Guidelines & Template

Case study should be as per the framework given below

• Case Title 


• Case Writer/s (Specify Case Lead) 


• Setting 


• Issue/Problem/ Dilemma 


• Protagonist 


• Positioning: Target Audience and Courses 


• Learning Objectives 


• Brief Outline of the Case/Opening Paragraph 


• Data requirements and sources of information 


• Milestones 


• Way forward

Formatting Guidelines

• Case Title - Font 14 Bold 


• First Author, Second Author, and Third Author - Font 12 bold 


• Affiliations: Font 11 italic, not bold


• Corresponding Author to be marked in footnote – font 9”


• Acknowledgement should be footnote on first page – font 9”


• Body of the Case:  Font size 10pt.


• Sections and subsection heading – Font 12, bold


• The Exhibits – Numbered properly and given at the end of the Case


• The whole Case will be Times New Roman, 12 font size with 1.5 line spacing 1’ margin on all four sides in MS-Word.


• Paper size: Height = 9.4″ and width = 6.5″


• Margin= Top & Bottom 1.2″ and left & right 0.72″


• Layout = Header & Footer 0.5″ 


• Footnotes should be given at the end of the page.


• Case length should not be less than 10 pages and more than 20 pages excluding Teaching Notes and references. 


• References - Esmaeilpour, M (2014) for one author, Oko, A.N., and Onuoha, O.A. (2013) for two authors and Watanabe.S et al. (2014) for three or more authors, must be followed.