Each semester announcements of dissertation defenses are posted on this website when the doctoral students are defending their research to complete the program degree requirements.

Your graduate unit has the right to require that you provide them with a copy of your thesis or dissertation and that certain original records and materials be retained as the property of the University of New Mexico. Publication rights to the thesis or dissertation are reserved to you as the author.

Procedures for submission of manuscripts in either paper or electronic formats.

Procedures for submission of manuscripts in paper format.

Procedures for submission of manuscripts in electronic format.

Guideline topics will be presented in preparing your manuscript for the correct format.

Front Matter criteria will be reviewed for proper manuscript format guidelines.

The list of references and the appendices are the two most common categories discussed in this section.

This section provides the student with Front Matter templates to generate the Red-Border pages. Examples of completed Front Matter is included as a valuable visual reference. An optional format style used by specific research disciplines is found in the 'LaTeX Style File'.

Red-Border template pages can be generated for inclusion in the Front Matter criteria.

The 'OGS Forms' page has the information and forms under the 'Manuscript' block to complete the requirements for preparing your manuscript.

Common manuscript problems are reviewed to help meet the quidelines for preparing your manuscript.

The graduation checklist for theses and dissertations will help you prepare your final manuscript.

Here are instructions that tell how to use Microsoft Word to format your manuscript properly.

Here is a link to the US Government information about copyrights.