Font – Times New Roman, 12 points, 1.5 line spacing applies to figure caption, table caption, chapter headings, subheadings, and citations. – Exceptions: Header, Footer, Footnote, Words in Figure/Table, font size should be within 10 to 11 points. – Colour: black. – Citing references in text: refer to the citation style “Harvard Style Referencing” in Appendix F. Language – British English Printing - Single side. Paper - A4 size, 80g paper. Header – Align left: chapter number and title. Footer - Align right: page number. - The following is to be aligned left: BIS (Hons) Information Systems Engineering Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (Perak Campus), UTAR. Page Number - Align right at the Footer. - Title, Abstract, Table of Contents and Listing – pages are numbered using small Roman numeric (i, ii, iii, etc). Note even though the Title Page is numbered i, the number is not to be printed on the page. - Chapters and Bibliography – pages are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. - Appendices – pages are numbered A-1, A-2, etc for Appendix A, B-1, B-2, etc for Appendix B and etc. Margins - Left (1.5 inches, except the front cover 1.2 inches) - Right (1 inch) - Header/Footer (0.5/0.4 inch) - Top/Bottom (1 inch) Title Page (refer to Appendix E) - Do not include UTAR logo.
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E-book: Chapter or Article in an Edited 'Historical thinking is actually a Western perspective' (White 2002, p. 112) White, H 2002, 'The westernization of world history' in Western historical thinking: an intercultural debate, ed J Rusen, Berghahn Books, New York pp. 111-119. Available from: ACLS Humanities E-Book. [14 May 2009]. Book: Different Works by Same Author in Same Year (Bond 1991a) (Bond 1991b) Bond, G 1991a, Business ethics, Sydney. Bond, G 1991b, Corporate governance, Irwin, London. Journal Articles Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Journal Article: Print (Conley & Galeson 1998) Conley, TG & Galeson, DW 1998, 'Nativity and wealth in mid-nineteenth century cities',Journal of Economic History, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 468-493. Journal Article: Electronic Database (Liveris 2011) Liveris, A 2011, 'Ethics as a strategy', Leadership Excellence, vol. 28, no. 2, pp.17-18. Available from: Proquest [23 June 2011]. Internet/Websites Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Webpage: No Author (Improve indigenous housing 2007) Use first few words of the page title Improve indigenous housing now, government told, 2007. Available from: . [8 February 2009]. Webpage: No Date (Jones, n.d.) Jones, MD n.d., Commentary on indigenous housing initiatives. Available from: <http://www.architecture.com.au>. [6 June 2009]. Web Document (Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources 2006) Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources 2006, Being Prepared for an Influenza Pandemic: a Kit for Small Businesses, Government of Australia, Available from: <http://www.innovation.gov.au>. [28 February 2009]. Website (Australian Securities Exchange 2009) Australian Securities Exchange 2009, Market Information. Available from: [5 July 2009].
Blog (Newton 2007) Newton, A. 2007, Newcastle toolkit. 16 January 2007. Angela Newton: Blog. Available from: <https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/libajn/weblog/>. [23 February 2007]. Computer Software (OpenOffice.org 2005) OpenOffice.org, computer software 2005. Available from: <http://www.openoffice.org>. [11 January 2005]. Web Based Image / table / figure (The Lunar Interior 2000) The Lunar Interior, 2000. Available from: [28 November 2000]. Cases and Legislation Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Cases (R v Tang (2008) 237 CLR 1) R v Tang (2008) 237 CLR. Acts of Parliament (Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 3) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Delegated Legislation (Police Regulations 2003 (Vic) reg 6. Police Regulations 2003 (Vic) reg 6. Bills (Corporations Amendment Bill (No 1) 2005 (Cth) Corporations Amendment Bill (No 1) 2005 (Cth). Company Information Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Company Report (Aspect Huntley 2009) Aspect Huntley DatAnalysis 2009, National Australia Bank Limited Company Report. Available from: Aspect Huntley DatAnalysis. [20 May 2009]. Company Profile (Datamonitor 2009) Datamonitor 2009, Wesfarmers Limited Company Profile. Available from: Business Source Premier. [20 May 2009]. Financial Data (Datastream 2009) Datastream, 2009, S&PASX200 daily index data 2000-2009. Available from: Datastream. [20 May 2009]. Conference Papers & Proceedings Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example
Conference Proceeding Paper: Print (Riley 1992) Riley, D 1992, 'Industrial relations in Australian education', in Contemporary Australasian industrial relations: proceedings of the sixth AIRAANZ conference, ed. D. Blackmur, AIRAANZ, Sydney, pp. 124-140. Conference Proceeding Paper: Electronic (Fan, Gordon & Pathak 2000) Fan, W, Gordon, MD & Pathak, R 2000, 'Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management', Proceedings of the international conference on information systems, pp. 20-34. Available from: ACM Portal: ACM Digital Library. [24 June 2004]. Conference Proceeding Paper: Unpublished (Brown & Caste 1990) Brown, S & Caste, V 2004, 'Integrated obstacle detection framework'. Paper presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IEEE, Detroit MI. Newspapers Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Newspaper: Print (Ionesco 2001) Ionesco, J 2001, 'Federal election: new Chip in politics', The Advertiser 23 October, p. 10. Newspaper: Electronic Database (Meryment 2006) Meryment, E 2006, 'Distaff winemakers raise a glass of their own to their own', The Australian, 7 October, p. 5. Available from: Factiva. [2 February 2007]. Newspaper: From a Website (Hilts 1999) Hilts, PJ 1999, 'In forcasting their emotions, most people flunk out', The New York Times 16 February. Available from <http://www.nytimes.com>. [19 February 2000]. Newspaper: No Author (The Sydney Morning Herald 7 January 2011, p. 12) Not required. Multimedia Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Video (Effective performance appraisals 1994) Effective performance appraisals 1994, (video recording), Melbourne, Educational Media Australia. Television Programme (Crystal 1993) Crystal, L (executive producer) 1993, The
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