DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SRMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, BAREILLY

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING MINI PROJECT REPORT FOR B.Tech. III Semester

 The project report should be submitted in A4 size.

 The certificate should consists of names and roll numbers of all group members.

Typing, Format:
 Paper (A4 size) should be used for the preparation of the project report. Typing should be
done on one side of the paper with character font in size 12 of Times New Roman.
 Font size for chapter headings 18 with bold font in upper case letters.
 The layout should provide a margin of 1.50 Inches on the left, 1.00 Inches on the top,
bottom and right.
 One and half line spacing shall be provided through out the report.
 The page numbers should be indicated at the bottom-middle of the each page.
 Should not underline the heading/subheadings and should not put colons ( : ) in headings or
subheadings.

Binding
 The report shall be properly spiral bind.

Arrangement of Paragraph in a Chapter:

 Each paragraph in a chapter should be properly numbered for example, 2.1, 2.2 etc., where
first digit represents the Chapter Number and second digit the paragraph number. There is
no need to indicate the number for the first paragraph in a chapter.
 Sub-paragraphs, if any indicated as 1.1.1, 1.1.2 etc. i.e. first digit representing the chapter,
the second representing the paragraph and third representing the sub-paragraph.
 Don’t underline the headings or subheadings or side heading. Instead use the bold letters.
Figures and Tables
 The figures, photographs and tables occurring in a chapter may be serially numbered as Fig.
1.1, 1.2 etc., where the first digit represents the chapter, the second digit represents Figure
number.
 The tables may be represented as Table 1.1, 1.2 etc., the first digit representing chapter and
the second digit represents table number.

Graphs
 The graph should clearly indicate the points, which are used for drawing the curve or curves.
 All the letters in the graphs should be written with stencils.

Appendices:
 Important programs, derivations, data and any other useful material may be shown in the
appendices with proper numbering.
 The appendices should be numbered in capital Roman numbers or capital letters from first
chapter to the last chapter in ascending order.
 Using same ascending order numbers, the appendices should be shown with details after
the last chapter.
 All the appendices should be referred in the main text.

Bibliography or References:

 References should be numbered from 1st chapter to the last chapter in ascending order and
should be shown in square brackets.
 The following format may be used for writing the Bibliography/References.

Author Name, Title of the book or paper, Publisher name, year.

Example:
[1] Berry, Jason, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones. Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since
World War II. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986.
FORMAT OF COVER PAGE
TITLE OF THE MINI PROJECT

Topic Name
Group No. XX

Submitted by
Members Name (Roll No.)

Mini Project Guide

Mr. XYZ

Submitted to the Department of <Department's Name>

in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
Bachelor of Technology
in
Computer Science & Engineering

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering, Technology and Research,

Bareilly

Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

<Month, Year>
 (Example)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

DECLARATION ................................................................................................... ii
CERTIFICATE ............................................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................. iv
ABSTRACT........................................................................................................... v
LIST OF TABLES.................................................................................................. vii
LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................................ viii
LIST OF SYMBOLS .............................................................................................. ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................. x
CHAPTER 1 (INTRODUCTION, STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
etc.)............................................................. 1
1.1. ................................................................................................................ 5
1.2. ................................................................................................................ 8
CHAPTER 2 (LITERATURE REVIEW/BACKGROUND) ........................... 13
2.1. ................................................................................................................ 15
2.2. ............................................................................................................... 173.2.1.
............................................................................................................ 19
2.2.2. ....................................................................................................... 20
2.2.2.1. ............................................................................................. 21
2.2.2.2. .......................................................................................... 22
2.3. ............................................................................................................... 23
CHAPTER 3 (PROPOSED WORK) ……….................................................... 30
3.1. ............................................................................................................... 36
3.2. ............................................................................................................... 39
CHAPTER 4 (RESULT & DISCUSSION)
CHAPTER 5 (CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE ENHANCEMENT) ...............40
APPENDIX A................................................................................................. 45
APPENDIX B.................................................................................................. 47
REFERENCES... ............................................................................................. 49
 (Example of Declaration)
DECLARATION

I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor
material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or
diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due
acknowledgment has been made in the text.

Signature………………………………… Signature………………………………

Name…………………………………….. Name…………………………………..

Roll No………………………………….. Roll No…………………………………

Date…………………………………….. Date…………………………………….

Signature………………………………… Signature………………………………

Name…………………………………….. Name…………………………………..

Roll No………………………………….. Roll No…………………………………

Date…………………………………….. Date……………………………………
 (Example of Certificate)

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Mini Project Report entitled <Title of Project> which is submitted
by < Full Name (Roll No.)>, < Full Name (Roll No.)>, < Full Name (Roll No.)>, and < Full
Name (Roll No.)> is a record of the candidates own work carried out by them under my
supervision. The matter embodied in this work is original and has not been submitted for the
award of any other work or degree.

<Mini Project Incharge Name> <Guide Name>

Mini Project Incharge Mini Project Guide
 (Example of Acknowledgment)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It gives us a great sense of pleasure to present the report of the B. Tech Mini Project
undertaken during B. Tech. Second Year. We owe special debt of gratitude to Assistant
Professor < Guide Name>, <Department name>, S.R.M.S.C.E.T&R, Bareilly for his
constant support and guidance throughout the course of our work. His sincerity,
thoroughness and perseverance have been a constant source of inspiration for us. It is only
his cognizant efforts that our endeavors have seen light of the day.

We also take the opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Shailesh Saxena, Dean
Academics, S.R.M.S.C.E.T& R, Bareilly for his full support and assistance during the
development of the project.

We also do not like to miss the opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of all faculty
members of the department for their kind assistance and cooperation during the development
of our project. Last but not the least, we acknowledge our friends for their contribution in the
completion of the project.

Signature………………………………… Signature………………………………

Name…………………………………….. Name…………………………………..

Roll No………………………………….. Roll No…………………………………

Date…………………………………….. Date…………………………………….

Signature………………………………… Signature………………………………

Name…………………………………….. Name…………………………………..

Roll No………………………………….. Roll No…………………………………

Date…………………………………….. Date……………………………………
 (Example of Abstract)

ABSTRACT

The abstract is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of the left-hand column as it is
here, below the author information. Use the word “Abstract” as the title, in 12-point Times,
boldface type, centered relative to the column, initially capitalized. The abstract is to be in
10-point, single-spaced type, and may be up to 3 in. (7.62 cm) long. Leave two blank lines
after the abstract, then begin the main text. All manuscripts must be in English.

An Abstract is required for every paper; it should succinctly summarize the reason for the
work, the main findings, and the conclusions of the study. The abstract should be no longer
than 250 words. Do not include artwork, tables, elaborate equations or references to other
parts of the paper or to the reference listing at the end. The reason is that the Abstract should
be understandable in itself to be suitable for storage in textual information retrieval systems.
 (Example)

LIST OF SYMBOLS

[x] Integer value of x.

≠ Not Equal
Belongs to
€ Euro- A Currency
_ Optical distance
_o Optical thickness or optical half thickness
 (Example)

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AAM Active Appearance Model

ICA Independent Component Analysis
ISC Increment Sign Correlation
PCA Principal Component Analysis
ROC Receiver Operating Characteristics
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
 APPENDIX

REFERNCES
Examples of Journal Article referencing:
1. Drucker, D. C., "Photoelastic Separation of Principal Stresses by Oblique Incidence", Journal of Applied
Mechanics, Vol. 65, pp. 156-160, 1943.
2. Maiers, J., and Sherif, Y. S. , "Application of Fuzzy Set Theory," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-15, No.1, pp. 41-48, 1985.