Instructions for the Annual Report to FAPESP

FAPESP Instructions for the report's outline:

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• Executive Summary (up to 2 pages).
  • This is basically the abstract of the original project
• Achievements During the Last Year - Include References (up to 20 pages).
  • Each physics analysis from CMS must provide 2 pages containing text plus figures
  • Each theoretical papers must also provide a couple of pages
• Institutional Support (up to 2 pages).
  • Bureaucratic manifestation
• Future Plans (up to 2 pages).
  • Prepare 1 or 2 paragraphs stating what are the next steps of your research
• Investment of the Technical Reserve and Complementary Benefits (up to 3 pages).
  • If you have used your Complementary Benefits describe the use of those resources
• Thesis and Dissertations
  • Provide the title, abstract and report of the committee approving the result
• The Technical Training (TT) and Scientific Initiation (IC) fellows, granted by the project, must provide a 2 pages report to be included in the Appendix
  • Instruction at TT Fellow and IC Fellow.
• The Direct Ph.D. (DD) and Postdoctoral (PD) fellowships, granted by the project, must include a report of their activities. The report of around 4-5 pages must include:
  • Summary of the Research Plan
  • Report of the Activities During Last Year
  • Service Work for the Collaboration
  • Plans for Next Year
  • References
• Note the specific rules for the Postdoc report at item 4.
• The template for the Postdoc Report can be found here
• All participants of the project should provide:
  • List of published papers
  • List of conferences attended
  • List of Thesis and Dissertation
  • List of Analysis Notes

General Instructions on the Format of the Report

• The text must be in English
• Use LaTeX format.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} 

• References must be provided in BibiTeX format
  • For examples of BibTeX entrances please see: BibtexInstructions.bib
  • Use the InSpire notation for bibitex entry to be added on the report file.

For instance, the Higgs discovery paper:

@article{Chatrchyan:2012xdj,
      author         = "Chatrchyan, Serguei and others",
      title          = "{Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the
                        CMS experiment at the LHC}",
      collaboration  = "CMS",
      journal        = "Phys. Lett.",
      volume         = "B716",
      year           = "2013",
      pages          = "30-61",
      doi            = "10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021",
      eprint         = "1207.7235",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "hep-ex",
      reportNumber   = "CMS-HIG-12-028, CERN-PH-EP-2012-220",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = ARXIV:1207.7235;%%"
}

Must be quoted as \cite{Chatrchyan:2012xdj}

• Itemization
  • Always use \begin{compact_itemize} and \end{compact_itemize}

• Figures
  • Name the files (.png, .jpg, pdf, etc.) with your initials plus a number. Examples
    • PM_02. : refers to the second figure that Pedro Mercadante is including
  • Follow the same procedure for the tag of the Caption. Example:
    • \label{fig:PM_02}
  • Always scale by the \textwidth

\begin{figure}[htbp]
   \begin{center}
   \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{PM_02.jpg} 
   \end{center}
   \caption{This is the caption of this figure.}
   \label{fig:PM_02}
\end{figure}

-- novaes - 2015-11-08

Comments

• BibtexInstructions.bib: BibtexInstructions.bib