REPORT FORMAT FOR PREPARATION OF SEMINAR
REPORT/ PROJECT REPORT
I. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS:
The sequence in which the seminar report material should be arranged and bound should
be as follows:
1. Cover Page & Title Page
2. Certificate
3. Acknowledgements
4. Abstract
5. Table of Contents
6. List of Tables – if any
7. List of Figures – if any
8. Chapters
9. Appendix- if any(programs, data sheets, derivations, etc)
10. References
The table and figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.
II. PAGE DIMENSION AND BINDING SPECIFICATIONS:
The dimension of the seminar report should be in A4 size.
III. PREPARATION FORMAT:
1. Abstract – Abstract should be one page synopsis of the seminar report typed 1.5 line
spacing, Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12.
2. Table of Contents – A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of the seminar report is
given in Appendix
3. List of Tables & List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they
appear above the tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing
the matter under this head.
4. Chapters – The chapters may be broadly divided into 4/5 parts 1) Introduction with
Open Research Issues 2) Overviews of Selected issues with Literature Reviews 3)
Proposed Work (for project work) 4) Tools/Platform/Experimental Setup/Hardware
Requirements with Results & Discussions 5) Summary/Conclusions 6) References
a. Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.
b. Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the
reference where they are cited.
5. List of References –The listing of references should be typed 4 spaces below the heading
“REFERENCES” in alphabetical order in single spacing left – justified. The reference
material should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first author. The name of the
author/authors should be immediately followed by the year and other details. The orders of
references in the List of References are either in the order of the of year of publications OR
in the order of references cited in the text. References for journals, conferences and books are
provided
A typical illustrative list given below relates to the citation example quoted below. Which are different
for Journals, Conferences proceedings and Books
REFERENCES
[1] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A Novel Ultrathin Elevated Channel Low-temperature poly-Si TFT,”
IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
[2] S. P. Bingulac, “On the Compatibility of Adaptive Controllers”, Proc. 4th International National Conf. Circuits and
Systems Theory, New York, 1994, pp. 8–16.
[3] Rajiv Ramaswami and Kumar N. Sivarajan, “Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2nd
Edition, 2002.
IV. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:
One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general text shall
be typed in the Font style „Times New Roman‟ and Font size 12.
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Suggested Font Sizes:
Details Font Type Font size Spacing
Chapter headings with Times New
14pt bold capitals Centered
chapter number on Roman
top
Times New
Section headings 12pt bold capitals Left adjusted
Roman
Times New 12pt. sentence
Subsection headings Left adjusted
Roman case
Times New [Link]
Paragraph headings Left adjusted
Roman sentence case
Adjusted on both left and
Times New right(Justified) and with 1.5
Body of seminar report 12 pt
Roman spacing for text and double spacing
for equations
Left Margin 1.5 inch To accommodate binding area
Right Margin 1.25 inch
On pages in which chapter
Margins 2.0inch
Top begins
1.0 inch Other pages
Bottom 1.25 inch
Example for Table and Figure in the chapters of the main text
IP
ATM CLIENT
LAYER Channel Layer
SONET/SDH
OPTICAL
LAYER
PHYSICAL Transmission Layer
LAYER
Figure 1.4: A Layered view of Wavelength-Routed WDM Network (figure caption must be at the
bottom of the figure)
Table 3.2: Demand matrix for the example network (Table caption must be at the top of the table)
Nodes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - 0 0 0 0
2 0 - 0 0 0
3 0 0 - 0 4
4 0 0 0 - 0
5 0 5 0 0 -
(A typical specimen of table of contents)
<Font Style Times New Roman>
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements i
Abstract ii
List of Tables (if any) iii
List of Figures (if any) iv
1. Introduction 1
1.1. GENERAL HEADING 1
1.2. GENERAL HEADING 2
1.2.1 General Sub-heading 5
1.2.2 ........... 12
1.2.3 ............ 30
1.3 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 45
1.4 .................. 58
2. Literature Revie…….. 69
2.1. GENERAL HEADING 75
2.2. ……………………….. 80
2.3. ……………. 90
3. Proposed Work …………….. 93
3.1. Problem Definition …………….. 95
3.2. Solution approach …………….. 97
3.3. Results and Discussions …….... 99
4. Conclusions 100
Appendix A (if any)………………… 102
Appendix B (if any) …………… 104
References 105