Guidelines for Preparing Project
Report
Specifications for Major Project Report needs to be prepared using standard text processing software
the Major (LaTeX).Uniformity in font sizes, fonts, spacing, and margins has to be ensured.
Project Format Project report should be free from typographical errors
A4 is the recommended Major Project Report page size.
The top, bottom and right side margins should be 25 mm, whereas the left side
margin should be 35 mm for both textual and non-textual (e.g., figures, tables)
pages.
Content should not extend beyond the bottom margin except for completing a
footnote, last line of chapter/subdivision, or figure/table caption.
A sub-heading at the bottom of the page should have at least two full lines of
content below it. If the sub-heading is too short to allow this, it should begin on the
next page.
Size and Margins
All tables and figures should conform to the same requirements as text. Color may
be used for figures. If tables and figures are large, they may be reduced to the
standard 4 size (provided the reduced area is not less than 50% of the original) and
/or folded just once to flush with the Major Project Report margin (if the page size
does notexceed 250x360 mm).
Beginning with the first page of the text in the Major Project Report (chapter 1), all
pages should be numbered consecutively and consistently in Arabic numerals
through theappendices.
Page Numbering Page numbers prior to Chapter 1 should be in lower case Roman numerals. The
title page is considered to be page i but the number is not printed
All page numbers should be placed without punctuation in the bottom center,
12mm from the bottom edge
All tables (tabulated data) and figures (charts, graphs, maps, images, diagrams,
etc.) should be prepared, wherever possible, on the same page used to type the
text and conform to the specifications outlined earlier. They should be inserted as
close to the textual reference as possible.
Tables, Figures Tables, figures and equations should be numbered sequentially either throughout
and Equations the Major Project Report or chapter-wise using Arabic numerals. They are referred
to in thebody of the text capitalizing the first letter of the word and number, as for
instance,Table 17, Figure 24, Equation (33), or Table 5.3, Figure 3.11, Equation
(4.16), etc. 5 If tables and figures are of only half a page or less, they may appear
on the samepage as text but separated above and below by triple line spacing.
Font size for text
should be the same as for the general text.
Good quality figures must be drawn using standard software that provides vector
rather than bit-map graphics. Figures must be scalable.
Images, Photographs etc. must be scanned in resolution exceeding 200dpi with 256
grayscales for the monochrome images and 24 bit per pixel for the color images.
Sequence of Contents: The following sequence for the Major Project Report
organizationshould be followed:
(i) Title Page
Certificate
Declaration
Abstract
Acknowledgement and/ or Dedication (where included)
Table of Contents
List of Figures, Tables, Illustrations, Symbols, etc (wherever applicable)
Guidelines for
(ii) Text of Major
Structuring the
Project Report
Contents
Introduction
The body of the Major
Project Report
Summary and conclusions
(iii) Reference Material List of References, Bibliography (where included)
(iv) Appendices Where included
(v) Index Where included
All the headings are centered (without punctuation) 25mm down the top edge of
the page. The subsequent type-setting begins four spaces below the heading.
B. Tech. Major Project Report should contain an abstract not exceeding 300 words
(about one page)
Synopsis/Abstract should be complete by itself and contain no citations.
The table of contents lists all material that follows it. No preceding material is
listed. Chapter titles, sections, first and second order sub-divisions, etc must be
listed in it.
Tables, figures, nomenclature, if used in the Major Project Report, are listed under
separate headings.
Details on
Structure
Introduction may be the first chapter or its first major division. In either case, it
should contain a brief statement of the problem investigated. It should outline the
scope, aim, general character of the research and the reasons for the student’s
interest in the problem.
The body of Major Project Report (related work/literature survey, proposed work,
results and analysis etc.), This is the substance of the Major Project Report inclusive
of all divisions, subdivisions, tables, figures, etc.
Summary and conclusions If required, these are given as the last major division
(chapter) of the text. A further and final sub-division titled “Scope for Further
Work” may follow.
Reference material The list of references should appear as a consolidated list with
references listed either alphabetically or sequentially as they appear in the text of
the Major Project Report. If pertinent works have been consulted but not
specifically cited, they should be listed as Bibliography or General References.
Spacing and font size should be consistent inside a single reference, and there
should be double spacing between two different references.
For referencing an article in a scientific journal the suggested reference format
should contain the following information: title, authors, name of journal, volume
nos, page nos and year.
For referencing an article published in a book, the suggested format should
reference should contain, the title of the book, authors, editors, publisher, year,
page number of the article in the book being referred to.
For referencing a Major Project Report, it is required to specify the title of Major
Project Report, author, where Major Project Report was submitted or awarded,
and the year.
A few examples of formats of references are given below and student should be
consistent in following the style.
Journals
[1] T. Kaczorek, "Minimum energy control of fractional positive electrical circuits,"
Archives of Electrical Engineering, vol. 65, no. 2, pp.191–201, Oct. 2016.
[2] A. Vaskuri, H. Baumgartner, P. Kärhä, G. Andor, and E. Ikonen, "Modeling the
spectral shape of InGaAlP-based red light-emitting diodes," Journal of Applied
Physics, vol. 118, no. 20, pp. 203103-1–203103-7, Jul. 2015. Accessed: Feb. 9, 2017.
doi: 10.1063/1.4936322. [Online]. Available:
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4936322
For more details check:
Journal and magazine articles - IEEE Referencing - Library Guides at Victoria
University (vu.edu.au)
Example of Text of Major Project Report:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Explain objectives of the Major Project Report project you picked up. Mention
deliverable as achieved till now and how the rest of the report is organized section wise.
Chapter 2: Related Work Describe in brief the present state-of-the-art. Provide all relevant references till
date.
Chapter 3: Proposed methodology and algorithms. This chapter should explain the proposed work with
suitable algorithms and charts with critical evaluation with respect to the already reported
work/methods. Trade off analysis, if any of your work for different parameters.
Chapter 4: Experimental set up and details of experiments conducted and results analysis. There should
be a section for comparative analysis with existing work/methods.
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future work. Contribution of your work in terms of deliverables as proposed
by you. Future work or directions to extend the proposed research.
