Format & Content of Academic Research Project Report

Format of a Project:

• Page size:

A4 size paper formatting,

• Margin:

Use 1.25 inch margin left, 1 inch margin on right, top and bottom of the page

• Fonts and Paragraph Styles:

16 point Times New Roman font for the Heading (Bold them),

14 point Times New Roman font for the Subheading (Bold them),

12 point Times New Roman font for the main text,

Justify paragraph style must be used with 1.5 line spacing,

For footnotes/sources - italics and 10-point courier font

• Binding:

Hard bound or Spiral Bound

• Header & Footer

Header - 10 point Times New Roman font followed by a horizontal line

Footer - 10 point Times New Roman font preceded by a horizontal line with
page no at the extreme right

1. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS:
The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and
bound should be as follows:
1. Cover Page & Title Page
2. Declaration
3. Certificate from Institution
4. Acknowledgements
5. Table of Contents
6. Main body Text (Introduction, Literature Review, Aim and
objectives, Materials and Methods, Results and discussion,
Conclusion)
7. References
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TITLE OF PROJECT REPORT

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Submitted by
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NAME OF THE STUDENT

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University Regn. No. –
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Under the guidance of

Guide Name
Designation

In partial fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of

Bachelor of Pharmacy

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology
West Bengal

Dr. B. C. Roy College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences

Durgapur 713206

Academic Year: 2021 - 2022

 DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the Project entitled “Title of the Project Report” in partial
fulfilment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Pharmacy submitted
to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, is an
authentic record of bona fide work carried out by me under the guidance of
Name of the Guide.

The matter embodied in this Project has not been submitted for the award of any other
degree or diploma to any University / Institution.

Signature

Name of Candidate:

Roll No:

Date:

Place:
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Project entitled “Title of the Project Report” by Name of the
student in partial fulfilment for the BACHELOR OF PHARMACY under MAULANA
ABUL KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY is a record of the original
research work under our supervision and up to our satisfaction. To our knowledge, neither
his/her thesis nor any part of it has been submitted for any other academic award anywhere
before. The thesis is forwarded to Controller of Examination MAULANA ABUL KALAM
AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY for assessment.

__________________

Signature of Supervisor
Name of Supervisor:
Date:

Place:

_________________________
PROF (DR.) SAMIR KR. SAMANTA
(PRINCIPAL)
Date:

Place:

Signature of External Examiner

Date:

Place:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(Students have to mention votes of Thanks to all those who have helped during this project
work.)
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Serial No Particular Page No

Declaration
Certificate
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Literature Review
Aim and Objectives
Materials and Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
References
 Main Body Text

Introduction: This part should define the background and significance of the study by
considering the relevant literature, particularly the most recent publications, and should
clearly bring out the rationality of the work. Literature survey should not reproduce here.

Literature Review: This section should broadly present background literature consulted for
the project work in well-knit and coherent language and style. Avoid putting entire abstracts
of papers consulted with author’s name style. Profiles of important drugs, chemicals,
excipients may be included in this section. For a better understanding of the structure of this
section consult any high impact review journal.

Aim and Objectives: This section should clearly outline the aim of the project and describe
in brief technical language the objectives set forth to achieve the aim.

Materials and Methods: Please provide concise but complete information about the
materials (with grade and company), instruments and equipments used along with their model
and make in tabular format. Next, the analytical, experimental and statistical procedures
should be discussed in sufficient details and supporting references.

Results and Discussion: The important results should be presented here in tabular and/or
graphical format in the same order in which the methodology is presented in the previous
section. Every table and figure should have appropriate numbering and caption. The author
may present the discussion following individual results. Discussion must be written with
reference to the tables and figures and by considering information from the literature.
Statements made in the Introduction and Results sections should not be ideally repeated here.
It is not acceptable to repeat extensively the numerals from tables into text and give
unnecessary explanations of the Tables and Figures.

This section should not be cluttered with methodological details.

Conclusion: This section briefly summarizes the principal findings with respect to the aims
and objectives of the work. A brief commentary on future work may be included.

