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Figure 1. The structure of an electronic paper.
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This is a sample HTML document for the ACM Multimedia 97 electronic proceedings.
To determine how this document is organized and learn more about the formatting tags we use for individual components, use "View source" (or something similar) in your document viewer. To save the source, use "Save as" (or something similar) and choose the format "HTML".
ACM Multimedia, Electronic Proceedings
This is a document that illustrates the general format for the electronic version of the ACM Multimedia 97 Proceedings.
You will observe that this is a single document, rather than a collection of linked documents. In our experience, many readers print their electronic documents, rather than reading them on the computer monitor. Therefore, putting all the information in one document helps such readers.
You can think of the structure of this HTML document as a tree. You can access each section and subsection of the document from the table of contents. When you get to the end of a Section, you should place a backlink to the table of contents. At the end of each subsection you should place a link to the parent section. Likewise, if you have a sub-subsection, you may place at the end of it a back link to the parent subsection, etc. You do not have to create all these links, especially if the subsection is short - just ask yourself whether it would be of benefit for the reader to have such a link.
In this subsection we elaborate on the structure of the document. We do it using the picture we include here.
Figure 1. The structure of an electronic paper.
There is a link from each entry of the Table of Contents to the the corresponding document Section, Subsection, etc.
Main sections (including bibliography, and acknowledgements) point back to the beginning of the Table of Contents. Each subsection (or sub-subsection) points back to the section (or subsection) in which it is contained, as follows.
Instead of including the picture, you can establish a link to it, in which case the caption will look like this.
Figure 1.The structure of an electronic paper.
To find more on this, you can refer to the Section Where to Find More Information. This is an example of a cross link: when you refer to another section you can also establish a link to it.
Use appropriate tags to structure your document, e.g.. similar to this document. The headings for sections should be tagged as <Heading2>, subsections as <Heading3>, and so on, thus, nearly in the same way as you do it for hardcopy papers.
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As shown above, figures can be included in the text flow or be separated. In either case, you should prepare them as GIF files and make them available as part of the electronic version of your ACM Multimedia 97 contribution.
Make sure that internal links to parts of your paper do not include host names, and are relative to the current directory. This is essential for making your document portable and accessible for others. External links to other documents on the WWW, should be limited to the references and to the author's home page.
As footnotes are an odd concepts when documents do not have pages, [1] and therefore do not have identifiable "feet," you should use endnotes rather than footnotes. In the previous sentence, you found the only endnote in this sample document: a number surrounded by brackets. Make each endnote reference a link to the corresponding endnote in the endnotes section. See how this works by clicking on the "1" above.
HTML and the WWW provide new opportunities for bibliography usage and we strongly encourage authors to make the references in the body of their text links to the bibliography. In addition, any references to online documents in the bibliography should be links to those documents. We recommend against using numbers for these links, as they are hard to distinguish from endnotes.
Check examples of a book entry [Book95], of an article [Art94], and of two Web documents [Cru95,Reb95].
There exist many sources for more information, e.g., about the usage of HTML, style guides, etc. The bibliography references just a few documents, e.g.,
[1] Some people even suggest that footnotes should be avoided in page-formatted documents... However, if you have footnotes in the hardcopy version of your paper, this is the way to deal with them in the electronic version of your paper. You can use "Back" (or something similar) in your document viewer to go back to where you were.
We would like to thank the authors of the guidelines for the electronic proceedings of ACM Multimedia 95 (Isabel Cruz) (who in turn based their document on the work of Sam Rebelsky and the other authors of [Reb95]).