Writing Guidelines for the Master's Thesis Report
The bibliography
The bibliography contains the list of all information sources used by the author in the development of the master's thesis.
The credibility of a thesis is closely linked to the quality of the bibliographic references, which reflect how well-informed and knowledgeable the author is regarding the relevance and necessity of the presented work.
Thus, a thesis will demonstrate high credibility if it is based on real and authentic references, with a significant proportion of scientific articles.
It is recommended that the bibliography list consist of 15 to 30 titles, with 80% of the sources belonging to the first two categories, and it should include:
-
books and monographs;
-
proceedings of specialized conferences;
-
articles from scientific journals;
-
doctoral theses, public reports;
-
standards, norms, user guides;
-
web pages;
-
internal reports, etc.
The rules and examples for presenting bibliographic references and citing information resources must follow the SM ISO 690:2012 standard — Information and documentation. Rules for the presentation of bibliographic references and citation of information resources, approved by the Institute for Standardization of Moldova.
Bibliographic references must be presented in a numerical sequence, corresponding to the order of citations in the text.
Citations, consisting of the short form of the reference inserted in the text within square brackets, allow for the identification of the source publication from which the quotation or idea was extracted, and the localization within the original source.
Numbers, presented as indices within square brackets and inserted in the text, refer to documents in the order in which they are first cited. Subsequent citations of the same source must use the same number as the initial citation.
If only specific parts of a document are cited, the page number should be indicated after the citation number, for example [8, p. 231].
The bibliography in the thesis must be compiled using the Zotero application, specifically in the IEEE citation style.