Savitribai Phule Pune University Faculty of B.Sc.

– Computer Science

PROJECT REPORT FORMAT

Instructions:

It is important that the procedures listed below be carefully followed.

1. Prepare 1 + No. of project members’ copies of your manuscript.

2. Limit your project report to preferably 60-70 manuscript pages.
3. The footer should be included as “Rayat Shikshan Sansthas, S. M. Joshi College, Hadapsar, Pune - B.Sc
Computer Science – 2023-24” while the header should contain” NAME OF PROJECT”. Both header and
footer should be TIMES NEW ROMAN 10pt and centrally aligned.
4. Print the manuscript using letter quality computer printing. The main part of manuscript should be TIMES
ROMAN 12pt and justified. Use 1.5 line spacing and justify aligned
5. Use paper size 8.5” X 11” or A-4(210X197mm). Please follow following margins

Margin Location Paper A4 (210X197mm)

Top 25.4 mm
Left 37 mm
Bottom 32 mm
Right 25.4 mm

6. All paragraphs will be 1.5 line spaced and a double space between each paragraph. Each paragraph will begin
with a five–space indentation.
7. Chapter titles should be bold with 14pt typed in all capital letters and should be aligned at the center of the
page. Section heading should be aligned at the left with 12pt and bold and capitalized. Section subheading
should be aligned at the left with title case (the first letter of each word is to be capitalized). Leave two spaces
between section headings and 1 space between two section subheadings.
8. Illustrations (Charts, drawings photographs, figures) are to be in the text. Use only illustrations really
pertinent to the text. Illustrations must be sharp, clear, black and white. Illustrations downloaded from internet
are not acceptable.
a. Illustrations should not be more than two per page. One could be ideal
b. Figure No. and title at bottom with 12pt.
c. Legends below the title in 10pt.
d. Proper margin in all sides.
e. Illustrations as far as possible should not be Xeroxed (photo copy) 9. Photographs if any
should
be of glossy prints.
10. Please use SI system for units. If student would like to add the equivalent in inch-pound (IP) units, they must
be stated in parentheses after the SI units. In case the final result comes out in any other units (say due to
empirical formula etc.) convert the unit to SI unit.
11. Please number the pages on the front side, centrally below the footer.
12. References should be either in order as they appear in the paper or in alphabetical order by last name of first
author.
13. Symbols and notations if any should be included in nomenclature section only.

14. Following will be the order of the report.

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a. Cover page and front page as per specimen on separate sheet.

b. Certificate from institute as per specimen on separate sheet.
c. Acknowledgement.
d. Abstract (A brief abstract of the report not more than 150 words. The heading of abstract i.e. word
“Abstract” should be bold, times roman 12 pt and should be typed at the center. The contents of
abstract should be typed on new line without space between heading and contents e. List of figures.
f. List of Tables
g. Nomenclature
h. Contents
i. Chapter1: Introduction
k. Other chapters starting on new page.
l. References (In IEEE format)
m. Appendices if any. Appendix should contain routine calculation, standard data, derivation and
relevant cyber laws.
15. All chapters, section heading and subheadings should be numbered. For chapters use numbers 1, 2……. And
for subheadings 1.1, 1.2 etc. and section subheadings 2.1.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.1 etc.
16. References should be given in the body of the text and well spread. No verbatim copy or excessive text from
only one or two reference should be used. If figures and tables are taken from any reference, then indicate its
source. Please follow following procedure for references.

Reference books
Papers from Journal or transactions Papers
from conference proceedings
Reports Handbooks etc.
Patent
Patent no. Country (In parenthesis), date of application, title, year. If taken from “Abstract” give cross reference as
CF,
CA…….
Internet
WWW.(Site)

SPECIMEN PROJECT REPORT FORMAT

A) Cover and front page should be CENTER ALIGNED

2-Blank spaces

A PROJECT REPORT ON (12/bold/upper case)

(Two blank spaces)

<<PROJECT TITLE>> (16/bold/upper case)

(Two blank spaces)

SUBMITTED TO THE SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY, PUNE

(12/upper case) IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE
DEGREE (12/upper case) (One blank space)

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OF (12/upper case)
(Two blank spaces)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE (16/bold/upper case)
(Two blank spaces)

BY(14/bold/upper case)
(Two blank spaces)

<<Name of Student 1 >> <<Examination Seat No. : 1>>(14/bold/upper case)

<<Name of Student 2 >> <<Examination Seat No. : 2 >>

(Two blank space)

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF(14/bold/upper case)

<<Prof. Guide Name>>(14/bold/upper case)

RAYAT SHIKSHAN SANSTHA'S (12/bold/italic/upper case)

