Submission of all master's theses and doctoral dissertations is mandatory through

the Temple University ETD site.

Paper copies are no longer accepted by the Graduate School.

IMPORTANT:

READ THIS SECTION BEFORE PROCEEDING.

Outlined below are the areas on which manuscript review primarily focuses. 

Meeting these criteria cannot guarantee approval,

but disregarding them strongly predicts that revision will be required.

• 1.5” or 108 point left margin  and 1” or 72 point right/top/bottom margins
• Order of sections
• Title Page with examining committee members' names and affiliation
• Copyright Notification
• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents (TOC)
• Lists (LOT, LOF, etc., separate)

• Title page
• Major Advisor then committee members and their dept on bottom left
• Month, year entry: month can be only January, May, August (diploma dates)
• An Abstract and a Table of Contents (TOC) are the minimal front matter components
• If you have tables, you need a List of Tables (LOT).
• If you have figures, you need a List of Figures (LOF).
• Chapters, tables, figures are uniquely numbered and named both in the front matter and in the text.
• TOC, LOT, LOF etc. are separate sections and start at the top of a new page.
• TOC, LOT, LOF, etc. have a column of page numbers on the right side indicating where these things appear in the manuscript.

• Page numbers
• No closer than 1” or 72 point to any edge of page. (Don’t obsess; does it look close?)
• Everything before Chapter 1 (or Part 1 of some studies) has small roman numeral page numbers.
• Chapter 1 starts on page 1 (Arabic).
• Double-spaced text overall.  (Single-spaced is more appropriate in some places, e.g., block quotes.)
• CHAPTERS or 2-PART setup
• New chapter starts a new page.
• Subsections within a chapter or part are merged in a consistent fashion.
  • Subsections can have a different pattern from sub-subsections but not from each other.

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Because of the many different citation styles and similar nomenclature for dissimilar sections, refer to the samples for a visual representation of the current requirements and possibilities.

• In-text citations, source citations, references, notes may be ONE of the next 5 bullets:
• Parenthetical author-date
• Superscripted or bracketed numbers
• Classic footnotes at the bottom of the page
• Endnotes at end of each chapter
• Endnotes at end of the entire work
• Comprehensive list of sources, labeled either:
• Bibliography
• References Cited
• Ordering within your list of sources may vary by discipline.
  • Traditionally, works in the humanities, social sciences, or education are alphabetically ordered according to author's last/sur/family name, which begins each entry.
  • Hard sciences, more often, order numerically.

Lastly, look at the document as a whole before you submit it.  There should not be any discernible difference between the part that constituted your proposal a few years back, and the conclusion you wrote this morning.  It is a single work broken into major sections/chapters.

An online ETD tutorial with screenshots and narration is available at:

http://www.temple.edu/grad/etd_tutorials

View, at your convenience, as much or as little as you'd like.

The link to our e-dissertation uploading site is:

http://www.etdadmin.com/temple

Click here to go to the Table of Contents-type page with links.