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Synopsis / Thesis write up style.
1.
In the whole body of thesis / synopsis font Times New Roman, size 12, double
line spacing and both right and left justified margins must be used.
2.
Page layout should be with Normal Margins (1" Top, Bottom, Right and Left), Size
of page should be Letter (8.5" x 11")
3.
To reduce the errors, whole document (Microsoft Program) should be typed
while using the formatting symbols (¶).
4.
Review of Literature should be in paragraph form. Each paragraph should classify and
evaluate the themes of the texts that are relevant to your thesis.
5.
Only authenticated scientific website should be quoted as a reference.
6.
In-text reference: In the body of the document (Introduction, Review of
Literature, Materials and Methods and Discussion), refer to authors as follows:
Smith and Jones (1992) or Smith and Jones (1990, 1992). If the sentence
structure requires that the authors’ names be included in parentheses, the
proper format is (Smith and Jones 1982; Jones, 1988a, b; Jones et al. 1993).
Where there are more than two authors of one article, the first author’s name is
followed by the abbreviation et al. (Smith et al. 1982). More than one article
listed in the same sentence of text must be in chronologica l order first and
alphabetical order for two publications in the same year (Annexure I).
7.
In the Literature Cited section, all references cited in the body of the document
should be enlisted (Annexure I).
a.
References shall first be listed alphabetically by author(s)’ last name(s), and then
chronologically.
b.
The year of publication follows the authors’ names. As with text citations, two or
more publications by the same author or set of authors in the same year shall be
differentiated by adding lowercase letters after the date. The dates for papers
with the same first author that would be abbreviated in the text as et al., even
though the second and subsequent authors differ, shall also be differentiated by
letters.