Project Report Guidelines

Dear Students,

Your Project Report is to be prepared under/contain the following headings.

1. Title Page/Cover Page

2. Student’s Declaration

3. Certificate from Institute

4. Preface

5. Acknowledgement

6. Table of Contents

7. Introduction

8. Industry/Company Profile

9. Literature Review

10. Objective of study

11. Significance of Study

12. Research Methodology

13. Data Analysis

14. Findings

15. Recommendations

16. Limitations

17. Conclusion

18. References

19. Annexure
 The report should be in the following layout

 60-70 pages

 Page Size – A4

 One side Typed

 Font: 12 in Times New Roman

 Headings: 14 in Times in New Roman (Bold)

 Sub-headings: 12 in Times in New Roman (Bold)

 Spacing: double space

 Margins – Left - 1.5inch, and 1inch in right, top & bottom.

Guidelines for References

References: Complete references in all respects should be given at the end of the
paper and before annexure. These references should be cited in the style prescribed
in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.)

In the text, the references should appear as follows: Methew (2002) revealed…,
Marlowe (2005) applied the…….. or Recent studies (Montagno, 2004; Murthy,
2001 & Kuzmenko, 2004) indicate that….

At the end of the text, references should be listed in the alphabetical order of the
last names of the authors.

Examples of how the references are to be listed at the end are given below:

IN BOOKS

Single Author

Hellriegel D. (2004), Organizational Behaviour, Singapore: Thompson.

Two Authors

Fernando Flores & Robert C. Solomon (2003), Building Trust: In Business,

Politics, Relationships, and Life, New York: Oxford University Press.

More than two Authors

Mohrman, S. A., Cohen, S. G., & Mohrman, A. M., Jr. (1995), On Designing
Team-based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.

Chapters in Books should be referred as

Bhattacharyya, Asish, K. (2004), ‘Corporate Financial Reporting’ in Reed and

Mukherjee, (Eds), Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development,
94-115.

IN THE JOURNAL

Single Author

Sharpe F. William (1996), Mutual Fund Performance, Journal of Business, 39(1),

119-138.

Two Authors

Sheth, J. N., & Parvatlyar, A. (1995). Relationship marketing in consumer markets:

antecedents and consequences. Journal of the Academy of marketing Science,
23(4), 255-271.

More than two Authors

Alper, S., Tjosvold, D., & Law, K. S. (1998), Interdependence and Controversy in
Group Making: Antecedents to Effective Self-Managing Team. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 74(3), 33-52.

Article taken from Website

Citing a general website article with an author

APA format structure:

Author, A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Retrieved from URL

APA format example:

Simmons, B. (2015, January 9). The tale of two Flaccos. Retrieved from
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-tale-of-two-flaccos/
Citing a general website article without an author

APA format structure:

Article title. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Retrieved from URL

APA format example:

Teen posed as doctor at West Palm Beach hospital: police. (2015, January 16).
Retrieved from http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Teen-Posed-as-Doctor-at-
West-Palm-Beach-Hospital-Police-288810831.html

Footnotes, figures, tables and graphs: These should be in standard format. They
should be numbered serially and should appear at desirable place in the text itself,
with proper reference made in the text. Wherever necessary, the source should be
indicated at the bottom.