Formatting Requirements
Students will follow the requirements in the procedures. Our online presentation has an introduction to the major formatting requirements, and the review checklist shows the items in a tabular form.
Preparing Assistance
In addition to the requirements above, there are some suggested formatting guidelines and tools to help as students prepare their documents. See the links below for formatting suggestions and aids.
- EndNote—This software can help students by maintaining a database of their references and creating in-text citations and bibliographies in their documents.
- Graduate School blog—The thesis and dissertation category contains a variety of tutorial designed to answer the most common questions students have when preparing their document.
- Graduate School Communications Assistance Program (GS-CAP) – learn about resources to assist with written and oral/aural communication
- Graduate School image preflight profile—Use this preflight profile in Adobe Acrobat® to check the quality of images in a document. Right click on the link to save it to a computer, and use in Adobe Acrobat®. Instructions are available on our blog tutorial.
- Online Seminars—The Graduate School regularly presents on topics related to thesis and dissertation preparation. Online seminars, seminar notes, and useful handouts are archived online. Topics include Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, LaTeX, Great Images, EndNote, and more!
- Submission seminar—an overview of planning and preparation to get ready for a defense
- Formatting seminar—a detailed explanation of the formatting changes implemented January 10, 2011