S. M. JOSHI COLLEGE, PUNE (12/bold/upper case)

HADAPSAR, PUNE 411028(12/bold/upper case)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

2023-24(12/bold/upper case)

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(2 blank space)
CERTIFICATE(16/bold/upper case)
(Three blank space)
This is to certify that the project report entitled (12 /sentence case)
(Two blank space)

<<PROJECT TITLE>>
(12/bold/upper case)
(Two blank space)
Submitted by (one-line blank space)

<<Name of Student 1 >> <<Examination Seat No.: 1>>(12/title case) <<Name

of Student 2 >> <<Examination Seat No.: 2 >>
(Three blank space)
is a bonafide work carried out by them under the supervision of Prof. __________________________ and it
is approved for the partial fulfillment of the requirement of Savitribai Phule Pune University for the award
of the Degree of Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
(12/ sentence case)
(Two blank space)
This project report has not been earlier submitted to any other Institute or University for the award of any degree or
diploma. (12/ sentence case)

<<Name >> <<Name >>

Internal Guide Head of Department
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science

<<Name >> <<Name >>

External Examiner Principal Date : <<College Name>>

Place:
Date:

(Four blank space)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (16/bold/upper case)

(Six blank space)

We feel great pleasure in expressing our deepest sense of gratitude and sincere thanks to our guide <<name of
guide>> for their valuable guidance during the Project work, without which it would have been a difficult task. I have
no words to express my sincere thanks for valuable guidance, extreme assistance and cooperation extended to all the
Staff Members of our department.

This acknowledgement would be incomplete without expressing our special thanks to Hon. Sangeeta Yadav, Head of
the Department of B. Sc. (Computer Science) for her support during the work.

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We would like also like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our Principal, Dr. K. P. Kakde who provided a lot of
valuable support, mostly being behind the veils of college bureaucracy.

Last but not the least we would like to thank all the Teaching, Non-teaching staff members of our Department, our
Parents and our collegues those who helped us directly or indirectly for completion of this project successfully.

(12/ sentence case)

(Two blank spaces)

<<Name of Student 1 >> <<exam no.>> (12/title case)

<<Name of Student 2 >> <<exam no.>> (12/title case)

C) CONTENTS
(Four blank space)
CONTENTS (14/bold/upper case)

CERTIFICATE I (12/bold/upper case)

CERTIFICATE FROM INDUSTRY (12/bold/upper case) II
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT III (12/bold/upper case)
LIST OF FIGURES IV (12/bold/upper case)
LIST OF TABLES V (12/bold/upper case)
NOMENCLATURE VI (12/bold/upper case)

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE NO.

(14/bold/upper case)

1. INTRODUCTION TO………. (12/bold/upper case)

1.1 BACKGROUND OF……….

1.2 RELEVANCE (of the topic)
1.3 PROJECT UNDERTAKEN
1.4 ORGANIZATION OF PROJECT REPORT

2. LITERATURE SURVEY………………. (12/bold/upper case)

2.1 -----------------
2.2 ----------------- 2.2.1 --------------

3. SPECIFICATION (12/bold/upper case)

3.1 -------------------
3.1.1 -------------------

4. SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN (12/bold/upper case)

4.1 -------------------

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4.1.1 -------------------

5. IMPLEMENTATION (12/bold/upper case)

5.1 -------------------
5.1.1 -------------------

6. RESULTS AND EVALUATION (12/bold/upper case)

6.1 -------------------
6.1.1 -------------------

7. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK (12/bold/upper case)

8. REFERENCES (12/bold/upper case)

Appendix A (12/bold/upper case)
Appendix B (12/bold/upper case)

Partial / Final Report Contents

Abstract (Report Abstract)
An abstract is a brief summary or condensed version of the entire project, usually between 100 and 250
words long and written in the past tense. It includes the key points of the introduction, methods, results and
conclusions of your project. The abstract takes the form of a paragraph, usually with 5-10 sentences. It
should not include citations; use the background and conclusions to help to frame the context of your topic .
Include keywords (the words that will help readers to search your report from repository or online) after abstract.

Introduction
Introduction should help to understand three key questions to the reader: Why is this important problem?
What has been done before? How does your topic (problem) bring significant new understanding to the
respective field? It should be written in present tense and should include the following points:
i. Outline the problem you are working on, why is it interesting, important and what are the challenges?
ii. List your aims and goals. An aim is something you intend to achieve (e.g., learn a new programming
language and apply it in solving the problem), while a goal is something specific you expect to
deliver
(e.g., a working application with a particular set of features) iii. Give an overview of how you have
carried out the project (i.e. software development model) iv. A brief overview of the rest of the chapters in
the report (a guide tithe reader of the overall structure of the report).
v. This chapter is relatively short (2-4 pages) and must give the reader very clear understanding of what the
project is about and what your goals are

Background and Literature review

This chapter should cover background information, related work, research done and tools or software used
in the project.
i. Provide necessary framework and background information to describe how your project relates to
what is already known or available.

