GUIDELINES FOR SEMINAR REPORT

Seminar Report
Each student is required to write a comprehensive report about the seminar. The report
should consist of 20 to 25 pages describing the topic selected. The report should be in the
format as described below. It is important that you adhere to these guidelines.

1. ARRANGEMENT OF VARIOUS PAGES AND CONTENTS

The sequence in which the seminar report material should be arranged and bound should be as follows:
1. Cover Page ( This is the copy of title page which will be put as cover )
2. Title Page ( Both cover Page and Title page are the Same format )
3. Bonafide Certificate( College Certificate )
4. Acknowledgement
5 .Abstract
6. Table of Contents
7. List of Tables
8. List of Figures
9. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature
10.
1.Introduction
2.
3.
.
.
Conclusion
References

2. PAGE DIMENSION AND BINDING SPECIFICATIONS

The dimension of the seminar report should be in A4 size. The project report should be soft
bound.The cover page should be printed in black letters in a paper of white colour.
AbstractAbstract should be one page synopsis of the seminar report typed 1.5 (One and ahalf spacing )
line spacing, Font Style : Times New Roman and Font Size : 12
3. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:
Margins:Left 1.5,right,top and bottom 1
One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general text
shall be justified and typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font
size 12.
One tab space before starting each paragraph
Chapter heading shall be typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size 14
and bold. (Upper case)
(Example 1.INTRODUCTION)

Subheading shall be typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size
12 and bold(Upper case)
(Example 1.1.GENERAL)
Headings below subheadings shall be typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font
size 12 and bold (First letter upper case)
(Example 1.1.1.Stabilization)
4. Tables
Tables must be set as part of the text. Smaller font sizes may be used to enable the table to fit
the space. All tables must have a caption. The caption should be kept above the table and
centred. If the caption runs into more than one line, keep it justified at both ends. Captions
should be numbered sequentially starting with number 1. Thus for example, Table 1.1: Input
data. Leave 12 pt space above and below tables.
5. These should be neat and clear. They should be positioned centrally on the width of the
page and close to their text reference. They should not appear on the opening page (first page)
and must fit within the page text size. Try to avoid boxing text between two illustrations on a
page as this can sometimes make reading more difficult. Ensure that all spelling and
annotations (numbers, letters, symbols and captions) conform to their usage in the text.
Captions to figures, (diagrams and/or illustrations) should be set text size and centred below
the figure.
6. References
A list of references must be included with every report and placed at the end. It should
include only the work referred to in the text. The list of references should be compiled by
arranging the authors name alphabetically. Although books and journal articles are cited
slightly differently, they shall be placed in the same list of references.
The following sequence for citation of references, which is the one most normally used, is
recommended:
Books:
Author(s): Surname, then give initial(s)
Year of Publication
Title (italics)
Edition (if not the first)
Publisher
Place of Publication
An example, with correct punctuation:
Braid, I.C., 1974, Designing with Volumes, 2nd edn, Cantab Press, Cambridge, England.
Journal Articles:
Author(s): Surname, then initial(s)
Year of Publication
Title of Article (italics)
Title of Journal
Volume Number of Journal, then Number or Part (in any) in brackets
Starting and ending Page Numbers of Full Article
An example with correct punctuation:
Raibert, M.H., Brown, H.B. Jr. and Chepponis, M., 1984, Experiments in Balance with a 3D
OneLegged Hopping Machine, Int. J. Robotics Research, 3 (2), 75-92.

Should be numbered consecutively (in square [] brackets, throughout the text and
should be collected together in the reference list at the end of your report. The name of the
author/authors should be immediately followed by the year and other
detail
[1]. Ariponnammal, S. and Natarajan, S. (1994)Transport Phonomena of SmSel 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.8194.
[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.