Service: Textwriting (academical) / Statistical analysis in SPSS
Subject: The evolution of plant-based meat substitutes in Germany: Identifying consumption motives
Faculty: Economics
Language: English GB
Size: 45 pages + Questionnaire (approx. 1,800 characters including spaces per page)
Considered research question: what are Generation Y’s motives for consuming plant-based meat substitutes? The work must necessarily contain an empirical part (e.g. survey)
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Font: Times New Roman or any other Serif-font
Page layout:
o Left margin of 5 cm, right margin of 2 cm
o Top and bottom margin of 2.5 cm
Font size: 12 (size 14 for headers is allowed)
For emphasis: Bold
Line spacing: 1.5 line spacing.
Readability: Use automatic hyphenation
Figures:
Uniformed figures, numbering and summary in a separate directory
Clarify if source was reproduced in original, modified or created by author him/herself
No differentiation between figures and tables
Text referencing of figures, indicating the number of figure
Integrate figures into the body of the paper
Further, additional pictures to be included in the annex
Abbreviations
First time use (clear definition of the abbreviation)
Consistent use of abbreviations
Listing of the used abbreviations
Footnotes are not to be used.
The handed in paper/thesis should be available to the examiners in a word file, too, so that it can be imported directly into the university software to identify plagiarism. In addition, all cited pages from the Internet are to be attached as a hard copy and on a CD. Short articles are to be fully accompanied; in cases of long articles, page references are sufficient. Additionally, all graphics used are to be collected in a PowerPoint file and saved on a CD.
Citation guidelines
Use short citations (Harvard system); i. e. provide sources in the text (do not use footnotes!)
At the end of the quote: Last name of the author(s) (no first name, no evidence of a collective
work at this location),year, precise page number (e. g. cf. Kreutzer, 2010, p. 4-9).