This document provides guidance and requirements for formatting an honors thesis at a university. It includes information on required fonts, margins, spacing, paragraph formatting, and the order of preliminary pages. Students are directed to follow the style guide required by their department and to contact the University Honors Program office with any additional questions. The librarian is also available to help students who are stuck on research issues.

1. Honors
Advanced Research II
with Thesis Formatting
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2. REVIEW
Searching techniques
Best databases
Bibliographic Managers

3. Final Research
RIP Literature Review
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4. A paper of of central importance to a
research topic, often because they report
a major breakthrough, insight, or a new
and generative synthesis of ideas.

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6. Your Librarian
Stuck on something? ask your librarian
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7. Thesis
Format and procedure
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8. Electronic submission!
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PDF submitted to Beachboard
E-Archive in progress

9. Role of the UHP
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We’re here to help you produce a
high-quality, professionally
presented thesis.

10. Faculty Mentor and Department
THE FORCE OF THE STYLE MANUAL
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Take direction from your faculty mentor regarding
style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) or other
citation format styles (IEEE, AAA, etc.) required by
your department/discipline

11. basic formatting
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12. FONT
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Font Style
Times Roman
Times New Roman
Courier
Courier New
Font Size = 12 point
Exceptions:
Tables, figures and
appendices
Times New Roman is
the most widely used
font style.
Courier New
comes in second.

13. FONT
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Bold font for titles, including subheads, table
titles and figure captions:
For table of contents, list of tables, list of figures
and any other lists, use bold font for the title of
that section only (as an example, LIST OF
TABLES) and not for anything listed within it
(as an example, 1. Demographic Characteristics)

14. orderOF ELEMENTS & PAGE NUMBERING
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TITLE PAGE
SIGNATURE PAGE
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS*
TABLE OF CONTENTS*
LIST OF TABLES**
LIST OF FIGURES**
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS*
EACH CHAPTER
OTHER**
CHAPTERS
APPENDICES**
REFERENCES LIST

15. orderOF ELEMENTS & PAGE NUMBERING
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Page number location: Page numbers are
centered at the bottom of the page and
positioned between .75 inch and 1 inch from
the bottom of the page
Type of page numbers to use: (1) no page
number for title page, (2) lowercase Roman
numeral page numbers for preliminary pages
(first page of abstract begins with iii), and (3)
Chapter 1 begins with page 1 (Arabic
numeral) and page numbers follow in
sequence after page 1 to the last page

16. margins
& SPACING
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1 inch margins are used throughout the
manuscript
Uniform double line spacing is used

17. paragraph
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All text should be formatted as
paragraphs with consistent indentation
for the first line and left justification only

18. THESIS
template
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19. Google it.
Name of Style Manual and Edition and the particular
format you are trying to cite
Function you are trying to achieve in a word
processing program
Find a specific document type: filetype: .pdf or .doc
Find a specific domain: site:.edu or site: .gov

20. questions?
CONTACT UHP FOR DETAILS
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