LAYOUT & GUIDELINES FOR THESIS WRITING

1. Page Setup

(a) Margin Top ‘1 inch’ Left ‘1 inch’

Bottom‘1 inch’ Right ‘1 inch’
Gutter ‘0’ Gutter position : Left
Paper size ‘A4’
2. Font

(a) Font size 14 Font Size for Footnotes – 10

(b) Font Times New Roman

3. Spacing

(a) 1.5” line space

(b) After and before central heading two space

(c) Before group heading one space and after group heading no space
required.

(d) Paragraph spacing - ‘0’ Tab spacing ‘0.5’

(e) Sub para - ‘0.5’ Tap spacing ‘1.0’

(f) Leave one space after the full stop and quotation marks and one space
after brackets before starting the next sentence.

(g) Footnotes should be single spaced with double space between every
consecutive note. A solid line is to separate notes from the text above. Leave
a double space between this line and the last line of the text above.

(h) Each A-4 size page should preferably have 24 to 25 lines.

4. Heading

(a) Central Heading - Capital letter, bold and underline.

(b) Group Heading - Title case, bold and underline.

5. Page No. Centre and Top

(a) Page number will be in continuation, it will not be shown on first page.

(b) Every new chapter will start on a new page.

(c) Page number for Main Text will be 1, 2 and 3 ….. and Chapter Headings
Roman I,II & III.

(d) Page number for Preliminaries should be in Romans as (i),(ii) and (iii) ….

(e) Thesis to be written on one side of the page.

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6. Procedural Requirements.

Ser Component Content Elaboration

No
(a) Preliminary Pages (i) Cover Page Soft copy is to be named
strictly in accordance with
(ii) Self Declaration Certificate the format 5801 –
Preliminaries.docx
(iii) Certificate from the SDS

(iv) Contents

(v) Abstract

(v) Acknowledgements

(vi) List of tables and illustrations (if

any)

(vii) Abbreviations and Acronyms (if

any)

(b) Main Thesis Main body of the thesis as per Soft copy is to be named
(including chapterisation indicated in the contents strictly in accordance with
Appendices and the format 5801 – Main
Annexure, if any) body.docx

(c) Bibliography References and Bibliography Soft copy is to be named

in accordance with the
format 5801 –
Bibliography.docx

.
7. It is requested that the following be submitted to the OIC University Division
(date will be intimated during course) :-

(a) Two copies of the complete thesis duly approved and signed by the
respective SDS.

(b) One Compact Disc containing soft copies of the three document –
components as indicated at para 6 ibid.

(c) Thesis are not to be stapled/pinned but held in place using

binder clips.

(d) Compact disc and Clips for the purpose may be collected from the DS
(Coord) Office and Library Section.
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Guidelines for Submission of Thesis on CD

8. Thesis must be submitted on CD with name and locker number of the Course
Member written on it.

9. Microsoft Word 2007 and later versions to be used.

10. The complete thesis is to be saved in three files. The first file will contain the
preliminaries, second file will have main text of thesis which will also be used for the
word count and the third file is to contain only the Appendices and Bibliography. The
files are to be named as , Preliminaries – Locker XX, Main Text – Locker XX and
Bibliography – Locker XX where XX represent the Locker Numbers (namely, 01, 26,
38, etc.).

11. It is necessary to keep a copy of the thesis on a separate CD/ hard disk until it is
confirmed by DS (Coord) that they are no longer required. This will not take more than
two weeks.

12. It must be ensured that ‘final version’ of the thesis is copied on the CD and is
readable. The submission of the thesis will be considered incomplete if it is not
accompanied with a readable CD.

13. Scan the CD for viruses prior to submission.

14. In case of any difficulty, the Course Members may contact GSO (Systems).