Paper Title

First Author*1, Second Author2, Third Author2

1First affiliation, Street Address, City, Postcode, Country, e-mail address, (tel.)

2Second affiliation, Street Address, City, Postcode, Country, e-mail address, (tel.)

Abstract

Please insert your abstract here.

Keywords

Type your keywords here.

JEL Classification

Type your JEL classification here.

Basic information

This is the main text of the article. The paragraphs are only separated by headings, subheadings, figures, tables and formulas. The paper must be in MS Word only and should be formatted according to this template. It is necessary to follow instructions in this document and to use this template as a starting document.

Use only predefined CM styles. Be careful to not carry different text styles when transferring paper from other work copy documents (use paste as unformatted text and format text in this template instead).

Maximum length of the paper is 12 pages altogether and must not be exceeded.

Template

The basic navigation through paper template is explained in this chapter.

The first page

In this subchapter, information about the first page with paper title and abstract are presented.

Paper title

Maximum length of paper title is three rows, but it is highly advisable to make the title no longer than two rows. Capitalize the first letter in every word of the title.

Use predefined BIT-title style only.

Authors

Maximum number of authors is eight and must not be exceeded. It is up to the authors how they sort their names in the list, but the first author in the list should always be the main author, who was responsible for the paper submission. Do not use titles of authors. All authors should be listed in one paragraph (i.e. do not use separate paragraphs for each author).

Every author should have upper index (use Ctrl+1 shortcut) number next to his/her name, which points to corresponding affiliation. Every author may only have one affiliation, but more authors may have the same affiliation (in such case , use the same number for all these authors).

Use asterisk to highlight corresponding (main) responsible author.

Use predefined BIT-author style only.

Affiliations

All affiliations of corresponding authors are listed here. The connection between a corresponding author and his/her affiliation is realized through the upper index number after his/her name and upper index (Ctrl+1) number before corresponding affiliation. Only the number is written in upper index form. The rest of the affiliation should use normal text. For every affiliation, use a different paragraph. Do not use period at the end of affiliation description.

Every affiliation should consist of (in this order):

Affiliation name (i.e. the name of institution)

Correspondence street address (i.e. correspondence address without city, postcode and country)

City

Postcode (i.e. zip code)

Country (do not use abbreviations)

E-mail address (use e-mail address in proper format)

Phone number (optional, with prefix in following format: +0-000-000-0000)

Use predefined BIT-author-affiliation style only.

Abstract

Maximum length of the abstract is 300 words and must not be exceeded. It is highly advisable that there should be only one paragraph in the abstract, but it is possible to use more paragraphs if necessary.

Use predefined BIT-abstract_body style only.

Keywords

Minimum number of keywords is three and maximum number of keywords is five. Keywords should be listed in alphabetical order and separated with semicolons (i.e. “;”). All letters should be lower case with exception of names and abbreviations. Do not use period at the end of keywords list.

Use predefined BIT-keywords style.

JEL Classification

Please state at least one JEL classification for the paper. In case of more than one JEL classification, please write each JEL classification on separate row. Please include not only JEL classification code, but also the category description. Use following example:

C52 Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection

O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

etc.

Use predefined BIT-JEL style for each classification.

Main text

The main text consists of paragraphs (BIT-body style) and is divided into chapters (BIT-heading_1 style) and subchapters (BIT-heading_2 style for 2nd level subchapters and BIT-heading_3 style for 3rd level subchapters).

It is possible to use bulleted lists (BIT-bulletlist style). The maximum bullet list level allowed is 3. The list should look like this:

First point

Second point

First 2nd level point

First 3rd level point

Second 3rd level point

Second 2nd level point

…and so on

You can highlight text by making it Italic. Do not use “quotation marks”, underline or Bold for text highlights. Do not use color highlights in the text.

Do not alter formatting styles.

Figures

All figures should have captions (use BIT-caption_figure style), each of the captions should be positioned directly below the figure (never on a following page) and centered. Figures should be numbered with Arabic numbers consecutively from the beginning of the paper to its end. Every figure has to be referred to as figure in the body text and in its caption. The figure itself should be embedded into the text and should be centered (use BIT-figure style for illustrations). The example is shown in the following figure 1.

Figure 1: Black lines on the gray background in an example of a figure (source: authors)

The quality of figures should be as high as possible. Use image formats which allow compression, but make sure that each picture is of sufficient quality for print. All text in figures should be legible. All letters and symbols should be defined either in the figure caption or in the main text.

Use only pictures as figures and align them in line with text (as in example on figure 1).

