USENIX Example Paper
|     |     |     |     |     | Pekka Nikander   |     | Jane-Ellen Long    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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|     |     |     |     |     | Aalto University |     | USENIX Association |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Abstract
ThisisanexampleforaUSENIXpaper,intheform
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| erential,      | this template |           | illustrates |             | the features | in-       |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| cluded in      | this          | template. | It          | is expected |              | that the  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
prospectiveauthorsusingHTML/CSSwouldcreate
| a new document |     | based | on  | this template, |     | remove |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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the content, and start writing their paper.
Notethatinthistemplate,youmayhaveamul-
| ti-paragraph      | abstract. |           | However, | that    | it   | is not nec- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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| 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.
1 Introduction
| For the | purposes | of  | USENIX | conference |     | publica- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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tions,theauthors,nottheUSENIXstaff,aresolely
responsibleforthecontentandformattingoftheir
| paper. The | purpose |     | of this | template |     | is to help |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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thoseauthorsthatwanttouseHTML/CSStowrite Figure1:Thisfigureisshowedforillustrationalpurpos-
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| their papers.                          | This | template |         | has | been prepared | by       |                 |       |         |          |     |          |      |
| HåkonWiumLie,andisbasedonaguidetousing |      |          |         |     |               |          | 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. |                     |              |       |               |            |         |     |
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|         |         |            |          |           |            |             | 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
3 discusses the details of this template, and Sec- tens of good style manuals available. To mention
justacouple,TheElementsofStylebyStrunkand
tion 4 contains our conclusions.
White[1]isaclassic,andhasremainedabestseller
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2 Related Work
contemporaryones,WritingforComputerScience
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by Justin Zobel[2]seems appropriate.
Itrequiresunderstandingofstyleandtypography.
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3 Implementation
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authors still remain, and will always remain, re- this template. Our goal has been that the authors
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sponsible for the style.
instead,theyshouldbeabletoconcentrateonthe
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2.1 Word and LaTeX templates
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3.1 HTML5 references to the end of the paper, leaving behind
a numeric marker.
ThistemplateusesHTML5elementstoaidinrep-
resenting the document structure. The section
3.4 PDF
elementisusedtosplitthetextintosections,and
the header element holds the headlines. The (This section has been added by Håkon Wium Lie)
figure element is used to include figures and InordertoconvertthedocumenttoPDF,afor-
matter is needed. Common browsers support
theircorrenspondingcaptionsliveinsidethefig-
HTMLandCSS,buttheydonotsupportalltheCSS
captionelement.Theciteelementholdsallref-
functionality for page-based formatting. For ex-
erences.
ample, browsers do not support footnotes or page
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floats. This paper has been formatted with
classnames,isusedtoencodethenameandaffili-
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Prince, a purpose-built program for converting
ation of the authors.
HTML and XML documents into PDF by way of
CSS. Prince is a commercial product, but can be
3.2 CSS
downloadedandusedforfreefornon-commercial
A CSS style sheet describes how to format the purposes.
HTML document into a PDF file. CSS is a declar- InorderforPrincetoprocessthescriptinclud-
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:
CSSisusedtoachievethepresentationofUSENIX
$ prince --javascript example.html
papers, including:
• multi-column layout
4 Tables
• footnotes
• page and column floats ThetablebelowlistsrecipientsoftheUSENIXLife-
• multi-level counters timeAchievementAwardinthe1900s.Noticehow
notesinsidethetablearemovedtotheendofthe
Somecommonlyusedfeaturesareabsentfrom table.
theabovelist:pagenumbersandrunningheaders
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
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| 1996 | The Software Tools Project |     | work. |     |     |     |
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| 1995 | The Creation ofUSENET**    |     |       |     |     |     |
Availability
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|      |                         |     | Please include | a section    | at the       | end of your paper |
| 1993 | Berkeley UNIX           |     |                |              |              |                   |
|      |                         |     | providing      | availability | information. | If the system     |
youdescribeisavailabletoothers,andifmorein-
* Given to the Community at Large
** Given toJim EllisandTom Truscott formation(reports,etc.)maybeobtained,indicate
terms and contact information.
5 Conclusions
References
| Each good            | paper concludes | the most significant |             |         |             |              |
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|                      |                 |                      | [1] STRUNK, | W. JR., | WHITE, E.B. | The Elements |
| findings in the end. |                 |                      |             |         | AND         |              |
ofStyle,4thEd,AllynandBacon,August,1999,
ISBN 020530902X
Acknowledgments
|     |     |     | [2] ZOBEL, | J. Writing | for Computer | Science, |
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Apoliteauthoralwaysincludesacknowledgments. Springer-Verlag, December 1997, ISBN
| Thank everyone, | especially | those who funded | the 9813083220 |     |     |     |
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