Formatting academic papers, seminars, projects



Construction
•Tittle Page
•Table of contents
•Body- Sections (according to the format of the sample Marketing Plan)
•References

Tittle Page
•Tittle of the project
•Type: Marketing plan
•Names of all authors
•Not numbered!

Table of contents
•Numbering the pages starting from the second page in document (the tittle page does not have the
number) •Table of content:
1. Heading 1
1.1. Heading 2
1.1.1. Heading 3
•In brackets who did what (authors)

Body- Sections (Headings)
•The same font and font size: Times New Roman, 12pt, single spaced, justified •“Third person”
writing style (instead of “I”, “we”, using “the team”, “the author”, “the authors”)
•Citing (In text citations)

In- text citations
•In-text citations are used when directly quoting or paraphrasing a source. They are located in the
body of the work and contain a fragment of the full citation.
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•Depending on the source type, some Harvard Reference in-text citations may look something like
this:
•"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe…" (Fitzgerald, 2004).

References list
•Reference Lists are located at the end of the work and display full citations for sources used in
the assignment.
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•Example of a full citation for a book found in a Harvard Reference list: •Fitzgerald, F. (2004).
The great Gatsby. New York: Scribner.

Citing style
•Harvard Citing Style
•http://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing
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