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 electronic format.

Doctoral students must submit a 'Survey of Earned Doctorate' form as part of their degree requirement to satisfy dissertation submission

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.

Theses and dissertations are submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies in an electronic PDF format to the DSpace digital repository. The university encourages open access to all electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) that are produced in the course of graduate work at UNM.

In some cases it is not appropriate for the dissertation or thesis to be immediately accessible in this way. For this reason UNM provides several options for embargos (restrictions on availability) of the dissertation or thesis.

Visual manuscript resource to organize your fromt matter pages

Concise and thorough explanation of format style required for theses and dissertations