You must use the deparment's layout definitioni for this article and in the future for your masters thesis. You are expeted to use this layout on seminar paper's also, if the seinar leader does not define a different layout for that particular seminar.

Using LaTex and other tools to write the article and later thesis.

• The department layout model and instructions. You can find the instruction document and other LaTex-templates in this directory (you will need tktltiki.cls, tktl.bst, babelbst.tex, englbst.tex, engl_malli.tex (your main text), lahteet.bib (your references), plus figure files etc).
• Template for theses in OpenOffice (odt) format
• Template for abstract in rtf format
• T.Oetiker et.al.: The not so short Introduction to LATEX2e

Managing your bibliography

As an computer science expert, you need to be able to manage your bibliography using an automated tool. Maintaining the bibliographical references by hand means that you are not yet a good-quality computer scientist.

• Latex users: Bibtex For Latex users this is easy, because bibtex has been designed for that purpose
• Word, Openoffice, Libreoffice users: You have multiple alternatives (2012 at least refworks, endnote, and zotero). Look at the recommendations and information about usage from the University library's support pages.