Tables

All tables should have captions (use BIT-caption_table style), each of the captions should be positioned directly above the table (never on the preceding page) and aligned left. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numbers consecutively from the beginning of the paper to its end. Every table has to be referred to as table in the body text and in its caption. The table itself should be embedded into the text and should be centered. You may highlight text within the table by using Italic. It is recommended to use predefined BIT-table style for table contents.

Tale 1: An example of a table (source: authors)

An example of a column heading	Column A	Column B
Row 1	Field 1A	Field 1B
Row 2	Field 2A	Field 2B
Row 3	Field 3A	Field 3B

Equations

Equations and formulae have to be typed in MS Word integrated equations tool. Every equation and formulae should be aligned left and numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers in parentheses on the right side of the page. Use tab stop to achieve this. Use predefined BIT-equation style for the equations and their captions. All contents of the equation have to be explained in the main text.

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Abbreviations

Use of abbreviations should be reduced to the necessary minimum. If used, the abbreviation should be defined the first time it appears in the text.

Footnotes

It is not allowed to use footnotes.

Paper structure

The paper should have following logical structure. Authors are not obliged to follow this exact structure, but it is mandatory to include information related to all these subchapters:

Introduction

Methodology

Results

Conclusion and discussion

References

Acknowledgement

Introduction details

In this chapter, the paper should be introduced. It is recommended to state its research goal and, if necessary, to provide comprehensive literature review. This chapter should clearly state what the problem that paper is dealing with is. Hypotheses are presented in this chapter, if there are any.

Methodology details

In this chapter, all detailed information about research done should be provided. This chapter should clearly describe how the problem has been dealt with on theoretical basis. The process described in this chapter should be detailed enough to be reproducible.

Results details

This chapter is the main body of the paper. It consists of the main research presentation. All results have to be transparent and consistent, according to described methodology. Chapter should clearly describe how the problem has been dealt with on practical basis and what the results of the research are. Hypotheses are tested in this chapter, if there are any.

Conclusion and discussion details

In this chapter, the results are summarized and conclusion of research is presented. After conclusion, discussion should follow, where the importance of the research is explained. It is also advised to explain how the research should continue and what are strengths and weaknesses of presented research.

References details

References should be all presented at the end of the paper. They should be sorted and numbered in order of their appearance in the text. When there is a reference to literature in the main text, it should be made by using the corresponding number in square brackets.

Predefined BIT-references style should be used for references and BIT-references_heading should be used for the chapter title. An example of reference list for the following paragraph is presented at the end of this template. The following paragraph itself contains some useful information about citation format and sources.

Every figure and table caption should include source reference, which may be of three kinds:

(source: author) or source: (authors)

(source: author with the use of [X]) or (source: authors with the use of [X]), where [X] is referenced document

[X], where [X] is referenced document; in this case it is not necessary to mention that the [X] is the source and it is possible to cite such source without source: introduction.

References example paragraph

This is the example paragraph for references in the text. First of all, these references should be books [1] and scientific journal articles [2] (in this case, it is the 2nd issue or volume of journal from 2014, relevant article is on pages 22-25). You can also use conference proceedings [3] and other journals with ISSN number [4] (in this case, it is the 4th issue of the journal from 2014, relevant article is on pages 17-19). It is also possible to use internet sources [5], but please do not use them extensively and make sure the citation format is correct. To provide literature review of sufficient quality, always use internationally recognized scientific papers as sources. Please provide URLs (for internet sources) and DOI (for scientific papers) where available, but remove the URL signature from the text (i.e. make it BIT-references style, not the hypertext style). If there is direct quotation or if specific page needs to be referred (in case of books), please include page into the square bracket referral [1, p. 22-23]. In case of direct quotation, please “use italic and quotation marks to highlight quoted text, followed directly by the number of reference” [1, p. 13]. For the reference example purposes, authors of referred documents are called Adam Novak and Eve Appleton. Every example publication has been released in Prague.

Acknowledgement details

Acknowledgement is optional. If there are any personal remarks or financing sources remarks, they should be here. The acknowledgement chapter name should use BIT-acknowledgement_heading style and the acknowledgement itself should use BIT-body style.

References

NOVAK, A., APPLETON, E. This is the name of the book. Prague: This is the name of the publisher, 2014. ISBN 978-12-3456-789-1.

NOVAK, A. This is the name of the article. This is the name of the journal, 2-2014, pp. 22-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1234/IV.2014.1234567

APPLETON, E. This is the name of the paper. This is the name of the proceedings, 2014, pp. 37-40. ISSN 977-1234567-89-0

NOVAK, A. This is the name of the article. This is the name of the journal, 4-2014, pp. 17-19. ISSN 977-1234567-89-0

APPLETON, E. This is the name of the web page. This is the name of the server. Available online at: www.webpage.com/it_is_important_to_include_whole_page_url/not_only_the_server.php (accessed 17 Dec 2014)