This guide is a work in progress, designed to provide online assistance to graduate students in formatting their theses and dissertations using Microsoft Word. If there is content you would like to see added to this guide, contact Krista White, the Digital Humanities Librarian at RU-Newark.
Information for submitting and uploading your finished thesis or dissertation to the Rutgers University Community Repository
Each graduate school has guidelines for formatting and submitting theses and dissertations. If your graduate school or program is not listed here, check with them to obtain specific information about your program's formatting requirements for theses and dissertations.
NEW BRUNSWICK
Graduate School of New Brunswick Style Guide for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
NEWARK
Graduate School of Newark Style Guide for Electronic Masters Theses
This information is found at the Graduate School of Newark web site under Current Students > Masters Candidate Information
Graduate School of Newark Style Guide for Electronic Dissertations
This information is found at the Graduate School of Newark web site under Current Students > Doctoral Candidate Information
CAMDEN
Graduate School of Camden Style Guide for Electronic Masters Theses
Graudate School of Camden Style Guide for Electronic Ph.D. Dissertations
Specific programs in Camden may have their own style guides. Check with your department to insure you are using the correct guide for your degree program.
Dissertation Style Guide: Center for Computational & Integrative Biology - Camden
MS Word embeds formatting into documents. When you copy/paste text from one document to the next, it also copies and pastes the formatting. This can cause serious problems when you are trying to implement complex formatting in a document - formatting from one document may conflict with and alter formatting in the next document you paste into. For this reason, I recommend these strategies to prevent trouble with formatting.
General Advice on Versions During Writing
Do all of your writing and editing in the single, long document and save versions in case you need to go back and recover something you wrote previously.
BACK UP YOUR FILES REGULARLY
Save all of your documents in 3 different places. For instance, save one copy on your computer hard drive, one identical copy on a thumb drive or external hard drive and, preferably, a third identical copy in a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox. Save your files frequently and update to all 3 of your saved locations every time you save.
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