ELEC1004 FORMAT SPECIFICATION FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS TITLE BOLD ITALIC 18PT CENTERED (1 18 pt line space)

Your name, centred, 14 pt Your course Tutor: your tutors name Your email
(insert two 12 pt blank lines before abstract) Abstract The abstract to the report should be indented, both left and right, by inch or 1.27 cm. It should not exceed the number of words specified in the assignment. Use bold italic Times New Roman 12 pt for the word Abstract, and non-bold non-italic Times New Roman for the body of the abstract. (insert two 12 pt blank lines after abstract)

1. Introduction (14 pt Bold)

Start all headings and paragraphs under section or subsection headings without indentation. Headings are as shown above; subheadings should be numbered 1.1, 1.2, and should be 12 pt bold. All text should be in 12 pt Times New Roman and fully justified, with single line spacing. All sentences within a paragraph should be separated from one another by two spaces (note LaTeX will do this automatically). A single 12 pt blank line should be left between paragraphs, and two blank 12 pt lines just before a new section heading.

2. Page Layout and Margins

A4 paper should be used and the margins should be set to 1 inch or 2.54 cm all around. If a total word length is specified in the assignment, it should be adhered to. Pages should be numbered sequentially with the number centred at the bottom of each page.

3. Figures, Tables and Equations

Figures (graphs, diagrams, photographs, etc.) can be computer generated, scanned in from any source (which should be credited in the caption), or photocopied onto the page. They should be centred between left and right margins, and a centred caption should appear below the figure, beginning with the word Figure and followed by the figure number. Figures should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals. The caption should give a general description of what the figure is (e.g. Voltage across resistor 13 vs. time), explain any symbols or line densities concisely (e.g. The solid line is the predicted curve

using Eq. 2; triangles are observed data points), and give any other essential information pertaining to the figure. Tables should be self-contained, clearly labelled and accompanied by a sequentially numbered caption that appears above the table. Roman numerals should be used (Table I, Table II, etc.). Variables appearing in the text and in equations should be in italics. If an equation is complex, display it centred with 1 line of 12 pt spacing above and below it; displayed equations should be numbered sequentially, with an Arabic numeral placed in brackets right-justified.

4. Citing and Listing References

4.1 When and How to Cite (Subsection heading, 12 pt bold) Information that you obtained from other works needs to be identified within your paper, and full bibliographic data given for it. Within the text, use a brief way of citing the reference so that the reader can find the complete bibliographic details in the list of references at the end. There are several standard systems for citing references and for ordering the information in the list of references; the following specifies the system you should use either for your ELEC1004 assignment. When citing references within the text (or in a figure caption), number these sequentially using square brackets eg [9]. Then, list all cited references at the end of the report, under the heading References, again, in numerical order. If a figure is copied from another source, state at the end of its caption, Figure reprinted from [9]. If a figure from another source is used but you have substantially adapted it for your own purposes, state at the end of its caption, Figure adapted from [9]. If you paraphrase, i.e. restate in your own words some part of another work, do not use quote marks, but place the citation(s) at the end of the sentence(s). If you use an exact quote, enclose it in quotation marks, and place the citation either just before or just after the quotation. For example, Yang and Stone [6] state, Ultrasound imaging has been used to assess tongue surface shapes. If you omit the citation, you are passing off their work as yours. If you cite them, but omit the quotation marks, you are giving them some credit, but representing their wording and flow of logic as your own. Both constitute a form of plagiarism; dont do it. Give other authors credit, and give credit properly. If your original source was from the Web, include the URL in the reference, but search for as much other information as you can find on the web site; URLs can change rapidly. If what you read on the web site was a paper that is published elsewhere (for instance, in a journal that is both paper and on-line, or in conference proceedings), find out all of the information pertaining to the paper publication, and cite that. In other words, find out the authors names, the title, the name of the conference, date it was held, the page numbers and any other numbers (volume, part) that apply. If the material seems to be only on the web site, list as much information as you can deduce. For instance, if you find course notes for a course at some distant university, search for the name of the person who wrote the notes, their departments name, the university name and location, etc.

