1. Acid free paper (this is increasingly the common default for copy/printer paper and need not be expensive)
2. Original copy
laser printed
3. Margins consistent throughout
-1 ½ inches on left or binding side
-1 inch on other three sides
-all charts, photographs, illustrations must conform to the margins
4. Numbering of pages
-front matter, use small Roman numerals (ii,iii,iv)
-text, begin with Arabic 1 and continue to last page of CV
-every page is numbered in order (including blank pages)
-page numbers must be centered at the bottom of the page
5. Title page -
-is not numbered but understood to be Roman numeral i
6. Abstract
-immediately follows title page and begins with Roman numeral ii
-includes names of readers/advisors at the bottom
-350 words or less, otherwise edited by UMI
-is doubled-spaced
7. All pages face front
8. Only one side of paper is used
9. Double spaced
-abstract
-text (except footnotes and long quotations)
10. Vita is last page of dissertation (numbered as if part of dissertation or thesis)
11. Permission letters to reprint or use copyrighted material put at end of theses (not numbered)
12. Submission requirements in CBO
a. -Ph.D. requires three extra copies of Title Page and two extra copies of Abstract
-MA requires one extra copy of Title Page and Abstract (none required for Whiting School of Engineering students)
b. –Ph.D. requires UMI form filled out and signed
c. –Fees-