Figures:

Figure(s) must be numbered (Arabic) and cited in the text. Magnifications should be
indicated by means of a ruled line on the photograph where appropriate. Legends of figures
should be brief, but complete and self-explanatory so that the reader can easily understand the
results presented in the figure. Figure legends should be placed below the figures.

Tables:

All tables should be numbered in order with grid lines and cited in the text. The table number
should be properly given, large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it
can be accommodated within the A4 page size. Enumerate table(s) with Arabic numerals.
They should be self-explanatory and clearly arranged. Table(s) should not duplicate
information already included in the text. The table caption should appear along with its
number at the top of the table.

REFERENCE STYLE

The references should be in Vancouver style as per International Committee of Medical

Journal Editors (ICMJE; www.icmje.org) and also available at National Library of Medicine
Website under the head “Citing Medicine, 2 nd ed.” (available at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/, accessed 07-06-2022).

Text: References should be cited in the text by number(s) in square brackets in line with the
text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example: "..... as demonstrated [1,2]. Mandell and Petri.[3] obtained a different result ...."

List: The references should be cited at the end of the manuscript in the order of their
appearance in the text by numbering the references (numbers in square brackets). For citation
of references with Six or more authors, only provide first six author’s names followed by et
al. should be used.

References to journal articles, books, chapters in books, etc. should be cited, as follows
(Vancouver Style):
Journal Articles

Elements of the Citation: Author(s) – Family name and initials. Title of article. Title of
journal – abbreviated Publication year, month, day (month & day only if available); volume
(issue): pages

Examples: Daharwal SJ, Saraf S, Saraf S. Spectrophotometric methods for the simultaneous
estimation of amoxycillin and tinidazole in tablet dosage form. Indian Journal of
Pharmaceutical Education and Research. 2007; 41(1): 35-41.

Book

Elements of the Citation: Author(s) – Family name and initials, Multiple authors separated by
a comma. Title of book. Edition of book if later than 1st ed. Place of Publication: Publisher
Name; Year of Publication.

Examples: [1]. Stacey GL and Keen NT. Plant-microbe interactions. Chapman and Hall, New
York.1996.

[2] Bennett GL, Horuk R. Iodination of chemokines for use in receptor binding analysis. In:
Horuk R, editor. Chemokine receptors. New York (NY): Academic Press; 1997. P. 134-48.
(Methods in enzymology; vol 288).

Book Chapter

Mandell GL. and. Petri WA. Antimicrobial agents: penicillins, cephalosporins, and other ß-
lactam antibiotics. In Goodman and Gilman`s. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics,
Edited by Hardman JG and Limbird LE. McGraw-Hill, New York. 1996; 9th ed: pp. 1073-
1101.

Electronic journal article

Daharwal SJ, Grag G, Saudagar RB, SarafSwarnlata and Saraf

S. Methods of estimation of multi-component formulations: A review. Available from: URL:

http://www.pharmainfo.net/ volumes-and-issues/2006/vol-4-issue-3.

Conference papers

Bengtsson S, Solheim BG. Enforcement of data protection, privacy and security in medical
informatics. In: Lun KC. Degoulet P. Piemme TE, Reinhoff O, editors. MEDINFO 92.
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 1992 Sep 6-10; Geneva,
Switzerland. Amsterdam: North Holland; 1992. P. 1561-5

Thesis

Kay JG. Intracellular cytokine trafficking and phagocytosis in macrophages [PhD thesis]. St
Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland; 2007.

Webpages

Atherton, J. Behaviour modification [Internet]. 2010 [updated 2010 Feb 10; cited 2010 Apr
10]. Available from:

http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/behaviour_mod.htm

Reports and other Government publications

Page E, Harney JM. Health hazard evaluation report. Cincinnati (OH): National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (US); 2001 Feb. 24 p. Report No.: HETA2000-0139-2824

Patent

Elements of the Citation: Author Surname(s) and Initial(s). Patent name or description.
Patent number (Patent) Year of Issue.

Example: Smith J, Ronaldo P, Ferry B. Plug-in “cite-o-matic” citation and reference

generation device for students. US6324558B1 (Patent) 2010.