O All Matter prepared a template and a guide with everything you need to know to create the cover of your work, according to the standards of the ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards): font type and size, alignment, when to use boldface or not, among others.
ABNT work cover template
Most educational institutions require academic papers such as TCC (Course Completion Work) and monograph follow the ABNT standards.
Check out a template below with indications that will help you in creating your work cover.
Elements of a work cover
The first step to start designing your cover is knowing what information you should present. Check it out below:
1. name of educational institution
The institution name is the first information on the cover.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: bold
- Font Size: 12
2. course name
The name and type of course (High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, Masters, etc.) can be entered right below the name of the educational institution, with the same format.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: bold
- Font Size: 12
3. Name of the student who is the author of the work
If the work has been developed by more than one author, the sequence of names must be presented in alphabetical order.
The author's name must be inserted three paragraphs below the institution's name. If you are doing your work on the word, just place the cursor after the last letter of the name of the educational institution and press the “Enter” button three times.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: none
- Font Size: 12
4. title of work
The title of the work must be presented in the center of the page.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: bold
- Font Size: 12
5. work subtitle
The subtitle of the work must be informed right after the title.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: none
- Font Size: 12
6. City where the work was developed
The city where the work was carried out should be mentioned at the bottom of the page.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: none
- Font Size: 12
7. Year in which the work was carried out
The year of completion of the work must be informed right after the name of the city.
formatting:
- Alignment: centered
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial
- Characters: all capitals
- Highlight: none
- Font Size: 12
8. margins
The formatting of the margins must comply with the standards ABNT not only on the cover, but also on the other pages of the work.
formatting:
- Top margin and left margin: 3 cm
- Bottom margin and right margin: 2 cm
To learn more about text production, see also the following contents:
- ABNT standards: formatting rules for academic papers
- Pre-textual elements in academic papers
- How to reference websites (updated ABNT standard)
- ABNT bibliographic references: how to do it?
- Tips for you to rock the completion of TCC
- Scientific popularization text
- How to make a monograph
- Acknowledgments from TCC (ready model and examples)