Notes on Final Papers

For students

Sections you should have

• Background
• Prior work
• What you did
• Results and Evaluation. (Be sure to *explain* how you evaluated what you did, and why this evaluation is valid.)
• Summary

Formatting

• Include headers on pages 2-Last with Name, the date, and course
• Include footer on every page with page number
• Sections should be numbered

On finding references

Instead of typing search terms into Google, try:

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore
• Google Scholar

On references

• References should appear *in the text* of what you write as footnotes or end-notes.
• There is no need to include a list of "sources" at the end of your paper; your bibliography is the list of references
• References should be in ACM or IEEE style. Be sure to include author(s), title, publication venue, and date. Do not include just a URL.
• If you are writing a literature review, you should discuss how you found your references, including your search terms and the venues that you searched, so that you can claim that you have performed a *systematic* literature review.
• Reference every source that you use, no matter how trivial.
• If your reference is more than 20 pages, include the page number of where the specific item was found.

For Faculty

• Don't write what the papers do wrong, write how they could be improved.