Writing and Formatting in Medical Research
Welcome to your Chemical and Materials Engineering Style Guide. Please take the time to become familiar with this document as you will be referring to it throughout your career as an undergraduate student in the CME department as you set up and format your assignments.
To prepare you for a successful professional career, one of our goals in the CME program is to ensure you are well-versed in proper writing, formatting, and citation style. This document provides guidance for how to format and organize entire reports of different kinds – Lab Reports, Research Papers, Technical Reports, Engineering Memos and Oral Presentations. It also provides information about how to properly cite sources. If you have any citation-style questions not addressed in this Style Guide, you should refer to the NJIT library website or seek the guidance of your Engineering professor.
USING PREDEFINED STYLES
Lastly, the style elements identified in this section have been provided to you to lend consistency to your work. Hence, times New Roman is the preferred font. Use the following levels of this font to describe the different sections of your documents:
Title: 18-point Times New Roman Bold
Author: 12-point Times New Roman Bold (Called “Subtitle” in Google Docs)
Normal: 12-point Times New Roman
COVER PAGE
When a particular assignment calls for a cover page, you should copy the format of the cover page at the beginning of this. Style Guide, using the typefaces and sizes indicated under “Using Predefined Styles.” The Title should be 1/3 of the way down the page and the Name/Course/Professor/Date section should. Be 2/3 of the way down the page.APA