VIDYA VIKAS INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

GUIDELINES FOR THE PREPARATION OF B.E./B. Tech. PROJECT REPORTS

1. Page Setup
Project reports should be typed neatly only on one side of the paper with
 1.5 or double line spacing on a A4 size bond paper (210 x 297 mm).
 The margins should be:
o Left - 1.25"
o Right - 1"
o Top and Bottom - 0.75"
2. No of Copies of Report
The total number of reports to be prepared is
 One copy to the department
 One copies to the sponsoring agency/Industry
 One copy to the candidate.
 Soft copy to the coordinators and Guide in CD.

3. Before taking the final printout, the approval of the concerned guide(s) is

mandatory and suggested corrections, if any, must be incorporated.

4. For making copies dry tone Xerox is suggested.

5. Contents of Report

Every copy of the report must contain

 Inner title page (White)

 Outer title page with a plastic cover
 Certificate in the format enclosed both from the college and the
organization where the project is carried out.
 An abstract (synopsis) not exceeding 100 words, indicating salient
features of the work. (NB: four copies of the abstract are to be submitted
to the Department on the date of submission separately)
6. The organization of the report should be as follows
1. Inner title page
2. Certificate
3. Acknowledgment
4. Abstract
5. Table of Contents Usually numbered in roman
6. List of table & figures
7. Abbreviations
  Chapters (to be numbered in Arabic) containing Introduction-, which usually
specifies the scope of work and its importance and relation to previous work and
the present developments, Main body of the report divided appropriately into
chapters, sections and subsections.
 The last chapter should contain the summary of the work carried, contributions
if any, their utility along with the scope for further work.

 The chapters, sections and subsections may be numbered in the decimal form for
e.g.
o Chapter 2,
o Sections as 2.1, 2.2 etc., and
o Subsections as 2.2.3, 2.5.1 etc.

Font Size

Sl No. Content Justification Font Size

1 The chapter must be justified Left or Right 16

2 Followed by the title of chapter Centered 18

3 Section/subsection numbers along with their headings Left 16

4 Subsection and its heading Left 14

5 The body or the text of the report Justified 12

Numbering of figures and tables

 The figures and tables must be numbered chapter wise for e.g.: Fig. 2.1 Block
diagram of a serial binary adder, Table 3.1 Primitive flow table, etc.

Reference (or) Bibliography

The references should be numbered serially in the order of their occurrence in the
text and their numbers should be indicated within square brackets for e.g. [3]. The
section on references should list them in serial order in the following format.

1. For Textbooks - A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Digital Signal

Processing, Englewood, N.J., Prentice Hall, 3 Edition, 1975.
2. For Papers - Devid, Insulation design to combat pollution problem, Proc of
IEEE, PAS, Vol 71, Aug 1981, pp 1901-1907.

3. Books, Monographs (Online)-J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in

Title of Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, State, Country: Abbrev. of
Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx. [Online]. Available:
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4. Book With Chapter Title -J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title
 of Published Book, X. Editor, Ed., City of Publisher, State (only U.S.), Country:
Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.

5. Conference Paper (Paper Presented at a Conference)- J. K. Author, “Title

of paper,” presented at the Abbreviated Name of Conf., City of Conf., Abbrev.
State, Country, Month and day(s), year, Paper number.

6. Conference Proceedings With DOI- J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in

Abbreviated Name of Conf., (location of conference is optional), year, pp. xxx–
xxx, doi: xxx.

7. Conference Proceedings With Series Title, Volume Title, and Edition- J. K.

Author, “Title of paper,” in Abbreviated Name of Conf. in Volume Title, in
Series Title, ed., year, pp. xxx- xxx

8. Theses (B.S., M.S.) and Dissertations (Ph.D.)- J. K. Author, “Title of thesis,”

M.S. thesis, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.

9. Journal - J. Smith, T. Jones, and B. Simpson, Eds., “IEEE Biometrics

Compendium Issue 30 December 2017,” in IEEE Biometrics Compendium, Dec.
2017. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/virtual-journals/biocomp/
issue/30/
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Equations & Units

 Only SI units are to be used in the report. Important equations must be

numbered in decimal form for e.g.
V = IZ .......... (3.2)

 All equation numbers should be right justified.

Appendices

1. Each appendix should be identified as Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.

2. It should also have a title.
3. The appendices and their titles should be listed in the Contents.
4. Section and sub-section headings, equations, figures, and tables should be
identified as A.1, A.2, etc., in accordance with their appearance in an

appendix.

About Project Report

 The project report should be brief and include descriptions of work carried out by
others only to the minimum extent necessary. Verbatim reproduction of material
available elsewhere should be strictly avoided. Where short excerpts from
published work are desired to be included, they should be within quotation marks
appropriately referenced.
 Proper attention is to be paid not only to the technical contents but also to the
 organization of the report and clarity of the expression. Due care should be taken
to avoid spelling and typing errors. The student should note that report-write-up
forms the important component in the overall evaluation of the project
 Hardware projects must include: the component layout, complete circuit with
the component list containing the name of the component, numbers used, etc.
and the main component data sheets as Appendix. At the time of report
submissions, the students must hand over a copy of these details to the project
coordinator and see that they are entered in proper registers maintained in the
department.
 Software projects must include a virus free disc, containing the software
developed by them along with the read me file. Read me file should contain the
details of the variables used, salient features of the software and procedure of
using them: compiling procedure, details of the computer hardware/software
requirements to run the same, etc. If the developed software uses any public
domain software downloaded from some site, then the address of the site along
with the module name etc. must be included on a separate sheet. It must be
properly acknowledged in the acknowledgments.
 Sponsored Projects must also satisfy the above requirements along with
statement of accounts, bills for the same dully attested by the concerned guides
to process further, they must also produce NOC from the concerned guide before
taking the internal viva examination.
 The reports submitted to the department must be hard bounded, with a plastic
covering.
 Separator sheets, used if any, between chapters, should be of thin paper
 If the Project is been sponsored by any agency logo should be added in
the front sheet and title page of the report and also should acknowledge
the same in Acknowledgment

COLOUR OF THE OUTER COVER/FRONT PAGE OF UG DISSERTATION / PROJECT REPORT

Color of the outer

Sl.
UG course cover/front page
No.
of the report

Computer Science and Information Science and Engineering

1 ( CS/IS ) CREAM

Marks Distribution in Final Examination

 Sl.
Particulars Max. Marks
No.

1 Relevance of the subject in the present context 10

2 Literature Survey 10

3 Problem formulation 10

4 Experimental observation / theoretical modeling 10

5 Results – Presentation & Discussion 10

6 Conclusions and scope for future work 10

7 Overall presentation of the Thesis/Oral presentation 40

Total Marks 100

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