The CGL can be obtained to help graduated pupils within the formatting of the dissertation or thesis. Listed below are some fundamental tips to help you get began:

Manual of Formatting Needs for Dissertations and Thesis 2015
Made to assist graduated pupils, major professors along with other people from the graduate advisory committees to understand the formatting needs for theses and dissertations at UNC Charlotte now.

Submission Procedures
A guide to understand the procedures to follow along with when submitting your dissertation and/or thesis.

Sample Pages
Types of dissertation and thesis pages, including:

• Understand the Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Manual (above). It’s strongly recommended that you simply print a duplicate of the manual for ready reference.
• See Ms. Anita Cruz within the Graduate School to do a preliminary overview of your dissertation or thesis before your defense. A publish-defense overview of your dissertation/thesis is essential once you have defended and completed the ultimate draft. Bring a printed copy of the document towards the review appointment. Appointment occasions can be found Monday through Thursday. To create a scheduled appointment, email Ms. Anita Cruz at afsmith@uncc.edu .
• In the end necessary revisions are complete, convert the ultimate form of the dissertation or thesis to “.pdf” format when preparing for electronic submission. The specific .pdf ought to be within this format “lastname-firstname-year-degree.pdf” —e.g. doe-john-2007-phd.pdf, all lowercase.

After converting your file towards the “.pdf” format, make sure to check it for an additional:

• Have you name the primary file within the proper format? (lastname-firstname-year-degree.pdf—e.g. doe-john-2007-phd.pdf ).
• May be the ETD file name in lower situation letters?
• Make sure that the ETD has got the proper pagination format: title/signature page (no page number), page, abstract page along with other preliminary pages (lower situation Roman numeral) primary body (Arabic page figures, starting with 1 and numbered consecutively towards the finish, including any appendices – note: page one of every chapter is counted although not numbered).
• Are margins, spacing, page number locations, etc. as needed through the Manual of Formatting Needs for Thesis and Dissertations?
• Will the Table of Contents match the particular text within the primary body, and perform the page figures match?
• Have you ever checked for missing pages, poor font translation, along with other anomalies?
• Make corrections towards the ETD, as needed, and re-save the remedied version underneath the same file name.

At UNC Charlotte now, doctorate and master students are permitted to submit an Adobe Acrobat PDF form of their dissertation for Graduate School approval. Links to a particular Graduate School needs for that physical formatting of ETDs are proven below. There’s also links towards the ETD websites of countless other groups and universities which contain many hints and particular instructions for that preparation of ETDs. We urge you to definitely review these details carefully.

It’s the student’s fundamental responsibility to –

• Prepare and submit a digital Dissertation or Thesis (ETD) that fits the Graduate School’s format needs
• Test the printed pdf version is going to be obvious and legible, including any figures or images and
• Correctly embed fonts.

Some needs for those ETDs:

• Compression or password protection should not be used.
• Fonts: All fonts used ought to be baked into the document. If they’re not, your projects might not display correctly when utilized and also the text might not be fully searchable.
• Links in Document: internal links to multimedia files are acceptable. If such elements are utilized, file formats ought to be identified within the Abstract.
• Only selected multimedia file formats are instantly approved for inclusion (see listing of approved file formats below).
• Printed Documents to incorporate: All doctorate and master ETDs should be supported by paper copies associated with a reprint permission letters and then any needed third-party software licenses. Dissertations and theses should also be supported by paper copies from the signed Title/Signature Page and also the ETD Signature Form.
• Naming Convention: The primary file name should comply with the next naming convention: surname-first initial of firstname-year-degree.pdf (e.g. doe-j-2004-phd.pdf). Use British letters, Arabic figures, and dashes (-) only no extra punctuation or diacritical marks or blank spaces. Connected files (for instance, video or seem) should follow this same convention with the help of an indication of the kind of file (video example = doe-j-2004-phd-video1.mov seem example = doe-j-2004-phd-sound1.wav).

UMI/ProQuest set basically the needs in the above list except for the naming convention that is needed for that College of New York at Charlotte’s archives.

