Requirements for formatting your paper

• A separate title page, with the title, your name and student number

•Text on one side of page only, figures, pictures, etc. numbered and put at the end. They should be neatly drawn on unlined paper in ink.

•Separate page(s) for your bibliography. Number your bibliography items and cite them in the paper by number in square brackets. Thus, in your paper you might write 'In the view of Blotz [1, 293] Gauss was the greatest mathematician of his century' to mean that Blotz, on p. 293 of item 1 in the bibliography expressed this opinion. Or you might write, 'The works of Archimedes have been translated into English by T. L. Heath [6].' to mean that item 6 in your bibliography gives the full reference to Heath's translation.

•Bibliographic references must give, at a minimum, the Author, Title, Publisher or Journal Title, and Date of Publication (at a minimum). If it is an article in a journal you must also tell on which pages of the journal it may be found.

•When citing items from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography cite the author of the article, whose name is given at the end of the article (not Gillespie, who is the editor of all 16 volumes).

• In referencing encyclopædias etc. be sure to reference the author of the article as well as the editor of the encyclopædia.

•Material depending on WEB sites must be referenced by the URL and (if known) the author’s name.

•All spacing should be 1.5, not single spacing or 2.

•The type you use should be standard typewriter font (Courier), Times or Palatino - 12 point.

•If you are uncertain of your writing abilities try to get a friend or relative to read it over for you before you submit it, to catch mistakes in grammar and spelling. I can live with occasional slips (I should, since I make them myself!) but when every line contains mistakes in grammar and spelling you can expect to lose points!

•In any case read your paper over carefully yourself before you submit it. It is very clear me when a student has handed something in without bothering to proofread it, and such students can expect to lose points for this.

•A late paper automatically loses 5 points (out of 100) for any amount of lateness up to three days and then 1 point per day for each day after the third day.