Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research
Department of Information Technology or Computer Science & Engineering (Data Science) or
Computer Science & Engineering (Internet of Things)
(Keep only the name of your Branch in Full)
Project Report Formatting Instructions
1. Font Type: Times New Roman
2. Font Size:
2.1 Main Heading or Chapter Heading
Font Size: 16
Capital & Bold
2.2 Sub Heading:
Font Size: 14
Case Sensitive & Bold
2.3 Description:
Font Size: 12
Line Spacing: 1.5
Paragraph Spacing: 2
3. Margin
3.1 Left Margin: 1.5
3.2 Right / Top / Bottom Margin: 1
4. Paragraph: All the paragraph should be Justified (Alignment).
5. Figure: Place the Figure title/caption below the figure. The caption number should be cited with the
abbreviation “Fig.” then the number, followed by a period, and space, and then by the caption text. The
Figure, and Figure title/captions should be centre-justified.
Example:
Fig.1. Small Amplifier Circuit.
6. Table: Place the table title/caption above the table.
The Table, and Table title/captions should be centre-justified. Table title/captions should capitalise.
TABLE should be enumerated with Roman numerals.
Example:
TABLE IX
PARAMETERS
CPU Chipset Bus
(GHz)
4.1 Texas Instruments PCIe
2.7 Redpine Signals PCIe
7. REFERENCES:
List of References –The listing of references should be typed one 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.
7.1 Book
[Ref number] Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, Book Title, edition (if not first). Place of
publication: Publisher, Year.
Example:
[1] I.A. Glover and P.M. Grant, Digital Communications, 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2009.
4.2 Journal article
[Ref number] Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, “Title of article,” Title of journal abbreviated in
Italics, vol. number, issue number, page numbers, Abbreviated Month Year.
Example:
[4] F. Yan, Y. Gu, Y. Wang, C. M. Wang, X. Y. Hu, H. X. Peng, et al., "Study on the interaction
mechanism between laser and rock during perforation," Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 54, pp. 303-
308, Dec 2013.
4.3 Conference papers
[Ref number] Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, “Title of paper,” in Name of Conference, Location,
Year, pp. xxx.
Example:
[6] S. Adachi, T. Horio, T. Suzuki. "Intense vacuum-ultraviolet single-order harmonic pulse by a deep-
ultraviolet driving laser," in Conf. Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA, 2012, pp.2118-2120.
4.4 Website
[Ref number] Author’s initials. Authors Surname. (Year, Month. Day). Title of web page [Online].
Available: URL
Example 1:
[13] BBC News. (2013, Nov. 11). Microwave signals turned into electrical power [Online]. Available:
[Link] .
Example 2:
[14] M. Holland. (2002). Guide to citing internet sources [Online]. Available:
[Link]
8. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:
The impression on the typed copies should be black in color. 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. Headings shall be typed in the Font style “Times New Roman’ and Font size 14. For major
headings like topic name, use Font size 16.
Note:
1. The Project report should be submitted in a spiral bind file duly verified by the project guide and
project in charge.
Use the following color for cover page of spiral binding:
Sky Blue
2. The no. of copies of report to be prepared = Total No. of Group members + 02 (one copy is to be
submitted to the respective project guide and one copy is to be submitted to the respective project
incharge at the time of Internal/External Viva.
“Contact to your respective Project guides or Project Incharge for further queries.”