Pre-Thesis

Issue

1” margins all the way around

Times New Roman, 12 point for all the text in all chapters (Appendices can have different fonts and sized)

Double spaced throughout – except for readability in tables

All chapters begin on a new page. At the end of the chapter you MUST use Insert, Page Break. DO NOT use the enter key to get to the next page

All headings are correctly formatted – spacing, bolding, position

All headings are included in the TOC – AND page numbers are correct – for final draft in INMGT 700

NO extra spacing before and after when using the enter key. (Go to home ribbon, paragraph, you MUST see a zero in the spacing before and after boxes, if not you must change it to zero.)

All paragraphs are indented ½”

Bullet/numbered lists are indented ½” and all text word wraps to the beginning of the text

After EVERY sentence there are 2 spaces AND ONLY 2 spaces. (Not true for reference page when using a period – there you should have 1 space.)

Use the % EVERY TIME YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER (i.e. 25%). You are not to type out percent or percentage any time you have a number. You type out percentage in situations like – calculating the percentage of members who…..

Citations are within the punctuation.

All direct quotes LESS than 40 words have quotation marks, and a page/paragraph number is included

Direct quotations of 40 words or more are indented 1/2” and a page number is included at the end of the quotation – the change in punctuation – include punctuation after the quote then include the citation followed by a period.

NEVER use authors first names/initials when citing

DO NOT include the title of a book/article and do NOT use journal titles in the text. The reference page tells people where to go to find the book or article

When a citation has two authors and you are including them in the text of the sentence, you MUST spell out the word “and” – when the authors are within the parentheses, use &.

Citations in text with more than one reference are alphabetized – there is a semicolon between them

All acronyms are spelled out ONCE and then only the acronym is used throughout the text

Tables are referred to in the text and are appropriately constructed

Figures are referred to in the text and are appropriately constructed

Figures or tables taken from a source must include the entire reference (as it appears in the reference section) at the bottom of the figure or table – see the research paper template

All appendices are referred to within the text

You have checked the formatting for ALL of your references

DO NOT capitalize each word in a book or journal article

Include doi number if available

Book titles are italicized

The name of a Journal is italicized and each word is capitalized other than articles/minor words

For journals – volume number is required and is italicized

Are you correctly listing issue number/month depending on the journal

Included page numbers for journal articles

For journals without issue numbers, the month goes after the year. Higgins, J. (2013, February) Title of article. Journal Title, 24, pp. 23-28.

No punctuation after a doi number or a URL in the reference section

For electronic (other than Library databases) references be sure the reference is correctly formatted