Style Guidelines

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Style Guidelines
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Title

• The title page contains several main pieces of
  information
• Project Title
• Team Number
• Student team member names and their Panther ID
• University and Department.
• The name of the person for whom the report has
  been prepared.
• Course No. and Name
• Semester
• Date Submitted

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General Recommendations

• A 12-point Times New Roman font and single line
  spacing should be used for the text. Headings can
  be done in bold or using a larger font. The
  report pages have to be numbered throughout. 1
  page margins have to be used.
• In order to save paper when doing corrections,
  number each section pages with Section letter
  page number starting with 1. i.e. I-29 would
  indicate page 29 of section I

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Title Selection Styles

• Select a catchy name for the project
• If the reader does not like the title most likely
  is not going to read the report

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Title Selection Styles

• Include the name of the problem, hypothesis, or
  theory that was tested or is discussed.
• Example Traffic Intersection Controller
• Include the name of the phenomenon or subject
  investigated.
• Example Obstacle Avoidance
• Name the method used to investigate a phenomenon
  or method developed for application.
• Example Ultrasound Obstacle detection
• Provide a brief description of the results
  obtained.
• Example l RoboCar The Most Complete Autonomous
  Car

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General Recommendations

• Start all your sections with an opening
  paragraph.
• Do not start with a Figure, a Table or a Result
• When importing graphics make a reference to the
  source
• Do not copy and paste from your sources
  (Plagiarism).
• When you import figures make a citation to the
  source in the figure title
• When Possible use bulleted or numbered lists to
  highlight different ideas, topics or other Items.
• See next example

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Section Headings

• Primary section headings within papers are
  enumerated by Roman numerals and are centered
  above the text. For the purpose of typing the
  manuscript only, primary headings should be
  capital letters. Sample
• I. PRIMARY HEADING
• (TEXT)
• Secondary section headings are enumerated by
  capital letters followed by periods (A., B.,
  etc.) and are flush left above their sections.
  The first letter of each word is capitalized. In
  print the headings will be in italics. Sample
• A. Secondary Heading
• (TEXT)

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Section Headings

• Tertiary section headings are enumerated by
  Arabic numerals followed by a parenthesis. They
  are indented, run into the text in their
  sections, and are followed by a colon. The first
  letter of each important word is capitalized.
  Sample
• 1) Tertiary Heading (TEXT)
• Quaternary section headings are rarely necessary
  but are perfectly acceptable if required. They
  are identical to tertiary headings except that
  lowercase letters are used as labels and only the
  first letter of the heading is capitalized.
  Sample
• a) Quaternary heading (TEXT)

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References

• It is important to include a References section
  at the end of a report in which you list your
  other sources.
• Each reference number should be enclosed by
  square brackets. In text, citations of references
  may be given simply as in 1 . . . , rather
  than as in reference 1 . . . . Similarly, it
  is not necessary to mention the authors of a
  reference unless the mention is relevant to the
  text
• The following link is useful to help you write
  the references
• http//www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/ci
  tapa.htm

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References

• Books Author. (year, month day). Title.
  (edition) Type of medium. volume (issue).
  Available site/path/file
• Example
• 1 J. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks. (2nd ed.)
  Online. Available http//www.atm.com
• Journals Author. (year, month). Title. Journal.
  Type of medium. volume (issue), pages.
  Available site/path/file
• Example
• 2 R. J. Vidmar. (1992, Aug.). On the use of
  atmospheric plasmas as electromagnetic
  reflectors. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Online.
  21(3), pp. 876880. Available http//www.halcyon.
  com/pub/journals/21ps03-vidmar
• Papers Presented at Conferences Author. (year,
  month). Title. Presented at Conference title.
  Type of Medium. Available site/path/file
• Example
• 3 PROCESS Corp., MA. Intranets Internet
  technologies deployed behind the firewall for
  corporate productivity. Presented at INET96 Annu.
  Meeting. Online. Available http//home.process.
  com/Intranets/wp2.htp
• Website
• Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-ations
  review. Retrieved October 8, 1997, from Psi Phi
  Bradley's Science Fiction Club Web site
  http//www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503
  r.html
• Article from an Internet Database
• Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). Star
  trek on the brain Alien minds, human minds.
  American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved July 29,
  1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database
• Last two examples from
• http//www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/ci
  tapa.htm

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References

• Reports and Handbooks Author. (year, month).
  Title. Company. City, State or Country. Type of
  Medium. Available site/path/file
• Example
• 4 S. L. Talleen. (1996, Apr.). The Intranet
  Architecture Managing information in the new
  paradigm. Amdahl Corp., CA. Online. Available
  http//www.amdahl.com/doc/products/bsg/intra/infra
  /html
• Computer Programs and Electronic Documents ISO
  recommends that capitalization follow the
  accepted practice for the language or script in
  which the information is given.
• Example
• 5 A. Harriman. (1993, June). Compendium of
  genealogical software. Humanist. Online.
  Available e-mail HUMANIST_at_NYVM Message get
  GENEALOGY REPORT

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