Sometimes no individual is listed as author; it may be appropriate in such cases to list the institution, or the publisher, in place of the author above. This could be the case for an online encyclopaedia, the web site of a well-known museum, or an entity such as NASA. Adapt the format above if need be. Realize that you may have to hunt a bit: link to the homepage of the author, find out which country a university is in, and so on. But consider: if you cant find any or most of this information, should you be trusting that source? 4.2 Reference Formats The different types of reference formats are specified below. The examples are collected in the list of references at the end. Single-author book Author1, A., Author2, A.N. and Author3, I.M. (year of publication) Title of book in italics. City of pub; Publishing co. Note: fill in year of publication in brackets, e.g. (1998). Give authors in the order listed, with their initials. Ex.: Deller, J.R. Jr., Proakis, J.G. and Hansen, J.H.L. (1993) Discrete-time processing of speech signals. New York; MacMillan Pub. Co. Chapter in an edited book contributed to by many authors Author-of-chapter, I. (year of pub) Title of chapter, in A.N. Editor, ed., Title of book in italics. City of pub; Publishing co., pp.123-127. Note: the page numbers are those of the chapter you are citing. If you are citing more than one chapter, list each individually. Ex.: Shadle, C.H. (1990) Articulatory-acoustic relationships in fricative consonants, in W.J. Hardcastle and A. Marchal, eds., Speech Production and Speech Modelling. Dordrecht, Kluwer Acad. Pub., pp. 187-210. Journal article Author-of-article, M. and Second-author, N. (year of pub) Title of article. Title of Journal in Italics vol: pt, pp.662-683. Note: fill in the volume number for vol., and part number if any for pt. Ex.: Yang, C. and Stone, M. (2002) Dynamic programming method for temporal registration of three-dimensional tongue surface motion from multiple utterances. Speech Communication 38, pp. 201-209. Conference paper Author-of-article, M. (year of conference) Title of article. Title of conference proceedings vol., City of conference, date month of conf., pp. 1232-1236. Ex: Arrowood, J. and Clements, M. (2002) Using observation uncertainty in HMM decoding. Proc. ICSLP, Denver, 16-20 Sept., v.3, 1561-1564. Theses, Technical reports

This category should be used for reports that are available even though technically unpublished. Include all the information needed so that someone could write to the institution and request a copy. Author, M. (year) Title of thesis. Unpub. PhD thesis, Dept. of X, University of Y, City, Country. Author, M. (year) Title of Report. Technical Report no. xx, Bloggs Co., City, Country. Ex.: Chiu, W.S.C. (1994) The development of an enhanced electropalatography system for speech research. Unpub. PhD thesis, Dept. of Electronics and Comp. Sci., University of Southampton. Web-site If a conference or journal article is posted on the Web, treat as conference paper or journal article, above. If the web site appears to be stand-alone, treat as follows: Author-of-posting, M. (date in article, if given; date you viewed it if not given) Title of posting. Name of institution of author (and department, if given). Viewed on <date you saw/printed out the site> at <URL>. Ex: Alexander, Lindsay (2002) 59.101 Programming Fundamentals. Interactive Sorting Demonstration. Inst. Of Information Sciences and Technology, Dept. Comp. Sci., Massey University, New Zealand. Last mod. 26 Feb 2002. Viewed on 22 Oct 2002 at http://wwwist.massey.ac.nz/Gmoretti/59101/Demo/Sorts.html.

5. References
1. Chiu, W.S.C. (1994) The development of an enhanced electropalatography system for speech research. Unpub. PhD thesis, Dept. of Electronics and Comp. Sci., University of Southampton. Alexander, Lindsay (2002) 59.101 Programming Fundamentals. Interactive Sorting Demonstration. Inst. of Inf. Sci. and Tech., Dept. Comp. Sci., Massey University, New Zealand. Last mod. 26 Feb 2002. Viewed on 22 Oct 2002 at http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/Gmoretti/59101/Demo/Sorts.html. Shadle, C.H. (1990) Articulatory-acoustic relationships in fricative consonants, in W.J. Hardcastle and A. Marchal, eds., Speech Production and Speech Modelling. Dordrecht, Kluwer Acad. Pub., pp. 187-210. Arrowood, J. and Clements, M. (2002) Using observation uncertainty in HMM decoding. Proc. ICSLP, Denver, 16-20 Sept., v.3, 1561-1564. Deller, J.R. Jr., Proakis, J.G. and Hansen, J.H.L. (1993) Discrete-time processing of speech signals. New York; MacMillan Pub. Co. Yang, C. and Stone, M. (2002) Dynamic programming method for temporal registration of three-dimensional tongue surface motion from multiple utterances. Speech Communication 38, pp. 201-209.

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