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ii. A survey of existing solutions, programs or applications similar to your project (if necessary), and
how your project is different than existing one
iii. A description of the project work carried out to learn about methodology used for investigation of the
problem.
iv. The form of the project work will vary widely depending on the kind of project. Outline and key
sources of information you are using (papers, books, websites, etc.). State how each source is related
to your work.
v. Introduce the software, programming languages, library code, frame-works and other tools that you
have used. Discuss choices and make clear which you made use of and why.

Requirements and Analysis

i. Give the detailed problem statement. This elaborates on what you may have included in the
introduction chapter and represents the starting point from which requirements were derived.
Problem Definition: Define/formulate the problem clearly and concisely of your project work.
Provide details of the overall problem and then divide the problem into module(s).
ii. Requirements Specification: A structured list of requirements. The requirement specifications
determine specific feature expectations, resolution of conflict or ambiguity in requirements as
demanded by the various users or groups of users and documentation of all aspects of the project
development process from start to finish. Here you should define the requirements of the system,
independent of how these requirements will be accomplished and identify the operation and
problems of the existing system.
iii. Description of Use cases/documentation (list of use case titles, with the full use cases appearing in
the appendix).
iv. Software and Hardware Requirements: Define the details of all the software and hardware needed for
the development and implementation of your project.

Design
i. Start with the architecture of your project and describe all components that makes up the system ii. You
can use necessary DFDs and UML diagrams with proper explanation of your project design iii. The
structure and contents of this chapter will vary according to the nature of your project, hence above
mentioned list of requirements is only representative.

Implementation
This chapter is about the realization of the concepts and ideas developed earlier. You can describe the
methodology (problem formulation and processes used to solve the problem) you have identified for the
development of your system/application (Literature review will help you to identify/choose methodology).
It can also describe any problems that may have arisen during implementation and how you dealt with
them. It should include the details regarding all modules of the project and description of each module. It
may be better to use pseudo-code rather than actual code, when describing an algorithm. Describe how a
particular algorithm is implemented or how an interesting programming problem was solved.

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Results and Evaluation

In this chapter, you should describe to what extent you achieved your goals and how the system works as
intended (or not, as the case may be). Include comprehensible summaries of the results of all critical tests
that were carried out.
i. Describe experimental setup.
ii. Describe your testing strategy (unit, functional, acceptance testing and how they are carried out).
How were test cases selected?
iii. Examples of specific tests and how they were carried out (e.g., using mock objects to break
dependencies). Focus on the interesting test cases.
iv. A summary of the test results and what coverage was achieved. The detailed test report(s) should
appear in the appendix.

Conclusion
Demonstrate that you solved the problem or made significant improvement in the existing
system/application.
You can use illustrations such as tables, figures, graphs etc. to support the conclusions.
i. Summarize what your project has achieved. Address each objective decided in the introduction.
ii. A critical evaluation of the results of the project (e.g., how well were the objectives met, is the
application fit for purpose, has good design and implementation practice been followed, was the right
implementation technology chosen and so on).
iii. Results should be clear and concise.
iv. State why your solution offers a new/improved solution v. Acknowledge any limitations

References
i. List of references.
ii. Bibliography: This lists all the sources of information that you made use of during the project but are
not referenced in the text. The items in the list must be relevant to your project, so don't just list
everything you may have looked at or read.

2-Blank spaces
COVER PAGE {to be
pasted on the front side A PROJECT REPORT ON(12/bold/upper case)
of report booklet} (Two blank spaces)

<<PROJECT TITLE>>(16/bold/upper case)

(Two blank spaces)

SUBMITTED TO THE SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY, PUNE

(12/upper case) IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE
DEGREE (12/upper case) (One blank space)

OF(12/upper case)

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(Two blank spaces)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE(16/bold/upper case)
(Two blank spaces)

BY(14/bold/upper case)
(Two blank spaces)

<<Name of Student 1 >> <<Examination Seat No. : 1>>(14/bold/upper case)

<<Name of Student 2 >> <<Examination Seat No. : 2 >>

(Two blank space)

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF(14/bold/upper case)

<<Prof. Guide Name>>(14/bold/upper case) {eg. Prof. N. R. PATIL}

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATION

S. M. JOSHI COLLEGE, HADAPSAR, PUNE-28
2023-24

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