This is a list of general typesetting rules for the undergraduate final year project reports. This page contains a mixture of requirements and presentation recommendations. Unless stated otherwise, formatting guidance here should be treated as a recommendation for clear presentation rather than as a formal assessment requirement.
Ensure you stick to the word limit assigned for the specific report, as stated in the module guidelines. Unless the relevant report guidance states otherwise, the word count applies to the main body text only and does not include front matter/supporting structures, references, figures, tables, appendices, or separately submitted support files. There is no minimum length but it is mainly through the report that your project will be judged so the report should adequately reflect the work done in the project.
Recommendation: Reports should normally be typeset in a font of about 12pt for readability.
Recommendation: Reports should normally use single line spacing (anything from 1.0 to 1.3 is fine). The report should be economical on paper and should not contain excessive whitespace. For readability, it is usually sufficient for only the major sections to begin on a new page.
Reports should be typeset with some word-processing system, e.g. LaTeX, LibreOffice or Word. The final project report should be presented as a PDF file. Additional documentation may be included in appendices and/or submitted as support files, as appropriate. Artefacts produced for the project that are to be processed by other software such as a compiler or interpreter should be submitted as separate file(s). If files are submitted as an archive, it should be in zip format (other formats can be uploaded, but will be converted automatically into zip by PATS). Typically this will be the source code for software developed for the project. For details see the Submission Guide.