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Guidelines for Thesis Preparation
The guidelines below will serve as the departmental style manual and supplement the appropriate Graduate School guidelines.
General Guidelines
Paragraph Indentations: 1/4 inch (3 spaces)
Page Numbers: Top right hand corner, 1 inch down and 1 inch from the edge of the page on every page beginning with Chapter one. (Pages would not have a running header.)
Table Style: Initial caps (upper/lower case) for title, beginning at left margin
References
References substantiating points made in the text or citing important and relevant work should appear in a separate section at the end of the article. References should be contemporary, relevant, and essential. Citations in text are indicated by Arabic superscripts at the end of the author(s) name(s), numbered according to the order of citation. A referenced article should contain all authors' names, title of the article, name of the publication, volume and number, month and year of publication, and inclusive page numbers. A referenced book should list author name(s), title of the book, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, and specific chapters or pages cited. For example:
L. Watson and J. Gurd, "A Practical Dataflow Computer," Computer, Vol. 15, No. 2, Feb. 1982, pp. 51-57.
J.M. Holland, K.C. Tai, and M.L. Van Name, "An Ada Relational Database Interface Using Abstract Data Types," Proc. Compsac 81, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, Calif., 1981, pp. 163-170.
D.P. Siewiorek, C.G. Bell, and A. Newell, Computer Structures: Principles and Examples, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1982, pp. 459-469.
In general, references should be publicly available, such as articles in standard journals and open conference proceedings. Avoid using internal technical reports and theses unless they are easily accessible.
Illustrations
All illustrations must be cited in text and have numbers and captions. Graphs should show only the coordinate axes (or at most the major grid lines) to avoid a dense, hard- to-read illustration.
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