Project Report Guidelines

Project Batch Students must prepare the thesis and submit the report as per the

following guidelines.

• A4 size Paper
• Laser printout of the thesis should be with following margins
• 1.5” spacing – Left margin (Before binding)
• 1.0” spacing – Right margin
• 1.0” spacing – Top margin
• 1.0” spacing – Bottom margin
• All page numbers should be on bottom right corner
• The entire report should be with Times New Roman font
• Font sizes: Chapter Headings …. 16 font (with Bold)
Side Headings ….. 14 font (with Bold)
Side Sub-Headings …. 12 font (with Bold)
Running text …. 12 font (without Bold)
• All Table and Figure captions …. Only at the bottom of Table / Figure
with 12 font (with Bold)
• All References should be sequentially numbered and ordered as per
Alphabetic order of Author’s name (But not initial)
• All References should be given either in IEEE / ASME / ASCE format
• Chapter numbers (like, Chapter 1), Side Headings Number ( 1.1), Side sub
Headings Number (1.1.1 ) may be mentioned.
• Line spacing to be 1.5”/ Paragraph spacing to be 1.5”
• Thesis is to be written in Latex format / pdf format. ( Soft copy to be submitted
in both Document, as well in Latex / pdf format)
• List of Figures, List of Tables, and List of symbols may be included.

• Chapters, viz., Introduction, Literature survey, Contributory chapters,

 Conclusions are recommended

• Reference numbers to be included in the Text [ ].

• Chapter captions to be included in every chapter on top left corner of the
paper.
• All Mathematical equations and symbols, to be in Italic form
• The Title cover, Certificate, and Contents, to be in the prescribed format.
(Annexure)
Minimum of 50 Pages to Maximum of 100 Pages for Project thesis.

Number of Copies to be Submitted

• Soft Copy is to be submitted to the University in PDF Format

• Every Student must possess 1 Hard Copy for their personal documentation. (A team
of 4 students should have 4 hard copies)

Guidelines for Hard Copy Submission

• The B.Tech Thesis shall be properly bound, using Perfect Binding aka Soft Binding
with Laminated Cover.
• The contents of Title cover may printed on the Soft Laminated cover.
• The Submission is not a Spiral Binded/Tape Binded Copy.

Guidelines for Soft Copy Submission

• Title of Document - Project Title.pdf

• Plagiarism copy should be included in last pages of the document.
• The document Must be submitted to the Supervisor
 The specimen copy of the Title cover is as follows

<Title of the Thesis in Times New Roman, Font size: 18>

A Term Paper / Project
Report
Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the award of the degree of

Bachelor of Technology
in
Department of <Name of the Discipline>
by

< List of the Students >

(Roll No… ........ )
under the supervision of

< Names and Designations of the

Supervisor and Co-Supervisor>

Department of <Name of the Discipline>

K L E F, Green Fields,
Vaddeswaram- 522502, Guntur(Dist), Andhra Pradesh, India.
<Month, Year>
 General Outline of first few pages

• First two pages are blank pages

• Third Page

Declaration

The (Term Paper/Project) Report entitled “ <Title of the Thesis> “is a record of
bonafide work of <List of Students>, submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of B.Tech in
< Name of the Discipline> to the K L University. The results embodied in this report have not
been copied from any other departments/University/Institute..

<Signature of the Students >

 • Fourth Page

Certificate

This is to certify that the (Term Paper/Project) Report entitled “ <Title of the Report >
” is being submitted by <List of Students > submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of
B.Tech in < Name of the Discipline> to the K L University is a record of bonafide work carried
out under our guidance and supervision.

The results embodied in this report have not been copied from any other departments/
University/Institute..

Signature of the Co-Supervisor (If Available) Signature of the Supervisor

Name and Designation Name and Designation

Signature of the HOD Signature of the External Examiner

 Fifth Page

Acknowledgments should be included in the fifth page

• Sixth Page

The Sixth page may contain an abstract of the report. The students may emphasize
here their contributions. The reader/reviewer should be able to understand the gist
of the work in the abstract itself, without having to go into the main body of the text.
In short, the abstract should be stand alone and self explanatory of the entire work.

• Seventh Page
In these pages the students must provide a table of contents, viz., List of tables, List
of figures, List of symbols (Notations), Chapter wise contents, References etc. with
starting Page Nos. of each item.

All the above pages (from Third page to seventh page) should be numbered only in
Roman numerals, of lower case and the rest of the report should have English
numeral numbers.

• Number of Pages

In case the number of pages in the thesis exceeds 100,

• Arrangements of Chapters

The following is suggested format for arranging the Thesis matter into various
chapters. However this arrangement can be changed to suit the particular Research
work.

1. Introduction
2. Literature Survey
3. Theoretical Analysis
4. Experimental Investigations
5. Experimental Results
6. Discussion of Results
7. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
(Original Contribution to be highlighted)
 8. Reference/bibliography
9. Appendices (if any)

• The Arrangement of paragraph in a Chapter

Each topic Title in a chapter should be properly numbered for example: 2.1, 2.2 etc.,
(Bold and Upper case) where, the first digit represents the Chapter number, and
second digit, the topic Title number.

Sub-topic titles, if any, may be indicated as 1.1.1,1.1.2, etc.( Bold and title case)
i.e .the representing the chapter, the second representing the topic title and the third
representing the sub-topic title.

• Photographs and Tables:

The photographs and tables occurring in a chapter may be serially numbered as

Fig: 1.1, 1.2 etc., along with suitable CAPTION where the first digit represents the
chapter, the second digit represents figure number.

The photograph may be represented as: plate 1.1, 1.2 etc., the first representing
chapter and the second representing the photograph number.

• Graphs:

The graph should clearly indicate the points which are used for drawing the curve or
curves along with error bars. The axes ( X,Y and Z) should have CAPTIONS.

• Bibliography or References:

All references should be arranged in IEEE/ASME/ASCE format.