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HANDBOOK FOR PREPARING OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT REPORTS (EPA/600/K-95/002)
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This Handbook is intended to assist authors and editors when preparing documents that report the results and conclusions of ORD's research, development, and demon-stration programs. The Handbook contains a listing of reference documents to be used in writing a report, a discussion of copyright requirements, and notices that may be used in various types of reports. The Handbook also discusses requirements for software, the general form of the report, style guidelines, and restrictions of which writers must be aware. Required items in reports are described: the cover, front matter, body of text, and back matter and their individual parts. Also described are various types of documents: research and project reports, project summaries, applications guides, proceedings, journal articles, book chapters, published papers, environmental research briefs, seminar announcements, and internal reports. Several sample pages of a report are shown. The appendices consist of the following: an expanded list of sourcesstyle manuals, guides to naming and presenting data, and texts on technical writing; and specifications for reports, project summaries, environmental research briefs, and brochures.