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Thesis Guidelines: 3. Formatting For All Thesis Styles

The document provides guidelines for formatting a thesis, including font, spacing, margins, and pagination requirements. It states that the general text should be double spaced in portrait format with Times New Roman 12pt font. Margins should be 1.5 inches on the left and 1 inch on the right, top and bottom if binding the thesis, and 1 inch on all sides if not binding. Page numbers should be centered at the bottom and use Roman numerals for preliminary pages and Arabic numerals for the body. Illustrations must be referred to in the text and tables and figures should have titles above or below. All theses must be written in English unless permission is granted otherwise.

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Thesis Guidelines: 3. Formatting For All Thesis Styles

The document provides guidelines for formatting a thesis, including font, spacing, margins, and pagination requirements. It states that the general text should be double spaced in portrait format with Times New Roman 12pt font. Margins should be 1.5 inches on the left and 1 inch on the right, top and bottom if binding the thesis, and 1 inch on all sides if not binding. Page numbers should be centered at the bottom and use Roman numerals for preliminary pages and Arabic numerals for the body. Illustrations must be referred to in the text and tables and figures should have titles above or below. All theses must be written in English unless permission is granted otherwise.

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Thesis Guidelines

3. Formatting for all Thesis Styles

Font and Spacing:

• General text is double-spaced in portrait format


• Single spacing used for footnotes or lengthy quotations
• Triple or larger spacing may be used where necessary to set off headings,
sub headings, or illustrations
• Font, font size, style of footnotes and references must be consistent
• Times New Roman 12pt is recommended
• Smaller fonts may be used for footnotes, graphs, etc. but must be sufficiently clear

Margins:

• If you want to have your thesis bound, use these margins:


Left: 3.8 cm (1.5 inches); Right: 2.5 cm (1.0 inch)
Top and Bottom: 3.0 cm (1.25 inches)
• If you have no intention of binding your thesis, all margins should be
2.5 cm (1.0 inch).

Pagination:

• All pages must have a number


• All page numbers are centered at bottom of page
• Acknowledgements, Abstract, Summary, and Table of Contents use lower case
Roman numerals (i, ii, iii)
• Title page is (i) but suppress the number (not indicated)
• Body of thesis text uses Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3)
• Figures, Tables, Plates, Appendixes are numbered consecutively with Arabic
numerals to the end of the Bibliography/References

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Illustrations:

• Tables, figures, photographs, scanned images and other non-text material


whether in black/white or colour should be legible, arranged neatly and
effectively, and must always be referred to in the text.
• Title of a table should be placed above the table, and the title of a figure or plate
should be positioned below the figure.
• Oversize maps, charts or diagrams must be folded so that they can be bound
with the pages or, as is most common, inserted in a pocket fastened to the inside
of the back cover when the thesis is bound.
• If possible, media containing additional print or non-print material should be
included in a pocket fastened to the inside of the back cover when the thesis is
bound.
• Prints, photo-offsets or scanned images should be provided in all required copies
of the thesis.
• Where not forming a complete page, non-text material should be properly
mounted on a page.

Language:

With the exception of the theses submitted from the Modern Languages,
Literatures and Cultures Department, all theses are written in English, except with
the express permission of the Dean of Graduate Studies.

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