Introduction to BEP and EI

Book FM
• Title page
• Abstract
• Keywords
• TOC
• Preface
• Dedication
• Contributors list
• Introduction
• Delete List of Figures and Tables, if given in the FM
Abstract, Keywords and Acknowledgement are
mandatory.
 Chapter FM
• Part /Sections number and title
• Chapter number and Chapter title
• Chapter author
• Epigraph
• Learning objectives
– It is not mandatory that the objectives given
should be the section headings inside the chapter
 Heading levels
• Unnumbered (except MP Engineering books)
• Identify the head levels
• H1: Title case, bold, free standing, no end period
• H2: Title case, bold italic, free standing, no end period
• H3: Title case, free standing, no end period
• H4: Title case, italic, run on with the text, end period
before the text.
 Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
• Numbered/Unnumbered
– Numbered with chapter prefix
• No end period in the caption (sentence case)
• Sequential order citations
• Missing citations (query author)
• Check artwork
• Examples
– Figure 1.4 The price level: United States
– Table 1.1 Characteristics of different monies and characteristics of different
people
• Numbers: one to nine spell out
– Years, months, day, and time periods: numerals
– Age: numerals
– Use comma for thousand separator
– Hyphenate all spelled-out fractions (one-fourth).
– Always spell out a number at the beginning of a sentence
• Dates
– Do not use apostrophes when referring to decades (1990s;
90s)
– Format: October 1, 2013
• Ranges: Use to in text and en dash in figures and tables
• Percent: Use percent in text and % in figures
and tables
• Ampersands should not appear in a headline
or in body text
• Delete symbols ® and ™
• In-line list format: numbers/letters should
appear in parentheses without periods
• Quotes: US style
– double quotes, single within (When the professor
explained, “President Obama ran on the ‘Change
We Can Believe In’ platform.”)
– punctuation inside the quote
• Dashes
– change spaced en dash to em dash
– Use em dash for parenthetical information
 Extract
• Quotes with more than 40 words should be
changed to display text (extract)
• Remove quotes and italic
• Double quotes inside the extract
• Do not edit inside if it is true quote
• Get help from any LE person
 References
• Name and year style
• References should be arranged in an alphabetical order
– Footnotes
• N.S. Author. Year. Title of Book (Place: Publisher), pp. 257-265.
• N.S. Author. Month, Year. “Title of Article,” Name of Publication, pp. 1-2.
• N.S. Author. Month, Year. “Title of Article,” Name of Publication 66, no. 3, pp. 10-12.
– References
• Author, N.S. Year. Title of Book. Place: Publisher.
• Author, N.N., N.S. Name, and C.D. Name. Year. Title of Book. 2nd ed. Place: Publisher.
• Author, N.N. Year. “Title of Chapter.” In Title of Book, ed. N.N. Name. Place: Publisher.
• Author, A.N. Month, Year. “Title of Article.” Name of Publication, pp. 10-12.
• Author, A.N. Month, Year. “Title of Article.” Name of Publication 66, no. 3, pp. 103-105. doi:
10.1037/a0034857.
– Online Source
• Author. Year. “Title of Document,” Title of Complete Work.URL address, (date
accessed).
 Examples
• Book
Hatfield, E., J.T. Cacioppo, and R.L. Rapson. 1993. Emotional
Contagion. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Journal
Boyatzis, R.E., M. Smith. and N. Blaize. 2006. “Developing
Sustainable Leaders through Coaching and Compassion.”
Academy of Management Journal on Learning and
Education 5, no. 1, pp. 8-24.
For additional source citations, please refer to section 15
of the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition.
 Citations
• Direct citation: Name (year)
• Indirect citation: (Name year, p. xx)
– two authors (Smith and Johnson 1998, 14)
– three authors: (Smith, Johnson, and White 2001,
42)
– More than three authors: (Smith et al. 1998, 203)
– Institutional author: (National Alliance for Social
Consideration 1932, 11)
• AU should be used for author query
• Query author for any missing details
• Any discrepancies, get suggestions from
Kannan/Madhu/Muthu
• No consistency, strictly follow BEP style sheet