The paper title of the work should be concise and definitive, and should be provided in upper and lowercase letters: This is How a Paper Title Should be Typed. Additionally:

• Prepositions and conjunctions of four (4) or more letters should be uppercase: e.g., With, From, That, Which, Until, About, Through, but, and, is, the, an, be, for.
• Special terms should be provided as they are known or understood by the industry. This includes acronyms, abbreviations, computer program names and codes, units of measure, etc.
• If the paper you are submitting was published in ASME conference proceedings and therefore has a unique paper number, e.g., DTM-2003-546, include this number in parentheses at the end of the paper title.

The paper abstract should be 150-200 words long using only text with Latin characters (no special characters, Greek, or math symbols). The purposes of the abstract are: (1) To give a clear indication of the objective, scope, and results so that readers may determine whether the full text will be of particular interest to them; and (2) To provide key words and phrases for indexing, abstracting, and retrieval purposes. The abstract text should be organized to include the following categories in the order noted: Background, method of approach, results, and conclusions.

For more information, please see the October 2009 Editorial.