%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ASME.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% This is a template for the IMAC (International Modal Analysis %%% Conference) style file imac.sty. No subsubsection format is %%% defined for IMAC, so I used this command for the nomenclature command. %%% With this you should also find imac.bst which applies the closest %%% thing I can determine to be the ``Standard'' for IMAC. %%% The 9 point text size has already been defined in the style file imac.sty. %%% %%% Version 2026-10-07 %%% (versioned by release date rather than a version number; see the %%% "Changes" section below for the full history) %%% As of the 2026-10-07 release, this style matches the official IMAC %%% Word Template.dotx: single-column A4 layout, Times New Roman body %%% text, sentence-case bold headings, and plain (non-superscript) %%% bracketed citations. %%% \documentclass{article} \usepackage{imac} \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{ colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, citecolor=blue, filecolor=magenta, urlcolor=cyan, pdftitle={IMAC}, pdfpagemode=FullScreen, } % You also need to have the packages: cite, citesort, and ifthen % (ifthen comes with the standard distribution of LaTeX). % They can be obtained from any CTAN server. Probably where you found % this. \newcommand{\degrees}{$^{\circ}$~} \begin{document} %%% Don't want date printed \date{} \title{\fontsize{16pt}{19pt}\selectfont\bfseries IMAC version 2.0: A \LaTeX\ PACKAGE FOR WRITING PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS CONFERENCE (IMAC) FORMAT} \author{\vspace{.25in}\\ \textbf{Joseph C. Slater}\\ } \maketitle %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{abstract} Just like in any other \LaTeX\ document, you begin the abstract, make the title, and define the author as shown in the example. Not that IMAC requires that the author names be in bold, so you have to do this yourself. In addition, I haven't yet hacked the style definition for the title. Maybe I will later, but that's a minor inconvenience. For feedback and support, please see the \href{https://github.com/josephcslater/IMAC}{IMAC style home page}. \end{abstract} \keywords{Keyword one \textbullet\ Keyword two \textbullet\ Keyword three} \subsubsection*{Nomenclature} \begin{tabular}{lll} \matr{M} && matrix\\ \dmat{M}&& diagonal matrix\\ \vect{\Phi} && vector \\ \elem{M_{11}}&& single element of \matr{M}\\ \pnorm{x} && p-norm of \vect{x}\\ $\begin{bmatrix}\matr{M}_{11}&:&\matr{M}_{12}\\ \hdotsfor[2]{1}&:&\hdotsfor[2]{1}\\ \matr{M}_{21}&:&\matr{M}_{22} \end{bmatrix}$ && partitioned matrix\\ \end{tabular} \section{Changes} As of this release, versions are identified by release date (\texttt{YYYY-MM-DD}) rather than by an incrementing version number. Older entries below retain their original version numbers since precise individual dates for each of them could not be reliably recovered from the repository history; the closest available commit dates are noted. 2018-03-26: Initial public release (version 1.0, later also labeled 1.0.1/1.0.2), including the LPPL license and hyperlinks to the main document. 2021-12-08: (version 1.0.3) Fix minor typos in document. 2026-10-07: Realigned the style with the official IMAC Word Template (\emph{Word Template.dotx}, distributed via the IMAC/SEM (Society for Experimental Mechanics) author toolkit) so that \LaTeX\ and Word submissions now produce matching formatting. Specific changes: \begin{itemize} \item Switched body and heading fonts from sans-serif (Helvetica/Computer Modern Sans) to Times New Roman-compatible fonts (via \texttt{mathptmx}). \item Changed from a two-column US Letter layout to a single-column A4 layout, with margins matching the Word template (top 0.825in, bottom 1in, left/right 0.715in). \item Section, subsection, and subsubsection headings are now bold, sentence case, instead of bold, all-caps. \item The \texttt{Abstract}, \texttt{References}, \texttt{Table}, and \texttt{Program} labels are now bold, sentence case, instead of bold, all-caps. \item In-text citations are now plain, non-superscript, bracketed numbers (e.g.\ \texttt{[1, 2, 3]}), matching the Word template, instead of bracketed superscripts. Citation ranges are no longer compressed. \item Added a \verb*z\keywordsz command to typeset a Keywords line after the abstract, matching the Word template. \item Paragraph spacing (\texttt{\textbackslash parskip}) reduced to 8pt to match the Word template's default paragraph spacing. \item Removed unused eleven/ten/eight-point \texttt{\textbackslash font} definitions, the obsolete \texttt{helvet} package instructions, and the duplicate/stray package loading; added \texttt{\textbackslash ProvidesPackage} for proper version reporting (now also date-based). \item Fixed a hyperlink color inconsistency: citations now use \texttt{citecolor=blue}, matching the rest of the document's links (previously citations defaulted to hyperref's green). \end{itemize} \section{Typing Your Document} \indent First thing to note