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| Paper |
| All pages of your manuscript must be on 8 ½ X 11 inch white paper. This may be 20 or 24 lb. Bond paper, or regular copy machine paper. The 24 lb. is preferred because it holds up better over a long period of time and it gives the manuscript a professional appearance.
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| Reproduction Quality |
| The copies of your manuscript must be clean, unshaded, and free of spots and smudges. Faint, streaked, or uneven copies are unacceptable.
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Margins (see also)
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| The left margin of each page must be 1 1/2 inches, and the top, right, and bottom margins 1 inch.
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Placement of Page Numbers (see also)
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| There are only two ways to paginate your manuscript; upper right hand corner and bottom center. If your page numbers are at the bottom, leave two blank line spaces between the last line of text and the line on which the page number is placed. Whether they are at the top or the bottom, page numbers should appear just outside the 1-inch marging (.5 to .8 inches from the top or bottom edge of the page. Whichever method of pagination is selected, it must be followed consistently. Use lower-case Roman numerals for the front matter (which is all pages before the body of research), create section break and continue (beginning again with page "1") with Arabic numerals for the remainder of the manuscript, including the text, illustrations, appendices and references. The Approval Page, Title Page and Abstract Title Page are counted but not numbered (see section on Format Guidelines).
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| Type and Font
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| Your manuscript should be double-spaced (one and a half spaces can be used if approved by the chair of your committee) and single-sided. References may be single-spaced with a double space between each reference. Indented quotations may also be single-spaced. Use a professional quality font (e.g., Arial, Times Roman, Courier or Helvetica). Font size for your text should be 12 point; headings may be up to 14 point. Fonts for tables, figures, and appendices may range from 8 to 12 point. Print should be laser or letter quality; dot matrix printing is discouraged, and acceptable only if it is of near-letter quality and photocopies clearly.
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| Style |
| The style of your thesis or dissertation may follow any one of many standard style guides, as preferred by your graduate unit, or the style considered standard in your particular discipline. You should consult your advisor for preferences or additional requirements your department may have. In any case, your manuscript must be internally consistent. |
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