Graduate School PDF Format Needs

Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) software basically prepares a webpage-oriented electronic document. A specific item around the monitor and just what you print in writing ought to be formatted in standard 8 x 11″ page size. Because of this fundamental page orientation also to keep needs specific to ETDs as easy as possible, a student should make use of the physical formatting instructions just as mentioned in the present form of the Graduate School’s Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Manual (above).

Approved Multimedia Enhancement Formats

Inclusion of enhanced multimedia elements within the fundamental pdf document is totally optional. Because of the many formats readily available for various multimedia enhancements, the truth that they rapidly go up and down in recognition, and also the difficulty natural in lengthy-term archiving and moving of those formats as software evolves and changes, just the selected multimedia listed here are approved for inclusion in EDs in the College of New York at Charlotte now.

A thing of caution, however. You will find basically three amounts of commitment the College makes regarding the lengthy-term archiving of ETDs. (1) A really strong dedication to migrate your body from the operate in the fundamental pdf format, very similar as that for that paper copies which have been posted for many years. We’ll try everything easy to ensure lengthy-term availability. (2) A powerful dedication to migrate the additional multimedia elements within the formats which have been approved. (3) Little if any dedication to migrate any non-approved multimedia formats. They are incorporated in the author’s risk. Please be aware that when UMI/ProQuest prepares and sells a paper copy of the dissertation or thesis, they offer just the printable portion to some customer.

There’s a lengthy-term risk connected using the inclusion of multimedia enhancements. An ETD must therefore be carefully prepared with this thought. Your body from the ETD must therefore be written to ensure that all of the information is within the body from the fundamental pdf document. For instance, images have to be placed in to the primary document, and links to greater-resolution or enhanced TIFF or JPEG versions might be incorporated.

Students who wants to incorporate an optional multimedia enhancement inside a non-approved format must undergo the Graduate School for approval a request on paper stating the reason why for including this format.

Approved Formats for Optional Multimedia Enhancements

• PDF (.pdf) use Type I PostScript fonts
• CompuServe GIF (.jpg)
• JPEG (.digital)
• TIF (.tif)
• (Recommend the absolute minimum resolution of 600 dots per inch for pictures of pages with text, and claim that imbedded images be accessible in a number of possible resolutions)

• Apple Quick Time (.mov)
• MPEG (i.e. MPEG-1, MPEG-2) (.mpg)
• Microsoft Av Interleaved (.avi)

Color. Color can also add vitality for an ETD. Remember, however, that the ETD is really a scholarly document. Please, no orange text on the lime-eco-friendly background unless of course this really is intrinsic towards the creative nature from the work itself, for example inside a Fine Arts thesis. Use color carefully. Observe that problems could be experienced when colored materials are printed on the black-and-white-colored printer or copier some colors may not be distinguishable, particularly if the printer/copier is placed to some high-contrast mode. Some colors might be so light they can be unreadable after printing or perhaps in a photostatic copy. Particularly, when UMI/ProQuest prepares a microform or paper form of your ETD, colors are lost, and thus also could be the readability. Don’t use only different colors to differentiate multiple lines inside a plot or figure. Use lines which are segmented in a variety of ways or data points of various shapes.

Embellishments. Avoid utilization of flashing text, animated areas, and “dramatic” seem clips (tadaa!) inside your ETD unless of course intrinsic towards the nature from the work. Some adornments can easily possess a dramatic effect and catch the reader’s attention, however these cannot be utilized for an alternative to, nor overshadow the information of, the document. An ETD is essentially a scholarly document, not really a cartoon.

Place it all within the Text. It’s particularly important to incorporate all the information inside your dissertation in your body from the text within the situation of the ETD. The written exposition may be the core from the dissertation. We’ve designed a quite strong dedication to a student that we’ll make every effort easy to archive and “migrate” the primary body of the work to return as software and os’s evolve. It is only difficult to create this same degree of guarantee within the situation of all of the possible optional multimedia enhancements, for instance. This imposes a rather elevated burden around the author to describe or summarize in words all of the important material within the work, although not that rather more than may be the situation inside a well-crafted printed dissertation. For instance, for any linked image file doesn’t simply say, “Figure 2 shows the alterations in…” Note or summarize exactly what the important changes are. To have an audio or video file, summarize the broad, important options that come with what can be shown or heard. For data and calculated quantities inside a linked spreadsheet the readers can manipulate, it may be desirable to copy (a number of ) the data or embedded equations inside a table or appendix in text format.

