The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound should be as follows:

1.              Cover Page & Title Page

2.              Bonafide Certificate

3.              Abstract

4.              Table of Contents

5.              List of Tables

6.              List of Figures

7.              List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature

8.              Chapters

9.              Appendices

10.          References

The table and figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.

The dimension of the project report should be in A4 size.   The project report should be bound using flexible cover of the thick white art paper or golden embosses. The text for printing should be identical.

3.1       Cover Page & Title Page – A specimen copy of the Cover page & Title page of the   project   report are given in Appendix 1.

3.2       Bonafide Certificate – The Bonafide Certificate shall be in double line spacing using Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 14, as per the format in Appendix 2.

            The certificate shall carry the supervisor’s signature and shall be followed by the supervisor’s name, academic designation (not any other responsibilities of administrative nature), department and full address of the institution where the supervisor has guided the student. The term ‘SUPERVISOR’ must be typed in capital letters between the supervisor’s name and academic designation.

3.3       Abstract – Abstract should be one page synopsis of the project report typed double line spacing, Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 14.

3.4       Table of Contents – The table of contents should list all material following it as well as any material which precedes it. The title page and Bonafide Certificate will not find a place among the items listed in the Table of Contents but the page numbers of which are in lower case Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of the project report is given in Appendix 3.

3.5       List of Tables – 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.

3.6       List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below the figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head.

3.7       List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature – One and a half spacing should be adopted or typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols, abbreviations etc. should be used.

3.8       Chapters  – The chapters may be broadly divided into 3 parts  (i)  Introductory  chapter,   (ii) Chapters developing the main theme of the project work  (iii) and Conclusion.

            The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be further divided into several divisions and sub-divisions.

v                 Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.

v                 Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the reference where they are cited.

v                 Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space and placed directly underneath in the very same page, which refers to the material they annotate.

3.9       Appendices – Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is included in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.

·                    Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.

·                    Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered and referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.

·                    Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be made in the contents page also.

3.10     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.

A typical illustrative list given below relates to the citation example quoted above.

REFERENCES

1.         Ariponnammal, S. and Natarajan, S. (1994) ‘Transport Phonomena of Sm Sel – X Asx’, Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol.42, No.1, pp.421-425.

2.         Barnard, R.W. and Kellogg, C. (1980) ‘Applications of Convolution Operators to Problems in Univalent Function Theory’, Michigan Mach, J., Vol.27, pp.81–94.

3.         Shin, K.G. and Mckay, N.D. (1984) ‘Open Loop Minimum Time Control of Mechanical Manipulations and its Applications’, Proc.Amer.Contr.Conf., San Diego, CA, pp. 1231-1236.

3.10.1    Table and figures - By the word Table, is meant tabulated numerical data in the body of the project report as well as in the appendices.  All other non-verbal materials used in the body of the project work and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps, photographs and diagrams may be designated as figures.

4.         TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:

    The impression on the typed copies should be black in colour.

   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 14.

* * * * *

APPENDIX 1

(A typical Specimen of Cover Page & Title Page)

<Font Style Times New Roman – Bold>

TITLE OF PROJECT REPORT

<Font Size 18><1.5 line spacing>

A PROJECT REPORT

<Font Size 14>

Submitted by

<Font Size 14><Italic>

NAME OF THE CANDIDATE(S)

Roll NO

<Font Size 16>

NAME OF THE GUIDE

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

<Font Size 14><1.5 line spacing><Italic>

NAME OF THE DEGREE

<Font Size 16>

IN

BRANCH OF STUDY

<Font Size 14>

NAME OF THE COLLEGE/INSTITUTE

<Font Size 14>

NAME OF UNIVERSITY

<Font Size 16><1.5 line spacing>

MONTH & YEAR

<Font Size 14>

SPECIMEN

SOME PERFORMANCE ASPECTS CONSIDERATIONS OF A CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

SANDHYA. A

GAYATHRI.R

Roll NO. 5555

NAME OF THE GUIDE

in  partial  fulfillment  for  the  award  of  the  degree

of

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

in

 HUMAN RESOURCE (SUBJECT)

DEPARTEMNT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

NAME OF UNIVERSITY

MAY 2005-07

APPENDIX 2

(A typical specimen of Bonafide Certificate)

<Font Style Times New Roman>

NAME OF UNIVERSITY

<Font Style Times New Roman – size -18>

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

<Font Style Times New Roman – size -16>

<Font Style Times New Roman – size -14>

Certified that this project report “……….TITLE OF THE PROJECT……………..”

is the bonafide work of “…………..NAME OF THE CANDIDATE(S).…………”                                           who carried out the project work under my supervision.

