Michigan Technological University

Graduate School

Formatting and Preparing Theses, Reports, and Dissertations

Required Procedures for Formatting Documents

Theses, reports and dissertations must follow some basic formatting requirements. View our online presentation for some ideas on how to format your document and see the links below for a written description of these requirements.

Instructions for Preparing Documents

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.

  • Format fundamentals—What is standard for professional and consistent document preparation?
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)—What changes when you prepare an ETD?
  • EndNote—This software can help students by maintaining a database of their references and creating in-text citations and bibliographies in their documents.
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