Navigational Aids. To help the readers in readily navigating your ETD document, it is recommended that you build sufficient internal navigational aids to your work. This is particularly desirable in case your ETD is going to be posted like a single lengthy pdf document. You can do this with the addition of internal links to page one of every chapter and also to other major parts indexed by the Table of Contents, possibly to every figure and table in the Listing of Figures/Tables, etc. Utilization of Adobe Acrobat’s “Bookmarks” feature is an especially good way to include navigational links. Acrobat can instantly generate Bookmarks, that will come in a window around the left side from the screen, in the Table of Contents produced by several modern word processors, including Ms Word. The creator of the pdf document can make additional bookmarks within an existing pdf document to a different pdf document in order to an internet page.

Instructions. The UNC Charlotte now ETD submission website keeps a complete group of instructions for that submission of the ETD. The web site offers an origin section for college students, attorney at law of UMI needs for electronic submission, along with a PDF Help Center.

UMI, formerly College Microfilms Worldwide, has become a subsidiary of ProQuest Information and Learning. The College transmits a duplicate of doctorate dissertations and master theses to UMI/ProQuest to become “printed”: UMI/ProQuest prints the abstract in Dissertation and Thesis Abstracts, and sells copies from the dissertation or thesis towards the public in paper, microform, and e-mail. At the moment, UMI/ProQuest need ETDs only in Adobe pdf format.

UMI provides information online concerning “Submitting Your Dissertation or Thesis to UMI .”. Every student should review these details very early in their graduate career.

Adobe Systems Incorporated is the organization that creates and sells Adobe Acrobat, the proprietary software accustomed to produce documents in PDF (Portable Document Format). A distinction must be made between your full Adobe Acrobat suite, which allows the preparation and editing of pdf documents and should be bought, and also the Adobe Acrobat Readers, which only permits the studying and printing of documents already in pdf format, and it is available free for download on your computer. The entire Adobe Acrobat program is required to provide an ETD.

There are many ways that UNC Charlotte now students may access Adobe Acrobat to transform their word processing files in to the Pdf format.

1. The UNC Charlotte now Atkins Library has Adobe Acrobat on several computers.
2. Adobe keeps a submission website where a person might “upload” as much as 5 documents for conversion to Pdf format free of charge.
3. Acrobat might be downloaded in the Adobe Website and employed for a totally free thirty day “tryout” period.
4. Students may purchase copies of Adobe Acrobat at special educational prices online stores for example campusEstore.com .

Numerous universities happen to be dealing with and accepting ETDs for quite some time now, and also have developed extensive websites with details about and instruction in preparing them. We urge you to definitely review their Websites.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Condition College (Virginia Tech) continues to be the nation’s leader in ETDs. These were the very first college to want that students submit ETDs, starting in 1997. Their ETD website is extensive.

The College of Texas-Austin now mandates that all doctorate students who shall graduate following the Spring 2001 Semester submit a digital dissertation. Their Electronic Dissertations page includes links to reasonable tutorials on creating pdf documents from Word, WordPerfect, or postscript documents regardless if you are using Microsoft Home windows or Mac pc. It offers the instructions for that handling of Images, Tables, and Graphs in pdf.

New York Condition College has lately begun requiring ETDs of graduated pupils. Their ETD site is rather extensive and offers complete info on creating PDF files .

• Submitting Your Dissertation or Thesis to UMI
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Condition College (Virginia Tech) their ETD Website is extensive.
• The College of Texas-Austin : Electronic Dissertations page includes links to tutorials.
• ProQuest Information and Learning Law Graduate Research