric) units.

All margins should be equal to 2.5 cm. The body of the text must be justified.

There should be maximum three levels of headings and subheadings, namely:

Heading 1 (STYLE: ECATS-Heading 1)

Heading 2 (Style: ECATS-Heading 2)

Heading 3 (Style: ECATS-Heading 3)

Mathematical equations

The mathematical equations must be indented by 0.5 cm from the left margin. Equation numbers, enclosed between parentheses, right-aligned, should be used.

(2)

(Style ECATS-Equation)

Figures and tables

Figures and tables should be placed in the text as close as possible to the point they are first mentioned and must be numbered consecutively. The figures and their captions must be centered.

One blank line must be left before and after each figure.

Figure 1. Figure caption. (Style ECATS-Caption)

Tables and their titles must be centered. One blank line must be left before and after each table.

Table 1. Results (Style ECATS-Table)
Variable (Style ECATS-Table)	Value (Style ECATS-Table)	Unit
Variable 1 (Style ECATS-Table)	1 (Style ECATS-Table)	m
Variable 2	2	s
Variable 3	180	°C

References

Sufficient information must be provided directly in the text, or by reference to widely available published work. Footnotes should be avoided.

Bibliographic references should be cited in the text by giving the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication, according to the following examples: “Recent work (Author and Otherauthor, 2009)” or “Recently, Author and Otherauthor (2009)”. In the case of three or more authors, the form “Author et al. (2010)” should be used. Two or more references having the same authors and publication year must be distinguished by appending “a”, “b”, etc., to the year of publication, for example: “Recent work (Author and Otherauthor, 2009a)”.

Acceptable references include journal articles, numbered papers, dissertations, theses, published conference proceedings, preprints from conferences, books, submitted articles and private communications.

References should be listed at the end of the paper based on the examples provided at the end of this template.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This optional section must be placed before the list of references.

REFERENCES

The list of references must be included as the last section. The first line of each reference must be aligned at left. All the other lines must have a hanging intend of 0.5 cm from the left margin. All references included in the reference list must have been mentioned in the text. References must be listed in alphabetical order, according to the last name of the first author. See the following examples:

Author A, 2010. Private Communication. (Style ECATS-References)

Author A, 2015. Thesis title. Ph.D. thesis, Whatever University, Country.

Author A and Otherauthor B, 2015. Book title. Publisher, Publisher’s Location

Author A, Otherauthor B and Anotherauthor C, 2010a. Title of a journal article. Journal Title, Vol. 111, pp. 125-136.

Author A, Otherauthor B and Anotherauthor C, 2010b. Title of a proceedings article. In Proceedings of 1st Conference on this particular field. Location, Country.