type title here (style is heading 1, 16pt bold)
Author names
Affiliation (with country)
Email ids of each author separated by commas

Type your abstract here. The purpose of this paragraph is to draw attention to the style for abstracts, which is Normal, italic (font 12); length may be up to 10 lines. The word Abstract is not needed at the beginning of the abstract. (The abstract style is epi Abstract.)
the main SECTION HEADING (STYLE is epi HeadING 2, 14pt bold)
This is a template for preparing papers for epiSTEME-4. This paragraph uses the style epi Normal - 12pt Times New Roman, with single line spacing and a 6pt space after each paragraph. The easiest way to use this document is to keep a copy of this original template (since it contains all the instructions) and then save a copy of this file using the intended file-name. You may save your files in RTF-format (Rich Text Format). Those who wish to work using Latex can follow this stylesheet as a template. Please limit the length of the paper to a maximum eight pages including figures, tables and references, with the formatting as given in this template. Please note the papers are going to be sent for blind review.
This is Style epi Heading 3, if you need it for subsections (14pt bold).
Use epi Heading 3 for subsections. Please do not number sections or sub-sections.
Once you have saved your copy, the simplest way to work with the styles is to start typing over what is already here. If you need a heading or paragraph of a certain style in another part of the paper, simply copy and paste one that you already have. You just need to make sure you include the whole paragraph including the paragraph mark at the end (to make paragraph marks and spaces visible in MSWord you could go to “Show Formatting”). You can also see which style applies to a particular paragraph by inserting the cursor in the paragraph and looking at the “style” box visible in the Formatting Toolbar (usually next to the boxes showing the Font and Font Size). You can change the style of a paragraph by highlighting the paragraph and selecting the desired style from the selection shown in that style box; this may be useful if you need to paste in some material from another document. If you cannot see the Formatting Toolbar you can make it visible using the “View” menu. 
Quotes shorter than two lines are normally included within the text, inside quotation marks. For longer quotations, use the following style.
Indented (0.5 cm left indent) quotations (more than two lines) are in the style epi Quote. If you wish, you can also use this style for other text that you want to display without using a table. Please do not use this size font for the whole paper.
For transcripts, you may use either of the styles epi Numbered Transcript or epi Transcript, as in the examples below.
First, the epi Numbered Transcript style:
1 	I:	So what did you notice about the conference?
2	S1: 	I saw that it was rather friendly.
3	S3: 	So did I, but I also saw that it was too informal… 
4  		perhaps it was something about their culture.
Use of the epi Transcript style:
Interviewer:	So what did you notice about the communication?
Swati:	That they used technical terms and numbers when referring to sizes.
Tables, Figures, Quotes and Transcripts
Ensure that tables and figures do not go outside the margins of the page. Tables and figures can be labelled as below.
Participants	Papers	Posters	
Foreign (55)	30	22	
Indian (65)	9	24	
Total (120)	39	44	
Table 1: Titles of tables, figures, diagrams, are in the style epi FigTitle.
Page set-up and formatting 
Please use formatting for A4 paper, size 21 cm x 29.7 cm. Margins should be set at 3 cm top and 3 cm bottom; 3 cm left and 2 cm right. 
All text should be Times New Roman. Sizes are 12 point single line spacing. HEADING 1 is 16 point, HEADING 2 and Heading 3 are both 14 point with line spacing exactly 16pt. Please use a single character space only between sentences.
Presenting references 
The references should be presented as shown at the end of this document, with the heading in epi Heading 3 style. References use the epi Reference style, which gives 11 point type with single line spacing and a hanging indent of 0.5 cm. Authors should follow the APA Publication Manual Fifth Edition reference styles for references. Some information can be found on the following web-site: http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm. Remember that all works cited must appear in the reference list, and all works in the reference list must be cited. 
Acknowledgements
Please contact epiSTEME at episteme7@hbcse.tifr.res.in or episteme7@gmail.com with any concerns or questions.
References
Ball, D. L. (1990). Prospective elementary and secondary teachers’ understanding of division. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 21(2), 132-144.
McDonough, A., & Clarke, D. (2002). Describing the practice of effective teachers of mathematics in the early years. In N. A. Pateman, B. J. Doherty, & J. Zilliox (Eds.), Proc. 27th Conf. of the Int. Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp. 261-268). Honolulu, USA: PME.
Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.