The following guides provide students with the standards for documenting sources and preparing research reports at MSOE. These guides provide students with important information on format research reports.
If you are unfamiliar with documentation or need to refresh your knowledge about it, you may want to visit the START tutorial for a comprehensive review of research and documentation.
Undergraduate Style Guide
Undergraduate Style Guide 
This guide is to be used by undergraduate students while writing papers and reports. The guide contains the following information:
- standard formats to follow for documenting sources
- guidelines for writing such as common grammar and punctuation issues
- formatting requirements for reports
- copyright and plagiarism issues
- common documentation errors to avoid
Graduate Style Guides
MSOE officially endorses the following documentation and style standards that instruct students on how to document and how to organize theses and graduate capstone reports. Students working on their theses papers must comply with the following guides.
- Graduate Student Documentation and Style Guide: Nontechnical
Graduate students in the MSEM, MSNP, MSXM and MSMI programs are required to use this guide. MSEM students should also consult the MSEM Research and Writing Guidelines. - Graduate Student Documentation and Style Guide: Technical
Graduate students in the MSE, MSEV, MSST, MSP and MSCS programs are required to use this guide.