is that the IMAC style indents the first line of each paragraph, including the paragraph immediately following a section header. You can override the \LaTeX\ default of not indenting by using the \indent command each time after a \verb*a\sectiona command or by using the package \verb*zindentfirstz which can be downloaded from any CTAN location. The second thing which you may need to do is obtain and install the packages: \verb*zcitez, \verb*zifthenz, \verb*zamsmathz, and \verb*zmathptmxz (for Times-compatible text and math fonts, matching the official Word template). These are all standard CTAN packages and should already be part of any complete \LaTeX\ distribution. The PDF\textregistered\ file \verb*zimac.pdfz can be viewed for comparison to the results you obtain from \LaTeX ing this document. A few macros have been defined below for conforming to the IMAC\cite{ewins} notation convention (See Table \ref{dm}). If you use them, you can simply redefine the macros according to the journal requirements when the time comes for submission. I've defined only those that I thought were either difficult or do not conform to normal textbook standards. You may find it useful to define your own macros at the end of the file \verb*zimac.styz, but please make sure that you don't delete them the next time you update! In Table \ref{dm} you'll also see some code for making a partitioned matrix. Sorry, but I don't know how to turn this into an environment. If you figure it out, let me know and I'll incorporate it. The colons form the horizontal delimiters and the \verb*z\hdotsforz command forms the vertical delimiters. The first argument represents a spacing of the dots, and the second required argument is the number of columns that the dotted line should span. \begin{table*} \begin{tabular}{lll} \matr{M} &\verb*c\matr{M}c& matrix\\ \dmat{M}&\verb*c\dmat{M}c& diagonal matrix\\ \vect{\Phi} & \verb*a\vect{\Phi}a & vector \\ \elem{M_{11}}&\verb*z\elem{M_{11}}z& single element of \matr{M}\\ \pnorm{x} &\verb*a\pnorm{x}a & p-norm of \vect{x}\\ %%%% Look between these lines for the partitioned matrix code $\begin{bmatrix}\matr{M}_{11}&:&\matr{M}_{12}\\ \hdotsfor[2]{1}&:&\hdotsfor[2]{1}\\ \matr{M}_{21}&:&\matr{M}_{22} \end{bmatrix}$ %%%% Look between these lines for the partitioned matrix code %%%% The stuff below this is for displaying the code. Ignore it. &\begin{minipage}{3.5in} {\verb*z\begin{bmatrix}z\\\verb*z\matr{M}_{11}&:&\matr{M}_{12}\\z\\ \verb*z\hdotsfor[2]{1}&:&\hdotsfor[2]{1}\\z\\ \verb*z\matr{M}_{21}&:&\matr{M}_{22}z\\\verb*z\end{bmatrix}z} \end{minipage} & partitioned matrix\\ \end{tabular} \caption{\label{dm}Defined macros} \end{table*} Please contact me at \verb*zjoseph.c.slater@gmail.comz if you find bugs in this. I'll do my best to fix them in a timely fashion. Please don't contact me with respect to general \LaTeX\ questions. For help with \LaTeX\ please consult Lamport\cite{lamport}, Goossens et al.\cite{goossens}, and/or Kopka and Daly\cite{kopka}. Additional resources are available through the \TeX\ newsgroup \verb*zcomp.text.texz, the CTAN archives at \verb*zhttp://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctanz, and the \TeX users group (TUG) home page (\verb*zhttp://www.tug.org/z). From here on is just some examples to give you some continuing examples of how to do things. The table would have been better off if I had used the \verb*zhhlinez package. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{Here is a section} \indent In bladed disk assemblies, the disk acts as a coupling device between the blades. As the stiffness of the disk increases, blade coupling decreases. It has been shown that weak interblade coupling leads to high levels of mode localization when blades are mistuned. \begin{figure} \begin{center} \fbox{There once was a figure here} \end{center} \caption{\label{undeformed}Here is a figure.} \end{figure} \subsection{This is a subsection} \indent All models used in this study were variations of the symmetric, constant stiffness system referred to as the baseline model (Figure \ref{undeformed}). Yada yada. \begin{table} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|} \hline & Random 1 & Random 2 & Random 3\\ \cline{2-4} \raisebox{2ex}{Blade Number} & $10^{-3}$ Kg & $10^{-3}$ Kg & $10^{-3}$ Kg\\ \hline \hline 1 & 0.0168 & 0.3343 & 0.3413\\ 2 & 0.0260 & 0.2867 & 0.4431\\ 3 & 0.2579 & 0.4529 & 0.3710\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \caption{\label{random} Simple table.} \end{table} ... and that's it! If you can't get it to work, I can be reached at \verb*zjoseph.c.slater@gmail.comz. \section*{Acknowledgments} Note that for the Acknowledgments you need to use the \verb*z\sectionz command in the starred form to avoid getting the section number. Thanks to Leslie Lamport\cite{lamport}, Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin\cite{goossens} and all others who've built \LaTeX\ into what it is today. \section*{Copyright} Copyright (C) 1998 Joseph C. Slater \bibliographystyle{imac} \bibliography{imac} \end{document}