SOCS Technical Reports

What is a Technical Report?

Technical reports are publications of preliminary research results by department faculty, staff, graduate students, or undergraduate students. A technical report may also be a pre-published version of the final result publication. A revised version may be published in the future.

Technical Report Guidelines

These guidelines provide information for authors about structuring, formating, and submitting a technical report.

Objective

Technical reports are publications of preliminary research results by department faculty, staff, graduate students, or undergraduate students.

Online Publication

Technical reports are published on the Technical Reports page of the SOCS Web site.

Submitter

The submitter of a technical report must be a full-time or adjunct faculty member, or a staff member in the School. Graduate students and undergraduate students, must submit technical reports through faculty members. The submitter of a technical report may or may not be an author of the report. The submitter is responsible for reviewing the report to ensure its quality and format. There will be no further review, and a submitted report is published as is.

Submission

To submit a technical report, the author should email it to the Technical Report series editor, Fangju Wang.

Numbering

Each submitted report is assigned a number. TR-UG-SOCS-YYYY-XXX, where TR - technical report, YYYY - the year, XXX - the number assigned to the report in the year.

Structure and Format

A technical report consists of four parts:

  1. Cover pages, which includes the assigned report number, title, author(s), affiliation(s), submitter, date, statements and copyright.
  2. Abstract page, including abstract and key words.
  3. Report body, which may also include table of contents, acknowledgements, etc. if necessary
  4. Bibliography


A technical report must be in the portrait format, with a single column. The font is of the size of 12 points and in Times. Margins are set at 1 inch all around. Please download and use the Microsoft Word or LaTex template of the technical report.