Technical Report Format

  • Text Editor: PDF

    Language: Portuguese, English or Spanish

    Font: Times New Roman, size 12

    Line spacing: single

    Paper size: A4

    Margins: Superior 3cm / Inferior: 2 cm / Left: 3 cm / Right: 2 cm

    Paragraph: justified

    Pages: Insert number of pages in the bottom of page aligned in the right side.

    Notes: do not include footnotes. Insert notes in the end of the paper.

    Figures and Tables: must follow APA (American Psychological Association) rules. Please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.), Washington, DC. Available at the following URL: http://www.acrn-journals.eu/resources/APA-Reference-Guide.pdf

    References and citations: citations may be included in the text according to APA rules. Please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.), Washington, DC. Available at the following URL: http://www.acrn-journals.eu/resources/APA-Reference-Guide.pdf

    Observations

    Submitted reports not conforming to the above layout will be excluded from the Review phase!

    The author should submit only one file, without identification of the authors or the institution and contact data.

    Submitted reports that bring any identification will be automatically excluded from the event.

    Template: Formatting a full paper, the author is requested to strictly conform to the template provided here: Template)

    Submitted reports not conforming to the above template will be excluded.

    The technical report is the final product of a study, which describes precisely the problem-situation that exists in the corporative context and its results. The technical report presents the results of an administrative intervention in a corporation carried out with methodology. These reports must be written with scientific and methodological rigor.

    The technical report must have between 7 (seven) and 10 (ten) pages, including figures and references.

    Structure of technical reports:

    First page

    • Title: UPPERCASE, Centralized
    • Abstract: Justified, Times New Roman, 12, Single line spacing, minimum 100 words and maximum 200 words. Must have objectives; methodology; results and conclusions.
    • Keywords: between 3 (three) and 5 (five)

    Second page and on

    • Introduction
    • Theoretical Framework
    • Methods
    • Results and Discussion
    • Conclusions
    • References

     

    For this part, we recommend that you follow Biancolino, Kniess, Maccari, & Rabechini Jr., 2012.