USENIX Example Paper Pekka Nikander Jane-Ellen Long Aalto University USENIX Association Abstract This is an example for a USENIX paper, in the form of an HTML/CSS template. Being heavily self-ref- erential, this template illustrates the features in- cluded in this template. It is expected that the prospective authors using HTML/CSS would create a new document based on this template, remove the content, and start writing their paper. Notethatinthistemplate,youmayhaveamul- ti-paragraph abstract. However, that it is not nec- essarily a good practice. Try to keep your abstract in one paragraph, and remember that the optimal length for an abstract is 200-300 words. 1Introduction For the purposes of USENIX conference publica- tions, the authors, not the USENIX staff, are solely responsible for the content and formatting of their paper. The purpose of this template is to help those authors that want to use HTML/CSS to write Figure1:Thisfigureisshowedforillustrationalpurpos- their papers. This template has been prepared by es only; floppy disks are not required to use this tem- Håkon WiumLie, and is based on a guide to using plate. FrameMaker for USENIX papers, written by Pekka Nikander with the help of Jane-Ellen Long. 2.2 Style manuals The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Besides typography, style is the second element Section 2 gives a brief overview of related work, of preparing easy-to-read publications. There are suchasothertemplatesandstylemanuals.Section tens of good style manuals available. To mention 3 discusses the details of this template, and Sec- just a couple, The Elements of Style by Strunk and tion 4 contains our conclusions. White[1]isaclassic,andhasremainedabestseller 2Related Work since its introduction in 1930’s. From the more Preparing good-looking publications is not easy. contemporary ones, Writing for Computer Science It requires understanding of style and typography. by Justin Zobel [2] seems appropriate. The purpose of the templates provided by the 3Implementation USENIXorganizationistolift the burden of caring In this section we cover the features included in about typography from the authors. However, the this template. Our goal has been that the authors authors still remain, and will always remain, re- donotneedtomakemodificationstothetemplate; sponsible for the style. instead, they should be able to concentrate on the 2.1 Word and LaTeX templates content and style. With this in mind, this template The USENIX website includes a template for Mi- includes a number of features. On the other hand, crosoft Word, as well as LaTeX templates. Many of we have also tried to keep this document simple the settings in the CSS style sheet of this template and easy to maintain. have been copied from the LaTeX templates. This template is written in HTML, with CSS to provide styling, and a small JavaScript to help for- mat references. 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The (This section has been added by Håkon Wium Lie) figure element is used to include figures and In order to convert the document to PDF, a for- their corrensponding captions live inside the fig- matter is needed. Common browsers support captionelement.Theciteelementholdsallref- HTMLandCSS,buttheydonotsupportalltheCSS erences. functionality for page-based formatting. For ex- Asmall microformat, based on a convention of ample, browsers do not support footnotes or page class names, is used to encode the name and affili- floats. This paper has been formatted with [a] ation of the authors. Prince, a purpose-built program for converting HTML and XML documents into PDF by way of 3.2 CSS CSS. Prince is a commercial product, but can be downloaded and used for free for non-commercial A CSS style sheet describes how to format the purposes. HTML document into a PDF file. CSS is a declar- In order for Prince to process the script includ- ative language which attaches property values to ed in this template, a command line option must HTML elements and documents. Many aspects of be specified: CSSisusedtoachievethepresentation of USENIX $ prince --javascript example.html papers, including: • multi-column layout 4Tables • footnotes ThetablebelowlistsrecipientsoftheUSENIXLife- • page and column floats time Achievement Award in the 1900s. Notice how • multi-level counters notes inside the table are moved to the end of the Somecommonlyusedfeatures are absent from table. the above list: page numbers and running headers should not be specifed by USENIX authors, these Year Recipient are added by those who compile the Proceedings. 1999 X Window System* 3.3 JavaScript 1998 Tim Berners-Lee This template uses JavaScript to process refer- 1997 Brian W. Kernighan ences. References are added at the point where they appear, and a script is later used to move the [a] www.princexml.com 1996 The Software Tools Project work. 1995 The Creation of USENET** Availability 1994 Networking Technologies Please include a section at the end of your paper 1993 Berkeley UNIX providing availability information. If the system * Given to the Community at Large you describe is available to others, and if more in- ** Given to Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott formation (reports, etc.) may be obtained, indicate terms and contact information. 5Conclusions References Each good paper concludes the most significant [1] STRUNK, W. JR., AND WHITE, E.B. The Elements findings in the end. of Style, 4th Ed, Allyn and Bacon, August, 1999, Acknowledgments ISBN 020530902X [2] ZOBEL, J. Writing for Computer Science, Apolite author always includes acknowledgments. Springer-Verlag, December 1997, ISBN Thank everyone, especially those who funded the 9813083220