			<< Signature of the Head of the Department SIGNATURE <<Name>> HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT << Department>> << Full address of the Dept & College>>>

APPENDIX 3

(A typical specimen of table of contents)

<Font Style Times New Roman>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO.                                             TITLE                                     PAGE NO.

                                               ABSTRACT                                                                          iii          

                                               LIST OF TABLE                                                                xvi

                                               LIST OF FIGURES                                                           xviii

                                               LIST OF SYMBOLS                                                        xxvii

         1.                                 INTRODUCTION                                                                  1

                                        1.1         GENERAL                                                                 1

                                              1.2         . . . .  . . . . . . . . .                                                          2

            1.2.1        General                                                       5

                                    1.2.2     . . . . . . . . . . .                                                12

                                                  1.2.2.1 General                                            19

                                                                          1.2.2.2  . . . . . . . . . .                                     25     

                                      1.2.2.3  . . . . . . . . . .                                     29

                        1.2.3    . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                30

                                            1.3           . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .                                                 45

                                            1.4           . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                58

          2.                                 LITERATURE REVIEW                                                     69

                                      2.1           GENERAL                                                                 75

2.2              . . . . . . . . . .                                                     99

2.2       …………….                                                 100

Writing a Bibliography: APA Format

Below are standard formats and examples for basic bibliographic information recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA). For more information on the APA format, see http://www.apastyle.org.

Basics

Your list of works cited should begin at the end of the paper on a new page with the centered title, References. Alphabetize the entries in your list by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter system (ignore spaces and other punctuation.) Only the initials of the first and middle names are given. If the author's name is unknown, alphabetize by the title, ignoring any A, An, or The.

For dates, spell out the names of months in the text of your paper, but abbreviate them in the list of works cited, except for May, June, and July. Use either the day-month-year style (22 July 1999) or the month-day-year style (July 22, 1999) and be consistent. With the month-day-year style, be sure to add a comma after the year unless another punctuation mark goes there.

Underlining or Italics?

When reports were written on typewriters, the names of publications were underlined because most typewriters had no way to print italics. If you write a bibliography by hand, you should still underline the names of publications. But, if you use a computer, then publication names should be in italics as they are below. Always check with your instructor regarding their preference of using italics or underlining. Our examples use italics.

Hanging Indentation

All APA citations should use hanging indents, that is, the first line of an entry should be flush left, and the second and subsequent lines should be indented 1/2".

Capitalization, Abbreviation, and Punctuation

The APA guidelines specify using sentence-style capitalization for the titles of books or articles, so you should capitalize only the first word of a title and subtitle. The exceptions to this rule would be periodical titles and proper names in a title which should still be capitalized. The periodical title is run in title case, and is followed by the volume number which, with the title, is also italicized.

If there is more than one author, use an ampersand (&) before the name of the last author. If there are more than six authors, list only the first one and use et al. for the rest.

Place the date of publication in parentheses immediately after the name of the author. Place a period after the closing parenthesis. Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works within longer works.

Format Examples

Books

Format:
Author's last name, first initial. (Publication date). Book title. Additional information. City of publication: Publishing company.

Examples:

Encyclopedia & Dictionary

Format:
Author's last name, first initial. (Date). Title of Article. Title of Encyclopedia (Volume, pages). City of publication: Publishing company.

Examples:

Magazine & Newspaper Articles

Format:
Author's last name, first initial. (Publication date). Article title. Periodical title, volume number(issue number if available), inclusive pages.

Note: Do not enclose the title in quotation marks. Put a period after the title. If a periodical includes a volume number, italicize it and then give the page range (in regular type) without "pp." If the periodical does not use volume numbers, as in newspapers, use p. or pp. for page numbers.
Note: Unlike other periodicals, p. or pp. precedes page numbers for a newspaper reference in APA style.

Examples:

Website or Webpage

Format:
Online periodical:
Author's name. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number, Retrieved month day, year, from full URL

Online document:
Author's name. (Date of publication). Title of work. Retrieved month day, year, from full URL

Note: When citing Internet sources, refer to the specific website document. If a document is undated, use "n.d." (for no date) immediately after the document title. Break a lengthy URL that goes to another line after a slash or before a period. Continually check your references to online documents. There is no period following a URL.
Note: If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is available.

Examples: