Technical Report Guidelines
Technical Report Guidelines
In the following sections, brief information about the content of a technical report is given.
1.1. Acknowledgements
The candidate may desire to include a page with a brief note of an
acknowledgement
of
help
received
from
particular
people.
All
Table
of
Contents,
List
of
Figures,
Tables
and
Symbols/Abbreviations
Theses are expected to have a Table of Contents for the convenience
of the reader. If figures and tables are scattered throughout the text, a
separate List of Figures (and/or List of Tables) must be included after
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The last section may contain supporting data for the text in the form of
one or more appendices. Examples of appendix material include data
sheets, questionnaire samples, flowcharts, illustrations, maps, software
listings, charts, etc. If the appended data should include oversize
illustrations or maps, several alternative methods of inclusions are
available.
In the following sections, basic rules in formatting technical reports are given.
2.1. Character Fonts
As a character font, use Times New Roman. The font size must be 12 point in the text
including formulas, equations, table headings and figure captions.
At least 8 point should be used in figures, tables and super or subscripts. Footnotes, long
biographical quotes and extensive quotations should be 10 points.
2.2. Spacing
Spacing of the text material shall be 1.5 or when necessary integer multiples thereof. For
example, when a paragraph ends, the next one starts after pressing RETURN twice (2CR)
to get two 1.5 spacings. The followings are exceptions:
Footnotes single spacing
Long biographical quotes single spacing
Extensive quotations single spacing and indented one (1) centimeter relative to the
text material.
2.3. Margins
Margins of pages shall conform to the following specifications:
Left margin 3.5 cm from edge of paper
Right margin 2 cm from edge of paper
Top margin 3.5 cm from edge of paper
appear
Foreword, Preface or Acknowledgements
Page
ii
as
necessary
Table of contents
List of Symbols/Abbreviations
Page v, vi as necessary
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abstract
zet
For the remainder of the report, Arabic numbers are used. Each page
must be numbered. Page numbers are to be placed two centimeters
from the bottom and right hand margins on the pages and must be 12
5
point.
Include
all
pages
for
illustrations,
tables,
appendices,
bibliography, etc.
2.5. Headings
2.5.1. Main Headings
Main headings numbered such as 1., 2., etc. must obey the following
rules:
They must begin a new page and be centered. Omit period at the end
of the heading. Main headings must be typed in bold face and must be
in capital letters and in 14 points.
Main headings should reflect content of the text that follows. Main
headings are not to be called as chapters.
The number of the headings will be followed by a period and two
spaces.
They must precede the following text material or second heading by
(3CR).
2.5.2. Second Headings
Second headings numbered such or 2.1., 2.2., etc. must obey the
following rules:
They must be aligned left and be typed in 12 points, bold face and,
capital and lower case letters; i.e., the first letter of each word except
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conjunctions,
Reference no. 1
[1,3-8]
5, 6, 7 and 8)
Different volumes of a reference must be cited and numbered
individually.
2.7. Listing of references
All references cited in a report must be listed in the References
section.
References cited according to surname of author must be listed
alphabetically according to the surname of author. References cited
according to order of appearance must be numbered and listed in
numeric order, according to the order of appearance.
Publications of the same author published in different years must be
listed starting from the older to the more recent. Publications of the
same author published in the same year are listed alphabetically
according to their titles. In order to provide distinction, the year
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3. TEMPLATES
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I have very much benefited from the discussions with my dear friends in
the Mechatronics Laboratory, among whom I would like to mention
especially Ali renci, Veli Krkdokuz, Hale alkan and Jale retir. I
thank them all.
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ABSTRACT
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Practical Application of This Study
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EXAMPLE
FIGURE
This indicates that the ANN is accurate at base flow and flow height values lower then 3 m.
Table 4.1 : Example table.
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Column B
Column C
Column D
Row A
Row A
Row A
Row A
Row B
Row B
Row B
Row B
Row C
Row C
Row C
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[1] Abrahart, R. J., and See, L. (1998). Neural Network vs. ARMA Modelling:
Constructing Benchmark Case Studies of River Flow Prediction. In
GeoComputation 98. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
GeoComputation, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 1719 September
(CD-ROM).
[2] IOC-UNESCO (1981). International bathymetric chart of the Mediterranean, Scale
1:1,000,000, 10 sheets, Ministry of Defence, Leningrad.
While listing references in numeric order, the order of appearance
is taken into account.
1 line spacing must be set in this section.
Please delete this note before printing.
If an author is not specified for an online reference, the full link and
the date of access to the webpage must be specified.
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APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: Maps
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Titles of appendices must be listed under the main title APPENDICES, but must not be indicated in Table
Please delete this note before printing.
APPENDIX A
EXAMPL
E
(a)
(b
)
(c)
(d
)
(e)
(f)
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While captioning multi figures, each figure must be numbered with letters and described in the caption (i
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Column B
Column C
Column D
Row A
Row A
Row A
Row A
Row B
Row B
Row B
Row B
Row C
Row C
Row C
Row C
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ABBREVIATIONS
AIC
ANN
App
BP
CGI
ESS
GARCH
GIS
HCA
Mbps
St
SWAT
UMN
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LIST OF TABLES
Page
Table 1.1 : Table with single row and centered columns.............................................2
Table 2.1 : Table captions must be ended with a full stop.......................................4
Table 3.1 : Multi-line captions: all lines belonging to the same caption must be
aligned......................................................................................................11
Table 4.1 : Example table...........................................................................................14
Table 5.1 : Example table in chapter 5.......................................................................16
Table 6.1 : Example table in chapter 6.......................................................................18
Table A.1: Example table in appendix.......................................................................25
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1.1 : Model structures....................................................................................4Y
Figure 2.1 : Advanced structures.
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ZMR UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
[Submission Date]
ZMR / TURKEY
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