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.

Dissertation Defense Announcements

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.

General Regulations

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

Preparing Your Manuscript

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

Front Matter

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

Reference Matter

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'.

Formatting Aids

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

Templates

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

Manuscript Forms

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

Common Manuscript Problems

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

Graduation Checklist

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

Computer Instructions

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

Copyright Information

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